You can trade 302's and 289's for 50-60 cans of pop, Wow, You are the MAN!![sm=happy046.gif]

 

Put in a new rear axle with 4.10 gears..... Wont help with "HP"... but the "fun factor"...

We drove the 66 with the 6 and the 4.10s for a while, it was an absolute kick to drive.... It made the car fun,, and that ain't no lie. It was a shame to yank the 6 out.

I would absolutly consider this. If the 66 had been mine and not my sons it may well still have the 6 in it.

 

I haven't done it yet. If I can't find a 289 around I am going to buy some suspension parts.

 

http://cliffordperformance.net/

They've been around for what seems like forever.


Norm

 

I know about stovebolt and classic inlines.

 

A 289 and 302 block are EXACTLY the same. Yes castnig numbers are different, but thats it. If you want to start form scratch, get you a 302 block and buy a new or remanufactured crank kit. You will also need rods, pistons, heads, intake cam... ect, ect, ect. The list goes on and on. This is why everybody is saying for you to just get an 85 up 302 roller motor. Swap the oil pan/pick-up tube and while youre there, a new pump. You will also want to change the timing cover unless you want to use the serpintine belt and assecory brackets off the late engine. You will more than likey need to swap over the distributor and the intake, but this is very easy and not expensive or hard to find the parts. You could do some performance work to your motor and then go to the track, whoop his *** there, and then smile at him and say, now who has the better engine bitch?

 

Picky, but I think the cylinders in the 302 castings run just a little deeper down toward the crank than in the 289 to provide a little more piston stability when the longer stroke engine"s pistons are at BDC. I know I"ve seen comments to that effect mentioned "back in the day" when 302 crank/rods/pistons represented a cheap stroker good for those few more cubes. The 302 bits into the 289 block would work, just that the 302 block was still better to work with.

Edit - I do have both a 289 and a 302 block sitting somewhere in my garage, but they're too much trouble to get at just to verify this. If anybody else can, please feel free to do so.


Norm

 

I know where a 302 block is around here. Only problem is that part of the block is broken where the tranny bolts on. I think it is free becasue of that.

 

Reality pill time.

I understand why and what you want to do, but right now probably isn't the best time to accomplish this.

You've got a nice little car, enjoy it for what it is. It's not a "hot rod" or a "race car". You shouldn't be "competing" with the other kids in the HS parking lot over who has the "nicest or fastest" car. You'd have to spend a good $8-10k on your current classic Mustang to make it even come close to the performance of the little girl with glasses in your french classes who drives an '05 Ford Focus. Don't try and compare what you have to what everybody else has.

Any money that you can spare should be used for routine maintenance, gas money, and putting some money aside for when the next big ticket item breaks. Fix things as they break and pretty much nothing else. Enjoy the car for the rest of your school days, including college.

When you've finished school, found a good job and settled down, then you can spend every dime you can scrap together to make performance orientated modifications to the car.

If you try and do it now, while you're operating on an allowance, you'll fail.

Dave

 

Yeah I am working on that 8-10K. I have already spent over 1K in the last year on it. I see what you are saying. I add parts as I get the money.