You can run a sway bar, but it's a little extra work.
Couple ways to do it, use an sn95 bar which mounts under the frame, not inside.
Or leave the one good sway bar mount (only one needs to be cut off), make a spacer to lower that side and have a chassis shop fabricate the other other.
Basically the fox bar just needs to be mounted lower to clear the alternator.
The sn95 works, but people complain about wide wheels hitting it before full turn.
As far as getting a non PI and making one, i don't see the point.
2v's of any type are cheap.
Combine the cost of the PI heads and intake, with head bolts and gaskets, and i can't see it being worth the effort when starting from scratch.
Very true. I figured out how to run a sway bar on my fox with the 4v. Actually, you're the guy who told me that the Terminator alternator is what got in the way of the sway bar. lol...haven't been on here in a while and I couldn't remember who it was.
What I did was I used a fox body bar, and 94-04 sway bar mounting brackets. This lowered the sway bar almost 2 inches and it worked perfectly. So happy I got it on there for my friend who bought it from me.
Yea, I just can't see the benefit of any N/A 4.6 swap into a Fox. More complex, less displacement, and dollar for dollar a HCI pushrod is cheaper and easier and is probably going to outrun a 4.6 with the same kind of money invested. It really just boils down to the uniqueness factor.
Now, a Termi motor is a whole new ballgame.
Yeah, I did it for the coolness factor, plus you know me, I got all the parts here if I need something, I just run out and grab it.
stick 1500 into a 4.6 2v or early 4v and stick 1500 into a 5.0/5.8 roller cam motor , see what runs better, and also you forgot to mention the torque numbers, i stick by what i said, 2v 4.6 is diff in a fox but useless. 4v motors are a much better way of doing it, i have had both worlds and speak from experience
"Stick 1500 into this and 1500 into that" arguement can go on for days. I have had both worlds myself and speak from experience as well, so I don't know why you'd even write a comment like that. I'll take a mod-fox (no matter the HP numbers) over a 5.0L fox day of the week.
So then is the 4v engine wider than the 2v engine, or do they move the heads in and make the distance between the intake ports narrower?
Yes the motor is wider...well...the heads/cam covers. I really had to be careful dropping the car onto the engine/trans/suspension combo. The fox sway bar brackets want to hit the valve covers up front where the cam/timing chain gears are. So I moved the motor forward, dropped the car down on it, then used a forklift to push it back where it needed to be. This way it cleared the sway bar brackets without scratching up my valve covers. I did not have this problem with the 2V. That body dropped right onto that motor/trans/suspension combo.