For those of you with experience pulling/building/swapping engines-

Thanks for the offer, man. I'll keep you in mind.

No problem. I hate spending money to rent things like that.

Did it by myself in a small one car garage last winter. Patience and care are keys to success

good luck i know where you could get a motor for a litte over nothing but your too far keep us posted on your progress

do the short block properly for the $1000. Everything else can be added later as money comes,and you won't need to take the motor out again. Done a swap on girlfriends 79 mustang(4 to an 8 cyl) in a housing complex parking lot in January here in Canada(what we won't do to get laid). If you want lots of power,use the best gaskets and fasteners,ARP studs and bolts, you can buy. I've seen a couple stock small blocks crack down the middle with under 500 hp.
Right now I've got my 67 fastback project on wheel dollys in one part of garage,a complete 5.0 engine on an engine dolly,an 8.8 on a cart,a 390 I'm rebuilding for a guy from a 66 T-bird on an engine stand. My 90 coupe on a home made body dolly outside,my wifes Taurus in second part of garage(two car garage,she hates scraping frost),and my F150 on the street.Moral of the story,keep as much as you can on wheels so one person can move things around as needed.
Make friends in a Mustang club in your town. Networking is very valuable. You help them out,they'll return the favor(labour,parts,space). Good luck.

Ive done the swap in the driveway.. theres nothing to it.

why not stay with a 302, i mean stock truck longblocks are nothin special an i thought they werent even roller motors but again i could be wrong. why not stay 302? you would need headers an stuff to swap it on..jmo

i wanna do a 351c in a notchback but 4bolt main, 4v heads an a nasty nasty cam over 600lift. you can find these motors if you look around. stock heads flow pretty good. just a thought but good luck an i see no problems with a one car garage as i did my motor swap in the capri in a small barn lol

he wants to do boost eventually and a stock block has cracked at as little as 270rwhp might as well do it once

my bad, didnt even see that. stock 351 block isnt much stronger though?!

351 blocks are holding up to as much as 600rwho on stock internals and 800rwhp with forged goodies

we learn something every day...lol

another piece of advice dont buy your engine hoist from harbor freight. Mine seems like all the angles are wrong and it tips over every chance it gets..

351Ws after 94 were hydraulic rollers.

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