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And the complete taillamps assembly's

I see u got the car I needed the whole center console with shifter and trunk lid and front bumper

Wanted headers for a 440 in an early A-body car basically a 66 barracuda but will modify if I have too and Schumacher motor mounts for 6 to bb440 to fit that car and throttle pedal and linkage that will work for that motor and that body these things are the major hold up on my autistic son...

My son who is autistic is building a 440 and putting it in a 66 barracuda and he needs alot of parts like front bumper rear taillight assembly's etc and center console

This 66 barracuda is so stressful trying to find what will and won't work and then the 440 swap into it I know my son will try his best to accomplish this I just hope he doesn't give up

So is the ranger 98 8.8 rearend the same as the explorer cause the rear diff I got is a ranger rear diff

I wish I could we have nothing left now to shop with this was a budget build for him to do in autoshop in school now it's home because of all he's going thru he was promised a 69 coronet and it fell thru while he started his motor project then he looked for months and found this 66 barracuda and...

My sons dream is to put together his own car but too much wrong advice now he's getting to the point of giving up I only wish we found the right car to put this motor in

Weight was our first concern the 6 cylinder weighed 525 complete and the 440 weight was 675 complete so we junked the cast iron intake and exhaust manifolds and waterpump and housing now intake and waterpump and housing all aluminum which dropped I'm sure a little over 100 lbs so that put us...

It's a 98 Ford ranger 8.8 with 373 locker rearend

Lol there is nothing easy about putting this 440 in that 66 barracuda but once I help my boy get it in it will be a pretty cool ride but him and I never knew it saw going to be so difficult

Yes I knew about the driveline that was something I was expecting even before trying to put that 440 in that car lol but I was hoping that that rearend would of worked with minor changes

His dream was to find a 2 door coronet or something he could put his 440 into

The 66 barracuda was the only car he could find in his price range and was told he could put in the 440 he built it now it's gotten to the point where it doesn't seem do able he an autistic kid that's 16 but high function and has had cancer issues all he wants to do is put together his own car...

Well there's nothing wrong with the rear diff in it but was told it will brake and when I found this 8.8 with aluminum driveline for 50 dollars and was told it's a direct bolt on so I bought it and yes the 440 motor is going in this car this is what my son wanted to do and build I only wish we...