WORLDS FIRST COYOTE SWAPPED KING COBRA
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2021
- In this episode, I take you through the work in progress that is my 1978 Mustang II King Cobra with a coyote engine swap. We also highlight the next steps in the build and set expectations for what's to come.
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Such a gorgeous idea. I'm building a 77 "RS inspired" mach 1 with a 2.3 Ecoboost. My personal mustang II rally car
I kicked that idea around a while before doing the coyote swap, you can find them and do the swap relatively inexpensively. I also thought about doing the 3.5 EB swap because that would be badass as well. Lemme know how that ends up working out, I'm genuinely interested what would go into that.
You got yourself an instant follow. Can't wait to see this build
Thanks man, I appreciate the hell out of you for that. It should come out pretty nice, but time will tell!
I think that year king Cobra makes a terrific looking race car!!
Couldn't agree more!
Cool build, can't wait to see where it ends up.
You and me both!
DUDE! What a freaking awesome project! I have had a bunch of Mustangs through the years, even a 78 King. And I love the II's! Can't wait to see this build!
That's awesome! This was my only Mustang II, but it was basically my first car I ever had. I've had tons of foxes since then but this one has always stuck!
@@dugganracecraft I was supposed to be going into the Marines in 1975. Was told I had a waiver for my eyes by the recruiter. I wanted to have a new car (first new car ever) waiting when I got out of boot camp. So, I first went to our FORD dealer and there was a beautiful 1975 red V8 Mach I. I told the salesman I didn't want to screw around and give me the very best price on the car. I then went to the Chevy dealer and got a price for a 1975 Red RS Camaro. They beat the FORD price, so like a dumb 18-year-old, I bought the Camaro to save a few bucks. A week later the FORD salesman called about the Mach, I told him I bought the Camaro. He said why didn't I come back to deal, as he could have beaten their price. (Which I had told him) And I just told him, I wanted the best price the first time, and that was it.
Not having to say it, I hated the Camaro, which I was stuck with, as the recruiter had lied and there was no waiver. That made it all even worse! That's life though!
I like the Trans Am style painted hoods of the King Cobra.
Good thin it nobody really want them, everyone is all about the 1966 and 67 more than anything.
You can find a decent one for $9000 grand, fully running ones in good shape for $17,000 or so.
I originally picked this car up for $1600 and it was actually in pretty good shape!
Watched your videos, thumbs up. I have 10 lls one being a king. I agree with you, it's yours , do what you will. I have a 74 I've had since 86. Used to race it. Things I did, people didn't agree with either. 1st of all using a ll.
Hell yeah man! I respect it!
nice! :) I still haven't made any progress with the bumpers you brought down to me! maybe in 2022.
Thanks Mick! You're getting better use out of them than I would ;)
Just bought a 76 cobra 2 like I had when I was in high school 40 years ago , should be a fun project, weighing options for keeping factory 302 or coyote swap
It really depends on what you wanna do! I wanted it to be super fast, reliable and drivable. I feel like you can't have those things with a equally powerful SBF. The main thing being drivability!
This is great I was just sitting here thinking "I wonder if anyone has Coyote swapped a King Cobra:, and I found your video.
I highly recommend you check out one of the videos of it running because it run's GREAT. Either way, thanks for checking it out!
I'm thinking about transplanting an Essex 3.8l SC into a II, so this frame information is very helpful. If a Coyote can fit, there's gotta be a way I can get a V-6 to fit!
With my limited knowledge about the 3.8, I'm fairly certain their size is relatable to a SBF so I would think it should fit!
NIce! Makes me want to change my 302!
I'd highly recommend it!
I have a 66 and am going through the suspension and rear end right now. I like the videos man very informative
Thanks, Jake! I appreciate it, that’s the goal with these videos. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out!
I'm doing that suspension swap into a Geo Metro right now 🤣 according to my calculations it sort of fits
Well I have a King Cobra with 6 valves per cylinder! Teflon coated valves, see if you can top that? ( yes I'm totally joking, and you can't hear the voice that I do, but it's funny) I actually knew a guy that thought everything that they had was better, cause it was " teflon coated"! King Cobras are actually my most favorite car, I did own an authentic King Cobra, along with a white, and red Cobra II, a 77 Mach 1, 76 hatchback, and a 1978 Coupe. The Coupe was black, and never had the lame trim, let alone those " Ghia" windows. Since I know how to polish any metal, my whole intake manifold, and carburetor, alternator etc. Made the black paint look really great, where I wasn't able to polish, I got brass plated, and I'd keep my hood off showing all that shiny polished aluminum, and brass! Super awesome, and " PRO" car, I'd like to say that I'm jealous, but it's totally not the word, I'm ecstatic that other people love Mustang II'S also. Have a great day, with respect. Wes Sept
Thanks for the kind words Wes! Sounds like you've had some pretty sweet rides. It's always great to see the Mustang II's getting some love.
