Maybe it was but I thought 200 but maybe that was a modded one...I honestly don't remember...but it was fun to drive.

Interesting - though the '5.0' is simply the displacement and it's clearly not the old 302 Windsor pushrod motor. I 'spect it's simply the 4.6 bored/stroked. As such, the tons of aftermarket & cheap/easy to mod factor won't be as high, but still pretty good compared to many other performance car offerings (esp. import). As a bang-for-the-buck hod-rod platform, back in the mid-80's ~ '93 the Fox-body was like a sore pecker - hard to beat!


As for the old fox-body - man I still miss my old '89 Saleen sometimes. It was what it was, with the inherent limitations of a live-axle, relatively flexy chassis, and 'only' 250hp or so - but damn it, it was just a cool car & fun to drive!

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s...S/P8040005.jpg

see i cant get behind the 370 solely because they put in that rev matchs for you bs. Other than that i love the car

btw, z06: i have a turbo manifold for that id let go fairly cheap if she wants to go bonkers with it. I was gonna drop a 2.4 in my daytona but i no longer care about fwd.

Smoother, probably not, but it didn't run out of steam as early, which was part of my original complaint about the 5.0 (which was really a 4.9 by the way)

145hp, but it was light as hell.

When I say top end I mean high rpms, not top speed. My first 2 cars were 4-cylinders, so that's the type of power curve I became accustomed to. I don't like it when the torque curve falls off too soon.

block wouldnt split in half at redline either

Where did the 4.9 (in the ones you drove) start petering out?
bout 4K?

my 83(non-roller cam) carbed car would run out of steam after 5500 with the stock cam. I shifted at 5200.

I for one loved the low end torque of that motor. I really didn't like it when it was rebuilt and it did not feel very strong below 3000RPM.


BTW, Homeslice, would you prefer a low revving vtwin sportbike, or an R6?