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blueoval · 02-16-2004, 21:55

Excuse my ignorance if this has been posted before, but, do you reckon this is legit? If so, any idea on cost?

http://www.totalrpm.com/car/882

Donut King · 02-16-2004, 22:02

looks pretty dodgy to me

EBXR · 02-16-2004, 22:03

The cost of the motor would be huge, not sure if you can buy direct from ford, so it would be purchasing a wrecked one...

Interesting there are no engine bay pics... nor does he mention the drive by wire setup.

blueoval · 02-16-2004, 22:06

Thats what I thought EBXR. Plus I reckon it would be an extremely tight fit with the quad cam in it!

Would you pay 40k for it?

CSV_LS1 · 02-16-2004, 22:07

Maybe he should ring up ford and tell em how he put the engine without needing a bulge

xr_virgin · 02-16-2004, 22:07

I added an appropriate set of comments me thinks!

EBXR · 02-16-2004, 22:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by blueoval

Thats what I thought EBXR. Plus I reckon it would be an extremely tight fit with the quad cam in it!

Would you pay 40k for it?

Not 40k... Almost buy a BA XR8 for that...

And to ruin a sprint... why?? For the cost, he could have had a v8 supercar motor, and money left over!

honer · 02-16-2004, 22:09

As some guy wrote...

Quote:

Why on earth would you bother with the expense of a BOSS 260 engine tranplant into a car that housed a V8 to begin with? For the dollars I am guessing you spent, you should have turbo'd or S/C'd the original V8 and got some decent rwhp figures.
And $40k for it - please say you are kidding? What kind of spanner would pay that much for it? For $40k, I could have my pick of BA XR6T's or XR8 with 5 - 10,000km on the clock.
You must have 2 d***s as you cant be that stupid pulling just one....

Very very true !

fordfan351 · 02-16-2004, 22:14

Think this guy needs to wake up and change hands

RaTTuS · 02-16-2004, 22:17

haha that guy is on the ford channel on MIRC ill have to see how much crap he can spin