Has anyone ever heard of,seen, or done a 3.8 v-6 with a c-5 trans engine swap. The straight six has on heluva knock and I want to put some thing a little better in it and it just so happens that I have a 86 couger with a good running 3.8 but the car is junk. I want to put the 3.8 in the falcon. Is it possable and worth it? Also I want to keep the fuel injection but I think thats going to be to much, where could I find a carb intake or can I just replace the trottle body with a carb and cange the distributer? Any in put would be great.

Thanks
Jeremy

 

I'd agree with dumping the fuel injection. The swap is possible but you may run into trouble getting a points distributor for a 3.8 V6 so I'd transplant an early 3.8 ignition. Also, the engine and transmission mounts may need some handy-work to make it jive. I've swapped a lot of motors and transmissions and sometimes unexpected things will happen - like the oil pan may need some professional adjustment with a hammer to fit it (only if it's made from steel - of course) else cutting or ordering a special pan may be necessary. This is especailly true when dealing with some of the straight 6 engine swaps. Personally I would rebuild and tune the straight 6 because I feel a little leary with some of the V6's with the steel oil pump gears in an aluminum housing - the two metals expand differently and I find that particlur combo. to be a time bomb. If you like the V-6 take the oil pump casing to a good machine shop and have steelinsrts put into exactly match the original aluminum contours. There I gave away the engineering flaw (they help to sell parts).