*Updated & only kinda shitty now!* The definitive 5.0/302 swap guide

[e30_302]

Will be here tomorrow.

[jalopi]

jeez, well that took long enough, didn't it?

so i haven't COMPLETELY thrown the towel in for the ford engines quite yet. i need to do some research on the ford racing 9.5" based blocks and see if they have the same short cylinder issues that the 8.2" block has. if they don't i can just buy one and have it delivered within a week and best of all, no primadonnas to deal with :)

[e30_302]

Yeah it took a while, but I couldn't have really done anything with it until about two weeks ago. I just hope to hear it go vroom this weekend.

[jalopi]

remind me what you did again? 347?

[e30_302]

Yeah.

[jalopi]

nice. that couldn't have been cheap... aren't you afraid of the whole lemons "we can forcefully destroy/purchase your car per contractual obligations" thing?

on a side note, i don't know why i didn't think of this before, but i just found out that dart makes their own shortblocks. no idea if they actually build good engines, though i don't see why they wouldn't considering their blocks are so nice

bit expensive ($5900) but that includes shipping through summit racing. the 363 is closer to woody's pricing (about $5100). both seem to ship within two weeks though and summit does not fuck around when it comes to customer service. think this might be the option i go with when i do my next swap

[e30_302]

Yeah I didn't know that either.

Regarding the budget thing- they don't actually do that. I'll take my million penalty laps and go play with everyone else. No big deal.

[jalopi]

fair enough, guess i can't argue with that logic

kinda funny to think that your drivetrain is gonna be worth seven times what the whole car is supposed to cost

[e30_302]

Man I would be so happy if it were only 7x!

[jalopi]

lol... incoming lemons lap record

[e30_302]

Maybe, a newish GTO got either two or four billion at a race once.

[steel330i]

Sorry to kind of hijack this thread, but after all of my reading in it thus far does anyone happen to know dimensions for motor mounts and trans-member so that I can start to fab mine up?

Thanks and great write up....will certainly be referencing this later.

[Zanderr]

Sorry to kind of hijack this thread, but after all of my reading in it thus far does anyone happen to know dimensions for motor mounts and trans-member so that I can start to fab mine up?

Thanks and great write up....will certainly be referencing this later.

E30v8.com sells motor mounts and trans crossmembers. Will be dropping mine in in January! Will tell you how they fit then

[burlmays9]

E30v8.com sells motor mounts and trans crossmembers. Will be dropping mine in in January! Will tell you how they fit then

I had to drill a new hole in the driver side arm to motor mount because the existing one was almost a whole inch off.

Their quality control is very meh but drilling one hole is a hell of a lot easier than fabricating the mounts!

[Zanderr]

That's kinda good to hear! This week has been -40 and I ran out of diesel for my reddyheater so progress on my end has been null haha are you going carb or efi? Tempted to start a new thread