Great video and nice job on the conversion. Looks like a quality job and very nicely finished around the console. People that know these cars get IT! Those that don't, never will. The cop car comments and taxi comments Ugh 😡 Look FWD to more of your vids. I watch Omar's channel from time to time also !
Wonderful job on the conversion. Looks like it came from the factory that way. I have a 2003 as well, and the 410 gears with the Marty tune absolutely wake the car up.
Hey my friend, great meeting you and your MM yesterday! Glad you met Mitch ;) very cool mod video, already sent it to my brother haha it's def on his Crown Vic bucket list. We'll reach out to you soon about it, thanks 😊 -A
Beautifully done brother. I’m looking to manual swap one of my Vic’s next year. I hit the follow button, looking forward to seeing what’s up and coming. Salute 🫡
super cool and props for creating and finishing such a project. a little sad that a maruder was used though. personally id drop a 32v in a standard panther body. Again though, props for completing it and not letting your dream stay in your head.
4.10s are at MINIMUM in my opinion. My stock 3.27s were worthless, if leaving stock gears it will be a lot slower taking off over the auto.(Marauder is going to be a little better) Minus fabricating the pedal assembly (which I did months prior while sourcing parts to doing the swap, I have around $1k into my swap total) I did the swap in like 6 hours. I have done a few transmission replacements on panthers and with removing the wiper cowl it's cake. (Also makes it much easier to reinforce the firewall and drill the adjuster) the hardest part of the swap is removing the damned trans cross member 😂 For the remote shifter i bought a Chinese T5 shifter and cut the ball so nothing was protruding and fabricated a bridge with bushings to pivot and used angle iron bolted to the trans through the shifter bolts and ran back with the cut shifter mounted on top of the rails. There's a lot more than 2,000 marauders out there left. I also never thought I'd ever hear someone describe a panther as "light and nibble" 😂 (no offense). My advice for you is get 20s with 285/30 in back 245/35 up front and it really tightens up the float.
Hey... Great job turning an auto into a manual. I have a 2004 Marauder with 4:10 gears. It's fine only because it has overdrive. MPG is only a few miles less then stock gears. It had over 400.000 miles before the timing chain and tensioners went. Its sitting right now. It still runs. Trying to figure out if I want to put in a new engine. I want to keep it as stock as possible. If I don't sell it. I would not let it go for less then $4,500.
I’ve done several engines on these cars in the last 9 years they’re not too bad to do, pretty easy job. Go for another engine that you can make ready and swap it in although the timing chains and tensioners can be done in the car from personal experience it’s easier to pull it out and do it that way and it’s far less risky. Keep the mileage ticking! I’m not slowing down with mine lol
You beef up/balanced metal matrix P71 drive axle? If not, 4.10s spin drive shaft too fast for given higher speed. It will crater. And can crater other items on the drive train.
Thanks for the comment, I am just running the factory aluminum drive shaft. I have in the past with the auto found the critical driveline speed. The charts say it’s at 116 mph but that’s for a CVPI 26.9 inch diameter tire not the standard 28.6 inch diameter tires on the rear of the Marauder so I don’t get vibrations until 125 mph and in the nine years of me driving this car I’ve only had it up that fast a couple of times. But I would still like to locate a MMX driveline because I’d like to start participating and even making videos in and around spec p71 race events. A couple friends of mine participates in those events and rarely if never go above 125 mph usually about 110 or so but I wouldn’t do that unless I was to get one of those drivelines.
@@peterpark3656 thank you I work on cars for a living, so I have a understanding when it comes to doing stuff like this it’s pretty simple. There’s a couple of tactical things that you have to use the tape measure on, but that’s about it.
Classic Marauder belt squeak between gears when shifting hard. Mine even does it with a new belt and tensioner 😂 The car sounds awesome BTW, what’s the exhaust setup?
Doing a manual swap on the Marauder is kinda tricky but definitely worth doing it. It’s a lot of fun to drive. Definitely consider going with 4.10 gears. you will not be disappointed.
@ProjectMercuryMarauder sweet! I already have the 4.10's with Detroit tru-trac. I'm currently doing the rear upper and lower control arms, watts link, and coil over system. The manual swap is next. What exhaust are you running?
My apologies I saw your guy’s comments. I just am so busy that I forgot to reply you earlier… I have stainless works long tube headers with catted down pipes factory exhaust from the flange back. with the exception of knock off magna flow mufflers they are straight through mufflers from dynomax. I think they’re called ultra flow. Still have factory resonated tips intact.
