You can make that out of the V6 within your budget and have a much more unique car than that money dumbed into a V8 swap.

Build the car from the bottom up. Get you suspension /rear done. Then build the motor. A low compression forged short block, good heads/cams and a power adder go a LONG way with these cars. Talk to the guys at Super Six Motorsports for parts, and then poke around TCStangs.com to get hooked up with a good local tuner. (I suggest Casey at High Tech).

 

Building a v-6 is a waste of money... period. Whats the point in being uniquely slow? I know of 1 v-6 car that runs in the bottom 10's... and it has two 30lbs bottles and cost 2x as much as a v8 would have... except a v8 would be in the 8's

 

Yeah sorry man, but theres no replacement for displacement.....and cylinders.

Personally, I'd sell the sixxer for as much as I could, buy a GT, and mod it. With his budget, he could be looking at a whippled S197 GT by Winter.

 

Wow, that right there is why I don't drive a V8 anymore. I don't want to be lumbed in with such close minded fools. It's not more expensive to build a V6, you just have to do it right... just like building a V8. You can dump $10K into a GT and still run 13's if you do it wrong.

Fobra - you of all people should know better by now. V6 Mustangs have been low 9's for over a year now. And most of the 10 sec or faster cars are single power adder forced induction - not bottle fed. (And that's being limited to just drag sixers, many are used for other purposes.)

 

You can make a lawnmower fast... that doesn't mean that building that hardcore Briggs & Stratton was worthwhile.

At the end of the day V8s DESTROY V6s.... period, there is nothing to argue about, no matter what, if you spent the same relative amount of $ the V8 vastly outperforms the v-6 not only in performance but also reliability. Ever wonder why there are no v-6 nascars or v-6 dragsters.... because its a gay waste of time with crap *** performance for what it is.

 

Actually I've proven TIME AND TIME AGAIN, that starting with zero and including cost of the car, you can make a V6 just as fast if not faster than a V8 Mustang with the right parts. But I'm arguing with a wall.

 

2008 v6 Mustang 1/4 = 15.3
2008 v8 Mustang 1/4 = 13.5

See the problem there? You have to START with a 2 second disability with the V6. Even with a supercharger, nitrous or a turbocharger; that car still will not run a V8 equivalent 13.5

 

no you just thought you did, but your completely wrong. You have to supercharge your v-6 just to run with/beat a stock GT. Also keep in mind that the 4.6 v8 is the laughing stock of v8 engines...

 

Thats true, but its much more expensive then going the gt route. If you really want to do it go for it, its up to you after all. +1 on keeping us up to date with your progress.

 

15.3 and 13.5 wow, nice numbers. Now put PRICE in there, take the differnce put it into the V6, and show the V8 your tail lights. Try again.

Fobra - I didn't have to supercharge my V6 to hang with stock GT cars. I was beating them in N/A trim. My supercharged V6 is faster than a lot of the street modded Terminators out there, no need to waste time with fake snakes and GT owners. But I don't need to beat "faster cars" to feel good about mine. I built it for me.