Modular Drivetrain Into '76 Torino

Thats true...only SOHC.   Thats why Roush put in a DOHC cobra power train in the Crown Vic track vehicles they built for Bondurant driving school

In 1999 the F-Series 5.4-2V and the Mustang 4.6-2V upgraded to PI

Edited by Rockatansky - 25-February-2011 at 7:12AM

My car is a 2 door. I am pretty pumped at the thought of getting this car on the road with modern mechanics. I remember getting around 16 mpg out of the Windsor on a trip years ago, but would like to squeeze more out of it. A 2005-07 is what I would like for the aluminum front suspension and reasonable mileage on the drivetrain. If this turns out well, I may use it more often than I think, given the fact that I work less than 6 miles away from home. I always loved that car, but it was using a quart of straight Kendall 50 wt every 2 weeks when I parked it and the haze pulling away from stoplights was embarrasing - even to a 20 year old.

Blueoval76 wrote: Sounds like an episode of West Coast Customs!! Lol! They have done exactly that more than once.

Can you elevate the motor for clearance?

Can't you notch the pan, similar to a 5.0 Mustang?

The pan is not the clearance issue.  To use a mod motor in a rear steer car of course you have to use a front sump oil pan.  The clearance issue is the exhaust manifolds hitting the frame and the steering box.   CV frame is MY solution.  Anyone else can do what you want.  I want something different and more modern suspension.

I plan on it.  But now that I have twins on the way, it's going to delay the project a bit.  It's going to be a drawn out project.  I just keep accumulating parts little by little, they will eventually all come together.

The 4.6 modular you have is the same one used in the Thunderbird's right?

Metal can be cut and moved and rewelded.

I have a '75 Cougar XR7 that will be arriving in about a month as a donor car. The frame is the same as a Torino, so I can use the body shell and/or frame as a guinea pig for the swap. That way, if something goes south, it won't be my Torino hanging in the air - just the donor Cougar, lol. I was going to use the '72 frame I already have to examine, but the ends are different from my '76. I've been told that the '72 needs to go to the crusher before I can bring another vehicle home, so I'm going to get to wrenching on it and snag what I need.

I bought the Cougar for a donor for my Torino. It had been sitting for a lot of years in a garage here locally when a friend of mine found it and bought it. He debated about taking anything off it, since it was in such good original shape. Fortunately for me, he used the engine in his Mustang and sold the rest to me. It has a mint bucket seat interior with the gauge package (all going in my Torino) but I will be selling the rest of the car, since the body panels won't interchange with my car. It's a very low mileage car (was a 351/automatic), and I probably would have worked with it, had the engine not been missing and I was not in need of pieces for my '76. I will make pictures of it once it is delivered to the house. Let me know if you need anything off it.
Thanks!

Located in Chattanooga, TN. I will have the Cougar here as soon as I finish getting all the parts off my GTS and send it on to the scrap yard. The Cougar will come with an additional set of American Racing slots that I won't be using - not sure of the size.

Just FYI...

On further inspection it looks like he is paying someone else to figure it out for him.