PONY ENGINE & TRANSMISSION

Hey. Hey, what are you doing? Well, I'm working on these parts for that big block Chevy. Hey, we're working on that next week. That Mustang needs a motor now.

No way, I'd rather have a root now with this drill and work on your Ford again. Oh, yeah,

I always wanted to be a dentist

today on horsepower TV. We'll install a new clutch on our 351 Windsor engine before we drop it into our 65 Project Pro touring pony car.

We'll also bolt on a high performance trimming transmission. Then after some welding

and grinding, we'll bolt up a special trans mount and new drive shaft

in our horsepower happening. We'll tour the high performance training center of the future out at Laramie Wyoming.

So hang on for horsepower TV.

Welcome to the horsepower shop. You know, Ford. Power comes in all kinds of packages. In fact, when was the last time that you saw a 68 Pro Street Falcon? Pretty cool. Huh?

Now, this one's hiding a nitrous fed 351 Cleveland under the hood and it's backed by a

cfour automatic. Of course, speaking of engines last week, we pulled the old one out of Joe's Mustang

and prepped a Ford motor sports 351 Windsor to take its place.

Hey, man, you've been busy over here. This engine compartment looks pretty good. Well, thanks. I have been pretty busy, you know, but next we need to swap out these motor mounts because as you may remember, the 351 has a taller deck height than the old motor. So we got these mounts from John's Mustangs to make it all work. Now, what they're gonna do is move the engine up a little bit, give us more clearance between the heads and the shock towers.

Now, while Joe's bolting in those motor mounts, I'm gonna go ahead and get started on the clutch back here.

Now, he plans on seeing a lot of street action with that old Mustang. So we wanted to choose a clutch that would have easy pedal pressure and smooth engagement.

Now, right out of the crate, this old Windsor comes with a steel billet flywheel already attached. We're gonna go ahead and add this Hayes street strip diaphragm style pressure plate and organic clutch disc and don't forget a new throw out bearing.

Our other option was this three finger long style clutch that Fords used in everything from pickup trucks to passenger cars. Now, the three fingers are adjustable to put a little more clamping force on the clutch disc and hey, that might be good for repeated off the line launches but you're gonna pay for it with increased pedal pressure.

Of course, whenever you install a new clutch assembly, it's not a bad idea to install new attaching hardware as well.

Oh, and don't forget, give him a dab of red thread lock. There we go

just to help them hold their torque.

Since that 351 makes about twice as much horsepower as the old 5 L. We're gonna made it up with this trim Tko five speed overdrive.

Now, besides its lack of tor capacity, this T five tranny we took out of the mustang is

well seen its better days. Now, we got our trimming from Jim Swar Automotive where it was modified with a shortened input

shaft which makes it the same length as a top loader. That means we can use a stock length drive shaft plus the boat pattern here allows it to made up to a stock bell housing. Now it has movable shift for locations plus the gears inside or 8620 steel alloy supported by fully roller

bearings.

This is one nice piece.

Oh.

Now in the interest of safety, we're gonna go ahead and install this Lakewood blow proof bell housing and to make it work, we had to remove about a half inch of material right here on this flange next to the header pipe.

And over on the other side, we had to remove a similar amount to clear the clutch pivot ball mount.

Oh and don't forget. You're also gonna have to transfer your throw out for it from your old bell housing

now to locate the transmission properly in the tunnel. Jim Swore also makes this cross member. Now, what it does is move the mount back a little bit and drop the trans down about a half inch. This is gonna keep our trans tunnel surgery to a minimum and hopefully allow us to keep the original console.

Now, as soon as Chuck gets through tightening there, we'll be ready to drop this thing in.

All right, let's lower it down.

All right. Keep coming.

Looking good back here. Let me get these hoses out of the way. Ok. Keep coming.

Keep coming.

Here we go.

All right. Slow, slow.

All right.

All right. Keep coming.

There we go. We're looking good over here. Time to move it back.

Let's lower just a little bit more.

Well, it's pretty tight fit, but I gotta tell you that thing slid in easier than we thought it would. Now, we gotta get the car up in the air. So we're gonna install that trimming now while we're doing that. Stay right where you are because we're gonna be back with more horsepower TV. Right after this.

Yeah, it looks good.

Hey, welcome back to the shop. Well, we got our Ford Motor sports 351 dropped in. Now it's time for the trimming

while Chuck gets the car up in the air. I'm gonna go ahead and fill this thing for the transmission fluid while I get to the drain plug.

Now, unlike some other transmissions, the trimming doesn't use 90 weight gear lube. Now, instead the manufacturer recommends three quarts of this Dextran two fluid.

Well, everything's looking pretty good under here. Now, we got plenty of clearance between the oil pan and the steering rack. And over here with the head pipe looks like it's gonna be a little bit tight, but I don't think it's anything that a good muffler shop can't handle. Now, this is the real problem though.

The clutch linkage is gonna interfere with the bell housing plans right here. So we're gonna have to break out the grinder and clearance that later on. But first let's get the transmission in, get everything into position and then we'll see where we are.

