The other option would have been Mark 8 heads and cams. But the valve cover has the SVT plaque,.. so at least the valve cover did come from an original Cobra. Cobra intake doesnt always mean Cobra heads and Cobra cams. Usually the Intech cover is a dead give away. I also learned something new recently that early 93 - 95 Mark 8 B heads are indeed different then 96 - 98 B heads. In the combustion chamber the 93 - 95 B heads have a larger swirl fin that restricts the intake valves. 96 - 98 B heads dont have it. But from the looks of this,.. I would say its a complete Cobra top end. 96 - 98 Cobra short block is no stronger then a GT short block. They will both cap out at 425 - 450 hp as the most they will safely hold.

Depending on what year the block is from,.. 96 - 98 -11 CC pistons the CR should be pretty close to normal. If from 99 - 04 with -17 CC pistons the CR will be a very boost friendly 8.5:1 cr.

Either way for under $1000 for a running 4v engine, all the electronics and T45 tranny is a screamin deal. I cant believe no one is jumping on this. I'm tempted to borrow the money from my father inlaw and buy this for a future project.

I had the drive train out of my wife's 96 Cobra up for sale,.. pretty much the same things here, Engine, ECM, all the wiring harnesses and transmission,. everything needed to swap it into anything,.. except I had the aluminum block,.. and my motor had 125k on it at the time and I listed it for $3500 here on TR, Craigslist and a couple other boards,.. and I had 2 serious cash offers for $3000. They kept calling me asking when I was ready to sell. I backed out of the deal and decided to keep it and put it in my 96 GT. So for $1000 for everything here is a damn good bargain.

Hurst

 

The strength of the short blocks in stock form are comparable but with Forged Internals saying a GT Iron block vs. a Teksid are equal is false!

 

From what I have read the Teksid's are good to a little past 1000hp...

 

If you decide to part... I'll buy the Cobra intake setup.

 

Really? Can you show me where an iron block fails compared to the Teksid? I can show where both,.. iron and teksid are both holding together making 1600hp. Matter of fact Papitto had an iron block 4.6 stoked to 5.1 and making almost 2000 hp running in a 200 mph tube chassis car.

Hurst

 

The block,.. not the stock internals.
Keep that in mind,.. unless thats what you meant?

Even the mighty Terminator internals (which is an iron block btw) is usually on borrowed time after 800 hp. The Mahl pistons are said to be the weak link. Seen a few switch to JE or Diamond pistons,.. go TT and make almost 1000 on stock crank and rods.

Hurst