I have been a little busy the last 9 months. I took it on to install a 4.6 into a friends Pantara. We used an engine from a Mark VIII and installed a supercharger. I built everything needed for the install and did all the mods including building an intake manifold. The only part we did buy were the headers. I will later be posting more details on my web page.

Dave what year heads did you use?

Is that one of them Kenny Bell super chargers?

Looks like it fits OK up front! Any fitment issues with the Supercharger? How about AC pump? I bet we're all interested in this one.
More info please!
Mooso

wow great !!! i have a 4.6 i was thinking about putting it in my pantera! whats you ideas?
how hard was it to put a supercharge on it?any problems? what about the motor mounts??

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Originally posted by wayne995:
wow great !!! i have a 4.6 i was thinking about putting it in my pantera! whats you ideas?
how hard was it to put a supercharge on it?any problems? what about the motor mounts??

When I looked into doing this setup there was no problems with the supercharger pulley setup. Only if you go with a 5.4 engine (Ford Lightning) you will have problems.

The engine I used was from a 98 Mark so it has the B heads or same as first N/A Cobra. Different cams though.

The supercharger is from a T-Bird Super Coupe and is an Eaton M90. Got it off E-Bay.

To get the supercharger to fit I had to make a custom box intake out of aluminum plate and then move the engine back 1 1/4 inch in the frame so that I had about 1/2 inch clearance between the supercharger pulley and the back window. It was a trick.

All other stuff I fabricated. I used steel plate and made motormounts to use the stock Pantera rubber pucks which holds the engine solid. I also made brackets to mount the AC and Alternator to the side. The A/C compressor is a Sanken 507 which is slightly shorter than a 508.

I will post a web site as soon as I can get the story written up.

I am using the stock Ford ECM and have bought he software and tools to program it. So if anyone else is interested in installing a Modular motor, I can make chips and flash files.

The car runs pretty good. Punching it in 1st gear from a roll will slightly spin the tires with 5.5 psi boost. Pulls strong to 6800 rpm. Did a comparison to another Pantera this weekend and even without being tuned yet, it will pull away from a Cleveland rated at 340 RWHP. Once I get it tuned I will get a dyno reading.

Engine looks great and I like the supercharger!

I got around to posting a web site of the build. Check it out.

http://members.aol.com/alanscar99/Alan2.htm