pat8703
Member
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2020
- Messages
- 43
- Reaction score
- 57
- Points
- 18
- Location
- florida
- Vehicle Year
- 1999
- Make / Model
- b3000
- Transmission
- Manual
Hello. This is my first post on TRS. I understand sho swaps are taboo and there's hundreds of threads across the internet about the swap but nobody other than the guy with the trophy truck and the 80s ford performance group has completed the swap. I'm putting this thread out there for anyone who ever may want to consider the swap to reference.
So here we go. I'll probably be farther along than the photos "sho" consistently as I'm nabbing pictures pretty randomly. I'll try and add more detail shots as I go along. Motor is a 94 ATX 3.2L mated up to a m50d-r1 with a spec clutch kit, sho mtx pressure plate and flywheel, lumina z34 clutch disk, ranger pilot bearing and slave cylinder. I'll be powering it with megasquirt. The truck already has a DJM 4/5 drop kit on it.
The truck from when I bought it and moved it to my farm
Motor and tranny when I picked them up from the junkyards
Closing up unnecessary coolant passages and adding a threaded port for the GM CLT sensor.
Starting to get the motor in the truck. It's a pain in the ass as the motor is so big I can't put the motor and tranny in as one unit. I'm using factor tranny, xmember, and driveshaft, so the motor sits pretty far back against the firewall. I had to notch and box the front cross member to fit the taurus oil pan. The pan is relieved for the factory sho exhaust, but the pickup tube is at the damper side of the oil pan, so I can't just notch the pan. The motor sits low in the bay to get the transmission output operating angle that I want, and the exhaust is going to be tight against the steering shaft. The factory headers don't fit even with the motor higher up, so custom headers it is. The motor sit's almost entirely behind the axle centerline as well. My hand in the last picture shows axle centerline. Both low and back is great for handling and weight balance.
More pictures tomorrow
So here we go. I'll probably be farther along than the photos "sho" consistently as I'm nabbing pictures pretty randomly. I'll try and add more detail shots as I go along. Motor is a 94 ATX 3.2L mated up to a m50d-r1 with a spec clutch kit, sho mtx pressure plate and flywheel, lumina z34 clutch disk, ranger pilot bearing and slave cylinder. I'll be powering it with megasquirt. The truck already has a DJM 4/5 drop kit on it.
The truck from when I bought it and moved it to my farm
Motor and tranny when I picked them up from the junkyards
Closing up unnecessary coolant passages and adding a threaded port for the GM CLT sensor.
Starting to get the motor in the truck. It's a pain in the ass as the motor is so big I can't put the motor and tranny in as one unit. I'm using factor tranny, xmember, and driveshaft, so the motor sits pretty far back against the firewall. I had to notch and box the front cross member to fit the taurus oil pan. The pan is relieved for the factory sho exhaust, but the pickup tube is at the damper side of the oil pan, so I can't just notch the pan. The motor sits low in the bay to get the transmission output operating angle that I want, and the exhaust is going to be tight against the steering shaft. The factory headers don't fit even with the motor higher up, so custom headers it is. The motor sit's almost entirely behind the axle centerline as well. My hand in the last picture shows axle centerline. Both low and back is great for handling and weight balance.
More pictures tomorrow