FORD COBRA - AMX - marriage - same sex ?

["Brien Tourville" <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:34:56 -0500
From: reflexr@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Cobra energid AMX?



Hi all, I am contemplating a swap:
2001 SVT Cobra drivetrain, including 8.8 IRS into a 1970 AMX. The AMX
is less engin and trans, and is originally a 360 go pack 4spd, w/
unknown rear gear. I was wondering if anyone had input on the rear 
end
swap. The engine will fit, but mounts will have to be fabbed as well
as a new cross member. Looking for input here, not criticism about
putting a Ford in an AMC, I have a car, with no drive train, and a
complete wrecked 320hp Cobra with a good one. Thanks in advance and
all suggestions(and opinions) are welcome. Steve Avery, are you still
here?? Happy new year all!

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Avery is around here someplace....... check behind those Kegs :)

As to your Ford Swap - >  Go for it !   Sounds like an Incredible
PowerTrain Package you've got in stock - .

To my mind - AMC has had Ford Parts / GM Parts over the 
years - and a cool pollenate is a cool powerplant!

Yes - the purists will decry you're not selling your Cobra
motor / trans & using those monies to find a rebuildable
401 - sink a few thou. rebuilding it - then another yard or
so for a trans - and whatever else is needed inbetween ..........
Suite1 for someone with unlimited yardage - unlimited time
and fanatically determination...... but.............
as a B'one' for those Fanatics - realize that the car will be
back in Action almost immediately - with cash going into
its' restoration / upgrades - so that should there be a need
to revert to the AMC powertrain - one would be ready to go!

I drove a friends Ford F-250 awhile back & couldn't get over 
how great the engine sounded & felt - compared to the
older stocked pushrod engines I'm used to.

The New 2005 Mustang exhaust system sounds incredible!
Whomever in Design has done their homework for audible
Growl & Snot.......... 

So........ do it up and Happy Hunting !

The IRS should go in nicely - measure out the track.

When I researched these a year or so ago - 
I found you'd need to put in spring perches and
some odds & ends to use the rear IRS kpl.

Lincoln runs this system & uses an Aluminum
Center Section - and other bits too.

Sounds as if you've a K'illah' !


             Brien.
         NEW YORK
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