Greenemachine
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I havn't seen much in the archives about this. I even checked out corral.net but the searches I came across were mainly dealing with lots of power or s/c on the 4.6's. so I didn't find anything useful. so here it is. I want more power but for a daily driver i don't want crazy power so that stuff breaks all the time. I figure upwards of 300rwhp, possibly closer to 350-400 rwhp.
I have 2 engines, 1 in the back yard with 150k miles on the clock.. 1 in my car that now won't turn over so now since I got it back from my shop looking at it. I'm gonna see if the engine is shot but for this post lets assume its shot. what should I do for another engine? here are some of my thoughts
1. Take the engine in the back yard and get it re-worked, new internals, port and polish the heads with bigger valves and cams maybe get a cobra intake or keep the stock one for now. I've also been looking into getting it bored out or stroked( not sure what the difference is) to make it a 302 with better pistons. I got a $3600 price for just redoing the bottom end w/o any headwork heads would probally be somewhere around $1500 if not more to get them redone. and of course while this is being done I would be getting midlenght headers. I'm not sure about this tho, mainly cause its going to be alot of money going into an engine with so many miles. I am not sure if it'd be like a new engine, so how realiable would this setup be for a daily driver? also how much power over the stock mark engine would I be making, would it be worth it?
2. second option would be getting a 98 cobra engine for around 4 grand with a 36k mile warranty from ford. but thats like the same engine as the marks just better internals and I figure if i'm spending so much money I want to have a much better engine than the one i'm replacing, not just a few ponys more. then again most of you would say you can just throw a s/c on it, which would be awsome... but the fact that I'd be getting a s/c way way in the future. maybe a year, maybe 2 maybe 4-5 years from now maybe never, who knows what my money situation will be like then. so no plans for a s/c anytime soon.
3. would be to sell this car,drive in my pos dodge and get out from being in debt so I can buy an audi in a year or 2. of all the cars being made audis are the only cars that really stand out to me. I hate the designs of fords and chevys and most other brands(certain cars excluded)
I am wondering what you all think, I am hoping i can get a bunch of responses here so I can look further into this. not that it matters cause i won't be doing anything till spring but this is a starting point. thanks
I have 2 engines, 1 in the back yard with 150k miles on the clock.. 1 in my car that now won't turn over so now since I got it back from my shop looking at it. I'm gonna see if the engine is shot but for this post lets assume its shot. what should I do for another engine? here are some of my thoughts
1. Take the engine in the back yard and get it re-worked, new internals, port and polish the heads with bigger valves and cams maybe get a cobra intake or keep the stock one for now. I've also been looking into getting it bored out or stroked( not sure what the difference is) to make it a 302 with better pistons. I got a $3600 price for just redoing the bottom end w/o any headwork heads would probally be somewhere around $1500 if not more to get them redone. and of course while this is being done I would be getting midlenght headers. I'm not sure about this tho, mainly cause its going to be alot of money going into an engine with so many miles. I am not sure if it'd be like a new engine, so how realiable would this setup be for a daily driver? also how much power over the stock mark engine would I be making, would it be worth it?
2. second option would be getting a 98 cobra engine for around 4 grand with a 36k mile warranty from ford. but thats like the same engine as the marks just better internals and I figure if i'm spending so much money I want to have a much better engine than the one i'm replacing, not just a few ponys more. then again most of you would say you can just throw a s/c on it, which would be awsome... but the fact that I'd be getting a s/c way way in the future. maybe a year, maybe 2 maybe 4-5 years from now maybe never, who knows what my money situation will be like then. so no plans for a s/c anytime soon.
3. would be to sell this car,drive in my pos dodge and get out from being in debt so I can buy an audi in a year or 2. of all the cars being made audis are the only cars that really stand out to me. I hate the designs of fords and chevys and most other brands(certain cars excluded)
I am wondering what you all think, I am hoping i can get a bunch of responses here so I can look further into this. not that it matters cause i won't be doing anything till spring but this is a starting point. thanks
