I've mentioned the in-progress 302-swap into the '77 Capri Mk II a few times, but provided very little in the way of pictures. Here's how it kinda sits now. These pictures were taken when the engine was just set into place to verify it'd fit, but before it had been centered or bolted to anything (I think it was sitting on the garbage adapter plates Team Blitz sells and a pair of 2x4s.).
Since then, the engine has been centered, and a transmission crossmember for the 1995 Mustang GT T5 that's behind it was fabricated and bolted in. Some Nissan motor mounts were used to provide insulation and space between the Team Blitz engine mount adapter plates and the front K-member.
Some more about the Capri:
I call this car "The Bastard". So far, it has parts from SIX different Mustangs, and parts "for" several others.
The engine is the one I pulled out of my gold '76 Ghia when I parted it out. It's a 302 bored .040" over with flat-top pistons. It has a mild cam from Summit (their house brand), an Edelbrock Performer 289 intake I was lucky enough to find on an 80s Crown Vic of all things at the salvage yard, and a 600cfm Holley carburetor (couldn't convince the old man to go EFI, or 4.6 4v for that matter).
The MSD 6AL box it'll be running was originally in ElSuperPinto (it got waterlogged during a downpour with the old cowl hood, and I needed the car running two days later, so I bought a new 6AL digital), and was rebuilt by MSD. The Accel coil was from the '74 Ghia I parted out ten years ago. The headers are from a fox-body GT that I found in the salvage yard, and the transmission is a T5 from a 1995 GT (which fits like it belongs there, even putting the shifter in the center of the hole in the floor, though we still had to enlarge the hole because the T5 shifter is larger). The shift knob on the LMR shifter for it is from my 2009 GT/CS.
To mate the old '76 engine to the '95 transmission, the flywheel and clutch specified for a '79 Mustang 5.0 were used, and everything fit without issue. The current radiator that I'm trying to talk my dad out of using in favor of a 3.8L Camaro radiator is one from Spectra for a '68 Mustang that struggled to keep either 308 cool in the gold II or ElSuperPinto, but it does almost fit, so we'll see. I've seen the 3.8L Camaro radiator used successfully in other V8 II swaps, but my dad doesn't want to cut or cut out the battery tray to make it fit. I think the '95 Mustang's transmission mount is what got used to bolt it to the crossmember I fabricated from leftover brackets for a grille guard for my F150 (long story).
It still has no exhaust, the wiring that wasn't worth a
when new is shot and rat-chewed throughout, and I can't get my dad to quit picking at something else on the car every time he digs it out of the garage (literally, it stays buried under a mountain of junk most of the time) and finish any of the dozen or so other things that are partially finished on it. The gas tank needs to be dropped and cleaned. The "Atlas" rear axle needs to be swapped for the 8" from the '76 II, something desperately needs to be done about the retarded non-ventilated solid front brake rotors Ford Deutschland somehow thought were a good idea in the 1970s, I'm sure the
suspension needs attention now that the car's sat non-running since 2008 or so, and there's rust in both rockers (minor) and the rear quarters (not so minor) that need fixing somehow (I'm advocating a Zakspeed widebody kit after cutting, sanding, priming and painting the rust just to stop the spread since quarter panels for this thing are unobtanium).
I'm almost tempted to sell ElSuperPinto, and the Capri's current drivetrain, and go "super secret powertrain swap that most of you have figured out by now" on the Capri... but that particular engine has been done in a Capri already, believe it or not...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHG-coG2Izc
(Yes, I'm aware I just let the coyo... I mean cat... out of the bag.)