Well, after bolting up our transmission to the bell housing for a little test fitting, we discovered we also have an interference problem up here with this floor brace. So we're gonna have to grind on it a bit before we can properly locate the trans,

give

those sharp edges.

All right. Now, the transmission is already in place and here's where we had to clearance the bell housing for the clutch linkage. Now, let me show you another little trick that bought us even more room. We took this pin here and moved it from the inside of the lever to the outside and what that does is moves the clutch push rod about a half an inch further outboard.

Now that pin was just pinned in place, we ground it off, moved it to the other side

and now we can weld it.

Oh,

and one more thing, I went ahead and checked the clearance around the exhaust with this pipe in place. And,

uh, I figured out that we needed a little more clearance right in here. So I just touched up with the grinder.

Well, back here we've got some good news and bad news. The good news is our shifter pokes up through the stock location, which means no more tunnel surgery and we get to keep the original console. The bad news is even with this modified cross member, the attaching hose of the trans mount are about a half inch too far back. So we're gonna take that mount off and re drill the hose where it attaches to the trans after we get it supported on this jack again

there. That will do the trick.

A few weeks back. We put a new nine inch rear end in Joe's Mustang

along with a new drive shaft,

but with the new engine and trans in place, we threw the tape to it and guess what?

We need another new drive shaft. The T five is not quite as long as that new trim.

So our friends at DTs whipped up this drive shaft for us and not only is it the correct length, but it's also got the right yoke for that big trim.

And here's something to think about if you're gonna take on the swap yourself. Odor. 351. Windsors come with a boss for a mechanical fuel pump. Our newer crate motor didn't. So we're gonna install this electrical pump that we got from Holly.

Well, all things considered, this is a pretty good spot to mount it right up here like all electrical fuel pumps. This one pushes fuel better than it pulls. So we want to mount it as close to the gas tank here as possible.

Now, we'll need to install a new fuel regulator up in the engine compartment later to keep the pressure at seven P si

right now, I wanna mark a couple of spots to drill some holes.

Well, it looks like the pressure is on us to take a little bit of a break right now. But while we get the mustang down, don't you get up? Because we'll be back with more horsepower TV after this.

Hi. Welcome back to horsepower TV. And our pro touring pony project. Well, it's been a lot of work and we're not done yet,

but this thing's really starting to look like a street machine. Now, you bet it is. Now, as far as our clearance concerns go up here in the engine compartment. Well, they were pretty much handled with the engine mounts and the headers and underneath. Well, all I got to say about that is the grind.

You really got to work out now, I'm not much of a ford guy. But man, I gotta admit this is a pretty cool engine swap. Really? Well, listen, I know where I can get this 460 engine.

My neighbor's got a Fiesta in this garage. We can take the motor

siesta on the fiesta. Man. I said this was a cool engine swap. Not that I'm crazy. What do you say? We finish up what we got going here and let's start with the radiator. Good idea.

Once it's bolted down, we can reconnect the hoses,

the wiring for the fan

and refill the coolant

even though Frankenstein needed a jolt of electricity to get going. And well, so does our Mustang. We picked up one of these Holly Annihilator race cells. It's totally sealed and it'll mount just about anywhere. It cranks out 800 coal cranking amps and since it's sealed, we won't have to worry about corrosion on the post here or the cables. Now to keep it in place, we also picked up one of their cool billet holdouts.

Now, you might remember last week, Joe showed you Holly's new 650 CFM Vacuum Secondary Car. This week, I get to bolt it on,

but I can tell just by eyeballing things that

man, we've got some serious hood clearance problems, especially once the air cleaner gets on there. Now, it looks like I'm gonna have to try and find a hood with a scoop on it.

Yeah. See if you can get one of those cool cow induction jobs like we see at the drag. Now that look good on here. Well, Chuck's getting on the phone and I'm gonna get on this fuel regulator. Our new fuel pump is gonna be putting out a lot of pressure. So we gotta regulate it to seven P si

otherwise the needle and seat won't be able to close properly and the car will be constantly flooding. Now, using this bracket here, we're gonna mount it right here to the fender. Well, that's because the fuel line comes in on this side.

Now it feeds right in here to the bottom of the regulator and we'll have our choice of outlets. Plus the pressure adjuster is gonna be on top for easy access.

Well, it would have been nice to hear this small block Ford fire up today, but

hey, we've still got to install the exhaust, the uh shifter, the starter and even that new hood, hey, don't forget about the ignition too. Once we wire it up, we can fire it up.

Now, when we get the additional parts in, we'll get back on this project, but stay with us. We got more horsepower TV coming up today.

Next, a sneak peek at a futuristic training center for tomorrow's builders of cool cars. Stay tuned

and now a horsepower happening, celebrating the people places and events of the high performance lifestyle.

