How many different manufacturers can connect to each other.

djsilver (Forum Supporter) said:

This won't work for engines and transmissions, but it will give you interchange information for accessories and other parts you could normally pick up at an auto parts supply.  Go to OreillyAuto and look up a part for your car.  Now scroll down and check the "compatibility" button and it will give you a list of all the different makes/models/years of vehicles that part was used on.  

Rock Auto does the same handy thing.  If you click on the part number, it tells you what all it fits.  It's not always totally accurate, but a good start.

Well crud. I was hoping someone would be like "oh yeah you connect a focus water pump to an Aveo engine, which then bolts to a dodge bellhousing allowing you to use a Toyota transmission, then a Toyota driveshaft will get to a ford axle and Suzuki wheels. Lol. 

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

Rock Auto does the same handy thing.  If you click on the part number, it tells you what all it fits.  It's not always totally accurate, but a good start.

That's I know the blower door actuator on my Elise is from an International School Bus. 

So there's a school bus. Then a Toyota engine, Lotus chassis and body, Rover side mirror, GM rear view mirror and some interior bits, and I am sure I am missing a few pieces. 

Not super on topic, but through the late 70's and early 80's, Ford put GM power steering pumps in their high end cars, because of the pump whine from the Ford units.

Also, RWD Chrysler's with tilt steering used a GM column for quite a while.

Further to the AMC story, in an 82 Concord, there was an AMC engine, Ford starter and alternator, Gm power steering pump, Chrysler transmission.  Unless it had a four cylinder iron Duke...  Or an earlier one with an Audi motor...

Then there was the Omni with a VW Rabbit engine.

cyow5 said:

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

Rock Auto does the same handy thing.  If you click on the part number, it tells you what all it fits.  It's not always totally accurate, but a good start.

That's I know the blower door actuator on my Elise is from an International School Bus. 

So there's a school bus. Then a Toyota engine, Lotus chassis and body, Rover side mirror, GM rear view mirror and some interior bits, and I am sure I am missing a few pieces. 

 

So far you're winning. 

Not strictly within the o.ps rules for the thread, but I mentioned it in another thread...

My 87 rx7 has a Pontiac g6 engine with accessories and timing cover from an 86 camaro.  That is mated to a 98 camaro trans from a 3800 powered camaro.  The clutch is from a 4 cylinder s10.  The flywheel is from a cavalier 4 cylinder.  The htob is from a v8 ls1 camaro.

The trans is actually a Ford pattern gearbox with a 60 degree gm bell housing.

The trans connects to a stock c4 aluminum driveshaft with the diff end swapped out for an early small dodge truck "yoke".

What a hodge podge.  It all bolts together with almost zero fab work.  Length of the driveshaft is even correct....

Also, e30 can use brake calipers from a 2nd gen rx7 with vw corrado rotors....

That's all I got for now. 

Vajingo said:

cyow5 said:

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

Rock Auto does the same handy thing.  If you click on the part number, it tells you what all it fits.  It's not always totally accurate, but a good start.

That's I know the blower door actuator on my Elise is from an International School Bus. 

So there's a school bus. Then a Toyota engine, Lotus chassis and body, Rover side mirror, GM rear view mirror and some interior bits, and I am sure I am missing a few pieces. 

 

So far you're winning. 

wvu reminded me that the rear brake caliper is the rear brake for a Dodge Viper, so there's another one!

Remember when Ford had to figure out how to get the 4.6 OHC V8 to talk to BMW electronics in the Range Rover about 15 years ago?

The rear brakes in my Camaro are a bit of a bridge.  I took the 7.5 diff, made a fixture to support all the mounting points, cut them off, and then cut the leaf spring mounts off a 2nd gen 8.5, set it in the fixture and welded it up.  Then, I used two 2nd gen right hand backing plates to work with the 3rd gen cables, 3rd gen shoes and drums, and Toronado wheel cylinders.

All GM, but a bit of an adventure through the buyers guides.

Patrick (Forum Supporter) said:

Pretty sure some early 80's AMC products could win from the factory.  They parts bin engineered from everywhere 

You should have been in my plant the day a GM engineer tried giving me a new butt hole after he discovered his S10 seat pans had an unauthorized hole added. I then proceeded to show him the Jeep seats with the exact same pan and hole. He blew up at that point and only stopped yelling when we showed him the AMC print that had been used to get production approval on the GM part number. HIS mind was blown once he realized that Chrysler controlled that print. It never was resolved to his satisfaction.

SHO V6 (anybody remember those?) will bolt to a manual transmission from a Ford Aerostar minivan, allowing you to use the normally transverse-mounted engine in a rear wheel drive chassis. 

Chevy/GMC 8 lug 3/4 ton 12" dia rotors fit on the hubs of a Dana 60 rear axle out of an '68 International Harvester like they were made for it. 

Outer knuckles/spindles, stub shafts, hubs, rotors, and calipers from front Dana 44 axles swap between Ford and Chevy directly, if you want to upgrade old drum brakes to discs. 

There's a newer Mercedes master cylinder that bolts into early Porsche 911's/912's to greatly improve fluid volume when upgrading to larger calipers with more pistons. 

Streetwiseguy said:

The rear brakes in my Camaro are a bit of a bridge.  I took the 7.5 diff, made a fixture to support all the mounting points, cut them off, and then cut the leaf spring mounts off a 2nd gen 8.5, set it in the fixture and welded it up.  Then, I used two 2nd gen right hand backing plates to work with the 3rd gen cables, 3rd gen shoes and drums, and Toronado wheel cylinders.