Hey Bob! It’s Shane, I met you as you were leaving cars and coffee today! I was in my white 04’ Grand Marquis with my girlfriend Chelsea. My blown tire for my 70’ Mark III Continental ended up being unrepairable, too big of a hole, so I ended up having to buy a new spare, and replace the one that was blown 🫠 What was the name of the tire place you mentioned? I forgot to write it down, and also what kind of tires did you have on the 65 marauder? I also forgot to mention I have a Snapchat if you have one and want to add me on there, sorry i don’t have any other social media that I really check or use. I hope to see you soon at cars and coffee and I would love to learn more about marauders, I’ve only just recently discovered the panther platform so I’m still learning! I’ve had my Lincoln for a couple years now and my Marquis for maybe a year.
While typing out this reply I am going through my videos it looks like there is going to be about 6 parts. It's really hard to just skip over any of it because there is so much that is useful but missing in other videos. Other than the fact that I'm so busy with life getting the way of editing these videos the quality is poor due to me having neighbors with constant barking dogs. I recorded all of the footage just to find out that 85% of it I could here their dogs in the background...
Great video and nice job on the conversion. Looks like a quality job and very nicely finished around the console.
People that know these cars get IT! Those that don't, never will. The cop car comments and taxi comments Ugh 😡
Look FWD to more of your vids. I watch Omar's channel from time to time also !
I’m jealous, I’d love a manual in my crown Victoria
Wonderful job on the conversion. Looks like it came from the factory that way. I have a 2003 as well, and the 410 gears with the Marty tune absolutely wake the car up.
Yeah, most definitely having the 410s in the car did a lot waking up how it performed. It feels like the car shed about 1000 pounds of weight.
Hey my friend, great meeting you and your MM yesterday! Glad you met Mitch ;) very cool mod video, already sent it to my brother haha it's def on his Crown Vic bucket list. We'll reach out to you soon about it, thanks 😊 -A
Mitch was so cool! I’m glad I got to meet you guys and I’m looking forward to hear from you in the future!
I'd say that would be my absolute dream car!
Beautifully done brother. I’m looking to manual swap one of my Vic’s next year.
I hit the follow button, looking forward to seeing what’s up and coming. Salute 🫡
Thanks for the sub!
Hell yeah! Great car man!
Good job bro ! This should have been An option for this car. 👍👍
100% should have been! Proof is the manual option for the Cadillac CTS-V was available until 2014 for the sedan and 2015 for the coupe.
super cool and props for creating and finishing such a project. a little sad that a maruder was used though. personally id drop a 32v in a standard panther body. Again though, props for completing it and not letting your dream stay in your head.
Nice car bro
Thanks!✌
4.10s are at MINIMUM in my opinion. My stock 3.27s were worthless, if leaving stock gears it will be a lot slower taking off over the auto.(Marauder is going to be a little better)
Minus fabricating the pedal assembly (which I did months prior while sourcing parts to doing the swap, I have around $1k into my swap total) I did the swap in like 6 hours. I have done a few transmission replacements on panthers and with removing the wiper cowl it's cake. (Also makes it much easier to reinforce the firewall and drill the adjuster) the hardest part of the swap is removing the damned trans cross member 😂
For the remote shifter i bought a Chinese T5 shifter and cut the ball so nothing was protruding and fabricated a bridge with bushings to pivot and used angle iron bolted to the trans through the shifter bolts and ran back with the cut shifter mounted on top of the rails.
There's a lot more than 2,000 marauders out there left. I also never thought I'd ever hear someone describe a panther as "light and nibble" 😂 (no offense).
My advice for you is get 20s with 285/30 in back 245/35 up front and it really tightens up the float.
Hey... Great job turning an auto into a manual. I have a 2004 Marauder with 4:10 gears. It's fine only because it has overdrive. MPG is only a few miles less then stock gears. It had over 400.000 miles before the timing chain and tensioners went. Its sitting right now. It still runs. Trying to figure out if I want to put in a new engine. I want to keep it as stock as possible. If I don't sell it. I would not let it go for less then $4,500.
I’ve done several engines on these cars in the last 9 years they’re not too bad to do, pretty easy job. Go for another engine that you can make ready and swap it in although the timing chains and tensioners can be done in the car from personal experience it’s easier to pull it out and do it that way and it’s far less risky. Keep the mileage ticking! I’m not slowing down with mine lol
It’s definitely faster as a manual. Only modern cars are faster because they have more gears. Funny enough the manual has more gears.
