Not your typical engine swap
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Not your typical engine swap
This guy is known as a Coyote tuner and that is how I started watching him. This project I find pretty awesome. He swaps a Coyote into a C6. Figuring out the wiring and how to mate the engine to the C6 torque tube and communicate with the trans etc., I find very interesting. I mean if you can do this to a C6, you can do it to a C5. Not that I want to, but I just like the creativity of people who think outside the "LS swap" box and come up with different ways to make stuff work.
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I like American cars in general, so this doesn't upset me like it might some others. The Coyote engine is a solid platform. With that said, it's probably not a swap that I'd want to do. Thanks for sharing though. It is interesting.
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Interesting swap.
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Alex has a range of reasons for this swap but, his rationale is fairly solid in the end. But, there is a troll factor here that elicits a lot of engagement for him; which in turn creates revenue for him that helps him to push the project further to completion. I think it's worth noting, however, that while he is one of Lund's tuners, he has zero intention on pushing the platform to some ragged edge. So I suspect it'll also garner more responses from people mad at him for performing the swap that the LS9 could have been a better performer--which again, just creates more engagement again. It's a smart move on his part.
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This reminds me: what ever happened to the guy doing the full C7 swap into a C5? There were some cool revelations found in his work such as how closely the dash and interior all bolt up.
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my cousin owns a shop in Brunswick GA and he has done Coyote swaps into multiple Fords especially older T birds. I've seen his work but those look like a piece of cake compared to matting it up to the drivetrain of the C6. My first take is why unless he just doesn't want to be seen driving a Mustang. LOL
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my cousin owns a shop in Brunswick GA and he has done Coyote swaps into multiple Fords especially older T birds. I've seen his work but those look like a piece of cake compared to matting it up to the drivetrain of the C6. My first take is why unless he just doesn't want to be seen driving a Mustang. LOL
Pretty interesting video on what he suspects caused the LS9 to fail
Last edited by Missileboy; Apr 16, 2026 at 09:37 AM.