New build thread; time to build one from scratch!

[falconvan]

Love the ideas, is this going to be a street driver or ? race speed air is not the same as street speed air.
If street=but just from having done rear rads a few times in the passed,there very hard to get to work,real good air flow is the big prob,both in and out,it's a ton EZer to put it up front of front wheels or very close for flow,also water flow needs to be set up with bleed points at all high points if rear motor with front rad,but that much EZer to deel with the poor air flow at rear. No matter how well scoops are made,air flow passed the front wheels gets bad and just dose not flow into scoops like you would think should happen,so bigger and bigger rads are often seen on rear rad designs or in some cases moved to front.
Mostly if a rear rad was designed to start with,few builders will admit a screw up after the fact,I see that a lot in hotrods they built to look like drag cars but tryed to drive on the street and over heat,so insted of fixing it,they sell it off or only take short trips.
Being now 70 my self,I played this game,and just pass along some info for your better planing.

It's going to be a street car and Im leaning toward a front mounted radiator with air ducted into it and some type of side scoops to move air across the engine. I appreciate any and all advice; this is virgin territory for me. On the transaxle im wondering about how to make the wheels stationary rather than steerable like they were on the front. I was looking at the Jag IRS and wondering if a setup like that would work where you would have a hybrid shaft that uses a CV joint on the transaxle end and a Ujoint on the wheel end and a coil over shock rather than the strut. Lots to consider.....

Apparantly the whole idea of moving the front drive SHO motor to the rear is being done by others as well; these guys look like they are having fun with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLWcR7lm9cY

[falconvan]

I think Im going to order the Ford electrical repair manual for the Taurus so I can have all the wiring diagrams. Sold the front clip and a door today so it looks like the body parts are in demand.

What Im thinking is to cut off the top, cut the car in half behind the front seats and put some big casters under it so I can roll the front half around. That way I can rig up the fuel tank and still have everything operating while i plan the chassis. If I'm thinking right, the dimensions on the back of the new chassis will be a mirror image of the front. It should help me figure out how the engine cradle is going to mount and how the front suspesion is going to become the rear. It'll also give me a chance to work my way through the wiring and eliminate all the unnessasary stuff. This thing was fully optioned out so a lot of that will be going away.