Motor decision poll

back in my high school dayz we took a 74-78 turbo 4 cobra mustang and popped the buttons off the mounts (frame) and the motor dropped right on the factory 4 shooter frame horns I would imagine the straight 6/v-6 mounts would be different but I have a feeling dropping the 2.3 onto the frame horns might not be to hard .. and consider they did it in brazil..

 

this is pretty off topic but a fellow wrencher and my self threw a 2.3 turbo motor into a 94 ranger he is running a massive front mount intercooler with a bunch of custom parts and i think he is making around 500+ hp at 25psi of boost, make ricers faces drop and not to mention other sites turboford.net is an ecellent site with a ton of turbo geniuses

 

The only thing holding the 250 back is the head. If/when the new cross-flow head comes out that'll make all the difference. In the mean time, I'd go with the 2.3. You can always put the built 250 in there later.

 

I'd love to see either a 250 turbo or 2.3 turbo Maverick...
Either way.
The 2.3 would probably be easier, but a Buick type turbo on a 250 sounds cool.
The 2.3 could probably use a Buick style intercooler.
Dave

 

My bet would be the 250. It has more cubes and you can get around the problem of the head limitations in a couple of different ways.
one way is to machine a flat spot over the existing carburetor mount to accept a flat plate mount for a 2bbl carburetor and bore the appropriate holes through for the carburetor to flow into the log manifold unrestricted.
Another way is to use a "draw through" type of supercharger and bolt the pressure outlet directly to the log manifold at its current carburetor mount.
If you wanted to you could mount the turbo from the 2.3 liter engine and use it to draw air / fuel through an appropriately sized carb and discharge it into your existing manifold.
I believe you can still find the adjustable rockers from the 170 cu" engines and install a cam to assist in getting the mixture to the engine while using an exhaust by-pass to limit the boost to the engine. the 8.3:1 compression is ideal for supercharging but you would want to use forged pistons and good rings and bearings in the engine. Headers are not difficult to find for the Ford small sixes and a good dual exhaust with an "X" pipe installed after a 20 inch collector would serve you very well on the street.
Paul

 

I know of a few guys in the Northwoods Shelby club that have SVO's, and they run pretty hard, one of the cars was said to make 400 horses just what I've heard. They are pretty impressive for what they are, but those guys were usually under their hood after each session, 20 min on a road course is kinda hard on anything.

It would be cool in a Maverick. Does anyone here have a 2.3 turbo in their cars??