4.6 LX fox body
10-19-2003, 05:33 PM
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<FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=blue size=3>I have a 89 LX mustang with the 2.3 and I also own a 96 T-bird with a 4.6. The bird was rolled so I picked it up for next to nothing. The cool thing about the bird is that it drives strait the airbags didn't deploy and it runs great with no MIL. What I want to do is to put the 4.6 in my Mustang. I was wondering if anybody had seensuch an animal. </FONT></P>
10-19-2003, 09:36 PM
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It can be done, it's about the same as a 5.0 swap.</P>
Problem is, a 96 4.6 isn't much of a motor to begin with. And for the amount of work you'll be doing, it's kinda not worth it unless you tear into the motor and do some mods.</P>
10-20-2003, 02:19 AM
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<FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=blue size=3>I do plan on making some mods internally,first off more aggressive cams. Externally equal length shorty headers with an off road x pipe, intake porting with a cold air piping. Is there any weak points that I should get to to prevent my 46 from becoming a high dollar boat ancor. I was also concitering a Nozsle system possibly with bigger injectors. This will happen over time, not all at once. I was wondering if anybody out there has see a 4.6 FOX.</FONT></P>
10-22-2003, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by yellow02
my friend has a 85 fox body with a 96 corbaengine in it it runs 10's on the bottle and 11's on the motor he was in sept issue of 5.0 mag when and he didnt do a lot of engine work
Yellow02... Do you have anymore info about this??</P>
10-22-2003, 05:01 PM
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Its like this, why drop in a 4.6 when you can drop in a more powerful 5.0 or 5.8L motor. I guess if you already have a donor car then hey, go for it! Why not! But if you didnt have a donor car then it would be a no brainer to NOT do it.
10-26-2003, 01:16 PM
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<FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=blue size=3>The good thing about the modular engine is that it is the exact same demension as the 5.4. If I happen upon a donor F series pickup that is going to be the new engine. It will set right in the place of the 4.6, the only change will probably be an ECM swap.</FONT></P>
