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I would buy a American power trains t56, the reverse lockout is low profile and it fit in the tunnel of my 240 with no bashing
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My opinion, if you want to keep the feel of the V90, and not feel like you're driving a race car, then you need compliant mounts. I used GTO mounts when I built my car, they came with the engine. I was way ahead of all the pre-made mounts, I ended up modifying the original aluminum motor mount brackets to lower the engine into the car.
Depending on where you mount your engine front to back, you're going to need to open up the tunnel for the bell housing and the reverse lock out on the T56 - just BFH work. I located mine so the shifter came thru the stock opening which allows you to reuse the original console without modifications.
I just checked my old thread and all the pictures are disabled because Photobucket is now charging to act as a third party hosting service. Send me a PM with your email and i'll look into giving you access to my PB account.
Can you flip the engine side mount upside down? That would lower it in the chassis. You will likely have to swap to the Holley oil pan if you get it lower. I think the crate motor comes with a truck pan, doesn't it? Even if it's the F-car pan, the Holley pan is a little more shallow.
Edit; that looks like the F-car oil pan that is on the crate motor. So maybe the Holley pan will gain some room.
The Mast pan and the 302-2 Holley are even thinner over the rack/crossmember than the 302-1 to position the engine lower - if you can deal with the longer sump. Poly mounts on mine - it's much quieter/smoother/refined than the Ford 5.0L with oem rubber mounts. I added a third "mount" (torque strap) between the driver's side head and the crossmember bolts on the frame rail. Helps calm things down when lots of torque is applied.
I had no idea, that's really neat! Wish they would do that with more motors. I have an appointment with the ref here in Sac in a week, to check out my b230ft (LH24) swap in a B21 (kjet) car, I'm hoping it goes well.
I would buy a American power trains t56, the reverse lockout is low profile and it fit in the tunnel of my 240 with no bashing
We are in San Mateo.
Cool info about the smog compliance, I'm a couple towns down in RWC
Just got a call from the driveshaft shop suggesting that they convert the driveshaft into a one piece to make it easier to put the new yoke on for the t56. My only hesitation with this is that the 960 has a loop near the gas tank that the driveshaft and I'm not sure if I can fit the one piece into place. Any thoughts?
update for me, mines running and ready to go. also my local driveshaft shop converted my 2 piece driveshaft, they actually made it a bit short by accident but luckily I was able to buy a longer slip yoke to make up the difference so its good to go now. they said due to the length if they made it a one piece shaft it would have to be a 3" diameter tube which I don't think would have fit without cutting that loop out of the car.
also I accidently put regular power steering fluid in and it was doing some weird stuff, apparently these cars take the "type f" fluid, I flushed mine out and it was great afterwards just fyi