New to the board and Rangers in general...

[Jim Oaks]

Welcome. Great project!

 

[ElRay]

Welcome. Great project!

Thanks!

 

[19Walt93]

This is my 351 swapped 93 Ranger. It's lowered but I didn't know it when I bought it because it was in a car trailer. Yours looks a lot more complete than mine was. Explorers and T birds used a shorter FEAD system and would have made my swap easier. I used exhaust manifolds with 66 Galaxie numbers that I bought at Carlisle, I suspect a set of 289 hipo manifolds would fit, too. Please post pictures of your progress.

 

[ElRay]

This is my 351 swapped 93 Ranger. It's lowered but I didn't know it when I bought it because it was in a car trailer. Yours looks a lot more complete than mine was. Explorers and T birds used a shorter FEAD system and would have made my swap easier. I used exhaust manifolds with 66 Galaxie numbers that I bought at Carlisle, I suspect a set of 289 hipo manifolds would fit, too. Please post pictures of your progress.

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Wow, nice truck!
Yeah my truck is mostly complete. Everything that was removed from the engine was in the bed under the tonneau cover.
I do need to replace some things as the truck had been stolen so the stereo is gone and the dash is loose and they cut the latch in the back window.

 

[19Walt93]

My truck was pretty well stripped, no heater box/evaporator case at all, no brakes, 2 front cab mounts completely missing, rear cab mounts were one hockey puck per side with 18 flat washers stacked on top, under floor mounts had 7/16 coarse thread bolts wound into 12 mm x 1.75 nuts- basically holding nothing, no engine or transmission, rear box held on by two 3/8 carriage bolts. He'd removed the gas tank and cut the crossmember out with a sawzall, mounted a fuel cell and the battery in the bed and ran the positive cable to the engine compartment through holes in panels with no grommets. Calling it a hack job would have been generous. It looks like you have a lot better starting point. Mine also came with 2 live mice and a dead one, I gutted the cab to bare steel to get rid of the smell.

 

[ElRay]

My truck was pretty well stripped, no heater box/evaporator case at all, no brakes, 2 front cab mounts completely missing, rear cab mounts were one hockey puck per side with 18 flat washers stacked on top, under floor mounts had 7/16 coarse thread bolts wound into 12 mm x 1.75 nuts- basically holding nothing, no engine or transmission, rear box held on by two 3/8 carriage bolts. He'd removed the gas tank and cut the crossmember out with a sawzall, mounted a fuel cell and the battery in the bed and ran the positive cable to the engine compartment through holes in panels with no grommets. Calling it a hack job would have been generous. It looks like you have a lot better starting point. Mine also came with 2 live mice and a dead one, I gutted the cab to bare steel to get rid of the smell.

At least your paint and body looked good. I don't think there's s a strait panel on this truck. Except maybe the hood and the cab. Little dings and dents everywhere. Doesn't really bother me as its a truck.

 

[19Walt93]

The paint looks good from a distance but not so good that I wouldn't want to drive it in the rain. I have a black Mustang for that, the truck is a driver.