well, its been over a month since i last drove my car, and the new forged motor should be in by early january,just waiting for the motor to arrive!!!damn,i cant wait anymore, its killing me!!!!

 

i waited 5 months for mine to be done, i know how it is

 

WHAT!!!! dang!!! umm well ima shut up then!!

 

try 18 months....i finally got it yesterday and i shredded the belt so its down again.

 

at least you Fer's have a stang. I miss the mach in certain situations.....like when I'm cruising next to a POS ricer or a crapmaro.

Congrats on the new forged motor....that's going to be sick

 

why in the hell does it take 5 months to build a motor? or 18 months at that?

6 weeks maybe i can see that...but 5 months? what are you guys doing? pay as you go?

 

not everybody has a big settlement coming to them or still living at home with pops! most of us have families or other responsibilities outside of just owning a car and spending whatever you want on it.

Dude you really need to grow up, especially if your really thinking about going to college

 

whoa there fella...first off i don't live with my parents intentionally...this was supposed to be a transition point when i moved here, unfortunately for me, I fell 12 feet and cracked a hip and broke my elbow.

i cant exactly get my own place on $1400 a month, when i have $1200 a month in bills. w/c checks are 66.66% of my weekly gross. im not even getting what a paycheck would be minus taxes.

secondly...i was asking if they were doing payments, or had paid it all up front.

if they paid it up front there is no excuse for it taking 5 - 18 months to build an engine.

if they are paying it in payments, then i understand.

also im not going to college, im going to a tech school.

 

I blew mine in the summer, most shops are very very busy during the summer. I was fifth in line when mine was brought in after waiting a month for it to even get in the shop. And no had ever done a 3v swap

 

gotcha. when i go to have mine done, i'll have it done in the winter.

 

ummm i was away from my car for 18 months because i went to korea and then had to wait 6 months before it came to germany. first it was title issues than i went into leadership class (i made staff sgt this year) for a month that took all of my time. then once i got everything lined up my mom calls and says she had a fender bender took a month for it to get repaired and a month to finally get off the fawkin boat and into my parking spot.

i was more on the level of not having the mustang. i didnt mean for you to take it as im waiting for the mustang to have its built motor put in.

the way i see things go down people that take their cars to shops to have a whole motor build is that it takes time somewhere between 3-4 months. it takes that long because the owners are alway adding to the build. the fastest way to do things is to have a shortblock built or a longblock built and you install it your self should take about a month from the time you order and the time you start the new motor up.

 

well in that case, I'll just find me a teksid block, have a shop write up a list of the recommended stuff, and have it shipped to them, take the block there, and let them go to town...once it's ready to be put in the car, I'll drop my car off, they can pull the old motor and tranny, put the new motor and tranny in, bolt it down, hook everything and make sure it runs, then call me to come get it.

no one's having my car for 3-4 freakin months. ain't happening.

 

its a little bit more involved than that but you have a good idea. there are lots of things that have to be changed from the old motor to the new. i dont advise building up a complete block meaning built from oil pan to throttle body. that will cost a grip of money. re use stock parts.

 

money will be of no concern. everything will be brand spanking new. best way to do it, IMO.

re-using stock parts is setting yourself up for costly repairs, and maintenance, and down time.

my motto has always been

if you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?

besides since I'm building a 4.6 DOHC Motor w/ a F-1A or F-1R Superhcharger, I doubt there is much that can be swapped out

 

nope your F'd. thats gonna be about 10-12k just for your motor build if you go with top shelf items, you also want all new accessories thats going to nickle and dime you to death.

if your serious about this start searching craigslist and ebay for DOHC parts. your going to need a lot of them. ECM and engine wire harness will be a pita to track down and they aint cheap. start searching now...best advice 2 valve to 4 valve is a involved process. its very doable....you know built 2 valves make the same amount of power you just want to say tou have a 32 valve V8?? if your gonna spend this money 4 valves better off going turbo and cranking out 800-1k horsepower with twin 61's IMO.

