If you want to be different with the cubes go small. Throw an ecoboost or some crazy **** like that in it.
If you're keeping it a street car I wouldn't do it.
You already have cylinder heads that would be right at home on a nice litte 357w, put a good manifold with a 4150 TB, and make 500hp easy, with less weight on the nose.
this is a crack driven pipe dream lol
I did it, exactly like you're planning. (Well except for the EFI conversion part)
Stock bottom end except for the quart coffee can sized heavy assed TRW L2404 dished pistons. Truck rods (because they have better rod bolts,...football head oval topped rod bolts, as opposed to the straight cut, standard ones)
A comp flat tappet cam (like 590 lift w/ a 250 actual duration at .050)
A Weiand Stealth intake w/ a Holley 3310 carb, W/ stock cast iron THUNDER JET (C9AE castings off of 69 429) hand ported heads . As opposed to the more desirable Cobra jet D0OE or D0Ve heads.
Junk converter, Owner built C-4, 4.11rear gears in a 31 splined 8.8 that I drove in to the drag strip on Pump premium, beat the snot out of, and drove home, every Saturday night, all summer long back in 95.
Why would you do that?
7.05 on the motor in the 1/8th, 6. 50 on a 125 shot,...6.37 on a staged second 125 shot,...6.22 when you sprayed em both at the same time. Keep in mind that I'm talking 466,...not a stroked combo, w/a carb, flat tappet little cam (for that motor) stock cast iron passenger car heads, w/ power shot plate(s) stacked on a Weiand stealth. (Talk about red neck)
Even Yoda had to start learning somewhere.
Probably had 10,000 miles on junk stuff and 100 HARD passes at the track on it when I rattled the engine too bad spraying both kits, at the same time (I'll admit to not knowing Jack about mixing too much nitrous, waaay too much timing, and not enough octane back then)
But,.....the short block that I had to replace because I split a cylinder? Uhhhh $600.00, machined.
There are no modifications required other than mounts and swap headers,...admittedly, it'll corner like a steamship and will feel like you went back to the all you can eat buffet one time too many,............but when you swat the throttle w/ a pair of really sticky tires at the track and the front tires leave the earth,..........even w/ all that weight.....
I'd go with the hotly contested LSx swap long before ever considering a BBF.
If i had the money i would sooner look into a big cube aftermarket block stroker. You can get big block cubes in a small block package, spare the weight and enormous size and still be able to use small block parts. I think even with the aftermarket block you would spend less money than building an equally powerful big block.
It does,...but all you gotta do is read the above. Nik has pretty much had the whole BBF swap decision squelched by the return to reality he is starting to show signs of in his last reply.I thought the BBF went into the Fox chassis fairly easy.
What is all this talk about "cutting up the car" and such?
I've seen in person 5.4 NA and 5.4 SC swaps.
The NA 5.4 makes absolutely no sense. Big money for low numbers.
The lightning swap is pretty cool, but it sits very high, and isn't exactly a light engine either.
There isn't much that hasn't been done with a foxbody at this point, unique is going to be something tough to come by when it comes to drivetrain.
When i did the 4.6 swap is wasn't based much on unique, more my love of the foxbody and 03 cobra, coupled with the fact that you can have 500rwhp that is daily driver reliable, starts and idles like a stock car (sometimes i do miss the lumpy idle though) and would be 600rwhp capable in the future without worrying about head gaskets, broken blocks, tossed belts etc.
Right now i feel like i have the most fun car ford ever made with the best engine.
Needless to say, i do alot of steering with the rear wheels.
I still think the EFI 351c is both easy enough, and relatively unique as Fox Mustangs go.
Meh, I feel like a 351C would be doing it just to do it. For all intents and purposes, it's a Windsor but with more hoops to jump through
.and will leave me with a lighter wallet
Hence you will go faster due primarily to the lighter weight of your lightened wallet.
I've seen in person 5.4 NA and 5.4 SC swaps.
The NA 5.4 makes absolutely no sense. Big money for low numbers.
The lightning swap is pretty cool, but it sits very high, and isn't exactly a light engine either.
There isn't much that hasn't been done with a foxbody at this point, unique is going to be something tough to come by when it comes to drivetrain.
When i did the 4.6 swap is wasn't based much on unique, more my love of the foxbody and 03 cobra, coupled with the fact that you can have 500rwhp that is daily driver reliable, starts and idles like a stock car (sometimes i do miss the lumpy idle though) and would be 600rwhp capable in the future without worrying about head gaskets, broken blocks, tossed belts etc.
Right now i feel like i have the most fun car ford ever made with the best engine.
Needless to say, i do alot of steering with the rear wheels.
I still have not seen the current 305hp/30mpg V6 swapped into a Fox. That's a 12 second engine in a Fox that will probably net you 30+mpg easily in a car that weighs 500lbs less than what it came out of.
Meh, I feel like a 351C would be doing it just to do it. For all intents and purposes, it's a Windsor but with more hoops to jump through and will leave me with a lighter wallet.
I have never heard a Cleveland referred to as essentially a Windsor...