Originally posted by rkneeshaw3.0:
Get a head gasket set for the 2.5L, and a valve cover gasket, and exhuast manifold gaskets.




IMPORTANT: Make sure and use 3.0L headgaskets. Otherwise your 89mm 3L pistons will hit the 2.5L headgasket at TDC - very ugly.

Glad to hear a new shortblock is again available at reasonable cost. When I converted mine about a year ago, for some reason it was about $1300, so I went with a $500 17K salvage engine.