All GM, but a bit of an adventure through the buyers guides.

I took the same approach when i did the original 496 big block swapped my 2008 suburban HD it was never offered but it could have been so it was done with only using 1 aftermarket part, a 3 to 4 bolt throttle body adapter. 

I have a pretty good mix of different makes on my truck, I think last time I counted I had parts from at least a dozen different vehicles and close to 8 different makes if you split up GM's sub-companies. It doesn't really follow the OP's no fabrication rule though. Good luck there bud.

1991 Dodge Ram 50 which is really a Mitsubishi Mighty Max

• Engine from a 2005 Silverado
• Intake manifold from a 2002 Camaro
• Suspension from a 1988 C4 Vette
• Oil pan and wheels from a C5 Vette
• Brake and clutch pedals from a C6 Vette
• Power steering pump from a 2012 Express Box truck
• Throttle body came off a 2010 Sierra
• Water pump is from an 2010-2015 Camaro SS
• 99-04 Mustang Hydroboost and master cylinder
• Pontiac G6 gas pedal
• Flywheel and pressure plate came off a LS6 CTS-V
• Transmission is out of a G37
• Driveshaft yoke is from some Toyota SUV
• Shift Lever is an aftermarket piece for a Fox body Mustang
• Lower radiator hose is from a Mustang II
• Upper radiator hose is from a C10 or a late 70's Fairmont
• Accessory belt is from a VW Toureg

pres589 (djronnebaum) said:

Remember when Ford had to figure out how to get the 4.6 OHC V8 to talk to BMW electronics in the Range Rover about 15 years ago?

The Rovers never got the mod motor.  They got a version of the AJV8 that was used in the Jags, Lincoln LS, and Ford Thunderbird.

Thank you m4ff3w, I was just thinking that. 

This is sort of off-topic, but I don't think Ford has designed it's own engine in what, 25 years? 

The Duratec is Mazda, the Ecoboost was supposedly some thrown-out design by Porsche, the SHO engine was Yamaha. They don't design their Powerstroke do they?

The 6.9/7.3 IDI was an International engine. The 95 7.3 injection sys was developed jointly by Ford, Int., and Cat. The 6.0, 6.4 was Ford and Int, and the 6.7 was without Int. (around ‘11?)  I don’t know who may have helped them! But it was cutting edge with some cool stuff. 

Funny note, for a while Ford and Cummins (the infamous 5.9)both owned some stock in a small company, leading to the rumors that Ford  owned Cummins. Conflict of interest did keep the 5.9 out of anything smaller than the F650! But I know Ford sold that stock since then, and Cummins prolly did to!

CyberEric said:

Thank you m4ff3w, I was just thinking that. 

This is sort of off-topic, but I don't think Ford has designed it's own engine in what, 25 years? 

The Duratec is Mazda, the Ecoboost was supposedly some thrown-out design by Porsche, the SHO engine was Yamaha. They don't design their Powerstroke do they?

 

Ecoboost evolved from the Mazda engine, not sure where you got the Porsche bit from.  Edit: unless you mean the V6, but I thought the V6 ecoboost was based off the 3.5/3.7 cyclone v6 engine, which I thought was developed internally by Ford, so no idea if there's any Porsche ref there.

We can go even deeper into the AMC hole with the VW 4-cylinder in the Gremlins; many of the later Jeep transmissions were Aisin units (2wd Cherokees) and it's a common mod for auto AMCs since those boxes don't require special controllers. So a late 70s AMC would use Ford parts for the key fobs, GM for the steering box with an Iron Duke 4 cylinder, a toyota 4-speed automatic trans connected to whatever Dana rear end you have (maybe a chrysler?)

As others said, you could also go VW 1.8L 4-banger- if you could find one, that Gremlin was made for maybe 2 years- connected to a Mercedes trans into the Dana. With saginaw power steering from GM and the aforementioned ford parts, you could have a total mutt.

Also, thanks to their use of the Iron Duke, it makes swapping T5s into AMCs easy and doable. The Spirit even used the T5 before anyone else.

In reply to bluej (Forum Supporter) :

Yeah, I meant the V6 Ecoboost. 

Someone in “the biz” told me that it was a design Porsche punted on and Ford bought it from them. I suppose they could have been full of it.

Vajingo said:

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

That's cool. But did it all bolt together without further adaptation or fabrication or aftermarket parts? Maybe my post wasn't as clear as I wanted it to be. Sorry if I mislead anyone. 
 

looking for stuff that bolts together in a factory, or almost factory way. No fab, cutting, welding, or adapters. 

When you get situatuons like that, it is because of platform sharing.  Like putting Eclipse brakes on a Volvo, because the Volvo is a Mitsubishi chassis.  '

Or two different manufacturers who bought the parts from the same supplier, like Moraine brakes on GMs and AMCs, or Autolite starters on Fords and AMCs, or... anything else and AMCs. 

Or European makes that bought all their hardware from Bosch or ZF or ATE, or American makes that bought all their stuff from Borg-Warner or Dana, or Japanese makes that bought all their stuff from Mitsubishi or Hitachi.  (Mazda electronics pre-Ford are almost all Mitsubishi, Subaru and Nissan are almost all Hitachi)  And other companies like Getrag and Brembo sell componentry to automakers all over the globe.

So it's not "different manufacturers" per se.