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Originally Posted by feadam
Will that new Ford highboy roadster still be as cool if its using a turbo Chevy engine?
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Like small block Chevys weren't the standard for all Ford hot rods until recently? It is only in recent tears that the "put a Ford in your Ford" (even if the 32 was a replica and never saw the inside of Henry's factory) made the bowtie a faux pas.
And the law requires an emission compliant powertrain. While GM has an LS setup they sell, the reality is the program can be done by "piggybacking" on an existing certified setup. When we did the AC MK IV we used the Mustang GT 5.0 setup and had to keep the cats with "X" of the location downstream form the heads, the rear axle ratio had to be within 5% of the certified vehicle, the weight could not exceed and the frontal area could not be greater than "X" percent more. Very easy to take the current Mustang GT Coyote setup and drop into a car using these parameters.