Valve Cover And Throttle Body Clearance Problem

The Ford Racing "5.0" valve covers don't work with our cars due to the intake manifold inlet bend. If you compare the Fox3 valve covers with the SN95, you can see that the oil filler neck on the SN95 valve cover was pushed forward by a good amount. This was done to clear the throttle body.

You have a couple of options to fix this. 1) Do the fox body throttle conversion - there's a lot of info on how to do this. 2) switch back to stock SN95 valve covers, or 3) modify the ford racing covers - requires a good amount of fabrication.

There are a lot of little details like this on the SN95 5.0 cars that makes modifications trickier than a on foxbody. Our cars are kind of a black-sheep mustang since they were only made for two years.