99p71

A ex-boss of mine recently passed on a 1996 complete with computer and all with unknown mileage 4.6. Obviously my first obsticle is to determine its internal condition. I plan to take my time and rebuild it. Please help me out from A-Z. All info is greatly appreciated and if there is a better thred for this please point me i the right direction. Thanx

trexflyer

What are you building? The engine? the dashboard? the whole car?

99p71

I guess that info would help. Haha. The engine... As i sed its a 96 4.6L. I know it has the nonPI heads, due to the manufactured year. Im looking to build it overtime take my time and do it right. Id love for it to have at least a little more than the stock HP and am def on budget.

jeh4269

This all depends on your budget.If the shortblock is in good shape I would keep it.Then I would just do a PI swap.That would put you around 220 rwhp.If you want more hp I would get a good set of aftermaket cams and get the heads worked.BTW I believe the 96-98 2v's have higher compression than the 99+ 2v's but I'm not sure how much.

99p71

Well the buget is going to be spread out through approx a years time. So i have some room to work. Its my first build and im pretty excited about it. I have questions out the a**. One that immediatly comes to mind is. Culd i salvage PI heads? If so is it risky?

uberstang1

Just get a set of PI heads from the junkyard and have the re-freshed.

99p71

If i change to the PI heads do i have to change my intakemanifold or can i use stock intake manifold from the 96 on the PI heads? Wat exactly from A-Z do i need to do a full rebuild juat using the PI heads?

97stanger

dont re-use your non pi manifold. Most of your gains will be from intake/cams anyway so if anything, you should be doing those. As others have said, if the motor is going to be out of the car may as well do PI heads/cams/intake and see how you like that power. If you're not happy with that add some boost

99p71

Ok. Thanx. Aftermarket intake? Any budget freindly suggestions? Agin. Not lookin for huge #s but. I wana do it ryt. Any suggestions on cams? Agin.... Im lookin to findout exactly what parts i need to do the full rebuild if i had in a worse case senerio. Because i have the time to buget it out i can do a complete rebuild. I want to start puting prices together n doing my research. Im really kinda looking for acomplete parts list. Considering cam n intake PI swap

97stanger

You would be fine with a stock pi manifold. If you dont mind spending 500-600 on aftermarket grind cams than that's the way to go. If you are budgeting stock pi's will yield better results