{"id":76561,"date":"2021-09-10T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=76561"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:15:07","slug":"ford-taunus-with-a-bmw-v12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=76561","title":{"rendered":"Ford Taunus with a BMW V12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past five years Mad Mods Garage<\/a> spent their free time building a custom Ford Taunus TC2<\/a>. Up front sits a 5.4 L M73 V12 from a BMW E38 mated to a Getrag 260 five-speed manual transmission with a custom adapter plate. Mad Mods Garage installed the V12 back in the engine bay thanks to custom mounts and a modified oil sump and crossmember. Supporting everything is a custom tubular chassis and roll cage with custom strut towers and steering column. <\/p>\n

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Over the past five years Mad Mods Garage spent their free time building a custom Ford Taunus TC2. Up front sits a 5.4 L M73 V12 from a BMW E38 mated to a Getrag 260 five-speed manual transmission with a custom adapter plate. Mad Mods Garage installed the V12 back in the engine bay thanks… Read More »Ford Taunus with a BMW V12<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":76563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taurus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ford-Taunus-with-a-BMW-M73-V12-01.jpg?fit=2048%2C1151&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108361,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=108361","url_meta":{"origin":76561,"position":0},"title":"BMW E30 with a Twin-Turbo V12","author":"swaptastic","date":"December 2, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Mikulski Motorsport built this BMW E30 at their company in J\u00f3zef\u00f3w, Poland. 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