4.6L GT with PI motor?

stangme

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all,

been a while since i have posted .... i purchased a used 96GT convert a couple of years ago for my wife. I still had my 96 cobra at the time...
well what I have found after doing a few repairs is that it seems the motor has been replaced with a PI motor.

I had problems with what seemed to be a head gasket and took it in for repairs to a reputable mechanic. turns out the intake was cracked as well as the head gasket was bad.. but the heads were PI heads .. on a 96 GT.

i have had problems with loosing oil the last few weeks.... take it on a 200 mile trip.. get home and low oil light is on... mobile 1 .. thanks... i dint have time to crawl under the vehicle ... so i put some mobile 1 in .. cranked it up .. pressure held, oil level was good and drove it to the shop.

turns out.. it has a oil cooler on it .. like a cobra. but it doesnt look like the oil cooler sandwich on the cobra .. the inlet/outlet is not on the same side. but it does tie into the radiator lines.

has the original motor been replaced with a PI out of a crown vic or something?

now the oil cooler has a pin hole that weeps and at rpm/speed squirts out oil in a nice steady stream ... noticed it on the ground.

when i purchased the car i noticed that it had just as much power as my 96 cobra.

any ideas as to what this motor could be?

thanks for your time
:D
 
i found a replacement motor on ebay that looks very similar. the intake looks the same on the car in question... maybe with gold on the horse emblem.
but i dont see a oil cooler in this pic. item 260368592580 should get the car back this afternoon.
 

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