I am currently going to buy a 85 pantera GT5
I was thinkig of replacing the stock engine with Ford wonderful 32 valve V8 engine with twin turbos. Can it fit and would I need a stronger gear box to hanldle all that power
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It will fit. Steve Wilkinson has done it. Gear box OK but you need a very strong wallet.
Good luck.
Good luck.
The stock 4-valve 4-cam Ford or Lincoln engine is lower in horsepower and torque than a stock 351-C, so there's no problem with the ZF, which in unaltered form can handle at least 850 horses from a much larger engine than this little 4.6-liter. Much has been posted on this conversion (see the archives) so except for slightly altering the cylinder heads to fit, building a set of unique headers etc, and deleting the stock power steering pump from the serpenine drive, your main task will be to adapt some sort of computerized brain-box to run this totally computerized engine.