Thread: heating up an amc

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You won't know any of these answers until you lay the two side by side, and then actually slide the engine down into the hole for the first time.

In this swap, you are like a Christopher Columbus, I bet no one in history has done this exact car/engine swap. (isn't that enough incentive to do it alone???)

You will meet and have to solve a multitude of small and maybe not so small challanges along the way, but you just have to take each one and address it.

Shifter may or may not work, but a floor shift conversion would fix that.

My Jeep/5.0 radiator gave me fits. The jeep one is like 12 inches high X 28 inches long, to clear a big steerin box. I finally had to offset an aluminum mustang race radiator and make it fit. Not perfect, but it is ok.

If you start getting stuck during the swap, just post. Someone on here will be able to offer some suggestions.

Good luck Columbus.


Don


I just reread your post, and see that your AMC shifter is on the console. If so, it probably uses a cable from the shifter to the trans arm. My Jeep is in the same family, and that is how it is. If so, just make a mounting bracket on the trans for the cable, after you work out the proper geometry and throw, and hook it up to the new trans. I had to make a new arm for the trans, and work out the proper throw, but it works like factory now, and I have the benefit of the neutral safety switch still being in place on the shifter.