How far would you take a Fox

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How do you guys feel about cyote swapped fox cars? Me personally, I like the reliability and mild manners but miss the sound of a push rod motor in that body.
 

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How do you guys feel about cyote swapped fox cars? Me personally, I like the reliability and mild manners but miss the sound of a push rod motor in that body.

The coyote support is really phenomenal. Wish my poor 3V hadn't come out during the great recession, but coyote already going to have a 8+ year run, parts support going to be strong for a long time.
 

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Well I’m just moving the shop around to build my very clean Teal ‘93 Cobra. Already picked up a 2016 Coyote long block. Trying to use the 2.3 TVS and TR6060 from my 2014 GT500, hoping D&D can do a mid shift conversion and has a clutch that’ll work or I’ll sell and buy a Fox Magnum trans. I’ll buy a 2R Coyote case and swap rotor packs and keep the 5.8 Trinity case to stay with my GT500.
Last will be the ‘03-04 Cobra IRS.
The car was already a mint driver, now it’ll have the looks and feel but modern powertrain.
It’ll be a driver only, no track of any type unless I want to baseline it at the strip, but really just to drive and enjoy.
-J
 

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Keep them coming guys. What would be your dream fox? That is what I really should have asked.

'87-'93 coupe
Ruby Red/custom tan interior-mimicking stock appearance
10 pt cage matching interior color
stock body with cowl hood
mini-tub with 9" rear end
coil overs, adj. shocks/struts, tubular front end
Kaase 600 cu in Boss 9 (fuel injection)
twin 88 mm turbos
automatic with trans brake
flex fuel system
15" wheels

Too much other necessary stuff...but you get the idea.
 

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If you love Foxes then thats what you should build. The sky is the limit for what you can do with them. Full-on drag car with a tube chassis, full-out handling with bits from Maximum Motorsports and maybe add IRS, for power do what you are most comfortable with. Coyote swaps are all the rage these days and the driveability, compared to a pushrod motor with the same power, is night and day. Yes its quite a cash outlay and not as easy as it is portrayed to be. Personally I have an 89 GT two tone blue/silver and I am adding touches that I like from all generations of foxes. I have 93 Cobra taillights, 86 SVO seats, 86 GT steering wheel, T-bird shift handle and Supercoupe knob, 2011 5.0 badges, 2004 Cobra brakes all around with an IRS conversion. The motor is a stocker at the moment with a GT-40 tubular intake and a Vortech S-trim making 6 psi. My winter mod is installing a 331 I just built, having the engine compartment painted and some Maximum Motorsports subframe connectors installed. It does everything I want it to do and should be fun with another 100 hp. Just hope I dont break my T5 or spit out a half shaft! Good Luck and keep the faith, there are plenty of Foxbody faithfuls out there.

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Well I’m just moving the shop around to build my very clean Teal ‘93 Cobra. Already picked up a 2016 Coyote long block. It’ll be a driver only, no track of any type unless I want to baseline it at the strip, but really just to drive and enjoy.
-J

I call BS on the no track of any type comment. :)
 

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As far as you want. If you have the means to, go nuts! Originally wanted a decent street car, I feel like might passed that up now. Dumped the push rod and have a gen 1 coyote. Going 6R80 and twins. Keeping AC due to texas heat. Also, repainting it Reef blue again.


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I recently bought a 1988 Fox LX. I plan on building a nice street car. It currently has a T5 with a H/C/I 302 Explorer bottom end and a Holley EFI setup. Id like to do a turbo LS with either a TH400 or a 4L80E. The chevy stuff is so abundant and cheap its hard say no..

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I think it would be cool to do a LS swap but paint it to look like a Ford, use the front distributor, hide the coils and use Billet Specialties valve covers and the Holley Fuel injection. That way would get the sound of the old with the benefits of the new.
 

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If money was no option?

'93 real cobra bare shell to start
04 mystichrome paint
04 cobra seats to match
6pt roll bar with swing outs, painted to match
Full graphite interior with gt350 guages adapted
10th anniversary wheels in chrome
04 cobra IRS fitted with wildwood fixed brakes
14" 6 pot up front to match
Hydroboost from a 99-04
Finished engine bay
Voodoo engine with a custom twin throttle body intake being fed from separate intake pipes, twin 67 setup and coupled to a t56 magnum


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Coyote > LS, especially in a Mustang. Cost isn’t that much different for a street build. Don’t tell me about high mike junkyard 5.3s
-J
 

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Almost done with the wrap and all the wiring and dash is done. Just working on tune now.


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Coyote > LS, especially in a Mustang. Cost isn’t that much different for a street build. Don’t tell me about high mike junkyard 5.3s
-J

This is the direction I would like to go, but all the research I have done shows that it is no where near the same cost. Can you tell me how you came up with this?
 

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I have been told that the Coyote swap is about 20k if you go with everything new and use the six speed.
 

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This is the direction I would like to go, but all the research I have done shows that it is no where near the same cost. Can you tell me how you came up with this?
There were dudes running 9s on a junkyard 5.3 freshened up with nothing more than head studs. Single turbo. Dont know how you can beat that price wise

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