Hey all,
Been awhile since I was able to do anything to the car, work/life got in the way for awhile but finally got around to starting her..it turns out at some point in the past there was a majorly blown gasket (I hope) or a crack in the waterjacket, anyway the entire cooling system is contaminated, old oil/sludge throughout the whole thing..luckily I had access to a motor that had some work done on it in the past, I am horrible with doccumentation, but here it is, complete with pictures & an AVI with a surprise ending (boy, was I surprised.)

03/30/08
Ok, so this weekend been working on gettin the old motor out & droppin in the new, it's another 5.0 with E7's & bigger cam, pulling the old motor went smothly....



then we go to put the new one in, and some monkey at the parts warehouse mis-boxed my drivers side motor mount..the thing is "very" close..but the mounting bolt on the frame side is wrong..now I am stuck till at least noon tomorrow when I can get in to pick up the new mount..



04/01/08-04/02/08

as for the mount.. it was the wrong one/mis-boxed.. 3 times I tried to swap it & they all sent the wrong ones or were also mis-boxed. The ones they were sending were either A: passenger side (need driver) or wrong all togather.. motor wouldnt even sit in the frame.. BUT!!. I have the right ones now, I was "almost" ready to try 'vert mounts... will see how it goes this weekend.
yeah, well, only took 3 trips/ordering it 'cause they don't stock them... Now I need to find a double hump x-member for the exhaust..so far it's gettin' longtubes & a set of used cherrybombs.. I was thinkin' zoomies..but can't find any around here

04/04/08

Ok, got the mounts finaly, only had to order the darn things 3 times, between mis-boxed/mis-labled/mis-shipped.. I got em. next snag was this motor had an elec. ignition, so I had to use my old distributor..minor issue at the most, going to redo it later anyways but figured I'd note it.

Next minor snag was the fuel pump.. at least till '82 it was mechanical & mounted on the block. At some point between then & '88 Ford, in their wisdom moved to an electronig pump..in the fuel tank.. and fuzt with the block to the degree that you cannot mount an older pump to it in the same place, Seems like a plate would have done fine, but no, the changed the casting...'cause they can.. I guess. So I had to pick up a new fuel pump, not a big deal either, but they have gone up in price, cheapest I could find was $40.00 at o'rielys.

The longtubes were next, and a real PITA, lost 1 header bolt, but thinking it's in the cross-over where the pipes meet, small problem, still annoying.While looking for a double-hump cross member I decided to check the bird I got the motor from, and it had one, so I am set there, the plan at the moment is to have the tips exit just in front of the rear wheels...I was thinking about zoomies, but I have already recieved threats to my person if I go through with that.
Also, we discovered the hard way, the steering knuckle has to come off to fit the headers in there, wasn't expecting that, or the fact that they now sit "on" the fuel lines.. a little re-routing will fix that up tho. I really hate replying to my own threads, but since the edit doesnt show as new.....I should have it back togather by Sat. will see how the weather holds out...she's almost together again.



04/05/08

Ok, got it IN, and all I can tell is there was some running change on the k-member in 83, .. they're in, but talk about a PITA. I had to reverse the L/R brackets to get it to sit in there..

Thats the good, bad is, it blew the gasket on the timing cover after we started her up.



I'm hoping this doesnt kill the bandwith if so have a mod delete & the url is below

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a378/Des...nt=ItsALIVE.flv

I know this was long & drawn out, but hey, new camera & having NO idea how to resize pics..well...at this point I am not sure what direction I will go, it will be taken to the thrack on occasion & it's getting underdrive pullys added when we replace the timing cover gasket..it was a definate expeiance, I will say that, being my forst engine swap since high school, I had hoped to document it better, but this will do for now, just thought this would be a good place to share the rebirth of a GT.

Very Interesting. Keep us informed. I knew about the fuel pump casting, just get an elect fuel pump.

Great, a thread that documents a modification with pics. Keep it up....

Looks like you had a lot of fun!
Don't you just love the parts places when they say "well that's what the box says it is." That just kills me! Well duh I guess my car is just wrong then, because if the box says that's it then it must be!! I wish they had a better screening process for the employees! Not all of them, but just some of them.

Congrats on the change over!!! Good Job!

i think Georges car is a good example of the "thats what the box says it is" and man next time your doing an engine swap call me, im young i can break some bones!

Get 'er done.

RRRR...................................

It is coming around. Hope to see it up and running soon.