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Title: possible donor rig
Post by: koldhearted1 on March 05, 2007, 04:50:04 PM

ok all i have found a 91 sc tbird with an HO 5.0 and autosmatic. the car is trash it was a ricers attempt to make a tbird into a honda. there is wires all over the place and the person that had no freakin clue how to fix a car there is an intake leak and it needs all the gaskets not to mention what ever else is needed so this motor and tranny ive offered 25 bucks i pull do i need to walk away slowly or do i take it?

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: vinnietbird on March 05, 2007, 05:13:46 PM

Take it now.It's easy to convert it over to use in our cars.New gaskets,and swap the accessories from our kind to that engine,as well as the upper intake swap.easy stuff.

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: koldhearted1 on March 05, 2007, 05:21:00 PM

swap the accessories? and whats this about the upper intake?

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: vinnietbird on March 05, 2007, 06:32:38 PM

The upper intake on a '91 is different than an '86 to '88.The accessories are different than the '96 to '88's as well as far as how close they are to the engine.they may work in a Fox body,but I don't know.

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: koldhearted1 on March 05, 2007, 07:19:27 PM

k but the fox bodies look like they have a lot of room under the hood and the motors wouldnt set that high on em would they?the routing on the belt looks pretty close to what we got on our rides

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: vinnietbird on March 06, 2007, 05:08:33 PM

Like I said,the accessories may work.But the upper intake is different,and doesn't fit our throttle and TV cables.There's plenty of room for it,but it just isn't worth using with the mods that have to be done when you can just bolt on a Mustang H.O upper and call it good.

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: koldhearted1 on March 07, 2007, 08:00:42 PM

k sounds good thanks

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Post by: Red_LX on March 07, 2007, 08:10:05 PM

If it's an SC why does it have a 5.0 in it?

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Post by: 84 Fila on March 07, 2007, 09:56:32 PM

Swap maybe?

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Post by: V8Demon on March 08, 2007, 01:07:38 PM

The accessory brackets will work in a fox. The person known as "MywifesKitty" did it. I would assume the brackets would bolt up to an older style block without a hitch. As shown in the thread he swapped the whole motor. http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=10085

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: koldhearted1 on March 09, 2007, 03:26:57 PM

thanks for the help yall will be gettin a hold of the motor hopefully soon thats kind of my plan is take the motor and accessories this way i dont have to dick with the conversion of anything major.

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: koldhearted1 on April 22, 2007, 03:39:13 PM

ok all im needing to know what all im gonna be gettin into ive been talkin to wifeskitty and he sez that the swap includes a ton of splicing anyone else to the swap on an 87 with a 3.8? any write ups would be a major help does coolcats have anything?

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: V8Demon on April 23, 2007, 07:48:27 AM

http://www.coolcats.net/tech/advanced/ho_swap.html

Title: possible donor rig
Post by: koldhearted1 on April 24, 2007, 09:45:09 PM

ok stupid question time. for the whole cougar thing can i just replace that with bird? just makin sure the under hood is the same on both.

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