Hitting on all eight cylinders
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Hello everyone, I have a '50 Ford customline 4 door sedan that I am turning into a custom (trying to achieve a "Mini-Merc" theme). I am pulling the flathead and going to put in a Y block out of a 50's T-bird, not too interested in building it up too much, but want enough that I am not a snail...intend to back the Y block with an AOD, and need to know what adapter to use for the most painless installation. I am in a wheelchair, so will have to have others assemble for me so need something fairly straightforward LOL 
Raised on gasoline and still have tetraethyl coursing through my veins....
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A y-block into a 49/51 Ford or Merc is one of the hardest swaps you can do. In 1964 a friend and myself put a 56 T-Bird engine into a 51 Ford convertable, getting the engine and trans in is the easy part (as long as you have the motor mounts that bolt to the timming case cover) To start with you need a Thunderbird timming case cover, and oil pan, and a dropped tie rod. After that you must make everything, exhaust, oil filter, linkage. My friend's father had a big auto repair business and I was working part time in a michine shop, we must of had over a 150 hours in that car in the 4 months it took to finish. The upside...we put over 50,000 miles on that can in the next 3 years, with the only repair being a front seal in the engine.
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