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Old 06-18-2011, 09:41 PM
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Exclamation Uses of a Mercury Grand Marguis 1988 5.0 v8

I was wondering if I could use the bottom end of a Mercury Grand Marguis 1988 5.0 v8. I would use a 331 stroker kite from Sckat with a set of Pro comp alm. heads(65cc).and the following:

-24lbs injectors
-upper and bottom intake manifold from an 93 GT
-65mm Throttle
-72 mm Mass air
-Timing cover from an 93 GT
-E303 cam
-65mm EGR spacer
-Monster miata oil pan
-93 high volume water pump(cobra?)
-V6 mustang alternator(G3 type, 1 wire)
-v6 mustang starter (PM type, 1 wire)
-Fox body power steering/AC bracket and AC rear bracket
-Fox body AC compreessor
-MSD bullet distributor
-New light weight flywheel and Exedy stange 2 clutch kit
-T-5 tranny with shifter and custom drive shaft
-7.5 limited sip 3.27 rear end and new half shafts
-McCully Racing modified v8 conversion harness
-McCully Racing pretapped thermostats hosing

Main question is will all this work with the Mercury Grand Marguis 1988 5.0 v8 bottom end?
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Nice to see you found this site as well. I'm MSC302 over at the other site. Fortunately over here I'm also allowed to tell you that I sell a aluminum driveshaft that you'll need as well. It only weighs 11 pounds and is rather, even according to my wife, "pretty".

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@ Jason, LMAO


What subframe do you use The Monster Miata or did you fab one up?
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I've used the Monster Miata modded one for the last 4 builds since it works well with his headers. If I were to want to use a set of headers that do not route like his I would use a bare V8 Roadsters tubular subframe and have Ford mounts welded on. We may be doing this as a retro fit for one customer of ours.

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Just an FYI- most of the same people on M.net also look here, minus a few.

On here we have a bit more freedom.... Especially with a grade school teacher as our admin
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