 

the 4v is a lot better IMO...more breathing with the extra valves, better acceleration with the 4 cams as opposed to 2 cams, plus more performance.

i dont need 800-1000k horsepower. 550 - 700 hp will suit me just fine, but i've always been a big fan of the 4V DOHC. also have a a few more options...(intakes, cams, heads).

if i had had somewhere to put it, i would have kept my 97 cobra that was totaled last year, and used that block, and parted what I didn't need out.

 

i dont think he will any do any of this if you add up all the threads of stuff he "plans" to do for his mustang hes like 30,000 in, never has threads of new mods just lists of everything he is going to do

 

is that a fact huh?....

let's see

https://mustangboards.com/general-te...e-cluster.html

https://mustangboards.com/pictures/2...bulbs-ftw.html

https://mustangboards.com/lounge/273...rformance.html

https://mustangboards.com/pictures/2...installed.html

https://mustangboards.com/show-shine...ng-my-car.html

https://mustangboards.com/show-shine...ts-tinted.html

https://mustangboards.com/show-shine...ewest-mod.html

https://mustangboards.com/pictures/2...s-finally.html (which these will be going in after christmas).

so please...before you spout off...know what you're talking about...i dont have mommy and daddy paying for all my mods like you do.

also I've only been on here since August...and I've been on workmans comp since the 6th of September.

i was making $525 a week before taxes, then after taxes it was $420. but my w/c checks..are a lousy $350.01 a week...so let's see how well you can mod ****, when you're on workmans comp....im damn lucky this didn't happen to me when I lived in KC, cause I'd have lost my car and my apartment by now...and thank god i have two caring parents, who were helping me to transition, and have helped me through my ordeal.

so politely SHUT YOUR F***NG MOUTH, and go charge more crap to your fathers credit card account, like we all know your 20 year old punk *** does, because more than likely, you're too too irresponsible to get and hold a job, and your parents are display their ignorance by buying you everything.

 

please state 1 mod, that my parents have paid for?

 

hahahaha you call hoodstruts, gauge bulbs, spray paint on taillights, and a cai mods????!@?
ill give you gears but come on, you have a bunch of threads about forged internals, thousands in apperance mods, blowers, all kinds of things and you have blue gauge bulbs i mean come on i have more money in my front tires than you have in mods so far(that i paid for)


and ive done it going to MIAMI UNIVERSITY (one of the top public schools in the country), but yes my parents did buy me my car, stock, actually it looked identical to yours, even the same rims

 

yes they are mods (definition of modification - "to alter from original form or format" regardless of how much they cost, (or how trivial in your eyes it may seem).

03 Chrome Cobra Wheels $700
New tires to fit on the new wheels $824
Labor to mount, balance and put them on $75
Eibach Sportline Lowering Springs $254 + $150 labor
Flowmaster Exhaust System, w/ tips $225 (labor included)


and again, lets see you pay $1200 worth of bills a month, put gas in your car, and still find a little cash to do things to your car on $1400 a month (work comp checks.)

 

see your proving my point, you have no money to do all that you state your doing to it, or at least not anywhere in the near future. Im not saying thats a bad thing at all but stop talking about all these built engines and blowers and appearance mods your GOING to do, just show us when your done. Every thread i see your talking about how money is no object and you will have the greatest engine/blower, a part from every diff mustang you can think of on your stang.

 

why is it a big deal to discuss my plans for my car?

once i get a settlement and the bills are paid off, money will be of no concern.

i never said greatest....all i said was looking for 550 - 700 hp at the rear wheels. there are other mustang with more horsepower than that out there.

one thing is for sure, if i hadn't got hurt, I'd be a lot farther than I am right now.

 

yea.usually during summer, they do get busy, luckily i blew it during winter. i was told todayit should be ready by the new year .overall its gonna cost 11 grand,thats for the motor,built rear,labor,parts,the whole deal!!!im so excited. i went to the mall today and some random dude walks up and says,"youre that guy with the black stang,huh, is the engine in yet?", and i was like"wtf", the whole world knows. felt good knowing people know me by my car and the ***-whipping it's gonna give lol.