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Message: <blockquote data-quote="oemracing" data-source="post: 547981" data-attributes="member: 11343">So recently I traded snakebit (will) my 95 gt for his 96 cobra with blown head gaskets. Yes some may say oh no! I wanted a domestic car that is more of a tune friendly car for the reason of the trade, plus I have 2 other 5.0 vehicles. I am ruthlous with buying anything I haggle everything to my benifit, I had to ask when I seen the cobra though. Ummm... brother do you really want to trade your cobra for... that? Alright then, Loaded it and got it home. I had planned on taking it to the shop, dropping the K member and zip-zip right through it. My boy called me and said dont worry about it, we do it in the driveway. cool, he came over we got the intake, valve covers off. then it began to down pour. Then my thought of just swapping out the engines to make the fix easier came to mind. That way I can go through the cobra engine and build it up a little. Just sold my motorcycle so a few extra mula's were laying around. A guy that helped me out on putting my 5.0 and aode swap in my 69 came home from deployment last week came over on friday. Went to pick and pull and started on a 95 lincoln continental pull today. So just for refrence of anyone pulling a dohc out of a continental everything is straight forward like normal motor pulls, besides possibly the last bolt- Bolt that goes from engine side to transmission side beside the rear exhaust manifold over the transmission is a bugger. We got everything done in an hour then spent 4 trying to get that bolt out. never happened. We came home I said, when the sun starts going down we get at the cobra trying to remove the heads. We got the timing cover off, timing chains off, and the right head off almost- still beating our selves up on the exhaust manifolds. haynes manual says to lift front of vehicle up to get to the exhaust manifold bolts. Wow, dont see that being easy what so ever. Called up a buddy he said to remove it at the h pipe. May try that, but with food getting home from the girlfriend we were fat and just wanted to chill out. The condition of the rest of the car-I have before and after shots of the car, wow. The paint was gritty gritty. i mean It felt like 120 grit sand paper. spent probably close to 30 hours of exterior detailing. wash, clay bar, polish, clay bar again, polish with auto armor, polish with color scratch- mequires, then nx 2.0, mequires show polish, then turtle wax ice. I can see myself in the car, Yaaaaaa! so smooth now. The interior is great shape compared to my 95 seats. The drivers seat is ripped, passenger seat is good, carpet looks good.the underside- I dont think some people know what a pressure washer and simple green are for. I couldnt see any power steering lines, vagely tell where the steering cylinder is at. about an hour pressure washing and simple green did the trick. I will post pictures up soon to show my progress. I got the head gasket kit from summitt, one of my boys who owns a modification shop in va beach told me only ford racing products. and underdrive pulleys are here. have drilled and slotted rotors shipped out last night. My goal is to have it on the road next weekend, probably realistically is in a couple of weeks, but have to set goals high.From what I read the 93-95 and the mark 8's will bolt right up in place of the cobra engine. Is this true? Flywheel- cobra to be used, right? Bellhousing will bolt right up or are there different bolt patterns to look for?Thanks,Chris</blockquote>