It's so close!

You gotta be precise with that sledge hammer!

Lookin good though!

oh I was....there were others that tried their preciseness as well. :)

Looks like the project is going together pretty quick.... I guess its all those precision tool you have.

Would rather see a Mod Motor in a Corvette

your gonna BURN for this Scotty!!!  ; )

good to see it coming together

It's nothing I haven't heard before

Yea mod motor in a vette would be interesting like a 5.4. Sweet build though this is like luke skywalker of the automotive universe, Ford and chevy's baby haha.

I understand using a Fox body (plenty of them, that means cheap to come by. LIGHT weight, weight...everybody's enemy. and the most important part, they look BETTER than a slomaro ! LOL)  remember, next time you pull up to a stop light. and a 03 or 04 Cobra is next to you he or she might be packing 650-800 RWHP.........be prepared ! Well, good luck to a fellow gear head. Like I always said.......WRENCH- UP...and... DO IT YOURSELF !!

"A mans got to know his limitations"......Dirty Harry

                                              THE SNAKE IS BACK !!!

I missed the the pics and blog on the LS-1. So, is this motor stock? power adders? got dyno numbers?    As far as dropping a GM in a FORD, this kinda stuff has been going a long time........look how many 350s are in '32 FORDS.

"First it raises to waist height, then you hear the load hiss, by that time it's to late you have just been bit by one of the worlds deadliest snakes........THE COBRA !!"

                                        DARE TO BE DIFFERENT !!

                                      KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!

The only performance modifications are a decent size cam, victor junior intake, and long tube headers.  Haven't cranked it up yet but power estimates are going to be about 350hp at the wheels. I do plan on adding a power adder just not sure if it will be a blower or Nitrous. as soon as it's together I'll get it dynoed and will post track results along with video.

Why?  Its like a 350 in a T-bucket.  My neighbor has his T_Bucket right.  Flathead Ford V8.  LOL lots of luck!

350 rwhp?   scotty2thag thats what they  do with just headers, i have built 2 datsun  ls1 the first was a stock ls1 with headers and no tune it made 348 rwhp. the second was heads and cam and a tune it made  430 rwhp.  my new project is 6.0 ls1 big cam victor jr  efi intake   it should put down 450-475 rwhp  car weighs  2680 (w/o) driver so im not to worried about 3800 lb 700 hp cobra plus theres always the Squeeze.

The reason I had a Lower power number is based on the fact that it's a 5.3 and not the normal 5.7.  I haven't seen aloth of dyno's done on manual 5.3 so I was going off of an estimation from automatic numbers I've seen.  I figured anything more than I was guessing would just be an added bonus.  and yes there are plans to add a power adder to this car.  Just not sure yet if it is in Bottle form or Forced Induction.

wanted to know?  did you use the ford tremec or the gm tremec for your swap?

I say go forced induction. Sounds like the car will be a quick one what ever way you go. good luck and can't wait to see the end results. and BTW, 1wickedlq4stang,  3800 lb that would be a stock rag top Cobra...who the hell races rag tops?  try, twin turbo, 823 rwhp (on the stock lower end!) roll bar REQUIRED,  9" rear w/436 gear, AUTOMATIC tranny. 3,100 lb w/my fat butt in it and a street legal LS1-LS2 KILLER !!

             450-475 RWHP, CAR 2680 LB  PLUS 6.0 MOTOR, PLUS DRIVER

                                                  VS.

                                    823 RWHP, CAR 3100 LB

                                   see you at the drag strip !!

I used the Mustang version of the TKO Lakewood makes a bellhousing to adapt this tranny to a Small Block Chevy.  I'm leaning toward the blower Idea, either way I will have to upgrade the Roll bar to be Legal.

cobra mark!  thats sweet you should let everyone no your secret. you where able to add Hundreds of pound to your car via twin turbos a 9" and cage. and drive a car thats not gutted to all hell so it looks like a daily driver SWEET!!!! and we all know for did a great job with the 03-04 short blocks they have all the right stuff. my fox is gutted to all hell and weighs 2650 plus my 6' 5"  320lb ass.  

