Hey guys,
I don't get on here much, but I wanted to take an opportunity to share the swap I did on my Mustang. This swap took about 6 months to come to fruition, but only 3 days to do the swap.
So here is the story...
I had bought a 1995 Auto with the intention of dropping a v8 into it, but had originally intended on doing a Mark VIII swap. Since my previous car was a Mark VIII, I decided to try something different. All the GT sn95s on CL and mostly anywhere are overpriced in my opinion and finding the parts to do the swap seemed too hard too.
I decided, why not just take everything out of an Explorer? That's what I did, I pulled a 1996 5.0 engine from the Upullandpay near me. I grabbed the Computer/Harness/Engine. Decent motor but it had some very minor cylinder scoring and the bearings needed replaced, so I took it all apart and rebuilt the motor. New rings/bearings for the long block. I also installed a TFS stage one Cam, along with their upgraded valve spring kit. I picked up a 2002 T-5 from a v6 car in the junk yard. It has the electronic VSS, and I used a Dakota Digital SGI-5 to make it communicate the proper signal to my PCM. Also bolted on a set of MAC shorty headers and an H-pipe with dumps. I also want to add that I picked up a 5.0 bellhousing for $50 by some true luck.
So, running this setup would take A LOT of rewiring, but that's my favorite part. I worked for Ford for 5 years and still have access to the Ford wiring diagrams, that was the biggest help of all, and without that, this never would have happened. None of the online diagrams are complete enough to do this swap.
Now, this swap is more easily done for the v6 guys, because the car is already wired to be OBD2. I also kept all of the wires in the harness incase one day I decided I wanted to go back to an Auto transmission. The Explorer harness can pretty much be left alone, except the transmission harness had to be made to work on the T-5, since the 5.0 Explorer in that body never came with a Manual transmission. After that, I got the pig tail from a V6 mustang in the junkyard for the engine harness and mated that onto the Explorer engine harness so that I could connect it to the Mustang's body harness. Lastly, the Ignition control module was removed, and 3 of the circuits were jumped via a jumper connector I made under the air box. I also have a excel table showing which PCM pins either needed to be removed/moved/or repurposed at the PCM connector.
By the way, I have all of the harness modifications documented in my binder I have here. I plan to upload all of it, but can't here on the work computer.
Car fired up first try, although now I just have some very minor issues to sort out. One being that the Explorer PCM never had a provision for the Electric Fan. Also, an interesting issue is the A/C wiring. The V6 location of the A/C coil is on the passenger side of the engine, while the V8 wires that route to the driver side are in the harness, you just need to join them.
You still need to do the sn95 elbow or a fox air intake setup, as the Explorer throttle linkage won't work. I have full use of the cruise control and A/C. Also, all of the gauges work with the Explorer harness.
Some bugs are dealing with the auto computer in a manual car, other threads discuss that kind of stuff, but I plan to program it out in the future. And, I purchased a Dakota Digital controller to work the fans, using the factory sender and wiring.
Ultimately, its an OBD 2 5.0 1995 Mustang, something the factory never ever made. And, I got to use the coil assemblies, and not a distributor.
I also want to make clear, the body harness and dash harness stuff is all factory v6, the only modifications to the car were moving around pins at the PCM connector.
And if you are wondering, I needed to repurpose some of the other circuits to make room for things like #7/#8 injectors and coil. I just deleted the rear O2 sensors, and reused their circuits to make the injectors and coils work.
The engine looks completely factory, there is not one single wire there that shouldn't be. I wanted it to look like it was built that way, and can't stand when people fish extra wires through the engine compartment. Anyway, if there is interest in this swap, i'll throw up more information.
Thanks Guys!
I don't get on here much, but I wanted to take an opportunity to share the swap I did on my Mustang. This swap took about 6 months to come to fruition, but only 3 days to do the swap.
So here is the story...
I had bought a 1995 Auto with the intention of dropping a v8 into it, but had originally intended on doing a Mark VIII swap. Since my previous car was a Mark VIII, I decided to try something different. All the GT sn95s on CL and mostly anywhere are overpriced in my opinion and finding the parts to do the swap seemed too hard too.
I decided, why not just take everything out of an Explorer? That's what I did, I pulled a 1996 5.0 engine from the Upullandpay near me. I grabbed the Computer/Harness/Engine. Decent motor but it had some very minor cylinder scoring and the bearings needed replaced, so I took it all apart and rebuilt the motor. New rings/bearings for the long block. I also installed a TFS stage one Cam, along with their upgraded valve spring kit. I picked up a 2002 T-5 from a v6 car in the junk yard. It has the electronic VSS, and I used a Dakota Digital SGI-5 to make it communicate the proper signal to my PCM. Also bolted on a set of MAC shorty headers and an H-pipe with dumps. I also want to add that I picked up a 5.0 bellhousing for $50 by some true luck.
So, running this setup would take A LOT of rewiring, but that's my favorite part. I worked for Ford for 5 years and still have access to the Ford wiring diagrams, that was the biggest help of all, and without that, this never would have happened. None of the online diagrams are complete enough to do this swap.
Now, this swap is more easily done for the v6 guys, because the car is already wired to be OBD2. I also kept all of the wires in the harness incase one day I decided I wanted to go back to an Auto transmission. The Explorer harness can pretty much be left alone, except the transmission harness had to be made to work on the T-5, since the 5.0 Explorer in that body never came with a Manual transmission. After that, I got the pig tail from a V6 mustang in the junkyard for the engine harness and mated that onto the Explorer engine harness so that I could connect it to the Mustang's body harness. Lastly, the Ignition control module was removed, and 3 of the circuits were jumped via a jumper connector I made under the air box. I also have a excel table showing which PCM pins either needed to be removed/moved/or repurposed at the PCM connector.
By the way, I have all of the harness modifications documented in my binder I have here. I plan to upload all of it, but can't here on the work computer.
Car fired up first try, although now I just have some very minor issues to sort out. One being that the Explorer PCM never had a provision for the Electric Fan. Also, an interesting issue is the A/C wiring. The V6 location of the A/C coil is on the passenger side of the engine, while the V8 wires that route to the driver side are in the harness, you just need to join them.
You still need to do the sn95 elbow or a fox air intake setup, as the Explorer throttle linkage won't work. I have full use of the cruise control and A/C. Also, all of the gauges work with the Explorer harness.
Some bugs are dealing with the auto computer in a manual car, other threads discuss that kind of stuff, but I plan to program it out in the future. And, I purchased a Dakota Digital controller to work the fans, using the factory sender and wiring.
Ultimately, its an OBD 2 5.0 1995 Mustang, something the factory never ever made. And, I got to use the coil assemblies, and not a distributor.
I also want to make clear, the body harness and dash harness stuff is all factory v6, the only modifications to the car were moving around pins at the PCM connector.
And if you are wondering, I needed to repurpose some of the other circuits to make room for things like #7/#8 injectors and coil. I just deleted the rear O2 sensors, and reused their circuits to make the injectors and coils work.
The engine looks completely factory, there is not one single wire there that shouldn't be. I wanted it to look like it was built that way, and can't stand when people fish extra wires through the engine compartment. Anyway, if there is interest in this swap, i'll throw up more information.
Thanks Guys!
