Oh by the way I am the dork you referred to. Apparently I was assuming that the people in here would understand what I was saying without going into some great detail. In case you are too smart to get what I was saying was that the cars I listed came with a non HO motor as an example of what was used in them so he could see the difference in power output from logic...such as a Lincoln Town Car which doesn't run fast. I'm quite well aware that you can put a HO motor in any fox body ford...do you really think I'm that dumb? By the way not all cars got the HO motor after 87. The Lincoln MarkVII "LSC" came with the HO motor and the non LSC did not. The rest of the Lincolns did not get HO motors until later. A guy on here called QuantumMotorsports has an 88 Cougar that came with non HO motor which he converted over to HO like I plan to do. Here is a site that talks all about non Ho to HO conversions and the differences in those cars:
http://www.coolcats.net/ And yes Different firing order,different cam,different heads,DIFFERENT intake and injectors and tb,different computer...Ho would be EECIV and non ho should not be. From what I read they had dished pistons and non HO did not and would have cam clearance problems on anything more than a stock HO cam. I have not opened mine up to find out for sure but I'm not about to slam any old cam in there with the wrong firing order and pistons that may not clear and find out by destroying my engine.
I appreciate the guys who commented on poor remarks made to me. Lota good guys on this board. Mustanger82 please do not call names to your fellow ford people thats childish.