5.0 block from a grand marquee

[legalize420]

5.0 block from a grand marquis

my uncle has a 90 or 91 grand marquis. he is junking the car and getting a new one. would this block be an ideal candidate for an engine build? i would like to grab it and keep it for when i am ready to build one? are all 5.0 blocks the same from the factory?

 

[z2o_what]

i have a friend who just istalled a FI 302 from a '88 Grand Marquie SW into a '73 mustang....the motor isn't an HO, and it isnt a roller motor

i would try to find a 302 HO out of a mustang or a lincoln, for they are roller-cam engines

 

[Jason 302]

Yea, see if it's a roller motor or not. My 306 came out of a Lincoln Mark 7, same oil pan and everything.

 

[Boss 351]

It's a roller block but won't have the roller cam or lifters, but you can use a roller cam if you want to since the block will have the threaded holes for the "spider" and accept the same roller cam as your HO block has. It will have crappy E6 heads (I think) though. It's a good block to build on since it may not have been at WOT all its life I'd do it...

 

[StreetStang302]

My Uncle has had to Lincolns, both came w/ 5.0 HO motors, same engine as the mustang. My dad has a '97 Grand Marqui V8, but 4.6 though, nice engine.

 

[txstang84]

the last two years of the 5.0 in the vic's (90-91) were roller blocks with roller cams and mass air...in '92 they went 4.6. the blocks starting in '85 (E5TE, E6SE, E7TE, F1SE) were all pretty much identical...all iterations were used in H.O. engines for the Mustang, only difference being firing order, pistons for the H.O. were forged from 86-92...all the rest were either cast or hyper. you might find a roller block in some trucks that don't have the bolt anchors for the spider not drilled or tapped, but that's not a huge deal to get that done at a machine shop.

in a word, yes the block is ok to use up to the same hp levels as a so-called H.O. block.

that's how D.S.S. and CHP make all their "seasoned block" engines...they dont' have to be out of a 'stang to be a decent block...

 

[ECU5.0]

i got my motor that im building out of an 89-90 lincoln town car

 

[JB66]

89 Vics had rollers, too.