1973 Mustang Project Gets a Supercharged Engine and 5 Speed Transmission - Large Marge is Back!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This is it! The 1973 Mustang project we've been calling Large Marge finally gets the small block Ford engine and Borg Warner T5 manual transmission installed and it is looking awesome! There's a blower on there for good Old School fun and looks plus there's all kinds of new technology incorporated all over this project.
Large Marge will have the legs of a Pro Touring muscle car but look like a proper vintage Mustang should... possibly even have a scoop to the super charger sticking out of the hood.
Let me know what you think!
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Thanks for watching!
#holley #weiand #ford #supercharger
The biggest day in a man's life. Putting an engine in his project
I have done the solo engine swap many times and that was the sweetest easiest drop in i have ever seen, be proud youre doing great work on the car and making videos at the same time. Congrats
Wow, very nice to hear! Thanks so much for watching and taking a minute to say such encouraging things!!! Much appreciated.
Nice to see a heart in the old Mustang, good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH BUDDY!!!! Thanks!
glad to see large marge again.
glad the engine is finally going in!
ME TOO!
Really enjoy your build video's!!! This is the kind of stuff I want to see on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing your builds!!
Awesome, thank you!
Another great video! Another big step for Large Marge! Can't wait to see her on the road.
Thanks so much Lino... couldn't have done it without your help!
Yes! That looks incredible. Congratulations on a huge step forward.
Thanks!
Looking forward to the next video and hearing marge start for the first time
Me too! but it'll be a few more weeks before that... getting closer all the time though!
I've been in that exact same position with the incline driveway with that concrete lip and hitting the top of the garage door. You made it look WAY easier than it is to get that in there. Engine wasn't swinging like crazy, etc. Well done!
HA! Thanks so much and glad you appreciate all of those little things that fight on these installs. I forgot to mention in the video that the thing kept trying to run back down the driveway into the neighbors yard!
autoedit mine sank into the hot asphalt leaving castor marks :)
Looks great! Can't wait to see the engine running!
Randy Chong Me too!
2:52 am here where I am, but when you see mustang in the title you must watch it immediately.
Yeah Buddy!
Dude!!! Way too impressive!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
I am super excited to see this today! Progress!
Yes, it feels pretty dang good!
Hey Jason, I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into videos so that we can experience something like this mustang build. Keep up the good work.
A custom hood would be absolutely amazing on that. A pair of scoops that feed right into those air cleaners, and a small hump to fit the pulley for the supercharger. Could even put a hump on the other side for symmetry if that's what it takes to look right.
Keep it up can't wait for more
Success, wooohoooo!
Finally another mustang video! I didn't want it to end. It's been long enough. Can't wait for future episodes! Keep up the good work buddy.
Thanks so much! I'll do my best to keep plugging away on this thing. I can't wait to try and start it.
I love both the mustang and jeep projects. You start from a simple clean platform and build them up without any corners being cut. Great work here
Oh and you better put a simple heat shield around those master cylinders 🤘
Thanks so much for the awesome words!
71'-73' is the worst for finding parts, and when you do find them they're way more expensive in my experience with my 71'. That being said your setup looks fantastic. Can't wait for the next vid!
Thanks! yeah this year range is a bit of a challenge but I hope it's worth it in the end.
Always looking forward to a new video from you!
Well, thanks so much for watching and taking a minute to say hey!
I use to own a 1973 Mustang with a leaded 289 HP engine. I got and a gift for teaching a neighbor English. Though I did give it back when I had to move about 200 miles away. It was only right thing to do at the time. Though I did own it for 2 years and gas at the time was $0.79 unleaded. $0.89 plus, $0.99 premium. Ya the good old days for gas prices at least.
That's pretty cool!
Really enjoy all your videos, but especially the Mustang. Really looking good!
Thanks so much!
Yes was so glad to see this video show up! Thanks for the great content! A good trick that would have made your life a little easier when installing that engine is to have tilted the body of car nose down on the jack stands. Looks like you did alright though.
Ha, Thanks! I used to do that just so I can fit the engine under the garage door and over the front of the car but with a little wiggling... it works here.
Man my projects never to that smooth lol. Looks good bud.
LOL, this one hasn't always gone super smooth either but I'll take it when it does. I did put quite a bit of effort into the engine mounts so that they would line up like that! thanks
Love the wilwoods
They are handsome and should do the job... and then some!
rad video dude! cant wait for a new one!
Woohoo!
I saw this at work and i got so excited, it made my whole day!!!
"good enough for the girls I go out with" omg that killed me 😄🤣
Im just guessing you went back and took the tape off the exhaust ports
Glad you appreciate my odd sense of humor! Yes, tape came off... lol
Nice to see the 71-73 'stang getting some much deserved love!! Great vids!
Glad to see you're back at it, Jason.
Marge is really looking awesome with an engine (+Weiand) in the bay!
Yeehaw!
I'm IN! First video and new subscriber! Thanks!
Patrick PhippsPA Welcome and thanks so much!!!!
Can't wait to hear this beast start up!
Keep up the good work an don't stop the large marge videos! :D
ME TOO! Thanks so much for hanging in there!
