This weekend I finally got off my ass and started fixing my 1995 Ford Taurus SHO. 3 years ago, I did a 2-3-2 shift going about 60 mph and the result was breaking the fingers on the pressure plate. I had purchased a bunch of go fast parts with my deployment money so I didn't want to get rid of it.
Fast forward to last year. I am back home from the Army and decided to start fixing it up. Upon assembling the engine, I find one of the pistons cracked between the compression rings and the project sat longer.
Recently I had a friend buy a Taurus SHO for himself and got an engine for his. He later put it up for sale and I jumped on it. We spend this whole labor day weekend working on my rust free (seriously, every bolt came out with ease) swapping the old 3.0 V6 with a freshened up 3.2 V6 along with a new clutch. Here are some pictures of the process.
Here is the car just before being towed to Dan's house
Under the hood
Looks like spaghetti
Cradle dropped
Successfully out
So much room for activities
OLD vs NEW
Ready to go back in
IT'S IN
There is still more to do and I will be getting on that shortly. Big changes for this build include:
- New Clutch
- Engine Swap
- Front Sway Bar
- Aluminum Subframe Bushings
- SHOrt Throw Shifter
- Ported Intake Manifold
- Big Bore Butterflies
- SHOshop Fenderwell Intake
Coupled along with new stock parts like spring insulators, control arms, upgraded bushings, power steering lines, coolant hoses, ignition wires and spark plugs; this car is going to be a cruiser.
ECTO COOLER AND SHO, WHAT YEAR IS IT!?
big thanks to [MENTION=126]Dasfinc[/MENTION] [MENTION=22]syP[/MENTION] [MENTION=147]SHOmuff[/MENTION] [MENTION=517]10sec[/MENTION] [MENTION=11473]JBruno88[/MENTION] for all the help.
Fast forward to last year. I am back home from the Army and decided to start fixing it up. Upon assembling the engine, I find one of the pistons cracked between the compression rings and the project sat longer.
Recently I had a friend buy a Taurus SHO for himself and got an engine for his. He later put it up for sale and I jumped on it. We spend this whole labor day weekend working on my rust free (seriously, every bolt came out with ease) swapping the old 3.0 V6 with a freshened up 3.2 V6 along with a new clutch. Here are some pictures of the process.
Here is the car just before being towed to Dan's house
Under the hood
Looks like spaghetti
Cradle dropped
Successfully out
So much room for activities
OLD vs NEW
Ready to go back in
IT'S IN
There is still more to do and I will be getting on that shortly. Big changes for this build include:
- New Clutch
- Engine Swap
- Front Sway Bar
- Aluminum Subframe Bushings
- SHOrt Throw Shifter
- Ported Intake Manifold
- Big Bore Butterflies
- SHOshop Fenderwell Intake
Coupled along with new stock parts like spring insulators, control arms, upgraded bushings, power steering lines, coolant hoses, ignition wires and spark plugs; this car is going to be a cruiser.
ECTO COOLER AND SHO, WHAT YEAR IS IT!?
big thanks to [MENTION=126]Dasfinc[/MENTION] [MENTION=22]syP[/MENTION] [MENTION=147]SHOmuff[/MENTION] [MENTION=517]10sec[/MENTION] [MENTION=11473]JBruno88[/MENTION] for all the help.