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    Quote Originally Posted by 34_40 View Post
    Welcome Aboard Cmore... that thread you hit upon was last active in 2005! Don't know if those guys are still around or if they ever got those projects finished.
    Maybe he completes projects at the same right I do, could still be contemplating things!!!!!!!!!!!
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    No-one is that slow.. Well, can't be more than a few of us, could there?

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    biggest issue with any of the 1958 and later engines is the oil pan front sump and crossmember conflicks
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    ok thanks guys

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    Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
    biggest issue with any of the 1958 and later engines is the oil pan front sump and crossmember conflicks
    And that can be fixed via a different pan or by re-engineering the crossmember. No big deal.

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    well, actually, with the side skirts on the fe block plus the length of the oil pump---that area at the front of the engine is pretty well dictated to be require a different approach on the crossmember just as Ford did in 58---------the Windsor package isn't quite as bad altho the rearsumped do have a bulge in the front-------

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    Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
    well, actually, with the side skirts on the fe block plus the length of the oil pump---that area at the front of the engine is pretty well dictated to be require a different approach on the crossmember just as Ford did in 58---------the Windsor package isn't quite as bad altho the rearsumped do have a bulge in the front-------
    But I mean don't you find it incredible that some fellows view a pan/crossmember interference as a killer on a project. It's just as simple as welding in a new crossmember that will clear the pan and then torching out the old one and grinding the whole mess down so that it looks pretty. Not a problem.

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    Oh Yeh----------if there aren't aftermarket mounts, adapters, accessory drives(need power steering, air condition, electric water pumps, etc etc) transmission adapters, clutch t o bearing, shifters-----------------then it can't be done--------


    give me a car that I can park across the ditch by the driveway, a cutting torch, old $100 180 amp welder-I can put anything in anything-------------others do the sbc 350/350 thingie------
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    Sometimes it's a matter of acknowledging your limitations. Better to scrap the project, than to have an unsafe vehicle, or have to scrap the project due to expense of having that custom fabrication farmed out.
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    I put an E475 Edsel engine into my 1955 Ford--------was able to get an bell housing from a speed shop to fit the back of the Lincoln style block (No sticks in the Lincolns) to my ford 3 speed top loader od trans ----------then I used the electric welder turned way up in amps to burn out a section of firewall so the engine could be moved back into the interior enough to get the oil pan sump to clear the crossmember-(gassers were allowed 10 % set back ) required removing heater and radio---------

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