I doubt there's $500 difference between a rebuilt HD Top-Loader, shifter, blowproof bellhousing and clutch set up and a new TKO-600 with the same support stuff.  CC could show us how to hack the rear support-- no expensive kit necessary.

Overdrive is worth it.

Honestly I doubt that there are many who are  trying to restore 6 cyl Mustangs and if they are there are enough 200 straight sixes to survive one being popped.  Besides if they are they probably already have one in their car already.  

Don't wreck something just because you think its fun...

wow... Im speechless, and Im usually good at opening my mouth

I didn't realise there were so many idiots on here. blow it up! put a bajillion hp bigblock in it, twin turbo's and a 6 speed......morons! I'm suprised nobody said put a SBC in it! Destroy something for the sake of destruction shows the mentality on here, why not just dump the car in a crusher?

I thought it would be cool to see a six build up because it's different. I don't even have a six, but it would be something other than a bellybutton car. How interesting, another 302...with a turbo...yawn.

I'm really dissapointed, with this kind of feedback it probably will turn into another car that's the same as the one built...last month..and the month before...and the month before. 

I do understand your disappointment but the only way the 6 stands a chance at all to have ANYTHING done to it other than yanking and leaving it in the corner is for them to try to put the juice to it until it goes away . Honestly the way the mag is if they were going to do a 6 hop up it would be with the rambler which is a sweet car. Or a Gremster , which could be had cheap as well. We all know their penchant for Mavs so it could have been one of those too . Was it ? No it was a Mustang a 67 to boot which assures you it was going to be a V-8 sooner than later. Look I would love to see something different but the news stand buying public will not pick it up a second time time if they do a 6 . So it is doomed to be a cookie cutter. I hope I am wrong but doubt it. 

If they do a six people will never pick up the mag again?? Get real, how much space was used for other odd ball things like an altered wheelbase chebby2, or a caddy in a chevette? (yes different mag, same principal) I used to get musclemustangs mag but by the third issue I realised all they do is put turbo's or blowers on 5.0's and 4.6's. The first hundred were cool....but...I stopped buying the mag. CarCraft has had dunebuggy's,vans,minicars(pinto's and vega's) and people still read the following month. Would I like a 3.0 performance build up on a Windstar? No I wouldn't, but if it was there, would I read it? OF COURSE! And speaking of odd balls, do you know what was the number one qualifier at the Winternationals this year in Stock?????? A turbo Chrysler minivan! I laughed my ass off! He shut down a SS/AA hemi Cuda first round too! The fans went crazy as the Hemi tried to run it down. Will everybody run out and want to build or buy a turbo minivan? No! But it was still cool to see it go a couple rounds in competition against Cobra jet mustangs and Hemi's. Yes the old adage about the biggest engine in the smallest body is cool and always will be, but it never hurts to try something different also.

Something else, a guy I know runs a V/SA 6 cyl Maverick which is about a 20sec car stock, and this year should be in the high 14's. Stock class requires stock carb/intake/cam lift/head w/3angle grind, so yes they can work well if you pay attention to details and not immediately jump on the mindless/easy "stick nos on it" bandwagon.

I like performance and competition, not mindless destruction.

 ANY MORON CAN BREAK SOMETHING!!

Maybe they will pick it up again I never said they would not pick it up the next month . However the month in question will rot on the shelves.  You can talk all you want about midless destruction and blah blah blah , I think showing just how much nitrous a stock engine can take is alot more inline with Afford performance than the prospect of draining all of the oil and water putting a brick on the accelerator and standing back . I never said MINDLESS I said put the juice to it until it goes. Not pointless. So disagree with me if you like but please be straight about what you disagree with me about .  

whatever they do with it they gotta keep the steel wheels. for the love of god don't put another set of torq thrust II's or anything like that on it. maybe they could juice the 6 and run it at Maxton and see how fast they can top it out at before they yank it. Ford line sixes don't blow up easy anyways. who am I kidding I'm sure the 6 is already out if it was just in the mag this month.  

Like I said before it needs a screamin 429 and a top loader for old times sake.

If u do decide on the 302 and want to stroke it I've read in a mustang mag that racers and such like the 331 best because it offers a better rod ratio or something like that what ever that means? Fill Me In.

When did CC EVER build a turbo 302 Mustang?  What issue was it covered in?

I agree that the Pop-goes-the-Six-on-Wilshire crowd is a tad juvenile, but swaping in a V8 hardly makes Project Mustang a cookie-cutter-catalog-car! Nor does it "destroy" the car. 

Sure, if we were talking about dumping a Rat into a Cosworth Vega or a 502 crate mill in a '69 Trans Am, I'd tend to agree with you. But Ford built millions of early Mustangs and a huge number survive with Six-poppers intact.  If CC built the Six with a turbo, I'd read it and be happy. If they go with a Ford V8 and a turbo, I'll still be happy. However, a V8 swap would appeal to more CC readers than going nuts with the inliner.

Why carry the weight of a 429 and a Top-Loader, when a 514 Super Cobra Jet and a TKO-600 would give significantly better performance and driveability for not much more coin? 

Hey, Turbo Ted like the "old times" just as much as the next geezer, but why not take advantage of 35 years of high performance development?  CC needs to lead the way, not just screw together comfortable, old  nostalgia pieces.

My attitude may be juvenile, but this is the magazine that took a sawzall to a caddy, so destruction for destruction's sake isn't necessarily unknown in these parts. 

Besides, they've made it clear that a V-8 is going into the 'stang, so I'm merely requesting that we see how fast the straight-sick can go before a new engine is mandatory, or at least available.

You know..... run-whatcha-brung?  Go fast for cheap?  Affordable street performance?  Anti-tour?  Do any of these sound like it might fit this magazine's ethos?

I'm only 17 im just saying what i think would be "cool"

Another super sweet idea is put a ford lightning motor in it (roots blown 5.4L mod motor.   Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords is building an all aluminum version in this months issue and if im not mistaken is a mail order engine, should push a 4000+ poulnd lighting into the nines and still be plenty streetable and I belive will run on pump fuel.  Imagine this mill in front of a TKO 600 in a 3300 lb Mustang?

although cool, id let Popular Hot Rodding or Hot Rod do something along those lines.

i dont see how a Lightning 5.4L will fit in the "Affordable Street Performance" mantra considering the massive surgery that has to be done to squeeze a modular into the 67s engine bay.

would be easier to get a 460 in there.... and turbo THAT

Slightly off topic, but today I was re-reading this issue, and I found myself thinking this:

Staffer walks into the shop, sees new car, says "Hey, nice Mustang.  Does it run?"

Maybe we should just be thankful that Glad bought a project that movers under it's own power.