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Yeah, I'm certainly not opposed to spending money on building cars, Dave, but we aren't talking about a car here that can't be duplicated just by shopping around and buying one that Ford already did for you. Taking a car that has a blue book value in the $ 1500.00 range and spending another $ 2000-$3000, potentially, on putting a V8 in it just doesn't add up. You could sell this one and for just a few bucks more find a V8 model already done.

I got in the middle of just about the same swap this gentleman is thinking about years ago, before I came to my senses. I had an 86 Cougar that was mint but the 3.8 was shot (like most of them are ) I built a 302 for it, lined up a C4 tranny, and started the job. Once I realized all that I was going to have to do to make all the systems work and buy all V8 related components, I scrapped the car and put the 302 in my 27.

How often do we see someone upside down on some project when they would be far better off going some other direction? Just trying to save him lots of money and work to end up with something that he could find on most used car lots.........and he wouldn't even get his hands dirty.

Don