Keep uploading videos of this build, its coming out awesome!
Ok!
Awesome man! I'm in the middle of of build of my cougar right now. Maybe you can do a video of wiring up the starter and the other wiring stuff needed? That help a lot! As always A+ video!
Thanks! I will do a video on the wiring on this thing. Don't know when yet but it's coming for sure! What year Cougar? I love those things... built a beautiful 70 back in the day.
autoedit sweet man! I'll be looking forward to more videos!
It's 68 with 302 and 3speed auto.
This is soo awesome, almost exactly how i would build it, i have a 2nd camaro but i want a 1973 mustang 70-73
I agree.....Finally.
I`ve been waiting on the next Mustang video and it was worth the wait but sadly it might be awhile before the next one.
LOL....I hope i`m proven wrong.
I'll work on it... PROMISE!
Happy how the project is turning out. More Pinto donuts for you!
this is great!!!
THANKS BRUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome! Happy to see the update! Enjoy it!
Now get back to work! haha
You made that look just way to easy like even I could have done it
LOL, you can!!!
looks good
hopefully now we can get more videos on her, still miss the maverick
I really miss the Maverick as well. It will haunt me till the end for sure.
autoedit I've owned 7 mavericks first one grandma got new. miss them often my picture on here is of my 74
A pleasure to watch, great work and attitude!
Thanks so much!
Sweet progress! Though you might have breathing problems with the exhaust and possibly intake, that tape blockage. (Yes I know not ready for the first start up, but I found it semi-funny in my head.) Anyways best of luck Jason.
Thanks for the "heads up" just in case but yeah they are coming off again before first fire!
Amazing video per usual! Keep it coming with the Large Marge!
I would probably go with a K&N 14" air cleaner with a charged cap. Gets tons of air and if you did a hood scoop there would be plenty of air for the super charger.
Nice work Buddy like the mustsng
This is one cool project man.
Thanks, glad someone else thinks so!!!
autoedit You're welcome. How much power is that Blown 302 is making.
With the pulley on the blower right now, probably in the 400's somewhere... I'm curious to find out as well.
Awesome looking Mustang, keep it going.
Spoiler that episode off engine masters isn't On UA-cam yet xD
Ooops!
José Ligeiro but it is on MTOD! Only costs us the cost of a Grande Latte.
Yes i know but i'm fron Portugal and i don't subscribe to MTOD
Badass
"Good enough for the girls I go out with" 😂😂
Glad someone caught that!!! My grandpa used to always say that and my grandma would always smack him on the arm and laugh.
Dude.I'm a bit sad that I'm all caught up now. I've just recently found your channel and been following your builds. Got to say you do amazing work, keep up the great stuff.
Yeah progress on large marge.
I know, right!!
Beast mode activated
YEAH!!!!!
Its amazing how you work on your cars without hitting your hands on things and cursing like me
LOL! I have been known to say darn or heck a few times.
haven't seen that episode of engine masters yet!!! spoiler alert. hahahaha
I know, right!
it helps to jack the back of the car way up when installing the engine/trans as a unit.
Thanks!
We was definitely waiting for a new mustang video
Hey I'm getting a 72 mustang for my first car when I turn 16. I'm looking to do what you're doing here to mine.
Um I hope you took off the green tape before you mounted the headers lol. On camera it doesn't look like it.
Oh snap! Kidding. I left the tape on for now because those things are coming back off again for sure.
Yeah he also didn’t use a gasket so it’s just a mock up
couldn't help but notice you put your header ontop of the tape you had over the exhaust ports.
Just checking to see if you were really paying attention... lol
Love the vids and the build.... iroc z will always have my heart
Thanks so much! Yeah, that Camaro was a super good car.
wouldn't use that aircleaner, it's going to rob HP. unless it's the only one that fits lol. Keep up the great work. cant wait to see it lay some rubber
I kind of agree on the air cleaner... seemed like a good way to go when I thought it was going to fit under the hood. I'll slap the hood on we'll see what it will really need.
That engine masters episode isn't actually out on the MT channel yet only the on demand site X3
Oh, right. Spoiler alert!
that mustang is rare with the 351c super hard to find but its cool with the upgrades and things your doing to it
Yes, this car was a base model 302, so it's a good candidate for modifications.
autoedit can't wait to see you run it
this is my favorite mustang I love everything you have done to it do u still have your camaro and station wagon
finally! I can't help but to say.. it's still day light and you didn't even start er up!? I couldn't do that!!
but great job man, I can't wait to see the next few videos! enough jeep videos for a bit :P
awesome man, been waiting for this day, as I'm sure you have!
You better believe it! Thanks!
Oh yeah awesome!
Excited to see this thing up and running. Any updates?
I will next month... lots happened since this!
thank god, I thought you weren't gonna update us.
HA! here I am!
awesome!
I'd like to think so... Thanks for watching!
Nice buidup-you might want to reconsider using a T5 behind this brute in this heavy of a car
True... It is what came with the engine and I'll run it to get the car dialed in and look to upgrade when things get serious!
