or go with a 94-95 5.0 cuz i like those body styles alot more than the notch/fox body. if your aiming for the 5-600hp range i would not go for a v6. would be much easier to get the 5.0 up to those numbers (and parts for those are cheap). no offence to the 6 guys i know alot of them have some fast v6's...but i doubt any of them are pushing anywhere near 500-600 horsepower. find a cheap 5.0, build the engine a little and put a blower on it (youll also have to get supporting mods like clutch, fuel, tranny, rear end, and probably driveshaft to support that along with maybe a few other things).

13k would be a nice down payment on a 03/04 cobra also leaving you probably less than 10 grand to pay off which isnt bad. few boltons can easily put the cobra at 500rwhp with an engine/drivetrain already built for abuse.

 

Of course there are! You'll have to rebuild and go all out and a turbo to do it though. Definitely not impossible. Seems there was at least one with a 3.8L too.

 

500 is cake....
You have to be pushing 600-700 to play with the big boys.

 

Where have you been lately?


I say if you are going to be running around being loud, acting annoying and racing Hondas - get a V8 and be done. V6 owners already have a bad enough reputation.

 

exactly.

your car is 500ish or was
Gary,Matt,J,Justin are all in the 450-just under 700rwhp level as well as many others.

my take on $13,000 at hand??

hard one. myself i would sink it into the 6 but that's me. i like to be different and prve people wrong about the "V8" or it aint **** urban ledgend. many of these guy's don't remember turbo buicks because they were not born yet or still hanging on a tit.

ford 3.8 is everybit as capable if not more than the turbo buick for making power which i seem to remember the buicks mopping the floor of 5.0's back in the day.

$13,000
4.2L crank
long rods from SSM to make it a 4.3 with better rod stroke geometry
heavily ported heads/custom intake
T70 (big T70)or T80 turbo or GT45R
Delk girdle
8.5:1 slugs
matt spec'd cam
built C4 with a 9" rear and 3500 stall with 3.50 gears
80lb Siemens injectors
SSM/Comp 1.7 rockers

all taking 25psi and most likely making 600+at the wheels

 

I think a 9" is over kill...
Same with that turbo if he wants something to have fun on the street.

 

I love my fox.

and it always turns heads, not as common around here as the new edge mustangs. and it sounds great.

as for problems, yes you might run into a few more problems with a foxbody, but they aren't that bad. IMO

 

Matt and Gary are both over 600 to the wheels. Gary will be over 700 when his car gets tuned. Matt hasn't released his new set up yet, but it's a larger turbo and new plumbing.

 

I forgot to factor in the age of the 5L and the fact it might have rust and corrosion. Bummer

In order to make a 99-03 V6 weild 400-500hp (or possibly higher) Do you have to go Turbo??

 

Nah, theirs this guy with a white snow plow v6 who hit it with an m112...