skylark

I am located near Syracuse, NY which is about 6-7 hours from you. I got my SVO intake from a little, well not little as I had never seen traffic like that, just west of D.C. That was an 8 hour drive. I need to get a flexplate before I get a motor though your price seems fair, what condition? I plan on a rebuild but would not want one with a spun rod or main bearing. I had a fellow member offer me a flexplate for the cost of shipping but he deleted the post and has not yet responded to my question as to why yet? He said he had 3 of them and I could have one for the shipping costs.
The Cobra's never had automatics and the mach 1's that did come with automatics had 6-bolt cast cranks like the GT's so it seems the vehicles that had the 5.4's with automtics are the best place to find an 8-bolt flexplate. One of the guys here sent me a PM with a couple of links but the first webtv would not access and I have yet to try the others.
Once I have a flexplate I can proceed as I have decided that a 5.4 is the way I want to go as my original intentions were to have the Stang as an interstate cruiser. With a 5.4 the 4.10's could go and the 3.27's be reinstalled. I have a great 10" Dirty dog converter with a 3300rpm stall that would have even a higher stall with the 5.4 so that would help the 3.27's get it going! The tune locks it at part throttle in 2nd gear and at WOT 1 second after the shift and that tune dropped .2 from my 1/4 mile time. I would build the 5.4 with higher compression, say 10:1 or even 11:1 for power & torque. Hitech Motorsports tunes their cars with 87 octane with 23* total timing and gets 45whp from their stage 2 cams with that tune and headers. Amazing power as that is on a stock head, intake and even TB motor. One guy got 300+WTQ frokm 3300-5000+rpm. Imagine what a 5.4 would do? Could get interesting! Want to stay NA and 5.4 sounds like the way to go. Let me know what you have in a PM or here and if you have an 8-bolt flexplate also? THX! Mark