stay away from 96/98 2v motors, and if your going to do the swap i would stay away from all 2v motors, if you want to tackle something like this then find a 4v motor or a coyote motor, the only mod motor i would ever think about doing a swap is a terminator motor. thats the only one worth doing, the coyote are too expensive yet. but thats my opinion and opinions are like *******s everyone has them
stay away from 96/98 2v motors, and if your going to do the swap i would stay away from all 2v motors, if you want to tackle something like this then find a 4v motor or a coyote motor, the only mod motor i would ever think about doing a swap is a terminator motor. thats the only one worth doing, the coyote are too expensive yet. but thats my opinion and opinions are like *******s everyone has them
This is kinda how i see it too.
Hence that is what i did.
I wasn't so much in it for the cool factor, i just wanted around 500hp without having to worry about crap breaking all the time or blowing head gaskets.
The rest of the modular engines just cost too much to build up and modify.
A PI-swapped 96-98 2V might be a cheap alternative though. Pick up a motor dirt cheap, along with some 99-04 2V heads, intake cams, swap on a aftermarket plenum and TB with some long tube headers and you could have a 300HP motor for well under what you pick up a 96-98 4V for
You could also use a 93-98 Mark 8 4V, although you might need to change out a few more parts.
Hell, swap in an LSx while you are at it. Nobody is gonna know.
x2. Oh yeah, I left out the part in my reply to his that a Terminator swap is the ultimate mod fox...hands down. But, the most is going to double over what I did. A Coyote would be triple and there would be a lot more research that would need to be done to get that in and running.
I've heard Terminators motors into fox body gives your trouble running a sway bar because the alternator gets in the way. That sucks. I drove my 4v car without an alternator for the first few months and when I put it on, it was a night and day difference. You need a sway bar to handle and manuever on the freeway.
I've done both 2v and 4v swaps. Both cars had CAI, K&N, off-road mid-pipe and catback. Other than that....stock!
2v was a 2001 GT. Made 241RWHP & 284RWTQ.
4v was a 1997 Cobra. Made. 276RWHP. TQ was unavailable that day, dyno was having trouble picking up the TQ reading, couldn't get a singal from the coil.
Most 5.0L cars make 189-210rwhp with the same mods.
It's a lot of work to install a mod motor into a fox the way I did it. For some, the time, labor, effort, research it takes....it might not be worth it. They make more power than 5.0L's stock for stock, or even both having exhaust. However, some people would rather just swap HCI, or do a blower and make as much or more power than an N/A mod motor.
I guess it all comes down to personal preference and the "cool" factor. For me it was the cool factor. My car would have a crowd around it at the track, and car shows because it's a fox with a mod motor. Wasn't fast, but it grabbed more attention than a 5.0 fox running the same 1/4 mile times at the track. It also grabbed more attention at car shows, even tho other foxes might have had just as nice of paint/wheels ect... The mod motor really shocked people. I used to get people on the side of the road ask me is that a 4.6???? I'd ask, yeah, how'd you know??? They said....you can hear it, you ran them gears out much too long for that to be a 5.0!!! So.....to me, that was worth it.
You have to cut the engine bay out and use the front 40% of a v8 car so there's more room. Also make sure to use a WC T5 which was made from 1936-2012 and the gauge cluster from an 88 LX. Any more questions, feel free to PM
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