Sho ranger

[93shoman]

Does anybody know if the vulcan 3.0 mounts will bolt to the sho block I have a now wrecked sho and a ramger with a blown engine so im goin to do the infamous swap any info would be great not worried bout wiring more curious what rout to go with mounts

 

[firebat45]

They won't bolt up at all. However, things generally line up, so fabricating mounts is not that difficult.

 

[gmail]

i currently have a 3.0 SHO bolted to a 3.0 96 ranger trans with a lumina clutch and a 3.0 input shaft bearing


you do need to grind a small piece off the bell housing to get it to clear for the rear main oil plate bolt.

use the stock SHO starter and SHO bell bolts.
as for motor mounts your on your own since there can be probley a hundred ways to make them.

 

[Off Road SHO]

Before you get to the easy stuff like the motor mounts, check to see if the oil pan will clear the front end frame member. In the Ranger, measure from the back of the existing block (I am assuming it's a 3.0 Vulcan V-6) to the back of the cross member and to the front of the cross member. Now take those two measurements and slide under your Taurus and see where those two measurements end up on the SHO block. If I remember right, on my old 2000 Ranger the SHO pan bump hits that cross member.

Tom

 

[LOUDSHO92]

You will need to make your own mounts.

Pictures of a SHO Ranger:

 

[StreetlightSHO]

Whose SHO Ranger is that?
Pics of the rest of it? haha

 

[firebat45]

That looks like Lupo's (?) short course offroad SHO Ranger.

IIRC when I was working on the Ranger, I moved the tranny back on the crossmember around 1.5", to pull the engine back and give room for the crossmember near the oilpan.

 

[Phoenix]

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12548

 

[StreetlightSHO]

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12548

I've read that thread multiple times actually

 

[Off Road SHO]

There was a guy that won the Short Course Stadium Racing I think back in 97 or 98 that used a Mazda B3000 with a SHO motor in it. I think it was called PEP Racing. He told me that Mazda basically gave him the truck as long as he had it at various Dealer Grand Openings. Here is a pic.



He ended up selling it to a Fireman in Tucson who ran it all over the Dunes of Southern California and then put it on Craigslist. I went down to Tucson to look at it to buy, but it had been run hard for so many years, it just didn't look like it had many miles left on it.

Tom

 

[StreetlightSHO]

Very cool. I bet that thing really screamed...

 

[93shoman]

does anybody know if any of the mazda transmissions were better then others i know ineed one from a 3.0 but are there any specific ones i should look for

 

[LOUDSHO92]

That looks like Lupo's (?) short course offroad SHO Ranger.

IIRC when I was working on the Ranger, I moved the tranny back on the crossmember around 1.5", to pull the engine back and give room for the crossmember near the oilpan.

It is Lupo's and they use it in Jump contest's and it does quite well.

 

[firebat45]

does anybody know if any of the mazda transmissions were better then others i know ineed one from a 3.0 but are there any specific ones i should look for

Later model (1995+ I think) had a better slave cylinder. Other than that they're all basically the same. Replace the 3 rubber plugs on the back of the cover plate with some pipe thread plugs, they always leak.

 

[rubydist]

does anybody know if any of the mazda transmissions were better then others i know ineed one from a 3.0 but are there any specific ones i should look for

your best possible scenario is to take the guts from a 4.0 trans and stuff them into the 3.0 trans case. the 4.0 has slightly different ratios, and a higher torque rating due to stronger internals. I know guys running boosted 4.0s that do not tear them up, so they are reasonably strong.

 

[sho'noff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_SHO_V6_engine#Other_Ford_vehicles


Other Ford vehicles

In 1989, Ford Truck Public Affairs created a one-off Ford Ranger, dubbed the "SHO Ranger", with a 3.0L SHO V6 and a Mustang GT's T-5 manual transmission. According to D.A. "Woody" Haines, assistant manager of that division, they commissioned the project truck "to test the market."[12][13]
In 1993, Ford Canada hand-built 40 Mercury Sables, some of which were powered by SHO V6 engines, as part of their AIV (Aluminum Intensive Vehicle) program and released 20 to the public. Using aluminum suspension elements and aluminum body panels, held together with spot welding and adhesive joining processes developed specifically for this vehicle, the end result was a car that was 400 pounds lighter than a SHO Taurus. In 1995 one of these vehicles finished 15th in the 1995 One Lap of America event.[14][15][16]

 

[Shovert]

I made my own mounts. Got a picture of driver side if need passenger side can take picture and post. I am using bisquit street rod mounts.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w224/mgman75/93 mustang converiable/SHOmustang003.jpg
Here is picture. Not where I bought them just first picture I found on net search. Maurice
http://www.amazon.com/Trans-Dapt-9314-Biscuit-Motor-Mount/dp/B000CQ48PU

 

[StreetlightSHO]

This thread is almost two years old....

 

[EL SHO]

This thread is almost two years old....

you should check out how old is the "Fog lights replacement" thread