The ubiquitous LS would have been the obvious choice, right? To some perhaps, but it was not for Jay. “I didn’t really want to put a pushrod engine in the car, and despite recognizing the positives of the LS, I really didn’t want a Chevy either,” he says. What he did end up with was a surprising blend of AMC and Ford. Yes, that is the same four-cam, all-aluminum, Coyote V8 that powers the current Mustang GT.