Bigbird2v
New Member
Hi all, a few month back I had posted about using a BMW ZF 6 speed in my 1995 Thunderbird, a TR3650 from a Mustang is the usual swap as they line up with factory parts well, but it's an absolute no go as unfortunately it was going to cost me well north of $1500 for shipping here for just a gearbox, I could near take a whole car in for that.
However, as of today I have just purchased a BMW ZF 6 speed from an M47 powered E60 5 series (GS6-39dz). I have found a company in Poland that do adapter plates from the Coyote motor (same trans bolt pattern as the earlier mod motor) to the ZF 6 speeds (company is Poweride, seem fairly well regarded).
Now I don't plan on doing this swap purely for drifting, I just have always wanted a manual V8 American car, and now I can make one. I'm still figuring out a couple things at the moment, such as what pedal box to use or to just go with a single universal clutch pedal as the ZF boxes have an external slave so this should be easy. Things like shifter location isn't an issue as it's a factory remote shifter set-up so making it longer or shorter should be easy, the driveshaft I can get sorted, and tuning out the ECU can be done easily to 'delete' the auto box as they use the same EEC-V ECU as a lot of other Ford products of the time.
This also opens up the other issue of what clutch kit I should use, I'm toying with just getting the input shaft lengthened to mate up with an uprated Mustang GT lightened flywheel and uprated clutch kit as I want to keep this on a relative budget.
If you guys have any input or general advice on what I could do for a pedal box and clutch kit let me know or just any general advice for the build.
However, as of today I have just purchased a BMW ZF 6 speed from an M47 powered E60 5 series (GS6-39dz). I have found a company in Poland that do adapter plates from the Coyote motor (same trans bolt pattern as the earlier mod motor) to the ZF 6 speeds (company is Poweride, seem fairly well regarded).
Now I don't plan on doing this swap purely for drifting, I just have always wanted a manual V8 American car, and now I can make one. I'm still figuring out a couple things at the moment, such as what pedal box to use or to just go with a single universal clutch pedal as the ZF boxes have an external slave so this should be easy. Things like shifter location isn't an issue as it's a factory remote shifter set-up so making it longer or shorter should be easy, the driveshaft I can get sorted, and tuning out the ECU can be done easily to 'delete' the auto box as they use the same EEC-V ECU as a lot of other Ford products of the time.
This also opens up the other issue of what clutch kit I should use, I'm toying with just getting the input shaft lengthened to mate up with an uprated Mustang GT lightened flywheel and uprated clutch kit as I want to keep this on a relative budget.
If you guys have any input or general advice on what I could do for a pedal box and clutch kit let me know or just any general advice for the build.