1988 Fox Body 7.3L Godzilla Swap

[ca_preston]

Well, we decided if we're going to build the craziest foxbody in existence we probably should have all the sensors in the world. In this video we give an overview of the motor package, some of the neat wiring setups we have, our change over to the Emtron ECU and a few more details.

What do you guys think?

[LERM]

Hot damn! If this isn’t just the most wonderful thing I’ve seen today…

[ca_preston]

Fresh paint is ELECTRIFYING!

[thumper877]

That is a very nice blue!!

[wfo guy]

Very interesting!

[MassMalibu]

This is an incredible build! Fantastic blue. Keep the updates coming.

[ca_preston]

[andrewb70]

Awesome build!

Andrew

[WideOpenThrottle]

Very nice! It's awesome to see it coming together. Thank you for sharing the build with us. I have a question about the carbon doors and carbon roof, which vendor are they from?

Thanks,
~Max

[ca_preston]

For those that really want that in depth look at nearly every inch of the car!

[ca_preston]

We've had some ups and downs on the build. On the dyno we were making over 1000 WHP then we broke two lifters and had to build a new motor. Now that we have that motor apart we're trying to understand exactly where the failure point was. It’s an epic pain in the ass, when the lifters failed it spun a cam bearing, and broke the cam gear.

So more or less don’t spin the stock lifters or cam gear above 6,000 rpm based on our testing. The motor had Brian Wolfe’s stage 2 heads and cam, VVT lockout and Indy Power products oil system.
Due to parts availability we now have stage 1 heads and everything else the same. Also note, when the cam sprocket broke it takes out the valves.

Brian had the same combo making 1400 at the crank, on our chassis dyno we were spinning the tires and still made over 900 on the dyno jet…. Fuel flow and other data shows we made about 1100 at the tires…

On an equally good note we just finished up getting our new 7.3L Godzilla Intake with built in intercooler ready to rock! Check it out here:https://creativewerksinc.com/godzilla-lo-pro-intake/

[ca_preston]

Another photo dump from the last few days as we are starting to button up final assembly on the fox!
We ended up utilizing the OEM panels and reworked + wrapped them in leather. Bob, (my dad) created an entire sheet metal cover for the back, custom wheel wells with carbon fiber inlays and we plan on adding the sub and Orion Amp to the back to finish it off.

Inside we made a custom dash piece in our CNC out of billet, Inlayed our Kicker stereo, A/C Controls, USB + Data ports.

The car itself is being used as a test mule primarily for these Godzilla parts we are working on, but additionally we are working on some new fan controllers + Fuel controllers. The car runs off of the Emtron ECU, and utilizes a dash from ECU Masters + Blink Marine Can Key Pad.

[Josh@Ridetech]

Dang it.... I was going to start building my other fox body soon but after seeing this one I think I may just push it back in the corner, I can't compete with that lol.

Looks great guys!