can a fox swallow a coyote?

[blizzard]

hmm,, ok, fuggit, start over, new Plan B

http://www.stangtv.com/features/car-...pped-fox-body/

[map22]

wow, id trade my windstar for that :)

[PaxtonShelby]

ooooooooo....that's purdy...

[mr4teth]

I'm 3/4's right now ....

[PaxtonShelby]

I'm 3/4's right now ....

eewwwww... and

[ttk53]

holy header fitment batman

[Shorty429]

I want...

[White5.0]

boner

[phillysrt4]

brb kleenex

[scott5]

that didnt take long lol

[Shorty429]

What do you guys think the price on a swap like this will be in a few years? I'm slowly fixing my car up now that I have 2 other reliable sources of transportation and can afford to have it apart for days on end. This would be pretty sweet to do if it's not way out expensive when the time comes.

[White5.0]

What do you guys think the price on a swap like this will be in a few years? I'm slowly fixing my car up now that I have 2 other reliable sources of transportation and can afford to have it apart for days on end. This would be pretty sweet to do if it's not way out expensive when the time comes.

hard to say for sure but in my opinion these motors will hold their value for much longer than the old pushrod 5.0's did. you can get an old pushrod 302 for a few hundred bucks now, but i think the coyote will remain expensive for a lot longer.

a lot more technology, higher quality parts, much more hp, etc etc

[Martin0660]

hard to say for sure but in my opinion these motors will hold their value for much longer than the old pushrod 5.0's did.

I agree, and further, i think the deamnd will keep the price of wrecks high for some time as well.

I might see some merit in the swap for a driver (smooth and reliable with power), or if the engine came to you at a good price, but for what I've seen the engines, trans, and harnesses going for ($$$$$$'s), you could put a lot of money into a pushrod engine, have the same or substantially more power, and call it a day.

[Shorty429]

I agree, and further, i think the deamnd will keep the price of wrecks high for some time as well.

I might see some merit in the swap for a driver (smooth and reliable with power), or if the engine came to you at a good price, but for what I've seen the engines, trans, and harnesses going for ($$$$$$'s), you could put a lot of money into a pushrod engine, have the same or substantially more power, and call it a day.

I could see that happening as well. I hope the price will settle right around the price of any other crate motor from ford eventually so I can have the looks of the 4 eyed fox that I love with the new tech and huge amounts of NA power of the new 5.0...

[mlowry1260]

Kurgan Motorsports Coyote 5.0-Swapped Fox-Body

by Chris Demorro on March 13, 2011

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Few engines are as well-known in the Ford lineup as the famous 5.0. With roots dating back to the heyday of the muscle car days, “5.0” became synonymous with performance during the 1980’s when Ford ditched measuring engine displacement in cubic inches and began measuring it in liters. Thus 302 cubic inches became 5.0 liters, and a legend was reborn.
Over the years, the Fox-body has become a platform for all sorts of performance applications, even as Ford ditched the pushrod design in favor of overhead camshafts and smaller displacement. As a result, the famed 5.0 moniker disappeared for almost two decades before Ford brought it back in the 2011 Mustang GT. So it was only a matter of time before a shop managed to get the 412 horsepower 5.0 liter “Coyote” engine and dropped it into the original 5.0, the Fox-body Mustang.
Kurgan Motorsports is among the first shops in the U.S. to get a Coyote 5.0 engine swapped into a Fox-body Mustang. They’ve not only done a beautiful job, but the powerful and modern engine in the lighter Fox platform means the Mustang goes like stink. We talked to Bob Kurgan, famed Mustang drag racer and owner of Kurgan Motorsports about this new 5.0-powered Mustang.

This gorgeous red racer began its life as a humble-but-clean 4-cylinder car, but the engine and drivetrain came out of a wrecked 2011 Mustang GT. The engine swap itself was simple. “The engine just dropped right in,” said Bob Kurgan. “It was everything else that was difficult.” Because the Coyote 5.0 engine has only been on the market for a few months, both in the 2011 Mustang GT and as a crate motor, all the parts for a Fox-body swap have to be custom built.
“Getting the engine running was easy,” says Bob Kurgan. “We had to custom make the motor mounts, air conditioning brackets, power steering brackets ourselves. But it’s a friggin’ animal on the streets.” The car was slated to get a supercharger, though right now it is being fitted with custom Kooks headers. The brake booster came out of an ’03 Cobra, and they performed a T-45 transmission swap to back the much more powerful engine.

The four-cylinder engine this particular Mustang came with had just 100 horsepower, and the V8 made just 235 horsepower. But the Coyote 5.0 engine makes 412 horsepower and 390 ft-lbs of torque, paving the way as the most powerful Mustang GT ever. And thanks to Kurgan Motorsport’s work, the swap will soon be much easier for the rest of us. The car is just the first part in a master plan that will culminate at the Carlisle Ford Nationals event later this year. Kurgan is working with Ford to do the complete Coyote 5.0 swap in front of a crowd at Carlisle. Then they are going to start selling swap kits to other Fox-body owners who want to do this very same swap.

[White5.0]

What tranny did they mate up to that? Thats not the MT-82 i dont think. maybe a t56?

[mlowry1260]

"The brake booster came out of an ’03 Cobra, and they performed a T-45 transmission swap to back the much more powerful engine."

[White5.0]

"The brake booster came out of an ’03 Cobra, and they performed a T-45 transmission swap to back the much more powerful engine."

i guess i shoulda read the article hahaha

[97LaserRed]

"The brake booster came out of an ’03 Cobra, and they performed a T-45 transmission swap to back the much more powerful engine."

t45 to support power!?!?!?!

[White5.0]

t45 to support power!?!?!?!

yeah..better than a t-5 lol...