NYTMARE

UGH! Welp, after a month of having it, and less than 400 miles put on it by me, my head gasket blew this morning. [:'(]

So the best case scenario now is that I'll either have a new motor 99+, maybe built, or at least a PI swap by next year. ****ty part of it is seeing that I'm a student, I won't have it done at least until next year AND I JUST got the car.

Any suggestion on which direction to go with this?

tcuallstar

if you really wanna have fun with it go forged internals and a pi swap and then later on put a vortech with like 12 or 13 psi on there



buttt... i would just have the gasket fixed for now, you know, so you can drive it and stuff

dstangrunner

Ford had a recall on that. my 95 had blown head gaskets. i got it fixed then ford recalled it so i got my money back. you might wanna look in to it.

mustang_montana

i dont believe that recal is for the 4.6s though. i know they had a recal for the sixers but ive never heard of one for the 96-98 4.6

dstangrunner

ya it was on a sixer i had it done on.

NYTMARE

Alright, right now the only reasonable thing for me to do is to do the 99+ engine swap. For 1) Less miles 2) More HP in stock form 3) I'll get more for my money than the PI swap.

My only concerns are fitment/clearance issues (ie LT headers). I've done quite a bit of searches on here and haven't found many people doing this swap so I'm still uncertain of this along with other fitment issues that I could possibly run into. Other than that, It seems to be a direct bolton.

Can anybody point me in the right direction here where I can find more info on doing this swap???