[rgerdes]

My stepson has a 140,000 Gt and he wants to add mods to make it quicker at the drag strip. Currently have just a American Thunder catback exhaust. Open to suggestions. Also if we were to rebuild the motor is this motor a good motor to modify or should he look for another year Mustang with a different setup. He cannot afford the 2005 and up models with the 300hp. Might be able to spend 6-7k for another car.
thanks
RG

[silver 4.6]

it all depends really, 4.6l sochs are good motors to mess with because theres an abundance of parts to buy.

read up on a PI swap, i dont have time to explain it, but its taking better heads 99-04 and putting them on your NPI 4.6l

make sure you port them, and your looking at a 75+ hp gain.

if you like the 99-04 body style, invest in one of those.

underdrive pulleys, gears, throttle bodys, all simple stuff can help.

make sure you shop at www.americanmuscle.com

[JC316]

Well, there are options. The absolute biggest bang for the buck is a 4V Mark VIII engine swap. I swapped it in for under $350 in the motor, but I pulled it from a pick U pull junkyard and got the motor for $219. That is essentially a jump from 215HP to 290HP.

An easier, but more costly way to increase performance is the PI head swap. This can bump you up to 270+HP, but at a high compression ratio.

Even easier and more costly is putting a supercharger on it. That will give you a freaking huge boost in power. Easily 350RWP, but it's costly.

The bread and butter for a 96 is to do a PI swap with LT headers, 4.10 gears and a tuner. That will put way up from the stock power. I chose the Mark VIII route because it was cheap and different.

[rgerdes]

Did the motor switch need to have a different wire loom?
How difficult to change was the motor change?

Supercharger is inviting.

thanks
rg

[JC316]

Did a full writeup. Read here:
http://www.allfordmustangs.com/forum...tor-96-gt.html

[Stangman98]

I would recommend finding a PI motor and dropping that in there and then doing all your basic bolt-ons to that. You should be about to find really nice PI motors for less then $1K and it's well worth it