1986 lINCOLN CONTINENTAL- ENGINE TWEAKS- HELP

[Jays86]

Hello everybody, ive registered with this site a long time ago just never had the time to check it out. so i decided to post some stuff of what i am trying to do with my continental. I have obviously the 86 5.0, with stock 150 or so HP. lincoln at this time was more concerned with fuel milage rather that having power to pull around a steel chariot. My question is to all the power hungry folks out there, what do you do to get more power into these cars. I know about throttle bodies, intakes, heads, exhaust, but i want to do a major rebuild of the engine with different parts and make it a sleeper if possible. I want to upgrade to a 5.4 maybe in the future with better suspension and brakes as well. any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated, Thanks

 

[batchman]

Your car I believe is a Fox chassis, shares a lot in common with the Mustang of similar vintage. You may even get Mustang headers to fit, but I doubt you will get a 5.4 in there - a couple minutes with a tape measure would show you. A 5.8 might work though - a sleeper indeed.

Good luck,
- Jeff

 

[SpeedLS]

There's so much you can do with a 5.0L. I would stick with the engine you've got and build that. The 5.0 is the cheapest ford v8 engine to performance build. A fresh rebuild with some HO pistons, performance cam, 4 barrel intake/carb, SVO heads and some racing connecting rods should give you the power you're looking for.

 

[cadillacdude]

Hello everybody, ive registered with this site a long time ago just never had the time to check it out. so i decided to post some stuff of what i am trying to do with my continental. I have obviously the 86 5.0, with stock 150 or so HP. lincoln at this time was more concerned with fuel milage rather that having power to pull around a steel chariot. My question is to all the power hungry folks out there, what do you do to get more power into these cars. I know about throttle bodies, intakes, heads, exhaust, but i want to do a major rebuild of the engine with different parts and make it a sleeper if possible. I want to upgrade to a 5.4 maybe in the future with better suspension and brakes as well. any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated, Thanks

The ENTIRE.car is on the Mustang platform..So all.Mustang parts will work