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What year is the motor?
Go find a set of used aluminum heads from a mustang guy that is upgrading... like the Eddy Performers, put a complete exhaust system on it with headers, put the Comp 35-349-8 cam in it and the motor should make over 300hp at 5500rpm give or take. The powerband will be 2500-5500rpm which is as low as it gets with this motor, axles should be geared to utilize that rpm range while taking into account tire size, so 3.73-4.10s are the bare minimum. This level of upgrades requires MAF and a tuner to make the larger than stock injectors and MAF meter cooperate with the PCM, an aftermarket EFI system, or a carb conversion so I hope the budget has room for that too.
Go find a set of used aluminum heads from a mustang guy that is upgrading... like the Eddy Performers, put a complete exhaust system on it with headers, put the Comp 35-349-8 cam in it and the motor should make over 300hp at 5500rpm give or take. The powerband will be 2500-5500rpm which is as low as it gets with this motor, axles should be geared to utilize that rpm range while taking into account tire size, so 3.73-4.10s are the bare minimum. This level of upgrades requires MAF and a tuner to make the larger than stock injectors and MAF meter cooperate with the PCM, an aftermarket EFI system, or a carb conversion so I hope the budget has room for that too.
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What year is the motor?
Go find a set of used aluminum heads from a mustang guy that is upgrading... like the Eddy Performers, put a complete exhaust system on it with headers, put the Comp 35-349-8 cam in it and the motor should make over 300hp at 5500rpm give or take. The powerband will be 2500-5500rpm which is as low as it gets with this motor, axles should be geared to utilize that rpm range while taking into account tire size, so 3.73-4.10s are the bare minimum. This level of upgrades requires MAF and a tuner to make the larger than stock injectors and MAF meter cooperate with the PCM, an aftermarket EFI system, or a carb conversion so I hope the budget has room for that too.
Go find a set of used aluminum heads from a mustang guy that is upgrading... like the Eddy Performers, put a complete exhaust system on it with headers, put the Comp 35-349-8 cam in it and the motor should make over 300hp at 5500rpm give or take. The powerband will be 2500-5500rpm which is as low as it gets with this motor, axles should be geared to utilize that rpm range while taking into account tire size, so 3.73-4.10s are the bare minimum. This level of upgrades requires MAF and a tuner to make the larger than stock injectors and MAF meter cooperate with the PCM, an aftermarket EFI system, or a carb conversion so I hope the budget has room for that too.
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