Sorry dude but I see this as a bridge to nowhere project. There are things that seem doable, and there are things that are just screaming Don't!
#1. What exactly is " that gutted look?" ( I'll get back to this)
#2. Do you honestly have the skill set to swap out a completely different drivetrain that will require a different ECU to run it, and do you have the technical know how to get around the factory anti-theft? If you don't, have you ever built something as complicated as a kit built ecu? Do you have the money in your budget to pay the guy that is gonna have to help you get it running? This would be a time to honestly answer that question for yourself.
#3. The " target" car is sitting outside, where is the donor car gonna go? If the stated progress calendar is "slowly but surely" just to get the target car ready for the swap stuff,...how long do you think it'll take when you have to start figuring all of this sht out when the donor car arrives?
#4. The car will need a different fuel system, the 96 tank will not swap.
#5. The 96 front end, and rear are gonna hang so far out of the body panels ( as my man @90sickfox stated,.......1.5" total) it's gonna look really bad, and invite all kinds of body rub. There's a reason an SN 95 car looks "fat", it's to accommodate the wider track width.
#6. The dash conversion is a 4 out of 5 on the difficulty scale and again, as stated already, even after you get it to fit, and figure out a method to hold it securely, it still only works up until you have to figure out how to deal with the door panel match.
What about the heater that's sposed to also fit underneath?
#7. I've swapped a 2v 4.6 into a fox. The stock exhaust manifold on the driver side doesn't fit. You will have to swap over the brakes to hydroboost, or go manual. It's gonna force you to use either an aftermarket k member that works in the fox, or use that k member that came in the donor.
Again,...not afraid to be painfully honest here..the best laid plans require more than a " can do" attitude,..If you don't have the time, place, or aquired skill set to do some of the more complicated aspects of this swap, you are dooming yourself to have two junk cars sitting in limbo for however long it takes you to call a wrecker. If it is your plan to bail on the aspects required to do it right, and work on going after the " gutted look", please send that money to charity instead, because it's the same as throwing it straight into a trash can.
You stated at the onset that this was a track car, but in a later update stated that your wife dogged that plan when you need to make it a commuter capable car.. So,..are you gonna drive a gutted car back and forth to work?
A nicely done SN swapped fox will return about .50 for every dollar spent on it.
A gutted fox with a half assed SN95 swap will be a red flag to any future buyer, and at present, your money and time invested based on your stated build plan is probably running between .25-.30 cents for every dollar you spend. I'd imagine that you might wanna think about doing something to save one car or the other in their present states, unless you just like throwing money away.
#1. What exactly is " that gutted look?" ( I'll get back to this)
#2. Do you honestly have the skill set to swap out a completely different drivetrain that will require a different ECU to run it, and do you have the technical know how to get around the factory anti-theft? If you don't, have you ever built something as complicated as a kit built ecu? Do you have the money in your budget to pay the guy that is gonna have to help you get it running? This would be a time to honestly answer that question for yourself.
#3. The " target" car is sitting outside, where is the donor car gonna go? If the stated progress calendar is "slowly but surely" just to get the target car ready for the swap stuff,...how long do you think it'll take when you have to start figuring all of this sht out when the donor car arrives?
#4. The car will need a different fuel system, the 96 tank will not swap.
#5. The 96 front end, and rear are gonna hang so far out of the body panels ( as my man @90sickfox stated,.......1.5" total) it's gonna look really bad, and invite all kinds of body rub. There's a reason an SN 95 car looks "fat", it's to accommodate the wider track width.
#6. The dash conversion is a 4 out of 5 on the difficulty scale and again, as stated already, even after you get it to fit, and figure out a method to hold it securely, it still only works up until you have to figure out how to deal with the door panel match.
What about the heater that's sposed to also fit underneath?
#7. I've swapped a 2v 4.6 into a fox. The stock exhaust manifold on the driver side doesn't fit. You will have to swap over the brakes to hydroboost, or go manual. It's gonna force you to use either an aftermarket k member that works in the fox, or use that k member that came in the donor.
Again,...not afraid to be painfully honest here..the best laid plans require more than a " can do" attitude,..If you don't have the time, place, or aquired skill set to do some of the more complicated aspects of this swap, you are dooming yourself to have two junk cars sitting in limbo for however long it takes you to call a wrecker. If it is your plan to bail on the aspects required to do it right, and work on going after the " gutted look", please send that money to charity instead, because it's the same as throwing it straight into a trash can.
You stated at the onset that this was a track car, but in a later update stated that your wife dogged that plan when you need to make it a commuter capable car.. So,..are you gonna drive a gutted car back and forth to work?
A nicely done SN swapped fox will return about .50 for every dollar spent on it.
A gutted fox with a half assed SN95 swap will be a red flag to any future buyer, and at present, your money and time invested based on your stated build plan is probably running between .25-.30 cents for every dollar you spend. I'd imagine that you might wanna think about doing something to save one car or the other in their present states, unless you just like throwing money away.
