Ford LSx equivalent

[Robin427]

Here's one for Wilf.

Seeing as Chevy updated the iron block, carburettor engines and produced the lighter, more efficient aluminium LSx range, have Ford done anything similar, and has anyone put one in a Cobra?

[dave]

Hi Robin. (Good to meet you at the show)
Ford have the 4.6 all alloy engine. There was one with a gearbox attached in hall 1 with a £4,500 price tag on it.

[wilf]

Yup - and the problem with that engine is that Ford went one better than Chevy and gave it OHC - as a result it is too wide for most Cobra replicas.
Of course, TonyD might have an alternate view on that!

[Robin427]

Good to meet you too, Dave. I would have thought an OHC would make the engine too tall - perhaps I need to read up on my Ladybird book of engines...

[Kevin W]

I saw the said engine too on the Auto Speciali stand. looked nice, but also looked very tall.

Kevin

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by wilf leek

Yup - and the problem with that engine is that Ford went one better than Chevy and gave it OHC - as a result it is too wide for most Cobra replicas.
Of course, TonyD might have an alternate view on that!

Wilf,

Surprisingly, we are in agreement. Ford did go one better with OHC but the engine itself is too wide to fit in Cobra replicas. AK did build one as a special for a customer but it required adaptations to body wings and bonnet mouldings.

Theres not too many multicam V8, 4 valves per cylinder engines that can fit, Ford and Mercedes are two that dont, unfortunately, as the Ford engine complete with box at the show looked most useful.

I would think that the engine would be very well suited to an Ultima or a GT40 mated to a suitable transaxle, anybody done one?

Cheers,

Tony

[Purple AK]

Commonly sold as a "Mustang Chassis Drop" for around £4k for the whole kit&cabudal Marcos use them in their GT cars.

[Colin GD427]

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Then Marcos changed to fitting the Chevy LS engine, I wonder why ! ! .................................................. ........................................