Insane Coyote-swapped Fusion Is the Four-door Mustang We Want
Instead of building a Mustang sedan, Ford should just convert its handsome Fusion exactly like this.
Even though the Ford Fusion is on its deathbed, the handsome sedan still has quite a few fans out there in the world. There’s really only one, perhaps two problems with the family man’s car, however. For starters, it utilizes front-wheel-drive architecture. Even though it can be had in all-wheel-drive. Secondly, it can’t be optioned with V8 power. But the Ford Fusion you see before you in this highly entertaining video from Hoonigan has rectified both of those issues in one felt swoop.
The owner of this insane ride, Matt Soppa, goes so far as to call it a “four-door Mustang.” And that may not be too terribly far from the truth. Albeit one that’s been gutted and converted into a full-blown drift car. Still, there’s a 5.0-liter V8 under the hood, and this Fusion has been converted to right-wheel-drive, as we like to call it. The 2nd gen Coyote has been treated to headers and a tune. And some billet oil pump gears so it doesn’t go boom when you bounce off the rev limiter over and over.
Most interestingly, Soppa said the conversion “wasn’t too hard,” and most all the parts are off the shelf. “The only thing that’s custom are the brackets to fit the (S197) Mustang subframe,” he says. All the suspension components besides like the drift spec arms are stuff you can get off the shelf. So if anything breaks, I can just order new stuff.” Soppa did have to do a good bit of cutting in the firewall to make the engine and TR6060 trans fit, however.
One thing’s for sure – this ain’t your grandma’s Fusion. Soppa hops behind the wheel and proceeds to rip through the Hoonigan’s yard, shredding rubber the entire time. Even better, his Fusion emits that familiar uncorked Coyote sound, which is absolutely brutal. Now this is the four-door “Mustang” Ford should be building.
We’ve always thought the Fusion was a good looking machine, and it’s also rather practical. All it ever needed was a change in drive wheels and powertrain. Seeing how easy it was for Soppa to make it happen, Ford doesn’t really have an excuse, now do they?
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