ardunbill & List,
Those Lincoln's use the same motor that comes in the mustangs, a 4.6 DOHC
motor. With the difference being in the intake. They are a smooth running
and quite compact motor in them. And let me say that in my mustang I do have
the 4.6 and I have been using a 150 hp nitrous setup in it for awhile now
and it works flawlessly. Setup time was about an hour, I now am using the
rear defrost switch to arm the system and a activation button in the ash
tray area. I have run it at the dragstrip about 25 times, endless ass
kickings on the street (to my rival camaros), and my wife's joy riding, with
45K on the odometer and still the same platinum plugs from day one with NO
signs of anything but one kick ass running motor. One huge thing to
consider on the Nitrous kit you use is the wet or dry system. The stock
manifolds are a composite plastic and are designed for air flow and not
liquid so I have my doubts on the system, the dry system with these
manifolds seem to work the best. But with either system one backfire would
shred your manifold into a zillion pieces. One other thing to consider is a
supercharger that replaces your manifold seems to be the best option. The
best results I have seen on the 4.6 is a supercharger, wet nitrous kits, and
underdrive pulleys the results are breathtaking.
I found a 98 4.6 DOHC motor in the junk yard for about $1000 and that would
also come with the PCM. That is really a good deal, since it came out of a
cobra mustang with only 3K on the motor. These motors like to breath,
supercharges, blowers and nitrous is the only way to go on these motors and
theres getting to be so many bolt on parts that you could build yourself and
damn nice LSR car with one and go very fast........ "hey honey do you think
I could I could......" Well I guess I better leave it up to you
guys......
Jonathan Amo
http://www.amoproductions.com/268
ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
> Hi Folks. Sitting here on a lovely Easter morning and an Idea swam up
> to the surface of my fertile imagination. For somebody else to do, of
> course.
>
> Let us visualize, if you will, the modern Mark VIII DOHC EFI 32 valve
> engine as a descendent of the good old Flathead Ford V8 (with Ardun OHV
> conversion, mind you). This is about 280 cubes and a semi-race engine
> sold to the public (still current in the Continental) and as I know from
> many happy miles in my own '95 Lincoln, a tremendous performer that
> almost scares you to turn full on in highway conditions.
>
> These said Mark VIII engines will now be available from junkyard wrecks
> in good condition, cheap, with a strong automatic attached, as a
> package. Seems like a great opportunity for people to build race cars
> for speed trials, assuming, as I do, that these stock engines have
> long-distance durability at high rpm, which they ought to. Might be
> downright easy and inexpensive, compared with all the other alternatives
> that we do. What got me started on this line of thought was the easy
> 150 HP kit NOS is advertising in the latest Bonneville Racing News for
> this power unit. But one wouldn't have to go that way, stock is pretty
> good.
>
> Don't anybody worry, I'm sticking with the hard way. I'm in too deep to
> ever go back now. In other words, committed.
>
> Cheers from ArdunBill in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
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