I just bought my first Mustang, it's a 93 Hatchback Foxbody that didn't have an Engine or Transmission. So i bought an old Carburated Engine out of an 85 Mustang (I have my reasons for a carbed engine and not an EFI engine) but its a stock engine and I'm wanting to do a build up on it. I'm wanting to get around 300-400 HP out of it in the end and I'm wondering if yall could give me some advice on some parts I can get that's gonna give me some more HP. I'm not rich so my budget is around $2000-3000 and any advice will help. I'm guessing right now its putting out around the low to mid 200s in HP. Thanks-Wesley
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Are you rebuilding it yourself? Do you have access to a good machine shop to bore it,hot tank,etc.etc.? Or are you just wanting bolt ons? Good heads alone will bring you close to your 2000$ range with everything included. Buy an aftermarket hyd. roller cam,timing chain,etc. and search for a used aftermarket intake and carb. You will easily get 300-350hp. TFS top end kit is awesome if you do go efi on your existing long block. They will give you 360hp. You'll have to build the whole engine up if your going for 400hp ie. pistons rods, crank, heads etc. Factory efi heads suck and 85 heads were worse and will limit your power alot but you can get close to 275hp out of them with cam,intake,headers,etc. good luck
300hp-400hp for under $3,000? Not hard and no need for fancy aluminum heads either. Head to a wrecker and pick yourself ap a used GT40(P) top end combo from a wrecked '95-'00 Ford Explorer, add a nice off the shelf or custom cam to the mix, then either A) add all of the usual bolt ons. That'll get you into the 320-340hp range (flywheel of course) and still give you a few bucks to spare. Or B) Have the Heads/Intake ported and stroke your current longblock to 331-347ci. That'll get you in the same ballpark. The 400hp range will be a little more difficult, but doable. Same top end, but instead of fooling aroudn with bolt ons, or cubes, pony up the bucks for an Vortech S-Trim or equivalent supercharger sytem. It'll get you there. 
