I have all of the pedals and master cylinder mount. You already have the hydraulic clutch setup. The T5 might be fine behind it in a lighter car, but I figure Ford didn't spend the money to put a truck transmission in a sports car for no reason. No different than any other engine swap.Įverybody dogs the M5R2, but I've never had any issues with it. It is all the ancillary stuff that you will have to figure out (power steering connections, A/C, wiring, etc.). Physically fitting the engine should be the easy part. Are you going to raid from the '90 or do you have another source of parts? I have a '93 SC parts car that I have been holding onto to use for parts for my swap. I have several 3.8 SC engines and M5R2s laying around. I bought my wagon specifically because it came with a 3.8 so the 3.8 SC would be a relatively clean swap in terms of engine mounts and fitting in the engine bay. As mentioned Ford installed the 3.8SC into '88 T-Birds for testing. There is one semi-active thread in this forum about a swap into a Mustang. There have been quite a few SC swaps into Fox body cars over the years. Let me know what you end up doing, ill be excited to see it either way. Now I would love to see this swap happen, but a 302 would probably make more power for the same money, but you do all ready have the car. But I have seen the sn95 crowd run them, do they should fit.

Body dimension and hood room are way different. I see it as doable, but it will probably be a pain. I also think that the 91-93 tbird used the same mounts as the 86-88 302, so even the motor mounts may work. I do know that the 3.8 sc motor was used in an 88 body for durability. Where both are at least sec-4 it should be fairly simple. This would require a fox cable pedal swap, but really isnt too bad.

I got a sn95 t5 for $125 off Craigslist all ready to go. And I know that I might be posting this in the wrong forum, if so point me in the right direction.So, I would ditch the m5od trans. While I have a 1990 SC manual car, and I want to know just how difficult it would be to swap the 3.8SC and 5speed trans into the Turbo Coupe while using as many of the original systems as possible. And the car is blowing oil out the tail pipe. I have an 88 Turbo Bird, but the big 'killer' is the car is an automatic.

88 turbo coupe