Small change of plans on the power plant.... This is where the PsychoBilly parts starts. It will be LS powered with a single turbo...
And this is where I'll comment...
On one hand this looks like a drag car,...lightweight front end stuff, manual rack, manual brakes, front skinnys rear drag radials,.. On the other, you have a sound deadened, carpeted interior.
I was where you are 6 years ago. I stated that I was gonna use an LS engine because I thought it to be a more financially practical choice. I burned down a couple of websites because of the negative reception the announcement of my LS plans caused. 4 eyed pride, and some other ford only forum blue bleeders basically threw me out of the front door.
This forum is a little more tolerant of your engine choice, but barely. Couple that to the fact that your platform is one of the rarest Fox bodies, and it becomes almost paramount that this be said...
If you haven't already purchased a LS engine, don't kid yourself....there are several other LS engine builds going on here where the "truth" comes out.
Once you start forcing air into the engine......stock is stock. Powder metal fracture rods, and hyper eutectic pistons are still just as crappy in a Chevrolet as they are in any other engine. and once you start building that engine to handle that power......351 rods and forged Pistons are just as cheap as 6.0 rods, and LS forged Pistons..
You can also count yourself out when taking the car to any ford only show/event. MW dont let half breeds play in their blue sand boxes.
The "affordable power" that is dangled in front of the masses that convinced you to stuff that engine in the car will cost you in the end...As bad as you lose the initial investment when building the car with the right stuff under the hood,.......an LS equipped Capri is not gonna return dick on a dollar the day you decide to sell.
A drag car build up is one step from the junk yard......If its not a drag car, No heater, No AC, Manual steering, and Manual brakes is only a few steps farther away.
Not that a Capri compares to a 60's classic, But as obscure and few and far between as they are,...it seems almost the same degree of shame to see one suffer the same fate as so many 67-70 mustangs did back in their days when somebody hacked it up, and gutted it out to make it a drag car. .
In the end for me, the ford guy of 45 years couldn't forget how bad I hated a small block Chevy. How bad I dogged every one of my friends fo buying a notch, dumping all of the ford running gear and putting in some brainless SBC and a Powerglide because " it was the only way to make a ford fast".
When in fact the truth was the fox body was the only the only thing that made that Chevy fast. Compared to a 3700 pound Camaro, Monte Carlo, or Malibu they had for options back then.
And after thinking about all of that,...and despite I'd been saying it for months....there was no way in hell I was gonna suck up, and put a damn LS in anything it didn't belong in.
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