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Is swapping a inline 6 engine and tranny to 351 a easy swap

Tsalv1984

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Is swapping a inline 6 engine and tranny to a 351 a easy swap and worth it? I can get a nice 351 and c4 auto tranny for a good price just wondering with buying all the conversion parts and labor is it worth it? Will it get me much more money when I sell
The bronco?
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AZ73

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Will it get me much more money when I sell
The bronco?

Depends on what the rest of the Bronco looks like. Restored/patina original condition are getting good money. High end build are too. The rest, we'll, it's a crap shoot.

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lhinterman

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I had a builder do it on my 66. Wrong builder!!
REQUIRED--electric fans (no room for blade) passenger header needed a cutout in inner fender. motor mount relocation. c4 to d20 adapter. cut and paste drive shaft servicer, hood scoop or body lift.
Wrong builder, but yes it was a good decision. Later you will go a lot farther than you planned with the conversion by upgrading everything. Engine, transmission, power steering radiator.
Looking back, new parts would have been cheaper than a piecemeal conversion.
 

Broncobowsher

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Easy for someone who has done this stuff before. For someone doing there first car project, it is pretty major. For starters there is the cutting the engine perches off the frame and welding new ones on in the right place.

Beyond that you are looking at a whole bunch of little adaption projects. These are more involved than the normal auto repair of simply taking something off and putting a new version back on. It is a matter of making something that didn't fit before and having it fit now. Throttle linkage, cooling, electrical, oil pan, the list goes on and on. While none is impossible, there are a lot of little things.

And when you say a C4, I can only hope that you have already sourced a Bronco C4 that is ready for a transfer case. Because if you are starting with something else, that adds a new level to the complexity. Just doing a C4 conversion to an existing V8 Bronco is a fairly good project all by itself. Having to install the adaptor kit, I'll just state that if you are asking if putting a V8 in is easy than installing the transfer case adaptor (and the transmission rebuild to go with it) is probably too much.
 
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