Engine Swap?
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RE: Engine Swap?
ORIGINAL: Rhino77
Dude forget the v8, if you're gonna swap the engine get a custom 460 crate engine!! That's what I plan on doin' in 5 years or so.
check this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsKvrfyULhU
ORIGINAL: nickb2236
I've been thinking that I want to start building a big block to swap with the v6 in my 08. It's somthing that would take a few years since my "garage" is a shed and I have very little time. Does anybody have any idea what kind of engine I could put in the stang. I would more than likely get a old engine from my dads work. He has alot of v8's out of older trucks and stuff laying around.
I've been thinking that I want to start building a big block to swap with the v6 in my 08. It's somthing that would take a few years since my "garage" is a shed and I have very little time. Does anybody have any idea what kind of engine I could put in the stang. I would more than likely get a old engine from my dads work. He has alot of v8's out of older trucks and stuff laying around.
check this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsKvrfyULhU
and FYI the 460 is a V8.
and everything is possible. with the right tools (or the right amount of money). if you think you can do it go for it. you might wanna check a tranny rebuild though if youre a manual...
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From: CA
RE: Engine Swap?
Exactly what was said...it's more exciting to do this to a V6. Make a super car out of it 
Yes, the GT has better "this" and better "that" no doubt. BUTTTTT....if you're gonna build a faster car, you'd want to replace all that with better brakes, sway bars, suspension, and maybe even a Ford 9 [sm=drooldude.gif] Gotta get me one of those! What an exciting project though! I want to swap my motor for a V8 when my miles are too high YES!
Yes, the GT has better "this" and better "that" no doubt. BUTTTTT....if you're gonna build a faster car, you'd want to replace all that with better brakes, sway bars, suspension, and maybe even a Ford 9 [sm=drooldude.gif] Gotta get me one of those! What an exciting project though! I want to swap my motor for a V8 when my miles are too high YES!
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After an engine swap, you know your no longer a V6 right? And after all the stuff you would do to the car with a crate engine shop, it wouldn't even matter if it was a GT or V6. The only thing that would make you look like a V6 then is the badges, bumpers, wing,(and if you don't have a pony package): the lights and wheels from what I can think of. So it really doesn't matter what body you do it too.
And I always questioned this, but why do this to an almost new car? Geta 5.0 body/carpretty cheap (under $2.5k)and work from there. There transmissions aren't that bad, their frame will hold big engines, and you won't have a computer to mess with so your car functions right like our new cars.Probably a lot cheaper to do that.Just my suggestion.
And I always questioned this, but why do this to an almost new car? Geta 5.0 body/carpretty cheap (under $2.5k)and work from there. There transmissions aren't that bad, their frame will hold big engines, and you won't have a computer to mess with so your car functions right like our new cars.Probably a lot cheaper to do that.Just my suggestion.
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RE: Engine Swap?
And I always questioned this, but why do this to an almost new car? Geta 5.0 body/carpretty cheap (under $2.5k)and work from there. There transmissions aren't that bad, their frame will hold big engines, and you won't have a computer to mess with so your car functions right like our new cars.Probably a lot cheaper to do that.Just my suggestion.
Because I can
I like being different
5.4 4v!
Keeping the same body style, which I love. I can see Foxes all day long at the track, but not many modified S197's, and this coming from someone that owns both styles.
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From: CA
RE: Engine Swap?
Like Buckman said, because he can. For some, there's a bit more fun in modding a V6 than there is a GT. I'd personally wouldn't want to do a swap in a Fox body because I don't like that style at all really. I love this body style just as I do the 60s in which it replicates. And a 5.4L in this car...wooooweeee! 
ORIGINAL: SteelStang05
After an engine swap, you know your no longer a V6 right? And after all the stuff you would do to the car with a crate engine shop, it wouldn't even matter if it was a GT or V6. The only thing that would make you look like a V6 then is the badges, bumpers, wing,(and if you don't have a pony package): the lights and wheels from what I can think of. So it really doesn't matter what body you do it too.
And I always questioned this, but why do this to an almost new car? Geta 5.0 body/carpretty cheap (under $2.5k)and work from there. There transmissions aren't that bad, their frame will hold big engines, and you won't have a computer to mess with so your car functions right like our new cars.Probably a lot cheaper to do that.Just my suggestion.
After an engine swap, you know your no longer a V6 right? And after all the stuff you would do to the car with a crate engine shop, it wouldn't even matter if it was a GT or V6. The only thing that would make you look like a V6 then is the badges, bumpers, wing,(and if you don't have a pony package): the lights and wheels from what I can think of. So it really doesn't matter what body you do it too.
And I always questioned this, but why do this to an almost new car? Geta 5.0 body/carpretty cheap (under $2.5k)and work from there. There transmissions aren't that bad, their frame will hold big engines, and you won't have a computer to mess with so your car functions right like our new cars.Probably a lot cheaper to do that.Just my suggestion.
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 13,373
From: Orlando FL
RE: Engine Swap?
I'm still looking...
For a wrecked sixer, to do just that
.
I won't go 460 though, too heavy.
A 351 stroked to 427 pumping 600 ponnies out of it, is more what I have in mind...
First, got to find the car. In LL.
For a wrecked sixer, to do just that
.I won't go 460 though, too heavy.
A 351 stroked to 427 pumping 600 ponnies out of it, is more what I have in mind...
First, got to find the car. In LL
.
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RE: Engine Swap?
ORIGINAL: 05MustangSally
Like Buckman said, because he can. For some, there's a bit more fun in modding a V6 than there is a GT. I'd personally wouldn't want to do a swap in a Fox body because I don't like that style at all really. I love this body style just as I do the 60s in which it replicates. And a 5.4L in this car...wooooweeee!
Like Buckman said, because he can. For some, there's a bit more fun in modding a V6 than there is a GT. I'd personally wouldn't want to do a swap in a Fox body because I don't like that style at all really. I love this body style just as I do the 60s in which it replicates. And a 5.4L in this car...wooooweeee!