If you happen to gave me a wrecked Lincoln Continental, a fuel V10 engine from a Ford F-250, and a pile of Mustang cylinder heads, it might nonetheless seem like a pile of scraps after almost three years of labor, however the 2 guys behind the Construct It Your self YouTube channel have managed to construct a working, working, and driving automobile. Their aim when this challenge began in July of 2022 was to construct an American tremendous sedan that Ford by no means might, and do it utilizing principally Ford components. There are nonetheless some match and end points to work out, however their success is clear. This rear-wheel-drive transformed Continental is now powered by a home-built four-valves-per-cylinder V10 shifted by a guide transmission out of a Mustang GT500, and it is every kind of superior.
It looks as if most of this challenge has been simply getting the engine constructed that Ford by no means had the dedication to push into manufacturing. Ford’s truck V10 is predicated on the identical modular structure because the 4.6-liter V8 present in all method of Mustangs and Explorers, however whereas Ford engineers had entry to a 4V model for its idea automobiles and backroom builds, it was by no means launched to the general public. These dudes managed to hack collectively sufficient 4V Mustang GT cylinder heads to make their very own 4V V10 cylinder heads of their yard, and design their very own set of camshafts to function the entire thing. And that is earlier than you get to the custom-fabbed headers, driveshaft, transmission tunnel, firewall, air suspension, differential mounts, and consumption manifold.
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The spine of American scorching rodding is constructed round genius dorks like this who construct a solution to the query no one was asking, however rattling I am glad they did it. In order for you one thing dangerous sufficient, you may theoretically construct it your self with sufficient time, cash, and know-how. There’s nothing like this available on the market anyplace on the earth, save possibly Toyota’s V12 Century, or a few German tremendous sedans, however actually nothing with a guide transmission or as American-style rowdy. If you happen to can dream it, you may make it.
I look ahead to seeing how this construct concludes when the bodywork and inside are completed, however I am already fully and completely impressed by the ability proven right here. That is the form of factor an enormous YouTube channel would have thrown six engineers and one million {dollars} at, however these two dudes simply developed the entire thing themselves of their dwelling storage. It may possibly’t be said sufficient how good and proficient these youngsters are. Go subscribe to their channel proper now, as a result of they deserve a billion followers.