engine performance ?

Ponyexpress96 · May 14, 2007

i am taking the engine out of my car it is a 96 gt and the crap tastic manifold is cracked so i am just going to redo it all my question is what do you all think would be better to send my block to the machine shop and stroke it to a 5.0 and buy all new internals or just buy the MMR 900 short block ?

19mustang95 · May 14, 2007

what mods do you plan? do you want to supercharge it, use nitrous, go turbo, or just stay N/A...we can give you any decent opinions unless you let us know what your final plans are and what your goals are.

DropTopPony · May 14, 2007

Nothing wrong with MMR, if you don't feel like going through the hassle of finding parts etc its alot easier to just order a pre-built shortblock. MMR also does P&P'd heads so maybe a longblock is the way to go.

Ponyexpress96 · May 15, 2007

i was planing on getting stage 3 patriot performance heads and a nice set of coms and also i will probaly stay N/A for a while

96sohc · May 15, 2007

Patriot has had some serious problems in the past, although I've heard they've shaped up.
That being said, I'd probably be looking into these companies: Steen Racing, VT Engines, Fox Lake Racing or Modular Powerhouse.

GREG@SN95 · May 15, 2007

96sohc said:
Patriot has had some serious problems in the past, although I've heard they've shaped up.
That being said, I'd probably be looking into these companies: Steen Racing, VT Engines, Fox Lake Racing or Modular Powerhouse.

I heard the same thing...

It was along the lines of all they are is PI heads w/ minor improvements and they aint that good...

I also heard that trickflow is working on a HIC combo for the 281s...

but I dont know nothing :dunno:

DropTopPony · May 16, 2007

GREG@SN95 said:
96sohc said:

Patriot has had some serious problems in the past, although I've heard they've shaped up.
That being said, I'd probably be looking into these companies: Steen Racing, VT Engines, Fox Lake Racing or Modular Powerhouse.

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I heard the same thing...

It was along the lines of all they are is PI heads w/ minor improvements and they aint that good...

I also heard that trickflow is working on a HIC combo for the 281s...

but I dont know nothing :dunno:

all companys selling p&p'd heads for 4.6's are just worked over PI from Ford...

Patriots issues were with the valve guides/valves and poor craftsmanship-QC...they burned oil and had PTV

They supposedly have fixed the issue but i'd still be leary of ordering.