My friend blew up his moded sc and decided to ditch the sc motor all together and do a big block swap. We found a 460 freshly built shortblock with forged crank eagle forged rods and keith black dome pistons DOVEII heads with new stem seals and valve job and a new SFI balancer for $1000! not bad at all i thought! guy had it built and never paid for it.. Anyway from what we can find out we will need the following
Manual master CYL early bronco
replace rag joing with a u joint on steering shaft
fuel cel
relocated battery to trunk
fox body swap headers
fox body swap radiator
c6 tranny
He's in no hurry to finish the build and wants to collect all the parts to do it this winter. Anyway his friend GAVE him a low mile EFI 302 out of a 90's crown vic. nothing wrong with the motor he used car for demo derby and has a SB chevy he runs in all his cars so he just didnt need it. What we are wondering is what all is needed to convert the efi 302 to carb so we can throw it in the car and run it until all the 460 stuff is scrounged? Will it not bolt right up to an AOD? We found a edelbrock performer intake on craigslist cheap and i've got a good edelbrock 600 carb laying around couldnt we just get T-bird v8 motor mounts a vac advance distributor and run with it? He's wanting to just make some downtubes from the 302 to hook up to the SC exhaust. And we have all the accercory brackets/accecories from the 302 can we just run the serpintine belt and use the alternator etc from the 302 in the car? Already have mechanical guages (temp and water). I tried to convince him to keep the 3.8 but it was built and has always had issues he's just tired of the frustration and unreliability of the motor. I feel the pain one of my SC's is a bascket case the other one is not to bad. Anyway there will probably be alot of SC parts in the forsale section here soon. And it sounds like the bigblock is going to be totaly nasty when its all said and done. Most of the people we run around with have SC'd stangs and big block chevy cars i think he's just tired of not being able to run with them. I am quite sure a built 460 will hang in there pretty good if i had the funds id consider it myself for one of my cars. Anyway any information would be appreceated on this. I found some stuff but nothing about going carb.
Manual master CYL early bronco
replace rag joing with a u joint on steering shaft
fuel cel
relocated battery to trunk
fox body swap headers
fox body swap radiator
c6 tranny
He's in no hurry to finish the build and wants to collect all the parts to do it this winter. Anyway his friend GAVE him a low mile EFI 302 out of a 90's crown vic. nothing wrong with the motor he used car for demo derby and has a SB chevy he runs in all his cars so he just didnt need it. What we are wondering is what all is needed to convert the efi 302 to carb so we can throw it in the car and run it until all the 460 stuff is scrounged? Will it not bolt right up to an AOD? We found a edelbrock performer intake on craigslist cheap and i've got a good edelbrock 600 carb laying around couldnt we just get T-bird v8 motor mounts a vac advance distributor and run with it? He's wanting to just make some downtubes from the 302 to hook up to the SC exhaust. And we have all the accercory brackets/accecories from the 302 can we just run the serpintine belt and use the alternator etc from the 302 in the car? Already have mechanical guages (temp and water). I tried to convince him to keep the 3.8 but it was built and has always had issues he's just tired of the frustration and unreliability of the motor. I feel the pain one of my SC's is a bascket case the other one is not to bad. Anyway there will probably be alot of SC parts in the forsale section here soon. And it sounds like the bigblock is going to be totaly nasty when its all said and done. Most of the people we run around with have SC'd stangs and big block chevy cars i think he's just tired of not being able to run with them. I am quite sure a built 460 will hang in there pretty good if i had the funds id consider it myself for one of my cars. Anyway any information would be appreceated on this. I found some stuff but nothing about going carb.