5.0 EFI on CR1

[C5GTO]

I do have a 5.0 EFI in a mid-90's CR1.



It's been there a long time so I'm working from old memory on what I did to make it work. I recall that I cut about 1" out of the motor mounts. I used an Edelbrock intake manifold instead of the Ford unit. I had about 1/2" milled off the bottom manifold mounting flange where the upper manifold attaches. I had to rotate the vacuum pipes on the throttle body to clear the hood.

I think that's all I did. The EFI manifold does clear the hood which has the narrow style hood scoop. With the engine sitting lower from motor mount chop, I have to be careful going over speed bumps. But with over 25 years and about 45K miles, it's all worked out fine.

[Wisconsin_Snake]

Originally Posted by C5GTO

I do have a 5.0 EFI in a mid-90's CR1.

It's been there a long time so I'm working from old memory on what I did to make it work. I recall that I cut about 1" out of the motor mounts. I used an Edelbrock intake manifold instead of the Ford unit. I had about 1/2" milled off the bottom manifold mounting flange where the upper manifold attaches.

I also have a 5.0 FI engine... It fits under the hood without having to modify anything.. It will fit under the hood IF you use a 94-95 Mustang (upper and lower) intake manifolds.
The intake is much more "shorter" than the regular 5.0 intakes and was used on the 94~95 mustangs (also known as SN95 mustangs.).

You may be able to get away with using a the SN95 adapter elbow which was a aftermarket approach so that the regular intakes (which are less restrictive) could be used on the 1994~95 mustangs for a performance increase.
I would be interested to see if that would work.

Here is article detailing what was done to a SN95 mustang. It has pictures of the intakes.

https://www.allfordmustangs.com/Detailed/614.shtml

[rbgray1]

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