playtyme_76

We have a '96 mercury cougar 4.6 sohc and can not find performance parts for it, will mustang aftermarket parts work?

dsbsurfn

I had a 96 T-Bird. The engine's for the T-bird/Cougar/Mustang are basically the same, so the heads, intakes, TBs & Plenums are all interchangeable.

Not much else is. This forum will help you out:

http://www.sccoa.com/forums/index.php

jrherald420

almost anything made for the mustang 4.6 will work with the tbirds and cougar

dsbsurfn

That is right if you are only talking about the engine.
N2O wet kits would work alright. Super- & Turbo- chargers may work, but I don't use either so I don't know where they mount.

Gears, exhaust, driveshaft, springs, hand held tuners, breaks, differentials, and any suspension parts designed for a mustang are not going to work on a T-Bird/Cougar.

I would start with a head swap to PI heads, hit it with some N2O, and get it dyno tuned. You could be over 300 RWHP in no time.

brian1570

yeah main things u wanna do r gears, which r not hard to find, theyhav the 28 spline 8.8" irs which is fairly popular, then exhaust. only way to go is custom fab which is a maaaajor bitch especially if u r tryin to get high flow cats in i would recomend o/r y pipe and get a computer chip to cancel the code w/, also mustang shorties should work but kooks makes a custom midlength header for tbird/xr7 but u have to pull the motor to install any header set up. then mac makes a really good t-bird/xr7 cai. i kno i hav it on my 96 bird. c&l plenum will work w/ a little modification. so will 75mm tb's.(i have those too, and they work great)if u have the money then deffinately go with p.i. head/cams if not stage 2's. www.supercoupeperformance.com has ALOT of good **** for us mn12 guys. so does www.tccoa.com dont go to sccoa thats for the v6 super coupes which u dont have. tccoa is for thunderbird and cougars. but uhm wat u r gonna find out is that the mn12's r too restricted too heavy and require way too much oddball modifications. after trying and trying for two years on mine i gave up and bought a mustang and soooooooooo glad i made the switch. bottom line is mustangs were made to be modified and mn12's werent. but if u r motivated enough and have enough money then go for it. and i wish u luck. if u wanna kno anything else like i said ive been doing the mn12 thing for the last two years and would be glad to help u out.