That thing is going to be badass with a Coyote, and it cracked me up when you said you were going 130 allegedly like you were really just going with the flow of traffic @55mph right after a long church service that you just attended 😂🤣😂 I skipped all of the pinto jokes by just buying a pinto and putting a 11.5:1 347 in it with a t5 so if they can't catch me then they don't have to worry about getting blown up by my fuel tank, its a mustang ll tank and 10 gallons will fill it up but couldn't beat it for 30 bucks "used" off of Amazon delivered, originally 300 something bucks and it never had a drop of gas in it nor be installed so that was a smoking deal
Well it would be silly to think that I would willing break the law. ;) That pinto is so bad ass though, I really want to do a high comp 347 or 408 for the GT.
Great video... thanks for sharing ill be watching for sure👍
Thanks for checking it out good buddy!
New subscriber here. I am ll fan for sure. I've had my 78 since 1983 and it is far from original stock. Fun on the street and I have no intentions of going to the track.... I like your ideas and way of doing things. I'm surprised that I have only run across you today. Keep it up, and us updated please.
Thanks for subscribing! I'm glad that you're interested in what we've got going on here. But that is definitely the most frustrating part about making videos, I know there are a lot of Mustang II fans that would be interested in my comment, but getting the "algorithm" to work with me instead of against me is a challenge I'm still trying top figure out! Be sure you check out my other videos on the car because I have a few now!
Nice work!! I like that you posted a before pic of what it looked like when you got it - I looked at the same car around 2011!
No kidding?! That's crazy! I've actually met a couple of people that looked at and passed on this car, and I've either saved it from being boring or ruined a collector's item, it depends on who you ask ;)
Where are you from if you don't mind me asking?
I grew up in Waterloo (I affectionately renamed it Waterhole.... Lol), but at that time I was living near Kalona. Ran across the car while perusing the different Craigslists around the area. Was looking for a project to work on with my girlfriend at that time. I passed on the car just because I didn't have the money at that time to both buy it and work on it knowing how much it would take since I already owned my Cobra. Ended up with an 84 convertible which, coincidentally, I recently found another RUclips video on another car that guy had. I remember seeing different things on this car when you swapped in the 4.6 and wondering if it was the same car. Figured it probably was since there aren't that many IIs around those parts, much less Kings. I now live in Marietta Georgia, moved down here about 9 years ago.
That's insane! Small town Iowa right there lol You're not the first person that looked at this car before we did either and I've met a couple of the people that had and I love hearing the stories. But yup, I had the 4.6 in the car before doing the coyote. The 4.6 was fun and different, but I'll take the coyote every day of the week. 😉
I’m doing a coyote swap on my 1977 mustang and it a lot of work
It definitely is, but I promise that it’s worth it! Check out my other videos of it running, and let me tell you, it runs well!
Hey some of those pics you showed were pretty cool, where’d you get those?
I’m very interested in this project! My first car was a ‘74 V8 Pinto. I also have a big tire Pinto that was unfortunately totaled in a tornado.
Man, that's such a shame. V8 pinto's are so bad ass. I have my eye on a pinto wagon currently, we'll see if it comes through. How bad was the tornado damage?
@@dugganracecraft The damage was mostly to the trunk, roof, and the fiberglass front end. The car was in storage because it hadn’t been fired up for quite some time.
What'd you ever end up doing with it?
@@dugganracecraft I still have it in storage.
Mal wood makes a hydraulic clutch that is compact and completely under the dash. Only thing to route through the firewall is the hydraulic line.
