New guy with a few questions about these cool swaps
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:18 pm
Hello,
Suppose I should introduce myself and fill everyone in on my background. My name is Jesse and I have been cursed with living in Decatur, Indiana. For any serious gear heads out there this is home to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, and you can hear the dyno bays across town. Yes they are that loud and yes this town is that small. Everyone and their cousin has some form a ridiculous horsepower car/truck here and it is hard to keep up! Toss in the 1000+ HP Camaros, Corvettes, and other machines LPE is turning out and running around town and you have the perfect mixture to keep the local law enforcement busy 24-7.
I have tore down and restored six vehicles in the last five years. the last being a dodge Durango I picked up for 1000.00 and just sold about 2 weeks ago.
http://www.dakota-durango.com/forum/sho ... p?t=133767
HU Upgrade:
http://www.dakota-durango.com/forum/sho ... p?t=145978
I have not really built a performance ONLY car/truck. I have always been into (and probably always will be) an audiophile of an SQ nature. I joined this forum in preparation for a future project.
The next project I will beginning will be a full termination of my 95 GTS. Anyone who is not familiar with the swap, this is simply gutting my 95 Mustang 5.0 H.O in it's entirety (all wires, lines, components, even the door locks and trunk release (everything)) and placing an 03/04 SVT Cobra's guts in its place. It is not too complicated with a complete donor. The performance upgrades (and the custom 4R70W) are the only real PITA issues as it requires non-oem integration. A fellow Hoosier (Dave) pulled it off here: http://forums.corral.net/forums/94-95-t ... rsion.html
What to do with that entire 95 5.0 setup????? Well my good buddy is about ready to step off of his 2002 Ranger and would let it go to me pretty cheap. It has the F2445C (4.0) currently with a 5R55E tranny (Yup, it is 4wd). I am considering a rebuild of the 5.0 with a C/H/I upgrade and plopping it into the ranger.
I have done as much googling as I could, but am not having much luck on getting a direct answer on:
What all I will need to swap into the truck to make it work PROPERLY. I never halfass anything.
What modding I will need to do to make it fit, and where I can go to get (if any) the conversion kits to do this.
I am not afraid of digging up the Ranger wire diagram and marrying the two systems together. I have done it on past swaps. I can work any metal with the exception of aluminum (never mastered the welding on that), so body mods are not an issue.
Long story short I need to be schooled on these trucks so I can do this right the first time. More questions will come down the road (rear end strength, 4wd etc...) but for now I would like to start with the probability of integrating the 95 into an 02.
Thanks you for any and all advise in this venture,
Jesse
Suppose I should introduce myself and fill everyone in on my background. My name is Jesse and I have been cursed with living in Decatur, Indiana. For any serious gear heads out there this is home to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, and you can hear the dyno bays across town. Yes they are that loud and yes this town is that small. Everyone and their cousin has some form a ridiculous horsepower car/truck here and it is hard to keep up! Toss in the 1000+ HP Camaros, Corvettes, and other machines LPE is turning out and running around town and you have the perfect mixture to keep the local law enforcement busy 24-7.
I have tore down and restored six vehicles in the last five years. the last being a dodge Durango I picked up for 1000.00 and just sold about 2 weeks ago.
http://www.dakota-durango.com/forum/sho ... p?t=133767
HU Upgrade:
http://www.dakota-durango.com/forum/sho ... p?t=145978
I have not really built a performance ONLY car/truck. I have always been into (and probably always will be) an audiophile of an SQ nature. I joined this forum in preparation for a future project.
The next project I will beginning will be a full termination of my 95 GTS. Anyone who is not familiar with the swap, this is simply gutting my 95 Mustang 5.0 H.O in it's entirety (all wires, lines, components, even the door locks and trunk release (everything)) and placing an 03/04 SVT Cobra's guts in its place. It is not too complicated with a complete donor. The performance upgrades (and the custom 4R70W) are the only real PITA issues as it requires non-oem integration. A fellow Hoosier (Dave) pulled it off here: http://forums.corral.net/forums/94-95-t ... rsion.html
What to do with that entire 95 5.0 setup????? Well my good buddy is about ready to step off of his 2002 Ranger and would let it go to me pretty cheap. It has the F2445C (4.0) currently with a 5R55E tranny (Yup, it is 4wd). I am considering a rebuild of the 5.0 with a C/H/I upgrade and plopping it into the ranger.
I have done as much googling as I could, but am not having much luck on getting a direct answer on:
What all I will need to swap into the truck to make it work PROPERLY. I never halfass anything.
What modding I will need to do to make it fit, and where I can go to get (if any) the conversion kits to do this.
I am not afraid of digging up the Ranger wire diagram and marrying the two systems together. I have done it on past swaps. I can work any metal with the exception of aluminum (never mastered the welding on that), so body mods are not an issue.
Long story short I need to be schooled on these trucks so I can do this right the first time. More questions will come down the road (rear end strength, 4wd etc...) but for now I would like to start with the probability of integrating the 95 into an 02.
Thanks you for any and all advise in this venture,
Jesse