1985 Bronco II with a 5.4 liter V8

My good friend and mentor built this Bronco II 4x4 using a 5.4 liter engine from a 2002 Lincoln Navigator. The Navigator had 300 miles on it when it was rolled. I brought the engine home from San Diego in early 2003. My friend, who is 75, had been working on the Bronco II for the past 6 years.

Everything works. The firewall had to be cut away and moved back and everything was re-welded and retrofitted. The under dash A/C system is the type used in older cars when A/C was a dealer installed option. The transmission is a Ford AOD that had the bell housing welded to the tranny since there are no 5.4 liter AODs for four wheel drives. The AOD was also worked over for maximum durability. The engine came with all the wires cut so my friend made his own wire harness as well as the MAF, which is made from several different units. The exhaust is a single 4" tube made from a drive shaft that was cut and welded to make the bends. I have watched the evolution of this build over the years and it has a ton of money and time. He did all the work himself under his car port.

The Bronco II started out as a 2.9 liter V6, which was then upgraded to a 4.0 V6 with a home made intake manifold with a small Carter/Edelbrock 4 barrel on top. The 4.0 kept shredding the original 4-speed manual transmissions (I killed one, don't tell though) after the third dead transmission he decided to go full retard. He originally wanted to get the engine from a Ford Lightening, but didn't want to give what the yard was asking.

A real Hot Rod Lincoln. This build represents over 50 years of hot rod and engineering experience.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Bronco II
• 5.4 V8
• AOD
• 4x4
• Lincoln
• Navigator

[SteelCity1981]

i too also call bluff on the 5.4 unless you cut out the firewall and had a quater of your engine in your dahs there is now way that's a 5.4 i would love to see the markeings on that engine to state that's its a 5.4. 4.6L yes 5.4 no.

[scrateshooter]

@SteelCity1981

The entire firewall was cut and moved back. That is why you see the under dash A/C like the aftermarket kits of yesteryear; there was no room for it in its original location. The area from the floor boards right at the front seat all the way up the dash was cut and re-worked. The transmission used was an AOD that had have a bell housing welded to fit the 5.4, which came from a 2002 Navigator.

[Sniper2DaFace]

There is no way that those would fit in that Bruno with that motor being out of an 02 navigator which has 4v heads. NO SIR!

[scrateshooter]

@Sniper2DaFace

Yes way guy. I picked the engine up from San Diego in 2003. The firewall had to be cut and pushed back and reassembled. The Bronco II has A/C and all the original accessories reinstalled. The gentleman who built this vehicle passed away on November 23, 2010; He was 75. It had a single 4" exhaust was made from a driveshaft cut into pie shapes and re-welded to make the turns.

[JRteam14]

WOW a car with an engine vrooom vrooom, lets all stand around and listen to the engine go vrooom. Is this so your friend can go break O. J. out of jail?

[scrateshooter]

@JRteam14

O.J. is in jail?

[mwelch88]

That is sick I had a 94 ranger splash with a 5.4 dohc

[sosjp]

@scrateshooter It's O.J.ail

[90timberland]

@Sniper2DaFace yes you could put a nav motor in it my dad has an 87 bronco ll with a 302 mustang motor in it its huge but all he had to do was push the fire wall back and cut a bit into the frame for the headers to clear

[HiImKodyB]

its to bad the guy that built passed away thats a nice bronco

[xsv4622]

awesome b2

[Sniper2DaFace]

BRONCO*