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To make matters worse, Ford is going after people in the aftermarket that use Mustang in their names in any way shape or form and suing them. I know they shouldnt allow them to dilute the mustang name but these people, mostly restoration specialists are doing anything but.

Thats what I like to see. A while back I seen a picture of a 70's corvette that had a 460 in it, It had a pretty clever liscense plate, something like NOTAGM or FORDPWR either way it was really cool.

Ive seen some of the mod motor swaps into fox bodies and they are a decent fit, I wouldnt say good, atleast the 4 valves swaps, I never seen anyone bother with the 2 valves, and Im not even thinking of the 5.4. Course one of the great things with the fox bodied cars is that you can fit just about anything under the hood of one of those, but the mods I have seen still took some cutting and fabbing. Agreed, after seeing 15+ year old ford headers match up to the LS1 I cant help but think some notes were taken from the 5.0. I know the LS motors are longer but most of the cars I have seen them go into didnt have so much an issue of length as they did in width, I did a set of headers on a cobra and let me tell you I wont be doing it again, of course I wont be doing spark plugs on an f body anytime soon either but its just tough working around such a wide engine, that and the fact that you can get so many cubes out of the relatively small LS engines, cubic inches = free horsepower. I am absolutely dying to see the hurricane engines hit the showrooms and the FRPP catalog. I really feel the scales will tip toward Ford powerplants once there is an overhead cam engine that can support some cubic inches, and it would also be nice if ford quit changing the F***ing bellhousing bolt pattern (Bonus to the LS1 for having the same tranny pattern for 50 years). Thats also the kinda changing stupid shit that pisses off hotrodders and keeps em sticking to Gm engines. It would be nice to see it about as wide as a 3 valve 4.6 but around 6.2 liters

A LS2 will do that without doing any work to it, besides being all aluminum and not splitting down the center when you put serious power to it. The last time I watched overhaulin or maybe american hotrod they put an LS something into a car and with the basics (cam, heads etc) was putting down 600hp n/a. The thing that kills me is that it costs around $45,000 for a crate GT engine but you can buy a Z06 engine for around $15k with some very exotic internals. They may not be blower friendly but a shot of some nitrous and those damn engines scream. I wouldnt put anything Gm into anything Ford or even drive a Gm for that matter, but you cant argue with the cheap horsepower coming from the LSx engines. On the street an LS1 with ANY kind of nitrous hooked up to it is pretty much the all feared combination. Terminators are the same but are way more expensive to buy into initially and arent as common as an f body. And once the newer piece of shit LS1 camaros inevitably end up in scrap yards the engines and transmissions will more than likely find homes in just about every kind of car EXCEPT a Gm. So far Ive seen LS1's in a mark VII, rx7, mercedes c230, mustang, ranger, and countless hot rods. For a time 5.0's were finding their ways between the fenders of different makes of cars because they were dirt cheap, easy to get running with the factory engine harness and made good power, and dimensionally compact but the trend has shifted back to Gm for that not so much in hotrods but in peoples daily driven street cars. It creeps me out to know that the new Ls1 exhaust ports fit up to factory 5.0 headers, it just makes it all that easier.

No problem dude Im a real southsider, Hegewisch baby!!. Those pictures were taken a few blocks away from the assembly plant on Torrence, going into cal city. This is the usual route when the plant pulls a random car to test on the road, then on the way back they hit 80/94 most of the time. The only reason I pulled the camera is because I have never seen them driving cars around here in full camo, I figured it might be something interesting.

Damn dude just bust my balls why dont ya. I can take good pictures just not with one hand on the camera and one on the steering wheel in traffic. Next time I cruise out by the plant Ill look around for the car and have everyone pose around it around dusk to get a nice backlight for ya. I believe it is a montego, the tails look like they have the big LED arrays.

I didnt know if this is old news but I found this car running around today by the Chicago assembly plant with a group of people from detroit. Its rare to have cars driving around here under cover so I just had to take some shots.

Are people that much of wusses now that they dont even want to feel a HVAC cable being moved around? like theres that much drag on it for crying out loud. How numb of a feeling in a car is required to make it 'feel' high class. Take a vicodin before you get in the car then youll feel nothing. I dont see how adding all these electronic connections is comparable in cost AND SIMPLICITY to a cable and gears.

Should I be worried? Im at 40k on my '04 ranger. Come to think of it I have had a problem with my ranger, Ive noticed smoke pouring out the passenger rear tire. It seems to happen only when I hit the skinny pedal on the floor. Whos bright idea was it to use 4.10 gears, 4liter v6 and an open differential. Ill let ford slide on this but for the sake of the poor kid in the civic on my way to work that has to listen to my tire boil next to his drivers window at the light they better work on a fix.

Unless car and driver had a pretty well beat fusion then that might explain their front end body gap issues, but the few I looked at on the road and at the dealer the front end seemed pretty tight as far as fit and finish, the door seals thought did stick out more than Id like them to.

I got into an argument on some website about this topic, I eventually stopped replying cus I realized I was arguing with someone I dont even know on the internet. Anyway do you have any articles and such about caprices and rear end collision fires? I couldnt really find anything documented, crown vics on the other hand people were getting into parking lot fender benders and the news writes it down.

Do they even say DUBS in europe?