Mallard

Nothing's going to happen for a while and when it can rev to 9000 it will be a heavily modded motor...thats all i'm gonna say. The car and the motor are the same brand so I figure it wouldn't be too bad.

Assume that all the mechanical aspects of the engine swap are taken care of. It's a full engine, ECU and tranny swap. How hard is it to recalibrate the dash (more specifically the Tach) to read correctly with the new motor? When answering this question also assume that the Tach on the stock dash maxes out ot 8000rpm and the new motor won't red line until 8500 or 9000.

Thanks. It's an N/A 3800 Series V6 so from what you guys have said it looks like I should be ok.

Ok, so I take my car in for a tune up 2 weeks ago and after i get it back I notice it stutters at certain times. Being away from home I could not get it back to the dealer until I put a little over 400 more miles on the car. I thought it was the torque converter since it would only stutter at certain times. Anyway, the car was takin in today and it was found that when they did the tune up they forgot to plug the wires back into my #2 injector so I was running on 5 cylinders. Could this have done any damage to the motor? I didn't think it would, but then again wasn't the principle of Caddy's 4-6-8 tehnology the same as what happened and that failed miserabely. If something is wrong now because of this the dealer will definately be buying me a new engine.

My cousin used to have a T-bird S/C With a 5 speed. I was so mad when he sold the car a month before I got my lisence. Thats one of the few Fords I wouldn't mind having.

Not only can Rangers carry SBC's but there is a kid at my school that has one with the turbo motor that came in the T-bird. Not sure what this motor puts out (He's modded it) but he claimed to be door to door with a newer Vette up to 100 I know the truck is fast, but I wanna see slips before i beleive that.

Well, my first plans would be to lower the car and Mod the suspension to get rid of "bump steer." Then I'll either do a brake upgrade or a cheap engine swap. The brake upgrage I want will cost about $1200. (Stops from 60mph in just over 100ft) Or I'll do an engine swap. Either a 4.9 Caddy v8, or a 3.4DOHC. The 4.9 is relativly cheap and has a lot of torque. But the 3.4 is supposedly a very easy swap and a lot of power can be brought out of this motor. Some have around 300hp n/a and one guy has over 400rwhp with an intercooled turbo. I've been into these cars for a while so I have lots of plans but cashflow would slow them down. If I do have this car by summer it would be a few years before all the things I want to do can be done.

My personal favorite on the list is the Fiero (laugh here). They're cheap and most parts are easy to find. The harder to find parts are mostly on the 88's since this was the first and only year they had a new suspension design. But there are plenty of aftermarket parts for these cars and with a little work an early fiero (with the chevette suspension) can be made to handle better than an 88. The best recorded number ive seen so far is 1.14g's on the skidpad with a mildly modded 88 GT. This car also has a Lingenfelter corvette V8 in it. (A few pics can be seen in Hot Rod Mag. from a few months ago) Also, just about any GM motor can be put in them. I've seen them with Quad 4's, 3.4's, 3.4DOHC, 3.5DOHC, 3.8, 3.8 S/C, 350's, 405's, 455's, and Northstars. I've also seen pics of a GN motor in one, and a 1st gen DSM motor in one. If you can't tell, I know a lot about these cars and hope to have mine by this summer if all goes right.