You beef up/balanced metal matrix P71 drive axle? If not, 4.10s spin drive shaft too fast for given higher speed. It will crater. And can crater other items on the drive train.
Thanks for the comment, I am just running the factory aluminum drive shaft. I have in the past with the auto found the critical driveline speed. The charts say it’s at 116 mph but that’s for a CVPI 26.9 inch diameter tire not the standard 28.6 inch diameter tires on the rear of the Marauder so I don’t get vibrations until 125 mph and in the nine years of me driving this car I’ve only had it up that fast a couple of times. But I would still like to locate a MMX driveline because I’d like to start participating and even making videos in and around spec p71 race events. A couple friends of mine participates in those events and rarely if never go above 125 mph usually about 110 or so but I wouldn’t do that unless I was to get one of those drivelines.
@@ProjectMercuryMarauder thanks for detailed reply. First time on your channel. Will be coming back.
Noce ideo. Used to have 04 Marauder. By the way. Where did you do the swapping? What shop?
I did it in my driveway lol I can’t stand it when other people work on my cars.
Congratulations!
@@peterpark3656 thank you I work on cars for a living, so I have a understanding when it comes to doing stuff like this it’s pretty simple. There’s a couple of tactical things that you have to use the tape measure on, but that’s about it.
Classic Marauder belt squeak between gears when shifting hard. Mine even does it with a new belt and tensioner 😂 The car sounds awesome BTW, what’s the exhaust setup?
Never mind. You drove it into a septic tank
I made sure she was properly vaссіnated before 😂
Lmao you outta pocket 😂 i love the panther platform 😮💨
I plan to swap my Marauder soon. What exhaust do you have on there? Sounds good.
Doing a manual swap on the Marauder is kinda tricky but definitely worth doing it. It’s a lot of fun to drive. Definitely consider going with 4.10 gears. you will not be disappointed.
@ProjectMercuryMarauder sweet! I already have the 4.10's with Detroit tru-trac. I'm currently doing the rear upper and lower control arms, watts link, and coil over system. The manual swap is next. What exhaust are you running?
What do you got for exhaust? That sounds incredible.
I wish he would answer this question, I'd like to know myself. Sounds awesome!
My apologies I saw your guy’s comments. I just am so busy that I forgot to reply you earlier… I have stainless works long tube headers with catted down pipes factory exhaust from the flange back. with the exception of knock off magna flow mufflers they are straight through mufflers from dynomax. I think they’re called ultra flow. Still have factory resonated tips intact.
I have a dyno video and a couple exhaust clips of this very car somewhere on my channel.
I have a dyno video and a couple exhaust clips of this very car somewhere on my channel.
Do you have the how too video
where u get the shiftboot from?
It’s from a 2005-2009 Mustang.
is the LA river stinky? when i drive in the rain, and come home to my garage my car stinks. wonder how bad it smells after this
I really didn’t notice any difference I honestly think the Willamette River in Portland Oregon smells much worse.
How can I make my mercury? Marauder sound like yours?
I’ve got stainless works long tube headers knock off magna flows, and a k&n cold air intake. Stock resonated tips factory H pipe.
@@ProjectMercuryMarauder OK cool and thanks for responding. Not to mention you have a bad ass Marauder keep up the good work.
Thanks my friend 😎🤙 it’s definitely been a long process but it’s worth every penny and bit of effort.
Hey Bob! It’s Shane, I met you as you were leaving cars and coffee today! I was in my white 04’ Grand Marquis with my girlfriend Chelsea. My blown tire for my 70’ Mark III Continental ended up being unrepairable, too big of a hole, so I ended up having to buy a new spare, and replace the one that was blown 🫠 What was the name of the tire place you mentioned? I forgot to write it down, and also what kind of tires did you have on the 65 marauder? I also forgot to mention I have a Snapchat if you have one and want to add me on there, sorry i don’t have any other social media that I really check or use. I hope to see you soon at cars and coffee and I would love to learn more about marauders, I’ve only just recently discovered the panther platform so I’m still learning! I’ve had my Lincoln for a couple years now and my Marquis for maybe a year.
Do you have the how too video
While typing out this reply I am going through my videos it looks like there is going to be about 6 parts. It's really hard to just skip over any of it because there is so much that is useful but missing in other videos. Other than the fact that I'm so busy with life getting the way of editing these videos the quality is poor due to me having neighbors with constant barking dogs. I recorded all of the footage just to find out that 85% of it I could here their dogs in the background...