Here's one for the Ford purists. Fox mustang meets 500 Cadillac

[STINEY]

Don't know about the lexan windows.......... but yeah.

[SuperBuickGuy]

hmmmm.... pretty pieces, you have lots of pretty pieces for your car

for some reason I thought the 500 came out in 73, after googling, I sit corrected... although this is picking nits, according to 500cad.com the compression was 10:1

[STINEY]

I have more pretty pieces stashed.......bet you'd like a picture of them all on the car?

Actually, that's something I'd like to see too!

Another important thing to remember on rating numbers for engines in this time period was the mandated change for the OEMs to rate power as net instead of gross. What this meant was that the engines had to be rated as measured fully dressed running all accessories, as they would be installed in the vehicles. Prior to the change they were rated fully stripped. Big difference.

[TheSilverBuick]

You WILL like the torque...especially if you raise the carb either with an adaptor or manifold... Dunno about this 4-6-8 thingy
But a 500 with a Holley 950 DP and adaptor made the 65 skylark lift it's l.front wheel...
If you look at the intake of the motors.. The charge has to go up into the heads...

Carb? Where I'm going I don't need no stink'in carb! EFI and a big turbo! It'd make the 5,000+lb tank move real nice I'm sure. And it'll run on 4-cylinders cruising down the highway. This is a long long off project though. I have to get through a '69 Firebird with a straight six and a turbo, and a body work, paint and stroker engine rebuild on a '67 Thunderbird with an FE engine first. Then I can do body work and engine stuff with the Centurion.

[STINEY]

I'm holding out to see Randalls' MR FUSION.

[SuperBuickGuy]

I have more pretty pieces stashed.......bet you'd like a picture of them all on the car?

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there you are wrong, I like seeing them off the car so when the trade happens with the Austin I can get some Caddy parts thrown in as well... if you put them on the car, they're both used and Ford parts - either of which would just kill it for me

[STINEY]

there you are wrong, I like seeing them off the car so when the trade happens with the Austin I can get some Caddy parts thrown in as well... if you put them on the car, they're both used and Ford parts - either of which would just kill it for me

LOL......you are the second guy in 2 days to tell me they morph into Ford parts once installed......his angle was they acquire some beneficial mystical awesome metalurgy from prolonged contact with Ford sheetmetal.

Trade..I thought you decided to keep the Vette? Great, I shaved my chest for nothing when I read you were keeping it......

Seriously, you kept the Cadillac stuff when you sold the truck? For some reason I thought you purged the 500 stuff?

[TheSilverBuick]

Paint that caddy BLUE!

[Deaf Bob]

Carb? Where I'm going I don't need no stink'in carb! EFI and a big turbo! It'd make the 5,000+lb tank move real nice I'm sure. And it'll run on 4-cylinders cruising down the highway. This is a long long off project though. I have to get through a '69 Firebird with a straight six and a turbo, and a body work, paint and stroker engine rebuild on a '67 Thunderbird with an FE engine first. Then I can do body work and engine stuff with the Centurion.

Ah. Forgot your tag line..." messy hack...EFI...". Lol.

[BBR]

LOL......you are the second guy in 2 days to tell me they morph into Ford parts once installed......his angle was they acquire some beneficial mystical awesome metalurgy from prolonged contact with Ford sheetmetal.

Do it right and use Ford parts in the first place.

http://www.pricemotorsport.com/html/body_ap-23__intake_adapter_kit.html

[SuperBuickGuy]

Seriously, you kept the Cadillac stuff when you sold the truck? For some reason I thought you purged the 500 stuff?

nope, still holding down the concrete in a corner of my shop.... truly without a home, but I'm sure something will eventually come up

Do it right and use Ford parts in the first place.

http://www.pricemotorsport.com/html/body_ap-23__intake_adapter_kit.html

right, because nothing leaks antifreeze like a Ford

[Deaf Bob]

2- 500 caddies, one from Eldo.. Other from Sedan de Ville, one 472...

Tried to put a manual behind the Eldo motor, none of my bell housings would work.. All were early BOP style.. Pressure plate, flywheel problems plus the center hole was too small for my flatbed tranny.

[1946Austin]

there you are wrong, I like seeing them off the car so when the trade happens with the Austin I can get some Caddy parts thrown in as well... if you put them on the car, they're both used and Ford parts - either of which would just kill it for me

You found somebody who has an Austin to trade for the Vette?

[STINEY]

Tried to put a manual behind the Eldo motor, none of my bell housings would work.. All were early BOP style.. Pressure plate, flywheel problems plus the center hole was too small for my flatbed tranny.

Since Cadillac never put a standard trans with these engine, none of the cranks were machined/drilled for a pilot. It can be done, relatively easy with the engine assembled.
Flywheels are a little trickier.
Another reason (other than nobody wanted a luxury car with a stick) was that input shafts have a rough life behind the torque of the big cadillacs. Unless you take it easy, they tend to destruct. Who wants to take it easy?
A fellow called "caddycarlo" used to have a neat tutorial on the net showing it.
Standard BOP bells have been used, just have to make allowances (grind) for starter pocket clearance.

You found somebody who has an Austin to trade for the Vette?

Ummm.....different Austin species....

[SuperBuickGuy]

You found somebody who has an Austin to trade for the Vette?

nope, I've never met anyone that gullible