Where does one begin when you first approach the Mustang Guru? Bow down and submit?
"Hi! Happy to be here." ?
Well: Hi! Happy to be here.
I'm certainly new to the scene of the 5.0 Mustang.
The time has approached in which a new car awaits me. My current car just does not cut the Mustard anymore.
I've always had a thing for Fords, since I owned a V-6 '86 'Stang about two years ago and my stepfather urged the buying of "American Made Products". So, I have chosen to go with a soon-to-be Classic.
I've settled on the years of interest, focused in on a type that I want, and begun to work out all the dynamics of what I want. All I wait for now is the right car.
However, I have a question for the masses.
The "Fox Body" Mustang: What is it, exactly? What is all the hype about? How can you tell the difference between one that is and one that isn't? What's the pros to having a Fox? The cons?
ALL 79-04 Mustangs are Fox bodies... The only differences are the 94-04 are a little bit wider and longer... Also the Ford designations are different SN-95 from 94-98 S-197 ,99-04... Why would it be so easy to swap a IRS out of a late model Cobra into a 79-98 car??? Basically a bolt in right... Fox body is the designation Ford gave to the Mustang ,T-Bird ,Capri ,Grenada ,Mark VII ,Fairmont... A slew of cars... Fox Bodies and SN-95's 79-95 make awesome entry level hot rods very cheap and extremely easy to work on... But when they got 4.6's in 96 they became a tiny bit more difficult, really the headers in my opinion are the most difficult job on those cars that is saying a lot!!! Headers are EASY!!! Fox Bodies typically need subframe connectors ,some cases torque boxes... Basically the chassis needs to be stiffened up a bit. 4.6 cars really like gears initially 3.73 0r 4.10's. Basically pick what you want from 79-04 do you like pushrods with the boxier style body or overhead cams with a swoopier style body??? I am a sucker for the boxy 80's cars mostly the four eyes you know... Let us all know what you have found or like!!!
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ALL 79-04 Mustangs are Fox bodies... The only differences are the 94-04 are a little bit wider and longer... Also the Ford designations are different SN-95 from 94-98 S-197 ,99-04... Why would it be so easy to swap a IRS out of a late model Cobra into a 79-98 car??? Basically a bolt in right... Fox body is the designation Ford gave to the Mustang ,T-Bird ,Capri ,Grenada ,Mark VII ,Fairmont... A slew of cars... Fox Bodies and SN-95's 79-95 make awesome entry level hot rods very cheap and extremely easy to work on... But when they got 4.6's in 96 they became a tiny bit more difficult, really the headers in my opinion are the most difficult job on those cars that is saying a lot!!! Headers are EASY!!! Fox Bodies typically need subframe connectors ,some cases torque boxes... Basically the chassis needs to be stiffened up a bit. 4.6 cars really like gears initially 3.73 0r 4.10's. Basically pick what you want from 79-04 do you like pushrods with the boxier style body or overhead cams with a swoopier style body??? I am a sucker for the boxy 80's cars mostly the four eyes you know... Let us all know what you have found or like!!!
Yup thats what I was saying . just in less words , but the 79-04 is still a fox body.
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S197 is 05 and up. I beleive the chassis is borrowed from mazda, but that might not be true. 94-04 is SN95, and the body that they switched to in 99 is called "New Edge".
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It's a widened gusseted Fox Chassis, pretty much everything from suspension, to brakes, etc, to k-members will bolt in.
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
no, that's 05+ built off a modified Jaguar Type S/Lincoln LS platform
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
S197 is 05 and up. I beleive the chassis is borrowed from mazda, but that might not be true. 94-04 is SN95, and the body that they switched to in 99 is called "New Edge".
No, the Fusion is from Mazda.
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
The Mighty "Fox Body" 
thats what I was saying . just in less words , but the 79-04 is still a fox body.
