Yes it will. But I left mine that way because in the beginning, the car was just to be a street/strip vehicle. Primarily street friendly and able to go to the track on occasion. The bottom end of a 5.0 is capable of supporting 500 crank horsepower on a long term basis as long as its not abused. The build kind of got out of hand in the last few months and could be deemed "no longer a street friendly car" and thats the reason I needed to let it go. I realized that I really needed to take it all back down and do the crank and rods for it to be "reliable" but I had no more funds for that. Really, it needed another block and all the fixings to be reliable with the turbo set up I was using. Your looking at almost 8000 dollars in SVO or Dart block plus a good crank and forged H beam rods. The pistons are already forged from the factory from 1990 on up.
The reason backyard builders do this is because its cheap to find a long block and slap some good heads and cam in and add a power adder and go have fun for a while untill it blows and then they can have it all back up and running again in a weekend with a short block replacement. Over time it will cost more to do that but I'd say 70 percent of the people that do this stop racing at some point and just get out of it all together.
Hope that answers your question.
Sure does...I owned two Mustangs over the last 35 yrs:
1. 1968 Fastback, 289 , 30 over, headers, Holley 650 , auto...didn't do any of the work...wished it had a stck shift. My dad had to put in two transmissions
while I had the car
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2. 1983 Mustang GT, 302, 5 spd...jeez, THAT car was a piece of s**t. I owned it five years and was CONSTANTLY putting $$ into it. Bought new.
Let's see, if I remember correctly some of it's problems included: bad lifter 2 weeks after delivery, leaking carb(finally replaced it), blown heater hoses,
rack & pinion went south while driving on the hwy, bolts rattling off, rust(in Florida), crappy paint. But hey I was 26 & didn't give a damn then.
But I've always been a FORD man