This week we join a caravan of cool cars heading east across the country on an annual Ridders retreat called the Ameri

Oh

Man, traveling the Ameri

in a Brazil built Roadster. It don't get no better than this. And on this stop, we're gonna get a sneak peek and look at the future of higher education and high performance

for several years now, Wyoming Technical Institute has offered courses in Street Rod Building to aspiring students from around the country.

And the program has been popular although until recently confined to a cramped space with limited equipment.

Now, just take a look at the training center of the future 50,000 square feet where students can pursue courses and Street Rod and custom fabrication or chassis fabrication and high performance engines. Now, that's with the help of the latest equipment in the industry and the country's finest faculty. Hey,

what a place to turn raw material like this

into finished beauties like these

students still supply the raw material and willingness to learn,

but the school can offer everything in the way of instruction and hardware to help them achieve their high performance career goals.

When we're up to full capacity, we should still have the ability to comfortably work on all the projects. Be able to see exactly what's going on,

have readily available tools

to,

to

supplement projects and so forth. So it's,

it's gonna be great right now. According to my vantage point,

I see we're sitting just under one degree

uh negative chassis building is a specialized craft that demands skill and quality training.

It's the foundation for all student project cars as well as the street rod curriculum.

After building a solid chassis, it's time for some bodybuilding exercises. What we gotta do here guys is uh create a little bit of a template. So we know how much curved to put into the hood and where that curve needs to be.

Now, we got to do the same exact thing for the rear side on the cow to see what kind of curve and where we need it

on the backside of the hood.

Now that we have the fit, let's go to the slip roller and start our bending.

Let's see how our template matches up.

Hey, pretty close.

Let's test fit it to the truck.

Hey,

that's pretty close, but it looks like we may need a little bit more radius right through here. Let's see if we can do that

after countless hours of bending, welding, grinding and more of the above students can hone their painting skills in one of the shop's two state of the industry paints.

Now, check out this new teaching aid that just arrived a brand new state of the art 2000 horse engine dyno. I

don't know about you but uh for me, school was never this cool

high performance engines completes the street rod teaching equation.

And in the new facility, students can work on everything from basic car tune ups to building and testing their own motors.

Plus the skills they learn are valuable in the job market. Race teams out there. They're looking, um,

you know, of course it's gonna be entry level but there's, there's people looking for uh, engine builders, engine tuners,

um, dyno

operators. We don't just teach the students how to build a street rod even though we're called the Street Rug course.

Uh what we teach them as far as the chassis fabrication work, the sheet metal work, the engine work, they can apply to virtually any, any form of motor sports.

So there's, there's jobs out there. You can do so much in this shop. I mean,

anything you would think about doing

to a car you can do in this shop,

you know, I mean, they got tons of cars to work on each in different stages. It's a great facility to me. I'd rather have somebody that could

do, you know a little of everything and then a lot of just one thing our students have probably gotta be the best students in the world.

They come here with fantastic attitudes.

They uh

they come here with one intention and has to learn everything they can out of you.

One former student went on to teach and leave Wyoming Tech. Jim Mathis says more than a few reasons to be proud of what time and hard work has created. Back in 1976 we'd start approximately 200 students a year. Now, we will start over 1700.

So I'm literally overwhelmed and very proud to wander around, talk to students. And it's very exciting for our future because we know we aren't stopping here.

Horsepower TV

S Hot parts. A close up. Look at the latest in high performance hardware.

You know,

having to drop your exhaust once you drive to the drag strip can be a real pain in the tailpipe.

Well, now flows

got a muffler that goes from street to strip at the flip of a wing nut.

Now, it's called the warlock and it's got a fully welded case plus it's got a plug that controls the sound when it's installed or gives you a straight shot through the muffler when it's removed.

Well, now you're gonna have to dig into your wallet and remove about 65 bucks a piece for these mufflers.

The 700 R four overdrive is a popular trans swap for you guys looking for better mileage. But if you're also looking for more off the line performance, well, now you can have the best of both worlds. Pro torque claims their 10.5 inch lock up converter can shave a half second off your ETS

with its higher stall speed and torque multiplication. Now inside it has torrent and thrust bearings,

Ernest ray fins and a hard and pump drive for longer life. How much long green will you need for one of these? About $700?

Hey, does your car see both street and strip duty? Well, if it does now you can change your fuel systems flow characteristics at the flip of a switch with Weldon Racing's dial, a flow regulator.

Now, for street use, it drops the voltage to the pump to reduce the amount of volume with

about changing the pressure. Of course, once you get to the track, all you gotta do is flip the switch to turn the voltage back up and lower your ETS all for about 310 bucks. Well, good. We're gonna turn up the fun level on next week's horsepower TV. Here's a look at what you'll see.

We'll set out to build a 502, 600 horse big block bracket motor complete with hydraulic roller cam and valve train plus a set of

rock performer. RPM heads their dual plane air gap intake and 800 CFM car.

It's great to be here. I'm just happy to be alive

in our race of the week. From a fiery near fatal inferno

to an incredible comeback in motor city. You'll discover a veteran pro street racers. Amazing triumph.

And remember high performance fun is what this show is all about

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