Marcos Maniacs

Have you checked with "Team Blitz" ??  Do a search on the UK forum 
for V8 swaps.

Don
#3M5759

--- In MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com, "hide809rig169" 
<hide809rig169@...> wrote:
>
> My car,No.8001 with 2.8L V6 out of Mustang 2 (maybe Capri, trans. 
> looks like t-5 but it is a 4 speed), I am having a hard time 
having 
> speed part vendors respond to e-mails.  There are no cataloques 
that I 
> know of, One and a half books out, but old information.  So I have 
a 
> source with 2 or 3 215 Alumn. V8s cheap, free.  I know Marcos, 
later 
> put Rover V8s in.  There must be a person on the list that knows 
about 
> this swap.  I know I will need to fabricate "headers"for the V8. I 
> have a set for my 2.8L.  What about hood clearance with a 4bbl?  
> Ground clearance for oil pan for the V8 swap?  I was at a swap 
meet in 
> Tucson, and see that T-5 transmissions are inexpensive and 
plentiful 
> to put on a 215 and 2.8L.  There is a company called, D&D 
Fabrications 
> on the net, they seem to have parts and information.  What do you 
> think?  I know I can obtain "stock" rebuild parts for the 2.8L, 
but 
> would like some compression, big valve heads and rocker arms.  By 
the 
> way a T-5 swap for my car, appears to be rather staight forward 
> (thanks to the Capri List).  I just got off the "Capri List", and 
I 
> see others are having problems in getting parts.  This is why I'm 
> thinking of BOP 215 swap.  Any ideas? Suggestions?
>       Thanks, Steve V.  In Sierra Vista, AZ.
>