hey guys and gals,

I have acces to an EL 5.0 litre motor, gearbox, ecu, all looms, dash, tailshaft, fuel lines, basically evrything thats different on the 8 from the 6! it will be going into my EF Fairmont Ghia! The person i will be getting the stuff off is fairly good at mechanics and knows his fords extremely well, he says it is a fairly low cost and straight forward conversion! is this correct? Also do i have to change any of the underbody parts like suspension mounts, k frame, or crossmembers? My diff is up to the task (3.45lsd) and will be getting 3.9's and a nice tighten up! so yeh any advice and help i can get will be greatly appreciated!

cheers, dave!

I believ ovo616 did a V8 conversion on his his car not long ago. Have a search for his thread and see what he did.

cheers will do

ive done the same conversion but with a EB i put every part from a DC LTD in it and that took me and my brother 9 days straight from early till late im pretty sure that the el would be similer so you will have to change over the k frame to the v8 one, crossmember same thing but with the diff im not 100% sure because with mine the 6 diff is different to the v8 diff where the tailshaft bolts up so i had to change that to but i dont know about ef-el. one last thing if you want to get rid of any diff or diff gears please let me know what ratio and we'll go on from there.

x member and stuff like that dosn't need to be changed, as you have a ef you will most likely find that you'll have to change over all the dash looms as I found when i went from el to ef the shape of the engine loom is diffrent to the other, other then that. get started well worth it, not a "hard" job just time consuming took us around 3 full days but we ended up pulling the dash out a couple of times which added a bit of time in.

Good luck take lots of photos keep us up to date if you go ahead.

Sean

yeh deffinatly will ad pics for you guys! decided to go ahead with it! i hava all looms and such so not too stressed should be easy lol!!!

Good man. Let us know how you go

lots of pics and explain what you doing...
will be an intersting read