I had thought about doing that but since the car is boosted now I would really rather have the auto
With all that RUclips money you'll make off of this video alone you could have just bought a new S550 and had fun with it 🤣😂🤣 I can't believe ppl are actually thinking that you are making a killing off of RUclips, Although you're videos are very good and full of information that most people doesn't know anything about and if you really got serious and put out at least 2 videos a week and direct your content towards blue collar builds you will blow up because there's more of us than the high dollar builds and the low buck builds will get the most builds because they are more relatable and you have plenty of knowledge about cars to do everything to them and motivate and teach the working man to build his stuff like you're working on and it will be more relatable
Thanks man, I really appreciate you saying that. I'm definitely going to start putting out content more regularly. A lot of things went into the long times in between videos this year, mainly time and money lol. But I started a really great job this last week which will obviously take up some time, but I'll have a steady income now which will definitely help keeping the build going. I'm really happy with my channels growth this year but I know that the main thing that limited me was upload schedule. RUclips punishes you pretty hard for not uploading regularly with how much it suggests your videos. But yeah, maybe I will get another S550 lol I didn't mention it in this video but the King Cobra was actually the reason I bought my orange S550, for the price that it was to do the coyote swap at the time (buying everything new) it was basically the same cost as just buying a new Mustang, so I bought a new one instead lol
@@dugganracecraft 😂🤣😂 I didn't know that u bought a new S550 just to do the swap in the mll but it makes sense because the yote stuff is really expensive and now you can have the drive train and make your money back on the rest of it. Congrats on the new job man, its hard to build these things without a good job because this crap is expensive and I would be scared to know how much I have put into my 347 pinto project but I was wanting bigger power this go around than my last 2 projects and I can most definitely feel it in my wallet but luckily I have a decent job that allows me to dump money on it every week, but I really enjoy what you do put out and at least for now you can enjoy RUclips as a hobby because when you do blow up your going to be busy trying to keep the videos pumped out . I noticed that RUclips pushes the hell out of the bigger channels because I normally comment at the end and if I don't pause it they will push that video out of the way to start one of their bigger channels. I actually enjoy the smaller channels more and normally try and help them out as much as possible. Thanks for the reply and keep the chevys out of the ford rangers 🤣😂🤣 i thought that was funny when you said that v8 swapped rangers were cool unless they have a Chevy in it 😂🤣 I busted out laughing and then said he thinks exactly the way i do , he has got to be a cool dude 😂🤣😂👍🏽 can't wait to see the next one
king cobra without t tops, awesome! you should check mine out, I need the attention! lol btw I've put a couple 302 head gaskets on upside-down as well, its the way they print and label them! it's hard enough getting a 302 with headers and a t5 to fit these cars I can't imagine the fab work involved to fit a coyote! 👍 and subbed.
I definitely will! I’m always down to spread some mustang II love. It’s a shame that doing anything with these cars is a borderline struggle. That’s why I cut most of my car apart and redid it the way I wanted it to be 😁
@@dugganracecraft that's what I'm doing too! I don't care about resale value cuz I don't plan on selling it, I just want to make it the way I like it and make it the way Ford should have made it from the beginning! then maybe they wouldn't have gotten so much hate!
Love the the work bro your awsome ,I want to do a 4.6 swap in my 76 m2 but don't want to cut up the car and take forever to build ,as for me I want the ac and accessories, rite now I'm getting close to putting it back together and setting her on the ground ,so do you have any suggestions to cramming this 4.6 32v lincoln in there complete
Doing it with the AC may be tricky because of it's proximity to the frame rail, I originally was going to do a terminator swap but couldn't because the alternator was all over the frame rail which is why I ran that motor NA. I'm not going to say it can't be done, because obviously anything possible, but it'll be tight lol.
@@dugganracecraft wouldn't happen to have any leftover computers and harness that will work on my build that you wanna sell
Unfortunately, I don't, I came across someone who wanted to buy everything I had so that worked out very well for me!
What kind of modifications to the engine bay or subframe did you have to do to make it fit?
At minimum, you’ll need to go aftermarket with the brakes because even with factory manual brakes in the factory location is very close. You’ll need to cut some of the inner fender wells to get the engine to fit but it would probably fit with factory frame rail location but you’d need to make some super tight headers or manifolds.
@@dugganracecraft wicked! Thanks!
No problem man! Thanks for watching!
I have an early 74 2+2 that was wrecked, and the right hand side frame rail was damaged. I was wanting to fix or re-construct the front frame rails. I was also thinking about going with tubular upper and lower control arm upgrade. Could you tell me what type of steel and the size you used to re-construct yours please? I just want mine to remain a stock 2.3l. lol
I ended up cutting everything out up front and redo-ing my rails with 2.5x3.5 3/16" wall tubing with a mustang II front suspension kit for a 1967-70 mustang from Speedway along with their control arms!
@@dugganracecraft Thank you sir.
You lost me at "im the first im the greatest" cool build tho!
Hmm, I’m not sure I said that anywhere in this video. But thanks anyways!
Do you still have the car ?
I do! Check out my most recent videos! It’s currently supercharged making over 700 HP!
@@dugganracecraft
Heck ya....
That will be my next build is a coyote swap mustang 2.
But think more like 2000hp.
My '17 GT is 973whp/825 Tq.
I have wanted a Cobra 2 since I was a kid.
Hell yeah man, I would love to see it. These cars don’t get enough love!
you wanna sell the original v8 motor mounts?
That was actually one of the first things I got rid of when I cut the factory rails out. I had a brand new NOS drivers side mount too! I got rid of them almost 2 years ago now.
@@dugganracecraft no worries I figured I'd ask those things are really hard to come by and I'd like to have an extra set!
I hear you there!
Had 76 cobra 2 swapped in old 289 hi po. 300hp and was quick. These cars only weigh 2600 lbs from the factory. They can be made very light.
Yeah my car with the blower on it only weighs 3200 with me in it!