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Originally Posted by Power Hungry
It's amazing how well those tuck right into older vehicles. That's a really nice setup.
How many radiator hoses did you have to go through to get the orientation you needed? What major problems did you encounter? I see the motor mount brackets and the cut driveshaft. Anything else significant?
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"Tuck in" is not the correct word. More like shoehorn. There is only about half of an inch clearance between each valve cover and the heater box/brake booster. The engine sits really high because I wanted to use the original FE frame perches. Those 4.6s are wide turds.
The upper hose is a stock mid-90's F150/5.0 hose and the lower is a factory Crown Vic hose just shortened across the bottom and spliced together with exhaust pipe. I'd like to put a shroud of sorts on it but the top of the fan is even with the bottom of the top tank.
The driveshaft between the transmission and transfer case is a the stock 'Vic slip yoke unit cut down and welded to the original F-250 yoke at the transfer case. The tube diameter and thickness were identical so it was easy to chuck up in the lathe at work, square-up, and weld.
The only other real challenge was making a shift linkage bellcrank that was the correct "ratio" for the AODE lever so it would match up with the indicator on the column. Otherwise, business as usual. The exhaust is ridiculously loud and snappy too - 2" pipe with no mufflers into the stacks.
Of course the tuning has been modified as to make it shift really good!