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Old May 14, 2006 | 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by 1BadLT1
hate to tell you man but they are not that problematic there are just a lot of them out there so hearing stories of blown head gaskets is going to be more common because of the sheer number of 5.0's in circulation. but even with that said i do not know of many 5.o motors that blow gaskets on a regular basis even boosted ones.
Well fellas You would have been very hard pressed to find a F body man until 93. We bought the majority of the cars that came through Sadisco and then Copsrt too. At least five a week and parted them out and built them seven days a week. Along comes the bright boys at GM who can't leave well enough alone and we get the new improved F Bodys in 93. That effectively killed our business, Frome being able to sell gound effects, interiors, wheels, drivetrains, guages and on and on. Now the base Camaro and the Z28 looked the same. No more selling parts to update the plain jane. No more selling motors for back yard swaps because no one wanted to mess with pulling the frame just to change a motor. And while they were at it the shoved the motors back to make it even worse to work on.

Fast forward to Fox body Mustangs. Now with a yard full of them I can say this with from many years of experience with Gm and Ford. 5.0 cars are much more user friendly and make a whole lot more power than the Gm conterparts. I mean if you want to compare oranges to oranges you would have to go back to thrid gen F Bodys with a 305 to have an acurate comparason in engine size. And having owned many of both the Mustang wins from a power stand point hands down.


I am far from bashing Bowties. Both our boats have 454's in them and one has two at 500 horse each, Several thrid gen cars and a couple 67 and 68 ones plus a bunch of 454's and one 510 to go in them.It is jus this from the time I was a kid I had Chevys. If the powers that be at GM had been anywhere as much on the ball as Ford was then we would be the ones that got the light,quick cas. Geeze they even came stock with real dual exhaust.

I hope this does not make anyone mad. If GM has not taken the bright idea to change everything around in 93 there would be no Mustangs here. Then they kill the Camaro and Firebird completely. Raymond Greenlee