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Check out this in-tank pump for classics, plumbed for return line, which includes a small sump to avoid the low-tank sloshing. It uses a Walbro pump. http://www.tanksinc.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=84/category_id=61/home_id=61/mode=prod/prd84.htm

Mercury...the Man's Car! Okay, so she's not a Mustang...but she's a sister, of sorts! And she's a blank palette! (That's polite speak for "hoooo boy, does this car need some WORK!") I've got a few years left before my DD '99 Jeep Grand Cherokee gives up the ghost, so I'm not in a big hurry this time...but I plan on making her my replacement daily driver when the Jeep goes. I plan on finding a good donor 5.0HO and AOD, probably an 8.8 locker rear, PDB all around or at least in front (we'll see how funds go, she's manual drums all around), modern rubber all around. She's came with power steering so at least that's one conversion I won't have to do.

You'll want to use the low-compression 390 truck pistons, and its been a while, so I can't remember the numbers. Building a 410 has long been a secret desire of mine. :-) EDIT -- 381P is the part number, I have a set of. 60 overs that came out of my mustang when I got it, couldn't stand myself and had to go dig them out. :-)

I just saw in a headers thread here in these forums about some Ron Morris motor mounts that relocate the engine to one side or another to help with header/steering box interference. I'm sure somebody in the know will be along soon. :-)

Another thing that comes to mind, things that I want to do on my next pony to make it a more modern daily driver, like EFI and an overdrive transmission...are expensive solutions on an FE. For instance: There aren't really any out-of-the-box EFI solutions for an FE out there. The solution I found most likely to implement would be a Holley Commander TBI system, but even then, you really have to do some hunting-and-pecking for a distributor if you want to take advantage of the system to control ignition timing. It requires (and I'm a moron on this stuff, even moreso than other things) some kind of "Hall-effect" dizzy, of which there are far and few between on the FE (if you're interested, apparently Mallory makes one in the 95- or 65- series that fits this bill). The Commander is, what, around $1200(?) itself plus the new distributor. Want OD? Ford stopped producing the FE in,what, 78 or 80? Before the AOD came out. There's an FE-to-AOD adapter, which runs around $800 itself...and then you need the AOD, which won't handle the FE torque, so you need to get it built up, like with 4R70W internals. $$-cha-ching! Or the Gear Vendors overdrive adapter to stick behind a C6. Not cheap either. Or one company that makes custom AODs for FEs, can't remember their name off top of my head...but regardless, any of the solutions are in the ballpark of $3-$4k! Manual, and you're looking at a TKO-600 solution, still a bit of change. (EDIT: That company is Lentech, IIRC). I love me some FEs, but man...a guy could find a donor 5.0 HO and AOD, rebuild both and come in cheaper on both together than either of the solutions above. But man...I sure would feel like a freakin' ROCK STAR with an EFI/OD FE in a mustang! :) (and as Drew alluded to regarding room in the engine bay....*facepalm*....I swear it took me 2 hours to change the plugs in my 390 mustang...when I got my Galaxie, I giggled like a schoolgirl when I changed plugs...there was enough room to SIT in the engine bay while I did the plug change...not that I needed to, because the process only took 10 minutes, lol).

It's been a while since I've done a rebuild on one, but there's just a severely limited aftermarket for FEs. That's in comparison to every other Ford engine, though. I didn't think my 390s were that expensive, personally, but I sure could have done a lot more for cheaper on any other Ford engine, even a Cleveland, just looking through Summit/Jegs catalogs trying to find FE parts. That being said, a bone stock bottom end FE is a wonderful piece of machinery. Nothing produces that grunt down low like an FE, they're just freakin' torque monsters!

...almost as much as I miss my pony. I'll have another one, though. Wife has agreed when my youngest son starts kindergarten, I can get another Mustang. This time it'll be a 70 Mach 1. Two years, five months, and counting...

Haha, yeah, something like that. Yep, still have her. She lives outside now, though. Just lifted the rear about 3" or so last night, haven't had the chance to drive her real good with it yet, but it's definitely a much better stance for her.

Haha, yeah, something like that. Yep, still have her. She lives outside now, though. Just lifted the rear about 3" or so last night, haven't had the chance to drive her real good with it yet, but it's definitely a much better stance for her.

Damn you, if you'd just hold it 'till next summer, I'd buy it! :taz: EXACTLY what I'm looking for as my 40th b-day present. *sigh*

Damn you, if you'd just hold it 'till next summer, I'd buy it! :taz: EXACTLY what I'm looking for as my 40th b-day present. *sigh*

Heh, haven't been around in a while. Funny that I just decided to stop by today, eh? :euro:

Heh, haven't been around in a while. Funny that I just decided to stop by today, eh? :euro:

The fact that I really like that song makes me feel so very gay (NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT!)

Wow, that's nice. For the most part, I stop liking Fords around 1969 (the Mustang, obviously, is my exception and is cool by me up until 1970)...but that Fairlane is hot.