89 LX BBF Swap In San Antonio

Just getting this started with some pics. This post will be used to document the build. Any insight, suggestions, criticisms etc is more than welcome.



'89 LX 4cyl A/T donor car


Block "DIVE-6015-A2B" balanced, blue printed, decked, Ford Racing water pump, alum timing chain cover, MSD dist, Pete Jackson "noisy" E'brock RPM intake, Crane xtreme truck cam, I'll add more when I find the Build sheet.


Heads "D3VE-A2A" ported and polished by Mission Auto Parts, Crane Gold Rollers.


Fluidamper
Thx

stole a 2 ton engine hoist from some cat on craigslist for 60.00. Went to the 'rents house and picked up my BBF which has been sitting there for the last few years. Took it over to the shop and got it cleaned up. I took the bronco BBF swap headers off and cleaned up the ex ports. Going to pull the 4cyl out tomorrow

Got the drive shaft out, battery cradle, air box, electric fan, and radiator. Work decided I needed to be in San Angelo this evening so working on my toy came to a halt for the day.

whos engine kit are you going to use? i just finished a swap in a mustang turned out pretty good

studly wrote:whos engine kit are you going to use? i just finished a swap in a mustang turned out pretty good

Kinda looking at a K-Memebr swap AJE will most likely be the one. A lot of work to do b4 I get to actually putting the motor in. Taking it to a shop for cage and mini-tub, then paint... then start on actually putting it back together.

Guess who has a 4cyl and AT sitting on the shop floor?

cool deal keep us posted

Yo Man, somebody stoled your engine and fenders

Looking forward to updates from your build.

I used a D&D KIT with qa1 front k member and struts worked out good, wish i would have used a dropped k member(skinny kids) to help out on the geometry and lower the bbf in the car so you do not have to use such a tall hood.

studly wrote:I used a D&D KIT with qa1 front k member and struts worked out good, wish i would have used a dropped k member(skinny kids) to help out on the geometry and lower the bbf in the car so you do not have to use such a tall hood.

I'm definently going the anti-redneck way and trying to not make the BB a focal point of the car. 5" cowl, tall rears (except track days) and skinnies will not be found on this car. Just a sharp looking LX with an exhaust note that is suspect

Got the interior pulled out last night

Man, that sure is a clean looking car! You have to look very hard to find a fox like that here. Most have lost a few hundred pounds to salt/snow!!

Check into the K member spacers too. You can run with no scoop with a low manifold.

Nice build.

Bill

got the price dropped on me for a 10 point and mini tub.. 4500.00 for c/moly 10pt w/thru floor sub frames. eeek looking at 6 pt bolt in now.

Look into a ms cage you can take ms all the way to 7.50 with a 25.5 and I wont pass on the frame cont... cool build keep us updated. Jason

Northwest outlaw wrote:Look into a ms cage you can take ms all the way to 7.50 with a 25.5 and I wont pass on the frame cont... cool build keep us updated. Jason

Thx J, I just can't get into mildsteel, with all the junk that has flood the market from China. Even if I have to cough up the $$ American C/M will be my only chioce.