Thread: 351W EFI into Classic Rangie

Factory finish mate. Looks great.

Look what arrived today. A Box....



With this in it...



and this...



Exciting times!

Nice

Hard core tranny cooler Pete, what did you get done to the box anyway?

Cooler is a Derale brand.
There's also a sandwich plate from Performance Automatic.
The trans is basically this and it's been dyno tested. They rate it at 550hp/525lb...more than enough. Good deal for $2700 I reckon.

• Part number 53-1C, fully upgraded heavy duty 4R70W 4x4 transmission with red racing frictions, heavy duty steels, Kevlar bands, blueprinted high output front pump, new bushings, new seals, new gaskets, new bearings, new thrust washers, heavy duty intermediate mechanical diode, heavy duty overrun clutch, heavy duty accumulators and servos, custom calibrated valve body for firmer, faster shifts, high flow filter, and all new Ford electronics.
• Part number HP5380, deep cast aluminum pan, includes drain plug, holds 2 extra quarts of fluid.
• Part number HP8238, heavy duty stacked plate transmission cooler with 6AN male fittings.
• Part number 53LXTM, heavy duty Tow Master series lock-up torque converter.

Before I yank the engine and trans out again I checked clearances by removing the front springs and jacked the axle up till it lifted the whole front off the ground by the bump stops. Everything has at least 15-20mm clearance except the breather bolt on the axle tube so I'll move that and we'll be in business.





WTF is a Woodhead shock? The ends were certainly weak as ****...had to cut the nut off one.

Well I'd had enough of this lean over the engine bay **** so I drilled out the spots to make it a bolt on radiator support panel....



I'll give this a straighten out while it's off too.



This allowed me easy access to finish the welding of the engine mounts and paint em up.



Makes the rest of it look horrible of course.



Here's the axle breather that I moved.



Put this bolt in and cut it off flush.



Welded it up.



This was rather easy to achieve with no radiator support. Engine and trans out in one piece! Next time it will be bolted up to the new trans.

Match ported the adapter plate to the lower today.





The adapter plate also had one of the through holes(the one in the far left bottom of this pic) out of wack a bit so I elongated it a smidge.



Also finish welded the headers and made sure the flanges were flat and we milled the extension housing top for shifter mounting plate clearance and also made the plate itself(I'll post pics later). I hope to fit the engine and trans next weekend.