The IJ204 Blue engine with high mount starter has a block like this
It needs a specific Fox bellhousing to fit the SROD V8 gearbox, as the clutch operation changed from the earlier Toploader 3.03 and earlier 2.77 gearboxes. The diff may be a 6.75" Stirling, which leaves you with 3.08 or 2.73 gearing.
If its low mount Gray CJ232, it was never a manual. To make it manual requires a redrilled V8 SROD bellhousing, with the top two bolt holes shifted downwards.
1981-1983 Fox bodies were technically the only cars with big bell 200's. They had the football cat exhast with 4.5" outlet from 1980 to 1983, and B code VINS for 1980, 1981 and 1982, and then became X code for 1983.
The 3.3 is the single most common 1978-1983 Fox engine, and they most often stay 100% stock plodders that racked up huge miles at 85 mph on interstates.
Check for the CJ232AB front rocker decal, should be gray colored rockerand block.
The high mount 4 speed factory options are numerous but the best two are the D9BC-6392-CA and E1ZR-6394-AA bellhousings, which were normal options on the 3.3 Mustangs. The first of the 3.03 bell housings, the common C7ZA-6394-A can be made to work, but the cable clutch quadrant means the engineering has to be specificly changed for that one to work well. See
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