thank you..
i want the satisfaction of doing it myself
but if someone has any other suggestions on engines ill consider anything
i have a 351 M sitting in my garage that im building for fun and i dont want that in my car but ive been leaning towards the 5.4....

 

Bro people tell you to buy one cause we know from experience. About five yrs ago I was in the same boat. I bought an 86 2.3L I had a built 302 sitting in the garage, and was dead set on putting it in the 86. It ended up costing me about 2k to get the car done. Now looking back on it I would have just bought an 86 GT and put the engine and tranny in it it would have probably cost the same.

 

5.4 sounds fun as long as it fits in the engine bay. How clean do you want it? 5.4 might require a grinder to the strut towers, IDK though. Just go old school, 351C with a C6 and a 9"!!! They were sick in ~71 Mach 1's and would be more unique. It doesn't ultimately matter, it's your car, you have to do the work. We're just posting our opinions, which as everyone knows are like a**holes.

 

The 5.4L will fit right in, no grinding needed.

 

yea itll fit just needs new mounting brackets, they make a 5.4 block that is made to fit in the 00-04

 

+1 ... its call ALL of them.