Crown Victoria front IFS swap?
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 1:00 pm
I have waited a couple of days after finding out about this before I posted it. Mainly because I wanted to check things out first. But this swap is KILLER!!!!
I found a thread on a diesel board I frequent. The guy is building a 67 F**d SWB pick-up. He's swapping in an Isuzu diesel, along with a very cool IFS swap that seems to be becoming a popular swap for F trucks. You need an '03 and up Crown VIc. The entire front suspension is attached to an aluminum crossmember with a power rack and pinion steering mounted on the front. It has two big "pads" where it rests against the frame, and attaches with four big bolts that drop down through the frame and thread into the crossmember (from what I can tell). The coolest thing about this is that the area between the spring towers is about 35 1/2 inches. He writes that his frame is 34 inches and he has about 1.5 inches to "play with". So, needless to say, it should be an easy bolt up.
Here's a link that takes you directly to his build-up thread (on a F**d truck BB, sorry. ):
http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/71605 ... -f100.html
This may entirely change the way we update our trucks.
I found a thread on a diesel board I frequent. The guy is building a 67 F**d SWB pick-up. He's swapping in an Isuzu diesel, along with a very cool IFS swap that seems to be becoming a popular swap for F trucks. You need an '03 and up Crown VIc. The entire front suspension is attached to an aluminum crossmember with a power rack and pinion steering mounted on the front. It has two big "pads" where it rests against the frame, and attaches with four big bolts that drop down through the frame and thread into the crossmember (from what I can tell). The coolest thing about this is that the area between the spring towers is about 35 1/2 inches. He writes that his frame is 34 inches and he has about 1.5 inches to "play with". So, needless to say, it should be an easy bolt up.
Here's a link that takes you directly to his build-up thread (on a F**d truck BB, sorry. ):
http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/71605 ... -f100.html
This may entirely change the way we update our trucks.