She runs like a champ be getting 30+ MPG on the regular and has tons of power, i haven gotten a chance to lower her yetr but that will come in the next few months along with new paint

 

im over in tacoma, we should cruise some time!

 

Parts

all the parts that have shown up so far

Full poly kit


Everything for the Crown Vic 12.4" big brake upgrade


LED Tails & 4x6 crystal clears headlights and DDM 55w 8k Hid kit & a line lock


Gabriel chocks , new ball joints , blower motor


still waiting on steering components and a few other small things and the full rebuild and Paint will start

 

your trucks about to be reaaaaalllly fuuuuuun =] hehe

 

It's already fun but yes it's about to just a bit better
I should be able to see at night
Not have it float like a boat in turns
And be able to stop on a dime

I can not wait this should be a good little month long build

Not sure what color I should go with and ideas ? Anyone

 

damn, how much did you spend?

 

Not real sure, I will add it all up after I order a few more thing and buy all the paint stuff I need

but for now...

$400 ... Big Brakes
$200 ... for lighting both head and tail
$250-350 for bushings shocks ball joints steering stuff

and extra $$ here and there, i am not the best at keeping track

 

it'd be cool to do it in that arctic silver that mercedes uses all the time for their "luxury" cars lol

 

Finally you post back on here haha. I've been waiting for more updates as I still want this swap done haha. Do you think if your truck was bagged the oil pan Wud hit?

 

I was thinking for mineral grey it's kinda a dark grey metallic ad the pan would r close to dragging by I don't think it hit and if it did just shim the motor up anoth inch or so and I think it be fine

And sorry for not updating I was deployed to Afghanistan from jan-aug

 

Makes me wanna dobthe swap even more now. Hopefully after I buy a house ill be able to save for the swap

 

the oil pan sits up and behind the cross member if i remember right. it should be fine.

 

^ the truck has been Swapped with a diesel motor the pan now rest infront of the cross member since its an inline 5 cylinder

Also it has a steel lower section that can be plated if your scared

.

 

Ya I figured it cud be plated Ive been doing a lot of reading on the om617. You gonna run an intercooler?

 

Not going to run an intercooler since i am running a wather meth injection set up


Update:

Had to take a step back from this project for a bit for family stuff, only got a few of the things i ordered installed but she will be rolled into the shop for full tear down next week for install of all the above parts plus a 8.8 lsd rear and some other goodies i have gotten for her will start posting pics when the work begains

cant wait

 

your fly wheel scares me run scatter shield/mat around bell just to be safe


pretty hard to walk around with stub's in stead of legs

 

Found some time to work on it

 

I am not too concerned, However I do understand your worrie I was EXTREAMLY concerned when I was fisrt looking intoi doing this swap but I have done a ton of research and have found the I really didn’t have to worrie about. I had a machine shop redrill and balance the flywheel and I am running excessive HP or TQ. Nore do I beat on the thing. I have seen a lot of conversion that run redrilled flywheels without issues and hell my truck has almost 18k miles since swap

 

I might be picking up a motor this weekend for the swap he said 500$ for everything he's got which is 2 motors an acme adapter for a 700r4 which ill end up selling an a bunch of MB parts. I just need to find a way to pick it up haha not having a truck sucks. Glad your working on this again

 

I also found out tht a 7.3l downpipe works perfect for this motor an swap. If your interested its 122001 downpipe on eBay just enter tht in the search an it should come up