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Tuesday morning I asked my buddy if he was in this year. By nightfall we had an engine. And this car is our entry, which he paid $400 to drag out of the the junkyard.  Got mounts, accessory brackets and some random rear end crap at the junkyard on Wednesday, dressed the engine and put a ($7!) timing belt in it on Thursday:  New and busted, old hotness. Good Friday saw a junkyard fuel pump (car is carbed, motor is EFI) and belt tensioner. Motor should be bolted in by lunchtime Tuesday, then on to electrical. Should be fun, wires were indiscriminately cut while pulling the last engine because the plan was to send the car (back) to the crusher. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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Apr 16, 2017 23:09
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Weeeell dragged is a strong word. It was a running, driving 3.8 car and it only spent a day in the staging area at PNP, he worked there at the time. Same deal as 1500quid's Scirocco basically. The origin of this car is a story for another post though.
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Apr 17, 2017 00:26
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A line lock is a safety item right? Cause I mean if we took it out we'd have no brakes 
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Apr 19, 2017 16:23
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 turn your volume down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGCYCdUfUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN0wIq93KSE im going to bed Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 05:41
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So I poly-filled the motor mounts last Sunday (shut up I don't do well with sticky goopy things): Swap Day Tuesday I woke up with a pretty nasty cold. Engine was in by lunch as planned, interestingly the firewall clearance is poo poo on the Lima in a Fox, made dropping it in a little tricky.  Important work of the day done, I alternated between replacing drag shocks with junkyard OEMs, starting work on the fuel system for the carb-EFI swap and trying not to barf:  While my teammate contemplated why Ford contracted out their power steering pump, bracket and pulley designs to Satan:  And practiced some kinda witchcraft to weld the crack in the cast manifold.  Wednesday was a junkyard day. The transmission that came with the is an A4LD, and our gracious host (a former Ford master tech) minced no words explaining all the ways it is an abomination and a plague unto this earth. More importantly, the A4LD is absurdly long for such a tiny 4 speed, about 6" longer than the previous AOD. So a different driveshaft and a way to move the trans crossmember (along with half a dozen little incidentals) were needed. Driveshaft was easy but some jerk grabbed the only set of appropriate crossmember brackets before we got there, so that problem got solved with a chunk of tube:  (also check dat return line, sheathed with hose because P-clamping it through that hole would have been  )The Fox platform can (kinda) trace its lineage back to the Pinto, and now that it's got a Pinto engine too it needs a fuel system worthy of the name:  I didn't take any pictures during the wiring process, it was mainly a series of very emphatic conversations between the three of us interspersed with a splice or two hundred and I missed a bunch of it between sleeping in like the lazy gently caress I am and parts runs. Other pics: Tasty  Hoosier brand undercoating  ...which maybe wasn't all that effective  Well there goes our shot at numbers-matching original paint Barrett-Jackson money (never mind the brown, but this red shows elsewhere as well. Maybe we should sand it to see if we've got a dragon mural too?)  Authentic pick-n-pull paint pen.  We've still got a couple gremlins, mainly related to the ignition module and the wide gaping holes in the wiring diagrams in the back of the Haynes manual (hey if anybody has access to FSM stuff or even alldata/MOD PM me) and a whole bunch of loose ends to tie up but that's the most successful weekend of wrenching I've had in a long rear end time.
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Apr 23, 2017 05:42
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Rime posted:Wait, those behemoths only have a 4 cylinder under the hood? The hell did they use the rest of the front acreage for? Slung Blade and Seat Safety Switch's Lincoln is very much a V8 car (which makes less power than many modern NA 4bangers, granted), the Mustang is getting a V8 to 4cyl swap and isn't really much of a behemoth.
