Hey my friend has a 98 Cobra and he busted a rod, and I found a complete running engine from a 99 Cobra for a good price in the next town over. My question to you guys is will it directly swap over?

 

It will bolt in, but its not a direct swap. I'd go into details, but Im in a ****ty mood so I'll get on it tomorrow lol

 

heh, ok thanks anyway. Ill check in the morning as well, Im going to look and the engine tomorrow around noon, so we dont want to buy anything that we cant use.

 

It will all work, however you have to do something with the IMRCs, or else you will have codes. You can get a tuner to tune them out of the PCM. A lot of people do C-swaps.. I also think the throttle cable will have to be changed, my memory is a little vague on this subject.

 

swap in the shortblock and use his other stuff and It should drop right in no problems.

 

as far as i know 96-02 cobras are the same

 

hell no they arent the same. different hp, different heads...and probably cams too. 99+ has IRS and the TR3650..and lots more

 

Well I know at a glance that they have a different intake mani, how about the heads. The engine my buddy broke was built by MMR and the heads and intake are full p/p, so if the block is exactly the same, we could swap over his heads and intake and just use the block itself from the 99?

 

i would ask on svtperformance.com

 

The heads are different the 96-98 uses B-heads and the 99+ uses C-heads, they are very different.