SCOTTY2THAG...  are you still using the stock truck pan?  my pan is like 2" off the ground so im going to cut and reweld it so it cleared.

Yes I'm using the stock truck pan for now.  There is a new pan that alot of people are using because of its compact size.  it is the pan they use on the hummer H3.  If I have to change pans this is the one I will use.

SCOTTY2THAG... i was wondering what bell housing you were using, and if you had a part number.

The bellhousingis a Lakewood Blowproof unit that adapts a Tremec Tranny to a chevy motor.  Part number LAK-15030 from summit and it will come with the adapter pilot bearing too.  I don't know if you followed the previous installments where I described the modifications I made to it though.  I had to enlarge the hole the clutch fork came out of and welded a retaining nut on the opposite side of the input shaft for the new pivot ball location.  These alterations "or any for that matter" to the bellhousing will void your SFI certification that comes from Lakewood. This didn't matter to me because I will not be running the car at any sanctioned events plus my bellhousing was old enough that the cert ran out anyways. If you have any other questions let me know. I'll be more than happy to help where I can.

I assume you will go with a centrifugal blower? Make-up your mind on what brand? and 1wickedlq4stang..... The state I live in has NO vehicle inspection. 1-race seat, NHRA legal roll bar(we all know they have less pipe than others, NASCAR, etc., which means less weight) Stock dash.. (I even took the A/C vents out.) steering wheel w/air bags. and that's it! Take a car apart, it's no secret, you would be amazed at the x-tra weight you can shed. Yeah, they look like legal bumpers..BUT..look again! I have been racked across the coals by 03-04 Cobra owners for doing this to a limited edition car. If you are familiar with these cars then you know they are on RECORD at 9.xx seconds at 3,500 lbs. Hell, The new Shelby Super Snake at 4,1xx lbs does 10 second pass' out of the box !!......remember.....4,000 plus LBS !!  BTW, The Ford 9 inch rear end weights LESS than the stock I.R.S. unit, and what's a daily driver supposed to look like?    HEY SCOTTY2THAG,  Sorry to hi-jack. good luck with the build.......see'ya at the track !!      

wow, this is phenominal. having read this a few times, I just started shopping for a fox to swap. I'm curious as to the clutch you used, however- since it's a ford specific trans on a chevy motor, assuming different input shafts did you use a ford disc and gm pressure plate or some other arrangement? And, assuming one was buying a trans and bellhousing new (yep,  I was just browsing your site), would a gm specific tremec save some efort, in your opinion?

The flywheel and clutch are f-body replacement parts.  The TKO uses the 26 spline input shaft like the GM units do so I didn't have to mix and match clutch disks.  If you shose to use a normal T-5 you would have to switch the disk out with the 10 spline unit. I'm not 100% sure what the differences "if any" there are between the TKO we sell and one that is classified as a GM unit.  From what I've seen they are virtually identical.  I chose this tranny for multiple reasons.  #1 I already had it sitting in the shop, #2 I knew that if I got the motor in the same physical location and the 5.0 then everything would bolt together and fit in its proper location on the Fox Chassis, shifter,crossmember,driveshaft etc. As far as the bellhousing goes, we don't have this particular one set up on our site yet.  I am in the process of doing that  as I'm typing.  It should show up tomorrow once everything updates.  Quicktime has just released a LSX specific bellhousing to a Tremec TKO500/600, 3550,as well as T-5 transmissions.  From the Photos I have seen the pivot ball location is already moved so you wouldn't have to modify it to make it work, just bolt it up and go.  I wish this would have been available when I started.  It would have saved me some time, on the other hand I wouldn't have gotten to use my creative thought process of making things work :) It looks like things are evolving to where this will be a truely bolt in application.  If you have any other questions I can help with please let me know.  

Thanks, that's great info. I think my confusion was due to off the shelf ford clutches taking a slightly smaller input shaft (1 1/16" vs. gm's 1 1/8"). I didn't consider the aftermarket nature of the tremec, which I assume uses the larger input, for strength, maybe? good to hear about the qt bellhousing option too, anything to simplify a cross-breed swap like this is a plus in my book.  Thanks again for the information, I look forward to seeing this car all the way ready to run.