Survivor Tweaks 2.8l

[C.M.Wolf]

Hello everyone, I have two Ford Ranger 2.8l Cologne engines,(Late 80's vintage) AND two Ford Pinto Wagons(1-1973, & 1-1978,{yeah I know Ford didn't make a Porthole Pinto in 1973, but I DID! ..because I like the older style front Pinto grill}) Porthole Pintos. 1 is an 'auto-trans' & 1 is a C-3 4sp manual(stock in the Pintos)...
I need to know if the 2.8l Ranger engines will mate,(Spline & Bell housing-bolt patts), to the std Ford Pinto Auto-Trans and the C3 Ford manual trans.. ??? I can redo the drive shafts & mounts if I need to ...Or if I should simply use the Ranger Trans' that worked with the engines,(that means lots of firewall & floorboard metal cutting & rework also.. sigh).

Even though.. there is a "Ford Pinto Site", don't send me there,(they don't know. ...regardless of how similar the 2.8l Pinto & 2.8l Ranger engines are.)

"Help Me Jim!"

 

[scotts90ranger]

Someone will know for sure but I'm pretty sure it's just going to be accessory drive differences between the two... Ford hated using the same bellhousings on different engines (kidding, no idea why they didn't do what GM did with their one bellhousing pattern for everything...). If the Pintos used the Cologne 2.8 it should be the same block as the '83-85 Ranger 2.8. I'm sure Walt and a couple others will chime in eventually...

 

[C.M.Wolf]

I thank you Scott, I also agree, during that time period, much of the "Casting/Bolt Patterns" was left up to Cologne Germany,(supplier of most of the 4-cyl & v6's small block Ford engines for the Pintos, Mustang II's, F100's, Rangers, Bobcats, Mercurs, etc, etc, as long as they DIDN'T create a myriad of changes to connecting components and allowed the use of a few years use of existing 'Shelf-Stock-Parts".

..But I simply haven't taken the 2.8l & Ford transmissions out to a bench to slide them together to see if they "Fit"..... yet... sigh. (I'm not being Lazy here, it's just that I have two other projects on-going in my garage at this time, a 1968 VW-Baja & 1970 Chevy C-20 truck).

Someone's simply got to 'know' if they'll fit together.