I GOT SO LUCKY ! ! !
5th Gear Member
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,287
From: same as you.
Since it is out on an Engine stand, Call some local Machine shops. Ask prices to prep your shortblock.. Bore/Hone. A place by me actully had a Stroker kit laying around for a few years(he was going to throw it in his Crown Vic) Ended up selling it for NOTHING.
But call around and ask what it would cost if YOU Brought them the motor, Forged Rods/Pistons/Rings. etc...
THen ask What it would cost for them to Supply All the internals.
Then Look at MMR and see what they would charge to Ship u a Built Shortblock with the Specs as the Machine shop to see if its worth the time...
Good luck!
But call around and ask what it would cost if YOU Brought them the motor, Forged Rods/Pistons/Rings. etc...
THen ask What it would cost for them to Supply All the internals.
Then Look at MMR and see what they would charge to Ship u a Built Shortblock with the Specs as the Machine shop to see if its worth the time...
Good luck!
3rd Gear Member
Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 499
From: Oceanside CA
It may only have 28k on the clock but that 28k is like 80k on one of our cars. Rode hard and put away wet. They leave the cars running for hours on end, and shift change comes back out again. It would be a fun project for you to learn on.
3rd Gear Member
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 901
From: MA
maybe i am just talking out of my anus but wouldn't a lower compression ratio be a better application for boost? Would you be able to make more power due to a lower compression ratio with boost? Either way I would take the motor.
6th Gear Member
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 6,028
From: New Jersey
What a lucky bastard....Gotta be happy for the guy though! I just have a feeling that this guy is going to tear this engine apart....learn how to put it back together, and put it in his silver stang and still be slower than his buddy with the sonic stang....
6th Gear Member
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 6,347
From: Columbia, MO
Hey Guys, So this guy next door to me i have known him through highschool and all nothing crazy... well i drive by his place every morning and there is a engine sitting in the back of his trunk for like the past month. So his daughter one of my friends gives me a text and says hey, my dad went into surgery can't do anything with that engine in the back of his truck you want it ? I'm like well what kinda motor is it. He picks up the phone and is like its a 4.6 v8 Police interceptor motor, has the interceptor package. ( which i think is just something with the ECU ) it has 28K ON IT! he said just take it free of charge. it runs and everything, the cop car they took it from was it by a drunk driver. from behind and they took the Engine ! ! I can't believe it. So that's why I'm asking you guys is it too good to be true??
Will this Engine Match up to my car ? I have a 04 GT.
I was gonna keep it in the basement and beef up the hell out of this Engine, then drop it in when i feel like it. My Engine now only has like 72K on it. So I think I'm in a good place
Will this Engine Match up to my car ? I have a 04 GT.
I was gonna keep it in the basement and beef up the hell out of this Engine, then drop it in when i feel like it. My Engine now only has like 72K on it. So I think I'm in a good place
as for the motor, free is free so you can't really complain.