Been watching all of your videos and have to say it's been a huge help. I have a 65 Falcon that I am doing a lot of the same things to. Can't wait to see that thing on the road tearing it up. The background in some of your drive videos looks familiar you in simi area or santa clarita??
Thanks! I do live in Santa Clarita.
Nice! I've lived up here for a while myself. Lot of good spots to put that car through the paces once you're done, so hopefully I'll catch you out and about.
thank you for not dropping in some LS junk!
HotShotVQ35 ???
HotShotVQ35 what are you diagnosed with?
yay!
dude you are the fucking coolest and make the best videos
Woohoo! Thank you!!!
I'm going to have the same hood clearance worries with a Cyclone GT -
New episode 😍
You Betcha!
MARGE!!!! glad to see such a huge update on one of my favorite projects. BTW- Ive always wondered- Is that a skate deck i see on the duct in the garage? did/do you skate?
That is a deck a friend gave me years ago and I just never built. I used to skate way way back but not anymore.
Good spot!
autoedit of course you skated. All the cool kids skated!!
yes yes yes
looks like you might have belt squeal and slip issues by the position of the alternator and power steering pump that was one of my issues
That is the stock location for those components on the 94 Mustang Cobra engine. I figured the belt on the supercharger would be the first to slip.
Yep that's where mine slipped I had to go manual rack and lower the alternator. It worked then but I couldn't drop pulley size it started slipping again I wish they would make pulleys ribbed like the bigger super chargers instead of serpentine type. I enjoy your videos
Good to see you're moving forward with this project. Progress seems to come in waves doesn't it?
I'm not familiar with that blower/intake combo on a 302 - is that carb or FI?
Skillz
Large Marge!!!!
YEEEAAAAH!!!!
Hi Jason. Question, why did you have to make motor mounts if your mustang came with a 302 V8, I know the cobra is a 5.0, roller type block. In my 65 I also used a 5.0 to replace my 289 block just because it had the roller cam setup. This was back in 1991. Thank you look forward to your answer, love your videos.
1973 Mustangs had a unique engine mount and frame adapter setup to any other Mustang. The engine mounts are quite a bit taller and the best option is to have the originals rebuilt but I had thrown my away years ago before learning this.
Coming out nice! What exhaust setup did she have before going under the knife? Love the way it sounded!
Holy shit you made that look easy. So how many times did you actually do that
Been watchin closely, Header gaskets??
nice car all around and its good to see someone loving on a 73 they normally get the boot for other year models and your stance is on point good job mr auto edit but all the time and money you could've had a windsor or a cleveland or gone for a boss clevor. to me a 347 stroker isn't as good as a 351w im saying why not start with the 351 cubic inches to begin with and supercharge that? i digress but better than any of those combinations a big block 429 thunder jet or 460 tied t a 5 speed would have really kicked things up a notch in your build. theres no replacement for displacement
I like how you think! My dream engine would be a John Kaase Boss Nine for this thing but just a dream...
Hey Jason what back spacing did you end up going with for your wheels?
You put parts on painted fenders...
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
I wish I knew what to do with my 73 mustang the frame or or subframe what ever it is..... basically my frame is no good I'm lost on what I need to buy to restore my frame or if I just buy a whole new floor and buy the frame rails because I'm not sure where the frame rails weld to.....the floor of the car I think but not sure what I need in all.
You just have to get under there and look at what's wrong. If there is too much missing than it could be bad but get dirty and find out!
Great videos man, large Marge is going to be in charge 😆 I am curious as to if you installed header gaskets and took that green tape off? Can a person get away with out installing header gaskets or would there be to much leak,but as for the tape I imagine when you fire her up that tape will just burn into nothing. I am debating on the 174 on a 347 but it has 10-2-1 compression and I imagine this roots blowers like 9 and below. I don't know how far along you are now but do you think the 174 is worth the money?
Love the build.
Question - saw you’re planning on going with the Holley efi kit. What ecu are planning on? I didn’t think that kit worked with boost? I’m planning on doing a SC’d 351 in mine, but can’t find an efi kit that works with boost and that fits. Again, love the videos.
Thanks so much! I am running the ECU that comes with the Terminator kit. This thing is completely fine with boost... do you mean make it a "blow thru" like you would use with a Procharger or like system? Because that would need a phone call to Holley but otherwise, this system is very adaptable. Soon as I get a radiator and do some wiring, I'll be looking to fire this thing so stay tuned!
Thanks for the response man!
From Holley’s website, it looks like the terminator kit’s ecu has to be upgraded to their HP ecu specs to run boost? No?
Hey, I'm sure it's been covered but what are those wheels? Id like the trans am look for my falcon.
I highly recommend them! They are made by ET Wheels or Team III Wheels and are mega good. Here's a link to the website:
www.etmags.com/lt_iii.html
nice build ,very sanitary, not my favorite car ,but to each their own..
hi Jason my name is Steve I've learned a lot from your videos I appreciate you air them but I have a couple questions I have almost the same Driveline setup that you have every time I stomp on the throttle my supercharger belt trying to work off one way or the other and I noticed on the first video I watched your tensioner was straight and then another video I watched you had it on at angle and I was wondering if there was a reason for that