dylan90stang

ok, now i looked on ebay for 5.0's out of Mustang and then i looked for Crown vics and all those type. but how much harder is it to do with swapping a 5.0 crown vic into a 1990 mustang ?

jthorn9

Just buy and old 5.0. It's way cheaper to fix an old 5.0 than to convert an I-4 or V6 into a 5.0L.

mustangman02232

https://mustangforums.com/m_941317/tm.htm

its just as cheap to build the 3.8 as the 5.0 though

jthorn9

Yea, but the 5.0L is way faster stock and responds much better to mods than the 3.8L.

mustangman02232

wayy faster? high 14 second compared to mid to high 15s to low 16s, ya, wayyyyy faster only advantage the 5.0 has is about 60 extra ft/lbs and 20 HP

randy78045

just drop a 351 in her... that IS way faster...................

jthorn9

OK, for my year it's way faster, against a great driver in an edge V6 it's a little faster, and for a new sn197 it's a hair bit faster. But point is, the 5.0 will yeild much more performance per mod than the 3.8L, plain and simple.

Mr. Merk

or the easiest, cheapest and FASTEST would be the 2.3T

if you have V8 questions, ask them on the V8 forum

and high 14s-low 16's is a HUGE differnce

mustangman02232

ya but when you calculate in how much that motor weights, and the weight distributions......

jthorn9

Yea, I agree, the 351 Cobra Rs weren't that much faster than the standard Cobras, plus add in the fact that they costed way more, and don't have a lot of mod options for them, they are really more of a collectors item than a serious fast car.