M.H. Yount
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Looking at your picture above - how much clearance do you have between the pickup and the bottom of the pan?
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Looking at your picture above - how much clearance do you have between the pickup and the bottom of the pan?
General rule of thumb - 3/8?
Yeah...damn overhead cams. I envy you LSx folk and your overhead valves that don't take up a lot of space. I saw your vacuum booster still in place and cried a little inside. Lol.
Like Chris, I too am having interference at the u joint at the firewall, except mine is with the cylinder head. The second picture in post 31 shows this. There's this seemingly random chunk of block with an allen plug going through it and it wants to sit right on top of the u joint. I want to chop it off but I need to learn why it's there first. As far as I know, my exhaust manifolds and studs don't interfere but I'll double check.
I think the main reason the pushrod small blocks including LS fit so well is that the exhaust side of the head isn't flush with the side of the block. On the Ford Modular engines both of those surfaces are co-planar and at 90 deg. to each other across the engine, and 45 deg. to vertical. On a typical pushrod V8 the exhaust flange surface is much more vertical and angled inward from the side of the block.
That chunk of material with the plug on your head could be an oil gallery drill location. Or maybe a coolant plug for a cast-in water core. Definitely best to check into it before cutting.
keep us posted with the motor mounts you use. I am working on the same swap but with a manual trans.
I'd try hard not to modify or bash the "frame rails" for exhaust clearance. You may lose some stiffness if you start pre-buckling those structural members.
Note to self: I should swap in the same style PS rack that you have. Mine in the '84 is the type with external hard lines and they will foul on the front of the oil pan, even after notching the rear for clearance. Good to see you have no issues with that rack.
Awesome! Start a thread! I'd love to see your progress and I'm sure I'm not the only one. What car is your engine out of?
Motor mounts, I think I'm just wing it and gonna go custom working with what the Mark VIII came with for mounts. This is a budget build, after all. I bought steel the other day and plan on coming up with some preliminary designs as I figure out the steering shaft interference issues.
In other news, parts came back from TIG welding today. They look good and have been leak tested. I'll paint the pan when I'm done test fitting because I know I'm going to scratch it during that process.
I was able to score a totalled 1997 mustang cobra with a manual transmission. I've been having trouble situating the engine in the engine compartment. As the fellow did in the last post, I have notched the crossmember and notched the oil pan to gain clearance.
I have just completed a garage project of mine and will be tidying up some loose ends with sheet rock and heat so that it's more conducive to work in during the winter months. Perhaps i'll start a thread then.