66 Mustang

[Power Hungry]

One of the first full engine swaps I ever did was a mildly built 289 4bbl & C4 into a 65 Mustang that had a 250 & 3spd. For anyone that has ever done a swap in a Mustang, you can understand my surprise when the engine wouldn't fit with the headers on it! As it was, we had to shoehorn the little bugger in with the headers in place and 1 guy on each side holding them up. Plus, because we didn't have the front end lifted up, we couldn't get the engine and trans lifted in at the same time so we just threw the trans in place on the ground and dropped the engine in.

Outside of those few snags, everything else went super smoothly. Scammed a factory automatic shifter out of an old junker for the trans and we were good to go.

The Christening drive was about 2 in the morning with the headers still open. Made a LOT of "friends" that night, but fortunately it was a Saturday. :o It's interesting to me just how light those little pony cars are. It takes nothing to blow the tires off of them! There really is an art to handling a car like that when launching so you don't end up looking into oncoming traffic.

Fun days, fer sure!