My LS1 Notch Project (DUW)

Congrats you just butchered an lx mustang... yay. So what if an ls1 is superior... it's what you do with what you got. All I see is too much time spent making a quick half breed car. You could have just turbo'd the car as it was and saved money. yay.

PS... I really miss my old 95 Formula LT1. It would bury any car I've owned stock for stock but I bought another 3 mustangs because of what they were...


mustangs. Not break down at 80,000 miles with messed up knock sensors and distributor block o'stangs. Good luck with your half breed. Maybe you will grace us with pictures of your fart can muffler and stickers that say "NOPI" and "Aerospeeed" when you figure out the ford exhaust and suspension aren't up to par with your taste.

Ummmm... I just can't help meself.


Why did you come to a ford fanatic site to show us pictures...

Why not find a half breed site. I'm sure they are out there. Not my taste and I don't think anyone here is really INTRIGUED by your "please don't flame me" project.

you guys are idiots. Half of you on here couldnt even do that if you tried. Cut the guy a break, they are just friggen cars relax. They are not idols.

Some people need to get over it. You can pick up LS1 motors quite cheaply now. On top of that, thier aftermarket the prices are going down and they make awesome power with only a little work.

Also, doing an engine swap like that isn't something most people can do. In fact, maby that will be the road I take in the end, just to piss off the haters. Maby I'll do a built LT1 just so I can not only piss off the Ford boys, but upset the LS1 boys as well. Maby then I can get a race.

Freedom of speach lol

Damn, looks like a lot of work, engine looks very familar lol.
I'm not big on hybrids, but whatever. Seems a lot of people are switching engines out of cars nowadays...hell even a fox stang on Pinks had a Chevy 350 in it.

Eitherway, good job on the conversion!

I like it.

Ive never seen a Notch or any Foxbody w/ a LS1 in it in person.
I always seem too see the same stuff... Kinda gets old.

LS1 is a great motor and technology wise is alot more advanced than our 5.0's

Only thing I dont think I would like is that it wont sound like a Mustang...

They sound good though so it'l still sound cool (just not like a 5.0)

true. It will definately get peoples attention when they hear it.

Aesthetically, I only dislike mixed-breed cars for the fact that anything too Frankenstein'ed together seems to create more technical nightmares than happy dreams, so to speak. Aside from that, brand names are irrelevant - it's all about what works and how well. I'm not a fan of LT-1's and LS-1's for a few technical reasons (*cough* Optispark ignition *cough*), but if it makes power and can be crammed in the engine bay ... why not?

Heck, as much as I dislike Mopars, I'd like to see a HEMI stuffed into a Mustang at some point, too ... just because.

Wouldn't that make a redneck think twice when you rev it and them kidding around say "that thing got a HEMI in it" and you say YEA

I had a friend who actually did this. He was a Chevy guy who had a closet love for Fox bodies. This was quite a few years ago, probably around the time the LS1s first appeared in Fbodys. He spent a G-D fortune to make it all work because there were no companies that had swap kits or anything like that, so everything was custom from the headers to the K member to the motor mounts.

To put a long story short, for some reason the car was NEVER as fast as an LS1 Camaro/Firebird, even with the same drive train. It was like fate didn't want it to happen. He had owned several other Mustangs and Camaros of random years, and this LS1/Fox was nearly the slowest car he'd owned aside from bone stock cars (although it was obviously quite faster than a stock 302). It made the guy sick that he had spent so much to make the car go but that most of us (i actually didn't own a Mustang yet) had bolt on cars that were faster, including his own H/C/I Mustangs.

In the end he eBay'ed the car out of anger and went off to stay with the Fbody crowd and now drives a 406ci '87 IROC.

Damn thats a nice coupe, well I don't agree with what you did and I would never do this myself.

With that said I must say you have done a nice enough job and I take my hat off to you and would buy ya a beer

Interesting to say the least...


PS: I shed one tear to see such a fine coupe done this way.

Numbles said:

Flame away brother.

What sets your mustang apart from the pack. A hoodstripe and cobra r's

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i wonder if he has a thread on a LS1 forum..