Carshamus

A few years back bloke I know ripped the 6cyl out his jag installed a 454 chev with some goodies.

Left it registered as a 6cyl cheaper rego didnt bother with a mod plate.

Went tear assing around town doing donuts an the usual stuff.

Next thing he gets a letter from the motor transport mob to take his car in for a pit inspection.

He was a little concerned but decided to wing it.

So in he goes with the car the guys do a brake test and had a general look around the car.

Never even noticed a 454 under the bonnet!

Still registered as a 6cyl far as I know.

He was a smug bastard after getting away with that.

9 hours ago, Madog41 said:

Mr plod will not know that the engine has been changed I'm not telling

 

 

 

Ashould 302  be lighter and it'll fit probably if it better than the 351 but if I want to be stupid and go all out the fucken 460 in it 

Yeah I would definitely start with the 460 no good stuffing around its obvious you need some real power.

Put a stroker kit in the 460 try to get close to 600 cubes with over boring and stroking.

Then top it of with a good super charger.

If you still need more power go methanol should be good for over 1000hp.

Looking forward to seeing the build.

If you need another set of arms ebay.

9 minutes ago, CHESTNUTXE said:

does anyone actually have a 300 engine ? or where would you start to look in australia ?

I have a bell housing for the "big block" ford 6 as used in the 60s

Dont have the engine though its sitting back in LA.

Those arms look the same as on the earlier mustangs and falcons with the steel worm style bushes.

You need the rubber bushes right?

I seen arms for your car a few weeks back for $80 on ebay the seller had a number of them second hand.

Just replaced the bushes in XB lower control arms those are flimsy also need to brace the arms and

be careful its totally doable.

Didn't end up buying the gearbox someone beat me to.

Got to be quick around here!

Its about 20 minutes drive from my place in Townsville.

Really the gearbox is the part that interested me but if its weaker then the EB I dont want to put it behind a 393W

2 minutes ago, CHESTNUTXE said:

just a alloy t5 cmrs bell is $800

I haven't checked lately thought I paid about $600 8yrs ago.

Bought the mustang 15yr ago added improvements along the way but its done now.

1 minute ago, CHESTNUTXE said:

i did a t5 conversion not long ago on a 351c xe  used a new cmrs bell plus all new bits n pieces ,xg ute box,all worked well but expensive .by the time you buy a flywheel,pedal box ,clutch and all the other gear you could have bought a top loader.

When I done it on the mustang it had the 3sp toploader so just needed to get the bell housing and hydraulic clutch think it ran me about $800.

Then the engineers report but I "saved" all the modification up got it all done in one hit so not sure on the cost.

The guy wants $100 for the lot dunno if I should grab it or not?

This is the setup looks like the cross member is there.

Yeah the shaft length is different I have the 6cyl box in the mustang because the shifter comes up through the original

hole in the tunnel. Just had to do a slight clearance. But those gearboxes fit in the yank stangs very easily.

Just now, deankdx said:

the box is almost same, i think the later EB had the world class T5 with better bearings
My brother ran one in his EB for years. if it's in good nick it will be fine if not thrashed , might need to do something with the gearbox mount, not 100% sure if they are a direct fit, but should be simple to fix as My brother isnt the best engineer

 

as Chestnut said, the bell housings are rare, always were, same for the cross member. 

 

Bell housing is with the box far as I know but would be useless to me anyway.

Ok thanks for that I really like the EB box in the mustang from memory used a castlemaine rod shop bell housing.

Designed a remote reservoir clutch system to make it all work along with a cross member.

I will pass on it then but if anyone wants a XF manual conversion this is a complete setup minus the clutch cable

going cheap.

Guys I have found a cheap XF T5 looks like some other gear with it also.

Are these the same as EB T5s in physical dimensions?

Not concerned about gearing just want this box for a spare to replace the EB box in my mustang if I ever blow it.

Cheers

Hi Mate

I have an EB 5sp in my mustang behind a 393 windsor the box has held up well !

Had to build my own gearbox mount for this application.

Obviously you will not need to go to this much trouble!

As for your question to hazard a guess they are most likely interchangeable.

It would be best to just buy a conversion kit someone has forsale or if you want to hunt down the parts

pull out the auto box mount and take it with you to compare and the pedal box. They will have to come

out anyway. Last time I checked the 6cyl EB boxes were plentiful at the wreckers so I d start there with

checking parts even just taking photos to compare. But really this should be very straight forward conversion.

Cheers.