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Apr 29, 2017 17:37
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Started off yesterday by un-deleting the sway bar: And since this sway bar is way too stiff for dirt we made the problem worse by paying money for good links:  (they were the only ones available) "I don't even wanna try to remember how many times I've cut and welded this stupid piece of fuckin pipe" "you don't have to, the welds are all right there, you can count them  "  needed a little squish in front of the dump to clear the new trans crossmember  Even with the muffler it's still pretty loud, will definitely (forget to) bring earplugs. Forgot to snap this during the swap, we technically have structural carpets now. That's the trans crossmember bolt, the piece of tube we grabbed was a blonde one too short to pick up off the subframe on both sides and we weren't about to spend another hour making a second one.  Rest of the day was spent headscratching over the EFI conversion issues. It doesn't seem to like our ignition switch, and is failing to retard during cranking. Seems to be backfeeding in a couple other circuits for some reason. Will likely just bypass most of the 84 harness and do a pushbutton start, etc. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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Apr 30, 2017 18:50
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We took a weekend off, and then lots of poo poo got done today (while I was out fixing trucks). Electrical is completely sorted, $15 eBay  MAXIMUM RACE COLD AIR intake (cone filter MAF adapter and some PVC pipe) is going together tomorrow, sway bar was replaced again to get it on the correct side of the power steering hoses ( ) and homie plans on driving it to work this week, maybe the weekend.When the solution to your gremlins also happens to be a part of the path to Valhalla, shiny and chrome:  (thanks hosed up ignition switch for finally giving me an opportunity to put push button start in something, I've been waiting for this since I was like 10 omgomgomg  )Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 05:57 on May 9, 2017 |
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May 9, 2017 05:08
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And a button that says DO NOT PUSH
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May 9, 2017 18:50
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Shrugs Not Drugs posted:The origin of this car is a story for another post though. Right, so here's where this stupid car came from. I was stalling to give myself time to find all the old pictures, but they're mostly gone.  2005, my buddy gets a 1984 2.3 5spd Mustang for his 16th birthday. Decent shape, non-running oh and hey it's unregisterable (I can't remember why, but he got ripped off basically). Well this sucks. Ehh whatever, life goes on. He gets a job at PNP. He found another car just before we graduated, by chance an 84 as well but this one's a 3.8/auto, $400. The first car had some parts stripped off, and went off to his cousin's ranch to serve as a scratching post for cattle. So pretty normal first car stuff. I got my Buick, we put CBs in them, flipped the lids on our air cleaners cause it sounds cool and did burnouts everywhere. The car got junkyard 3.73s and a posi that we rebuilt, and rather than follow the OE spec for clutch preload we put all the shims that would fit. the springs were fully compressed and the last clutch went in with a BFH. It's still tighter than a new OE unit to this day and we haven't touched it. He does an apprenticeship in Manitoba and it makes the commute every year until it throws a rod in Saskatchewan. His dad loaded a lovely CVH Escort onto a U-haul car dolly, delivered it to him, dragged the Mustang back home. Two months later he's back and buys a rotten Thunderbird with a good 3.8, and bet his dad (an ex-Ford master tech) a bottle he couldn't pull the motor in less than an hour. We saw some poo poo that night. 40 minutes, no cut wires or hoses, all the old rotten Ford connectors and 20 year old hoses fully intact. Flat rate is a hell of a drug. So let's go racing. College is over (for one of us, lol I just finished that poo poo this year), disposable income a-plenty, 2008's shitshow made bringing Murrican engine parts in cheap. A nice toasty flat tappet 351W got built. Had a real good season, ran low 14s and later high 13s on 255 section Radial T/As at 3500 feet. Membership in the club was optional in our class, but if a non-member came in first for the season they didn't get the full prize or the big fuckoff trophy. We figured the membership fee wasn't worth gambling with, so of course we came in first.  Second season, rod let go. Let's go faster. So the second 351 got built. Roller block, 'wtf is an idle' cam, 215cc AFR heads, 6AL-2, slicks, all the whizzy poo poo. Even got a brand new carb, no more junkyard Holleys (until we realized just how poo poo Edelbrock carbs are, and went back to a Holley ) Result: Broke 100MPH in the 1/4 and ran 13.6 bouncing off redline for the last ~400 feet. So we grabbed an AOD and a 4R70W, made a hybrid of the two and did a bunch of homebrew valvebody mods (each shift felt like being rearended by a freight train), and after ironing out a few more bugs got down into the high 12s. Lifted the LF wheel every launch, would lift both with the front sway bar in but it was faster without. And then they closed our race track. We built a trailer and hauled it to Edmonton for a couple more seasons, but it just wasn't worth the time, fuel and effort to do any serious racing anymore, the car was starting to twist up real bad from those launches, rust was getting to the point where tech guys were starting to make a bunch of noise and his son was born that winter so he had a lot of other stuff to worry about. The car just kinda sat there rusting for a few years. The transmission was pulled a year ago and went into a motorhome, the engine and all (well most of) the go-fast bits got pulled a week before Switch got the 2TM2TW ball rolling, in preparation to crush the thing. So yeah, it's been saved from the crusher twice now.
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McTinkerson:  K so holy poo poo I am never 5spd swapping an automatic Fox body again. Pain in the rear end. But is does drive a fuckton better than with the A4LD that came with the 2.3 and the manual ECU is a lot less fussy so a bunch more of our little gremlins went away. Newerish PNP MotoMaster AWs* on the front, Grabbers in the rear, ground clearance acquired.  The shift knob is 1/2"-20, same as my truck. So it got the first knob I made for it (like 2 weeks before Marty did it  ), with a yeah-we-did-that shift boot: We'll have to forego installing the nice seats, fog lights and a bunch of other stuff we'd planned and/or bought for it but I'm still thrilled with the result. Car drives impeccably well and I can't wait to go do more adventures in it. *Non-Canadians: Motomaster tires are pretty much bottom of the barrel Chinese garbage marketed with a heapin' helpin' of nationalistic bullshit. The AW is the cheapest tire on this line, and was designed in the mid-'90s. In this size I could have bought a pair brand new for $32 apiece, but the ones I found at PNP had newer DOTs than the ones the Cambodian Tyrant wanted to sell me and were half the price. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 03:30 on May 29, 2017 |
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May 29, 2017 03:22
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I think we're shooting for 3. Would go earlier but mr. co-driver works 6-4 Thursday night/Friday morning and while he said he's going to catch up in the car I'm not sure if sleeping with this exhaust is going to be very restful. Or possible.
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May 31, 2017 16:26
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McTinkerson posted:Anyways! How goes it guys?! https://youtu.be/XHEhQgoal3Q Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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Jun 3, 2017 20:53
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Lincoln locker.
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