Inliners International Forums General Discussion Drive Train 5-speed for 200 Falcon six

Has anyone installed a 5-speed on a Ford Falcon 200?

Seems like that'd be a great improvement. Would like to talk to anyone who's done this.

Can't address the question, but I agree - it should be a big improvement.

The Ford 6 forum has info for this swap.

http://www.fordsix.com/V8Bell.php

http://classicinlines.com/products.asp?cat=135


http://www.fordsix.com/tech.php


MBHD

I am looking into this for a Mustang. From everything I have found, you almost have to go to a 250 to make it cost effective. I got a couple quotes to get parts and it looks like I am goign to kick the hell out of $3000 to get it on a 200.

Note, if you have a C4 behind your 200 right now you do not have a flywheel hiding in there. The ring gear is welded onto the torque converter and a flex plate joins the crank and torque converter.

To do over again, I would have pushed the 200 off a cliff and gone after the 50 cubes instead. With an Al headed 250, I'd stand a chance at beating up on some Chevy guys! At least I can hold my own with some grannys in K-cars right now.

I'm sportin' a '68 Falcon with 200/C4 combo ATM.

We have Falcons with 5-speeds here, but I don't know if the bell and flywheel are different between the 200 and the 250 etc...

The 5-speed is a Borg-Warner used right through the industry in Australia, Ford versions are readily available.

If not, our 200s came with the B-W 35, which has a removable converter housing. You could make an adaptor out of one of those, which is the way my brother used to always adapt 5-speed Toymotor boxes to all his Fords.

Thanks, Hank. I noticed that the article said that the rear of the 200 engines changed in 1980...my 200 is a '66 model...ain't that always the way it is?

Ray, seems like you boys down there got a lot of Ford six goodies that's not available, here. It's obvious that you're proficient at adapting parts, too!

Most of the junk yards here have dried up and, if you do find something made as far back as 1990, you're gonna have to pay through the teeth to get it.

Yeah, it's because our industry prospered with the Holden package of an inline six as the base family car...

From 1949 to 1970, and to a lesser extent beyond that, this was what the mums and dads wanted and bought. Fours were always there, but took a greater slice of the market starting about 1990.

And there's always someone with a bent for an eight...