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Picked up a 96 Ranger 5 speed trans last night; heading to the boneyard tomorrow for an 8.8 and a set of hanging pedals. Time to make some Mopar/Blue Oval stew.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Picked up a 96 Ranger 5 speed trans last night; heading to the boneyard tomorrow for an 8.8 and a set of hanging pedals. Time to make some Mopar/Blue Oval stew.

I am lovin' it! Can't wait...

So Falcon, will the Ranger tranny bolt up directly to the Taurus SVO, or do you have to do some adapting? Never even thought of a Taurus engine flipped around to go front to back, and what it would take to hook it up....

According to other projects I've seen online, it's a direct bolt up. the 3.0 Ranger engine shares the same bellhousing pattern as the 3.0 Vulcan (standard Taurus) and the 3.0 and 3.2 Taurus SHO motors. The only difference is the flywheel; 6 bolts for the standard Taurus and 8 for the SHOs. Supposedly you can use either starter. Here's a shot of one a guy is putting in a 37 Ford coupe.

That's pretty sweet! I like the tubular X member too!

Should a Chevy guy even be watching this

Of course you should, you might want to drop a Ford motor in that Chevy by the time I'm done!

Good score at the boneyard today; I got my 8.8 disc brake posi rear from a Mercury mountaineer and a pedal assembly from a Jeep Cherokee. I came home and pulled the front clip and hopefully will be able to bolt the motor and trans together next weekend for a trial fit.
The guy I got this car from, Dennis from Mentor, Ohio, did an awesome job on this car. There’s so many cool updates that I won’t have to do plus everything is super clean with all new bolts. It sure beats pulling apart a car with 50 years of rust and crud.

Looks like some nice parts for the coupe!!!! You did some good hunting!

Ya, it was a great day to be out there. High of 75 and just a little breezy; weird weather for July in Missouri. Must be global warming

Is the coupe in the back the 48 ???

Originally Posted by bluestang67

Is the coupe in the back the 48 ???

Oh Wow, Bobby!!! Is that really you?? Great to see you're still around!!!

Yeah, it is, Bobby. How you been? Haven't seen you post in a while!

Nice score on parts! I hear you on not dealing with rust taking stuff off a 50 year old car. I was/am dealing with that on my 40. Not for long though.

Did a little teardown on the engine tonight and pulled out the front seat and carpet to get ready to trial fit the drivetrain this weekend.

Lots done today. I got the rest of the stuff Im not using stripped off the motor. The plan is to go without A/C or PS. It looks like it will work fine, I'm just going to have to make a bracket for the alternator that will adjust the belt. The belt tensioner was part of the PS bracket so no good there. I had to grind a litte notch on the inside of the five speed bellhousing so that it would bolt up to the motor but it was a piece of cake after that. So I've got it sitting between the rails and its got a few issues to work with but nothing too drastic. It's going to need a little firewall surgery so that the motor will go back a few more inches. Right now the oil filter will hit the steering box. I may try to come up with something to relocate the filter altogether; got to do some thinking on how to accomplish that. Shifter placement looks good, np problems there. The tie rod is dead center on the oil pan so the pan may need some notching, and it looks like custom headers will have to be built. Im going to try and alter a set of factory 3.8 Mustang headers and see how that works. Fun stuff, though.