Thanks everyone for the comments.
No welding is "required" to convert the car over. The rear suspension mounting pieces have been welded to the body instead of drilling and bolting them. With our experience in Mustangs these mounting points get put under alot of stress during hard launches and banging gears.
We used a plasma cutter for most of the cutting on the car. You have to remove the factory spare tire well and surrounding sheet metal. The factory tunnel has to be removed both in the front and by the rear seat. There are some brackets that have to have their spot welds drilled out to remove.
In order to get the rear tires to fit we cut the front half of the inner wheel wells out, removed a good amount of the floor, and welded everything back in making sure the factory interior pieces would still fit.
The motor is a 347 stroker with Scat crank, rods, and JE pistons. The transmission is a new Z-spec Motorsport 2.95 first gear T-5. It will be fuel injected using an A9L Mustang computer and mass air wiring harness.
We really haven't sat down and added up the cost of the project yet. Just haven't had time to go through the folder and put everything in a speadsheet, so I can't give you an exact dollar amount. Not including the cost of buying the car new, you could easily buy another one with what's been put into it so far. That's just parts and doesn't include all the labor that this project has taken.
Curtis
O&C Racing