Stacy Shaw's '62 Falcon is the epitome of a "sleeper" car. With the fabricating skills of her husband Nathan and his shop, "One Guys Garage" along with Stacy, getting her hands dirty they have turned out one cool car! Nathan explains the story behind it...I had seen some guys starting to swap the 6cyl Ecoboost engines and research showed that the Ecoboost 4cyl currently used is just a Duratec platform with direct injection. A quick car-part.com search showed a plethora of Focus 2.0 engines in the salvage yards for $300-400. Yes, it would require quite a bit of fabrication work with custom mounts, intake and exhaust manifolds, and transmission adapter plate, but that's the fun part for me. The best thing is it would not require any cutting to the body of the car or strut towers like most other swaps would. We also rebuilt the suspension using mostly stock style parts and swapped an 8" rear axle with limited slip center section out of a Maverick. Stacy did a lot of the work herself including disassembling the engine, cleaning LOTS of salvage yard parts, and getting the kids out to the shop to help with various tasks. Like any combo that is out of the norm it required a little R&D once running. I blew it up on the dyno once, making the poor decision to run it to 8200 rpm with insufficient valve spring pressure. We fixed the engine and then broke several GM 4L60E transmissions before finding the right combo of parts without spending $6000 on a professionally built transmission. Engine is a 2006 "Duratec" 2.0 4cyl with factory aluminum block and stock head. Crank is borrowed from a manual trans Miata (forged) and it has forged Manley rods and Wiseco pistons. 30lbs of boost provided by a Precision 5858 ball bearing turbo. One Guys Garage fabricated equal length exhaust manifold and intake manifold. Spark and fuel is controlled with a Holley HP efi system running on E85. Transmission is a 2002 4L60E from a 4cyl S-10 with cryo and micropolished stock components with a Custom 9" PTC torque converter. Rear tires are Mickey Thompson 215/60/14 ET Streets. Our current best et is 10.71 at 123mph.
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