I went this routeI wouldn't dump thousands in to any NPI car anymore, unless it is on a trailor.
Get a new car, either a cheap fox body for a weekend car, or a nice s197
are you in early county or douglas county? we have about the same cars (looks wise) but im currently setting up my ported pi head swap, and should be done by next week. you should take a ride when im done, should be solid 12's, ive thought about 4v's but the sound of lt and stingers with an x pipe, wants to make me puke. (heard it all summer annoying after the 2nd car)
a ported pi swap car will almost everytime will beat a 96-98 cobra and the insurance is half.. plus you will usually make more tq..
are you in early county or douglas county? we have about the same cars (looks wise) but im currently setting up my ported pi head swap, and should be done by next week. you should take a ride when im done, should be solid 12's, ive thought about 4v's but the sound of lt and stingers with an x pipe, wants to make me puke. (heard it all summer annoying after the 2nd car)
a ported pi swap car will almost everytime will beat a 96-98 cobra and the insurance is half.. plus you will usually make more tq..
Most anybody that has been doing this for a while will tell you that it is very rare to get the value of the mods back out of a car. Most only get a fraction of the $$ spent on mods. If your plan is to sell, do not put additional money into the car as it is unlikely you will get a fair return.Well now i'm kinda torn now thanks to what winters said. But what I may do is mod it a little bit and then sell it.
Let me know when you get done i've never ridden in a npi pi swap 96-98 car. It would be interesting to see how much harder she pulls.
Just do what you feel the strongest urge to do. I could have kept my '93GT and kept modding the snot out of it, but when I first heard the Mach 1 was being made again (back in 2001) I dropped my GT like a hot potato and sold it. I've never regretted it for 1 second. To me, it was worth it. Modding wise, I don't know about the '96-'98 Cobra, but for the Mach we share some mod parts with the GT so the prices are'nt more expensive or anything. When you get into the cams, heads, and Intake manifolds then you'll run into more expense. Other than that the N/A 4V is'nt anymore expensive.
I don't know much about the 5.0's. I know they're very affordable and i've been told that they're easier to work on than the 4.6.
For certain things like head and cam changes, yes. I wouldn’t say so much easier, as I would say less involved.
On the other hand, basic maintenance like plug changes and pretty much anything above the heads are all much, much easier and cleaner to perform with a modular engine.
I have never changed or really worked on a mod engine - but plug changes are really that much easier? I didn't think they could get any easier then they are on the pushrod 5.0? They are like, right in you're face. I'm curious though! I'd like own a mod engine'd stang some day
I still regret trading my 2001 GT for a 2003 Cobra... The GT was much more straight forward, easier to work on, and cheaper to own.
I wanted to stay n/a and now with CAI/SLP LTs/SLP catted X/magnapack catback/Cams and tune I'm sitting right near 360 rwhp/330 rwtq.
I would love to do this to my Mach, especially after I went through inspection a couple months ago and it was a joke. Same story, lack of funds.
Either way it's nice having something a little different because you don't really see that many cammed mod motors running around especially 4vs...def draws attention when I'm rolling down the street.
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