EddieHaskell said:
ehh, imo half the fun would be making those brand loyal tools mad.
your a toll eddie go away.. yeah i am real brand loyal. i have owned a 87 turbo regal, a 94 z28 and ordered a 2000 z28 then changed my mind..
the reason why i say not too try it is that this mustang will end up in a shop and to repair it after a fialed LS-1 swap will cost more than a new GT.
one of my friends that builds cars ended up tring to fix a 2000 v6 stang that the owner try too swap a turbo regal 3.8 in. the whole point was that it would be fast and still a 3.8..
well after he butched the car and gave up. ( nothing in the car would work) my friend returned it back too stock for the small price of the turbo buick drivetrain the mustang guy bought for the swap. and 1500 cash plus parts.nobody in this area including me wanted too touch this abortion.
it took many hours too reverse the damage and make the car drivable so the owner could sell it.
this IS what will happen if you try and put that LS-1 in. you will never get the cars modules too work. no way in hell all of them are tied in a network and share inputs.
do you want abs brakes? well it wont work without the ford PCM. the abs module borrows inputs fromt he PCM. that is one example of many,
you will have problems from the PATS and ABS all the way too gettting the interior lights and power windows too work.
you guys don't understand the amount of custom work required in a swap liike this. it is not even somewhat close too even being in the same galaxy of being worth it. you will spend many thousands in parts and atleast hundreds of hours of work to get this thing running. ( if it ever does)
why not build a KB 2.2 built 4.6 and make near 700 hp. or a 03-04 cobra swap.
if the LS-1 was a better motor than the 03-04 cobra motor i could almost understand,. but it's not. so why go with the added expense of this swap.
look tony just trust me on this i have many years of building cars and workiing on them under my belt. you don't want too do this. plus even if you went thru all this trouble it won't even be cool. i know if i saw it i would say too myself " WOW, that was a waste"
or if you try it. contact me when it goes wrong. i could use another 99+ that i could buy for cheap money.