Once famous I plan one installing "lasers" on all the sharks of the world.. domination will soon follow... bwwaahhaaaaa

Your so evil steve :cheering:

sorry... i should have kept my mouth shut and check to see if he still had the car first.... because its long gone. oh well.... that looks like a great starting point anyway.

btw... the 347 sounds like a pretty good deal....IF its got good parts in it... good heads... 6800 redline makes me assume its a late hyd roller block... great for a driver/weekend thrasher.

im sure you have checked out stangnet.com allready... tons of info over there.

Here is the propaganda on the motor..

Rancho Cordova, CA (August 18, 2005)-Smeding Performance introduces the Ford GT 347 Extreme. This reliable, low-maintenance stroker crate engine produces 405 horsepower at 5500 rpm and 420 lb-ft of torque at 4500 rpm. With the torque only a stroker can produce, it's easy to feel the difference between the Smeding GT 347 Extreme and a 302.
This Smeding engine is not a rebuild. It features a brand-new Ford Sportsman block and all-new top-quality components from top to bottom.
The Smeding Ford GT 347 Extreme boasts such premium parts as full roller valve gear, specially modified Edelbrock cylinder heads with 2.02/1.60 valves, an Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake manifold, a nodular-iron crankshaft, 4340 steel connecting rods, and moly rings. It also includes specifically designed forged- pistons with wrist pins, that do not go through the oil ring, for superior oil control.
Smeding's 347 crate engine is perfect for those who want more power without sacrificing durability. For instance, it features 9.7:1 compression, so it can run all day long on pump gas with no problems. Plus, to reduce maintenance demands, Smeding uses a hydraulic roller camshaft. There's no valve lash to set, so vehicle owners can treat this engine just like the one in a brand-new vehicle. The street performance engine spins to a maximum rpm of 6,700. It even comes with a two-year warranty.
Smeding sells the Ford GT 347 Extreme stroker crate engine for $5,495. Plus, the company will ship this engine anywhere in the continental U.S. or Hawaii and it comes with a standard 2-year warranty.
Smeding Performance specializes in building reliable, low-maintenance, streetable crate engines. These engines are not rebuilds: All Smeding crate engines feature brand-new engine blocks and brand-new premium components.

The guy said they are probley switching to AFR heads soon..

doin the math in my head..... you would be hard pressed to build this out of an existing motor for the money... and it surely wouldnt have the 2 yr warranty. i say wait till the afr heads hit the mix and buy buy buy :D

forged crank would be great... but that set-up will surely live with a couple hundred horse shot of gogo juice ...after the warranty expires of coarse

the oil ring problem with 347's is solved with this set up too :thumbsup:

Yea, it is economical (good for readers) and it has pleanty of power for the track.. plus it is about 80lbs lighter than a Windsor and easier to fit in the engine bay.. sounds good to me..

Oh,

And greed won out.. the Mustang is sold..

So for my troubles I made $2150 on a car I had for 4 days..

Not too shabby.. I used to do this back in my youger days and made some good money but great deals were easier to find bach then.

Going to look at a solid '68 out in the desert on Saturday.. it is ugly but solid and it runs.. Hope to get it for $3300.. or I guess I could pretend I got it for $1300.. lol

I probley could have put more effort into the car and got another $500 but then I would of had to insure and register it and that would have cost me $200.. this was just easy money.

And for those that say "why?" well, the cost for me to do this car or the cost for me to do a cheaper car (with an equal shape body but worse motor, trans, interior and just uglier) would be the same.. When you are going to swap everything out what good is a great running motor?

I do know a lot more about Stangs from crawling around this one for awhile.. lol

Hmm. $537.50 per day. I think it's time for you to start your own used muscle car dealership. Buy yourself a polyester suit and a pinky ring.
Congrats
/Steevo

Yea, but I would need a sign.. any ideas?? :_paranoid


Trust me, if I could do this on a regular basis I would be all over it.. a cash business with little to zero paperwork.. the worst part is dealing with buyers who ask me if the 196x car has AC and air bags.. when I was in my early 20's I did this for extra cash but it was easy to find people that just saw a classic as an old car not worth much. Today, thanks to Overhaulin and Barret Jackson, every yahoo with an old car thinks it is worth eleventy billion dollars because it is old. Still some deals out there though.

Well it seems like you have a knack for it. Maybe someday. Can you work the buy and sell of this car into the "Mustang Project" introduction in PHR?
/Steevo