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Ray
09-06-2011, 08:14 PM
After a nice breakfast drive into the foothills of Madera Co., we stopped off at Ken's "little" shop to get the motor and trans dropped into his car. He's got a 4.6 Cobra engine with, (I think) a T-46 (6-speed?) trans.

While the wives took photos, the guys got busy. None of us had installed a 4.6 before and it was a little different (bigger) than dropping in a 302/351 block. Took us a bit longer than estimated, but it went in.

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Ray

Russ Thompson
09-06-2011, 08:58 PM
Ray, if you moved that darn motorhome out of the way you might have enough room to work! :-)

68GT500MAN
09-06-2011, 09:33 PM
Russ, the motorhome is dwarfed inside the 4000 sqft space! Ken has one of the nicest wood shops behind the far wall that I have ever seen!
Doug

Ray
09-06-2011, 10:27 PM
Russ, the motorhome is dwarfed inside the 4000 sqft space! Ken has one of the nicest wood shops behind the far wall that I have ever seen!
Doug

The wood shop in the room behind the stairs is 1200 sqft. There is room on the other side of the motor-home to build two more FFR's. Ken is using a tournament size pool table to organize and stage his parts and tools for his build.

Ray

Wayne Presley
09-07-2011, 07:24 AM
The belt routing is wrong on the motor, the belt should do an S wrap around the waterpump pulley.

xlr8or
09-07-2011, 09:28 AM
THe motor looks great and will certainly fill the engine compartment.


The belt routing is wrong on the motor, the belt should do an S wrap around the waterpump pulley.

I noticed that too. Smooth pully needs to be on the smooth side of the belt.

Ray
09-08-2011, 09:36 AM
The belt routing is wrong on the motor, the belt should do an S wrap around the waterpump pulley.

Wayne,

Thanks. None of us caught that and I've sent the information onto Ken.

Ray

UbelGeist
09-08-2011, 11:22 AM
Are you sure that is a 03 Cobra 4.6? The intake is the 96-98 Cobra intake. The 2003 should have a supercharger on top.