Thinking of buying a late 80s-96 f series or a bronco 4x4 sometime during the summer for the next winter... lol i was thinking that if i blew the motor in it (from highmilage or something) i could swap my motor out of my mustang into it and throw a 333/347 stroker into my mustang... my mustang has a babied 89k on it so i would be comfortable with putting that into the truck...
how hard would it be to do this swap? i want to pull my motor out of the stang pan to intake... everything attached except the headers... would this swap work? and what all would i need to do this? will i need to get another (89) h.o computer? etc...
i hlped do 2 of these swaps......the one was a carb so thats a no brainer and the other was easy too if thr truck had a 302 in it with fule injection all you need is a mass air convertion kit i think thats all we did .........its been awile
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94 gt aode baumannator,pi stallion 3000 stall,transgo,mega bite jrs,3.90 gears,31 spine moser axles,comp exteme,1.7 roller rockers,190 pump,mac cold air,ford 1 5/8 unequals, off road h,flowmaster 2 chamber with stainless tails,msd box,PIH(a9p computer ajustable fan controler),q1a k-member,kenny brown frame ties,driveshaft loop,air pump eliminator kit,bbk 70mm tb,pro-m bullit meter,24#injecters,ported heads&intake,and all the little bolt ons.
my dad's got a 96 150 with a 5.0 non ho motor in it, i am about 99% sure he has a mas air so it's not the mass air kit u need to worry about, u will have to change the computer reason being is the ho runs off the windsor firing order not the 302 firing order as the f-`150 302's do, i would honestly but a 5.0 truck, and put a cam that is as aggressive as an ho's is and change the heads and intake, it will give you the same performans, or should, i don't think the firing order will make a difference in performance, it might, it will probibly sound different...
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
there is no means in trying to make the truck i get to go faster the idea was its an excuse to put a bigger motor in the stang
so if its an easy swap i'm gonna go ahead and do it pick up a junkyard computer out of a h.o stang and get a 331/347 stroker motor and get all new hardware (alt, water pump, distributor, injectors, power steering) also a trickflow hci package or maybe afr heads with a trickflow intake etc...
The best way to do it is to use your stang longblock and use the truck intakes and TB and computer and harness. The 302 truck lower intake flows better than the mustang and it has the same heads and you wont have a wiring nightmare trying to use the mustang computer. The truck uses bank fire not sefi like the mustang so you can use the mustang cam with no problem and you wont have to change the firing order. The main reason the truck does not make as much power is the cam. The stock truck has a very mild cam in it. Use your mustang longblock and everything else from the truck, put on some 1.7 roller rockers and headers and that truck will run great. I have an 88 Bronco Im doing the same thing to. Check in at fullsizebronco.com and you will find all the info you need.
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88 fox bird, 99 explorer p head enguine, intakes, 65mm tb, crower 15511, 1.7 RR, FRPP shorties. 88 GT SD comp. AOD,
SVO mustang 3.45 gear 7.5 rear disk brake axle. 98 GT front spindles and brakes 5 lug 16X8 gt rims. Explorer rear disk 31 spline 3.73 8.8 going in soon.
no offence but i am not 100% sure you know what your talking about, the mustang ho engine has a 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 firing order, the truck 302 uses a 1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8 firing order, i don't know about your 88, but i know my dad's 96 is multi port not throttle body injection and the intakes do definetly have a power difference i went through this because i was thinking about putting the truck intake on my stang because i like the front facing throttle body better than the side facing throttle body, they create horsepower and torque through different rpm ranges than the mustang's does, keep in mind as you said, the cam is different, that is the main difference, that is the problem, i don't have the spesifications, but say the mustang cam is made to make best power between 3000 and 5000 rpm... the truck 302 makes the most power between 2000 and 4000, i have raced people in my stang, pushing 5500 rpm stock, that's the highest i ever shift, unless i mess up, my dad's truck, i have never taken it past 4000 rpm, it boggs, your intake is not going to work with the cam, if ur going to put the mustang engine in, put the mustang engine in, if your going to build the truck engine, build the truck engine, but if u use the truck computer with the mustang crank and cam, your number 5 fuel injector is going to fire when number 3 should be firing, and so on...
if still in doubt, ask ghost, he will be able to answer your question, he(maybe she) knows alot about these engines
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89 fox, mostly stock, C&L 73mm MAF, bypassed coolant hoses to egr spacer, intake silencer removal, no a/c, all options but power mirrors?? blown cats, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER I BOUGHT ONE!!!!!!! felpro gasgets on everywhere accept oil pan and a nice big classic mustang decal on my back window
5.0 stang h.o swap to non 5.0 truck.. help 
, msd cap and rotor, bosch wires, autolite plugs, 5 inch auto gauge tach with recal and blue lensed shift light, PAPER FILTER 
