04-04-2014, 12:56 AM
Boy how times change. My first car (when I was 16) was a '67 Mustang coupe with a 289 2v. The reasoning behind this was similar to yours: "fine for a 16-year old kid". My Dad was a Mopar guy and when we went looking for my first car, muscle cars were a dime a dozen. He reasoned that a Hemi or a 440 wedge would be a "bit too much" for me. We were looking at 318 Chargers when we came across the little Mustang and we both fell in love with it. It was Vintage Burgundy with a black interior. Sweet little car.
Yeah I know V-8's are a tight squeeze in the II's. As a matter of fact, if I remember correctly, there was a special bell-housing and flywheel / flexplate for these cars. I had a C4 in mine and it used a different flexplate, converter and spacer plate than the older Mustangs did. The C4 is a multiple piece case so you could convert one if you had all of the correct parts.
That little 2300 is a cool engine too. I actually have one transplanted into my '73 Opel GT. Perfect for that car. You can get performance parts from Racer Walsh and a few others. They use these engines in the Pro-4 oval track series now so parts and custom machining are easy to obtain.
Yeah I know V-8's are a tight squeeze in the II's. As a matter of fact, if I remember correctly, there was a special bell-housing and flywheel / flexplate for these cars. I had a C4 in mine and it used a different flexplate, converter and spacer plate than the older Mustangs did. The C4 is a multiple piece case so you could convert one if you had all of the correct parts.
That little 2300 is a cool engine too. I actually have one transplanted into my '73 Opel GT. Perfect for that car. You can get performance parts from Racer Walsh and a few others. They use these engines in the Pro-4 oval track series now so parts and custom machining are easy to obtain.