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Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: Eliminator on December 21, 2009, 10:40:01 PM

I have an 86 Thunderbird with the 5.0L V8. I bought it to practice body work on in school. It needs alot of work.(brakes alternator, tranny) A guy is selling an 85 V6 Tbird near me that needs a tranny. Is it hard to swap a V8 into that V6 bird?:mullet:

Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: V8Demon on December 21, 2009, 11:18:38 PM

Start here:

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

Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: jcassity on December 23, 2009, 12:48:06 AM

imagine this...........
take many pics of your 5.0 engine setup

take pics of your v6 engine setup

find good aod trans ( really dirty oily ones usually are the best)

pull 6cly motor / trans

mate v8 to new trans

pull v8 computer and entire harness

install motor / computer and harness

swap in battery tray and all the stuff that was in the original V8 car.

no the above was not a step by step but overall, thats about what it takes.

Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: Loaded87IROC on December 23, 2009, 10:19:33 AM

It is just as easy as jcassity said. If you have both cars and your donor car has an intact harness just swap the entire harness over. I swapped a turbo 2.3 in place of my efi 5.0 by doing this and had no issues.

Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: Eliminator on December 25, 2009, 01:59:29 AM

thanx guys. I really want an 87-88 Cougar Xr7. So I just might paint the Tbird like a 1990 THunderbird Anniversary edition and sell it

Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: xjeffs on December 26, 2009, 02:28:26 PM

Quote from: Eliminator;303902

thanx guys. I really want an 87-88 Cougar Xr7. So I just might paint the Tbird like a 1990 THunderbird Anniversary edition and sell it

You'll never be truly satisfied till you get what you want. Buy the Cougar you want.

Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: V8Demon on December 26, 2009, 06:13:05 PM

Quote from: Eliminator;303902

thanx guys. I really want an 87-88 Cougar Xr7.

Look at this....
http://www.listangs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=44296

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2) 88 Cougar xr7 white auto. 5.0 , 8.8 rear, factory dual exhaust leather moonroof. New balljoints, control arm bushings, new brakes, Motosport D drop springs. Have new inner and outer tie rods not installed yet. Also have poly crossmember bushings which do need to be replaced. Interior is real nice exterior not all that bad. Undercarriage is pretty mint from what I saw. Runs excellent. This car is all white two tone gray interior $1,700. Great daily driver

(http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs112.snc3/15949_1102801028688_1786617358_212383_5959252_n.jpg)

He's a member on here as well. He goes by the screen name DamonSlowpokeBaumann on here. FWIW -- he knows his stuff and when he does mods to a car he ensures they are done correctly. Maybe you guys can do some business. Hope this helps ;)

Title: 2 Birds one V8 Stone?
Post by: Eliminator on January 12, 2010, 11:26:59 PM

THANX! sent him a message

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