99 mustang gt 5.3/t56
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I bought it off eBay like 60$. Been eyeballing it forever. Wishing it go down in price. Then I said **** it and bought it caus with needed it
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Ill have to pm you later. I'd say if you allready have the motor and teams its gonna be half of what I paid. Just k member. Mounts. Drive shaft. Wiring. Ecu. That's about it really. I bought a motor with nothing on it so I had to go and buy everything fbody. Plus the intake. Tb. Injectors. Ect. Wiring. Ecu. **** basically everything. Some was new some was on a budget and used stuff.
I'm assuming you did suspension mods to your Mustang while it still had the 4.6 in it? Sorry for all the questions lol.
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Wow, that's a whole lot cheaper than what I got budgeted doing a foxbody swap. Did you use your stock a-arms and transmission crossmember? And also, do you think it is better to use a Mustang GT vs a V-6 Mustang? I don't know if there is a difference in fuel systems and the rear end between the different models? Stuff like that.
I'm assuming you did suspension mods to your Mustang while it still had the 4.6 in it? Sorry for all the questions lol.
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I'm assuming you did suspension mods to your Mustang while it still had the 4.6 in it? Sorry for all the questions lol.
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Questions are no problem man. Ask away and ill tell you what I've done or what I'd do in my experience.
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Cool beans Did you have to cut the center console at all or is the shifter in the stock location? Getting a 99 or newer Mustang GT is looking pretty attractive right now. They're going from about 3500 on up for a v-6 to about 5-6000 or higher for a GT. My budget is right at 7500 or so, so doing newer Mustang would definitely work. From what I've seen, it's harder to find a clean foxbody without paying way over the top for it. Your build actually looks affordable lol. And you have a nice looking Mustang to boot.
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Cool beans Did you have to cut the center console at all or is the shifter in the stock location? Getting a 99 or newer Mustang GT is looking pretty attractive right now. They're going from about 3500 on up for a v-6 to about 5-6000 or higher for a GT. My budget is right at 7500 or so, so doing newer Mustang would definitely work. From what I've seen, it's harder to find a clean foxbody without paying way over the top for it. Your build actually looks affordable lol. And you have a nice looking Mustang to boot.
Bought mine for 4k
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Trying to be. Lmao I'm trying to get it to pass emissions right now.
Not yet. Adjusted the pedal. Goes I to gear easier now. Still no third. What ever lmao
Not yet. Adjusted the pedal. Goes I to gear easier now. Still no third. What ever lmao
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Nothing really. I just told the guy that flashedecu to turn everything off that's not needed. I then took it to my friends work that he's a state inspector for and hooked it up to see if it would pass and he said 'maybe' I would like to be able to just pull up and everything checks completed. I want to talk with a few people that tunes stock mustang Ecus to see if they can flash it to so everything is working properly. So when I take it up there the computer sees a stock musyang compared to a Chevy when they see a ford sitting there. But I can get it to pass either way. It's not a big deal I just have to pay more for the sticker.
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Nothing really. I just told the guy that flashedecu to turn everything off that's not needed. I then took it to my friends work that he's a state inspector for and hooked it up to see if it would pass and he said 'maybe' I would like to be able to just pull up and everything checks completed. I want to talk with a few people that tunes stock mustang Ecus to see if they can flash it to so everything is working properly. So when I take it up there the computer sees a stock musyang compared to a Chevy when they see a ford sitting there. But I can get it to pass either way. It's not a big deal I just have to pay more for the sticker.
Tired, you need louder exhaust! Any plans on lowering your car?
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Man really everything was pretty easy. The only thing that was remoatly hard was the clutch cable to hydraulic conversion. Other than that its pretry dam easy. It was just time consuming and I dot make much money as some people does. So I bought some parts one month and had to save up pay rent and ****.
Wiring was straight foreword, I've done motor swaps before so the mechanical part of it wasn't a big deal to me. I did a bunch of searching on the gm ps to mustang rack and there was a couple dudes that had a write up. Abs delete was pretty easy. My first time ever flaring tubing like that and it took a couple tries but I only had a couple tiny leaks that was fixe by flaring it a little bigger.
Other than that, I'd do it again
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I've never done a swap so the one that scares me is wiring harness part, but I've got a friend of a friend that might be able to work that part out for me. Everything else with putting the motor in and stuff doesn't bother me since I've had the motor and transmission out of my TA multiple times lol. Did your remove all the stock Mustang engine harness and keep the body harness for the lights and stuff? It looks like from your engine bay pic that you stripped most of everything out of there.
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I've never done a swap so the one that scares me is wiring harness part, but I've got a friend of a friend that might be able to work that part out for me. Everything else with putting the motor in and stuff doesn't bother me since I've had the motor and transmission out of my TA multiple times lol. Did your remove all the stock Mustang engine harness and keep the body harness for the lights and stuff? It looks like from your engine bay pic that you stripped most of everything out of there.
Wiring was scary for me too. Since I've never done this sorta swap using the stock mustang harness to tap power into cause ford is weird and I didn't know how it was gonna work out but it ended up being super simple