RWD Duratec shenanigans

Anyone know if there's a RWD trans application for, say, a Duratec V6 out of a Mazda6?

Cursory searching reveals nothing substantial other than "d00d just get a 5.0 LOL"

The Lincoln LS had a Getrag manual in a few models that was behind a 3.0 duratec. However, everything I have read points to these being not very sturdy transmissions.

Oh duh, I forgot the LS. And those things had the 5L55 from the factory, too.

The Manual trans Lincoln LS was only rated for the V6, per the design engineers that I talked with back when it rolled out. It would not hold up to the V8 torque. If I remember...the torque rating for the trans was only about 5-10lbft above what the LS-V6 put out.

That's fine, I prefer automatics anyway. Automatic + MegaShift = Cheap way to paddle shifters.

Knurled wrote: That's fine, I prefer automatics anyway.

I feel like thems fightin' words round here.

yep ls is the one to get the trans from. however avoid the aj versions of the motor atleast ones with the electronic throttle.

What about the manual trans behind the 3.7L Mustang? I believe it was based of the duratec V6, but I am not 100% the bellhousing pattern is the same.

WhiteLX wrote: What about the manual trans behind the 3.7L Mustang? I believe it was based of the duratec V6, but I am not 100% the bellhousing pattern is the same.

Quick! To the junkyar........Wait, how many of the 3.7L Mustangs are going to be wrecked already?

ahhh... yes the new duratec's do have the same bellhousing as the old ones..... problem solved!

KATYB wrote: ahhh... yes the new duratec's do have the same bellhousing as the old ones..... problem solved!

I'm not so sure about that. The families are not related, and I can't think of a trans that is shared between the two engines at the moment- especially the older 3.0ls.

shared no.... but the engine was designed to be partially backwards compatible(per a friend at ford) someone find out if the trans's in the fusion are the same for the 3.0 and 3.5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ford_bellhousing_patterns see yep the same just as the sho 3.4 v8 is the same pattern too.

ok so the sho is not identical but it works with a lil work.

KATYB wrote: shared no.... but the engine was designed to be partially backwards compatible(per a friend at ford) someone find out if the trans's in the fusion are the same for the 3.0 and 3.5.

Well, YMMV. I'm still not aware of any compatability between the engines, what so ever. But it's someone else's time and money being spent here.

I have worked on both engines, too.

I thought the 3.0L duratec was completely changed for the fusion....could be wrong though.

Take a fwd duratec and move it to the rear. There you go, it's rwd.

RossD wrote: Take a fwd duratec and move it to the rear. There you go, it's rwd.

this = fun

RossD wrote: Take a fwd duratec and move it to the rear. There you go, it's rwd.

This formula gets very rowdy with the sho engine back there.....

I've been wanting to do a duratec V6 powered 914. Use one of the Kennedy adapters for the transaxle.

N Sperlo wrote:

RossD wrote: Take a fwd duratec and move it to the rear. There you go, it's rwd.

this = fun

That's a little hard to do in an RX-7.

One of the things I saw was that the 3.5/3.7 is NOT the same as the 2.5/3.0.

In reply to Knurled:

RX-7? Oh- then you should know that the 3.0l Miata was done with a full blown LS powertrain. It fit pretty well.

(and I recall an 3rd gen RX7 that did have a 3.0l installed into it, to the point of remembering that it was black- but I never saw it actually move)

no they are not the same engine however it does share the same bolt pattern and there are a few other things thats that can be swapped back and forth.

no they are not the same engine however it does share the same bolt pattern and there are a few other things thats that can be swapped back and forth.

WhiteLX wrote: I've been wanting to do a duratec V6 powered 914. Use one of the Kennedy adapters for the transaxle.

Search for the sho powered 914......you'll be interested.