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deuce_454
10-22-2011, 08:52 AM
Ok some of you have noticed ive been quiet for a while.. rebuilding my home, changing job and girlfriend have taken some energy.. but im back in the water...

I have a half finished (budywork done ready for paint, with all parts in house) 1965 mustang i started "restomodding" 12 years ago... it got a then brand new 1993 5.0/t5 combo..

well im now ready to finish it.. and i have some parts "left over" among other heads and cam 530+ hp 02 LS6+paddleshifted 4l60e and stainless headers.. so im looking at the two and thinking to my self.. why not...

it looks to be easily fitable size wise and it should shave alittle weight to boot.

any inputs ?? and please none of those purist remarks it is after all a forum for modifying perfectly good classics...
GregWeld
10-22-2011, 10:26 AM
Sounds like a perfectly good combo to me!

Hey -- you ever finish up the '35??
ArisESQ
10-22-2011, 02:08 PM
http://57hemicuda.smugmug.com/Other/RTTH-2011/i-vvmV4sF/0/L/Car-Pics-313-L.jpg

Works for that guy!!! I say do it!
65 347
10-23-2011, 12:04 PM
I have thought of doing the same thing, it works very well and is very popular for the fox body mustangs.
70rs
10-24-2011, 12:07 PM
Go for it!
deuce_454
10-26-2011, 02:09 PM
Sounds like a perfectly good combo to me!

Hey -- you ever finish up the '35??

no.. just as you foresaw he wound up being a total ass.. right now im trying to get him to send me some pictures so i can sell it...

if you know anyone in the area who is interested, ill let them have it cheap...
GregWeld
10-26-2011, 02:16 PM
no.. just as you foresaw he wound up being a total ass.. right now im trying to get him to send me some pictures so i can sell it...

if you know anyone in the area who is interested, ill let them have it cheap...

I pretty much figured that.... when we saw his "shop" and the work he was doing.... Well.... don't even get me started.

He was welding up exhaust with a stick welder.... :willy: :willy: :wow:

Sorry to hear that didn't work out.
96z28ss
10-26-2011, 03:16 PM
I pretty much figured that.... when we saw his "shop" and the work he was doing.... Well.... don't even get me started.

He was welding up exhaust with a stick welder.... :willy: :willy: :wow:

Sorry to hear that didn't work out.

His welding wasn't the only problem? I still have nightmares of when we visited that shop. I took an extra long shower that day, I just felt I couldn't get clean.
DRJDVM's '69
10-26-2011, 03:51 PM
What?? Old man Cooter didn't do a good job?

I still laugh at their expression when they saw the suspension we dropped off... Priceless

And the exhaust transition.... 2.5 inch pipe to 3 inch... Gap filled with booger welds... Beautiful
Smack_talker
10-26-2011, 04:30 PM
What?? Old man Cooter didn't do a good job?

I still laugh at their expression when they saw the suspension we dropped off... Priceless

And the exhaust transition.... 2.5 inch pipe to 3 inch... Gap filled with booger welds... Beautiful

sounds like a very scary shop to visit. Perfect for Halloween:wow:
killer67
10-26-2011, 09:17 PM
I say do it! Post some pics up too :thumbsup:
EBMC
10-27-2011, 11:27 AM
The LS exhaust port spacing is also the same as Ford . You might be able to adapt LS flanges to Ford headers as well and save some $.
byndbad914
10-31-2011, 06:03 PM
Most Chevy guys hate it when I say it, but the LS engines are basically well-designed Ford small blocks right down to center main thrust, exhaust port layout, intake port layout, unfortunately similar oil drain-back issues with the heads as old Fords (which is why the "race" versions like Corvette GS manuals and LS7s have dry sump oil systems and many guys had oil blow-by issues and had to run catch-cans), deck height sorta in-between the 351-Cleveland and -Windsor, so forth. The cylinder head bolt pattern is so darn near identical, I think Bill Mitchell had talked about making a head that bolted to both SBF and LSx engines! The first time I ever built an LS engine I pulled out the gasket set, and working at a shop that built both Ford and Chevy engines, at first glance I thought there was some strange Ford head gasket in the kit by accident or someone was playing a joke on me.

So I say do it :) Certainly compared to a mod motor, that LS is more like the '93 5.0L engine you were going to use or an old 289 than a new Coyote 302. I was a hard core Ford guy for a long time and bought a Corvette GS last year because I just love the adaptation of the Ford design into the LS engine, and of course, the Vette is a beast in the handling department :unibrow: