Hi forum,
I just want to share my build, it's my daily driven...
First of all my car is a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis which is a Ford product made under the Panther Body Platform which means poverty I know.
It's trim line is one step below the LSE, mine is an LS Ultimate edition, it has some decent features like traction control, rear air suspension etc
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I choose this car because America likes (or used to like) Big cars with V8s and because it's super comfortable, spacious and has a cave in the trunk, and because this car is not a race car by any means I decided to do some minor upgrades both for show and to improve the acceleration.
to make the story short, my original idea was to build an engine with with budget parts, 4.6 engine, continental heads etc. Fortunately, a good friend of mine bought a wrecked Mercury Marauder and he intended to fix it, unfortunately for him the marauder had some frame damage and it would have cost him a lot of money to fix it, so he parted it out. I bought the complete power train minus the differential and swapped it into my grand marquis. I now have a DOHC engine in my car, a better torque converter and an aluminum drive shaft.
Here are a few pictures of the process.
This is the wrecked marauder.
After getting the engine into my compadre's garage I decided to replaced the timing chain components seals and gaskets and water pump. the engine had 113k miles, I think that for the mileage it was internally super clean with no sludge or any sign of excessive wearing. I also added the rear head cooling mode, something that is super important on these particular heads. win.
Before I started the swap, I was advised by [MENTION=8513]musclemerc[/MENTION] that this engine has more aggressive fuel injectors, so he advised to that to be in the safe side I should use a better fuel pump, he was so kind that he even provided me with a fuel pump from a Ford Gt supercar at no cost. With this pump I can run a supercharge with no problem. Thanks so much bro.
Hers is the swap pics, my old 2v and then with the 4v in.
I just want to share my build, it's my daily driven...
First of all my car is a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis which is a Ford product made under the Panther Body Platform which means poverty I know.
It's trim line is one step below the LSE, mine is an LS Ultimate edition, it has some decent features like traction control, rear air suspension etc
.I choose this car because America likes (or used to like) Big cars with V8s and because it's super comfortable, spacious and has a cave in the trunk, and because this car is not a race car by any means I decided to do some minor upgrades both for show and to improve the acceleration.
to make the story short, my original idea was to build an engine with with budget parts, 4.6 engine, continental heads etc. Fortunately, a good friend of mine bought a wrecked Mercury Marauder and he intended to fix it, unfortunately for him the marauder had some frame damage and it would have cost him a lot of money to fix it, so he parted it out. I bought the complete power train minus the differential and swapped it into my grand marquis. I now have a DOHC engine in my car, a better torque converter and an aluminum drive shaft.
Here are a few pictures of the process.
This is the wrecked marauder.
After getting the engine into my compadre's garage I decided to replaced the timing chain components seals and gaskets and water pump. the engine had 113k miles, I think that for the mileage it was internally super clean with no sludge or any sign of excessive wearing. I also added the rear head cooling mode, something that is super important on these particular heads. win.
Before I started the swap, I was advised by [MENTION=8513]musclemerc[/MENTION] that this engine has more aggressive fuel injectors, so he advised to that to be in the safe side I should use a better fuel pump, he was so kind that he even provided me with a fuel pump from a Ford Gt supercar at no cost. With this pump I can run a supercharge with no problem. Thanks so much bro.
Hers is the swap pics, my old 2v and then with the 4v in.
It would look really sharpe with some 03-04 Cobra rims on there!
. I think that would be a huge jump from my 2.73 open with 28 spline.
