mustang progress

[GP99GT]

heres how i started:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5774/progress001ve9.jpg

heres where im at after 2 hours of work:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6545/progress002ow4.jpg

need that stupid special tool to take off the fuel lines and then its mostly just bolts til i get the heads off...

also, i always had a tapping on the pass side, found out why...one of the rockers is loose, but the bolt holding it on is tight. weird.

[SupermanX24]

What tool is it for the fuel line?

[GP99GT]

its that dumb thing that clamps over the line like a clam....i actually found out you dont really need to undo the lines, theres enough play to just move the rail out of the way

[Teds89IROC]

I think your engine is in backwards, why is the distributor in the front? :lol:

[bubba428]

i JUST baught a set today at advance auto...EVERY SIZE for $10

[deadtrend1]

nice super mega ultra extra long coil wire going over the fan!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

just kiddin, its always fun in the beginning taking it all apart. Then frustrating when its taking too long to get it all back together, but then its worth it in the end. :)

You gonna spray bomb the engine bay with most of the motor apart there? What all you doing? Explorer heads, cam, intake and stuff?

[GP99GT]

already has the explorer intake, im putting on ported stock heads and 1.7 RR's. and yeah im gonna attempt to clean up as much crap as i can while im in there, heads are painted black, valve covers i just painted black today....should look pretty sweet when its all said and done

i would be going with a cam too, but i dont have the money, and i want to drive the car sometime this summer so the stock cam will have to do.

[deadtrend1]

Cool cool man. Happy wrenchin'!!

[NJSPEEDER]

that is good for only a few hours work. keep us updated. :)

[GP99GT]

todays progress...got the fuel rails off, got the lower intake off, took off the alternator bracket, the P/S bracket, and other stuff attached to the heads. also brought my valve covers back home from work, and my ported heads too, so theres pictures of those.

as it sits now:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4185/progress003um5.jpg

where the parts of the motor are living for now

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9968/progress004sx5.jpg

one of the heads (other one is sitting in the back seat of the lumina, im just lazy)

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/582/progress005na2.jpg

annnd valve covers. hopefully the black theme will come together and look decent

http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/2027/progress006eu8.jpg

stuff left to do...take off the headers, take out the head bolts...and i should be home free. then its reassembly and spending money on head bolts, rockers, etc

[j0n]

w00t looking goooooood congrats on the progress

[deadtrend1]

stuff left to do...take off the headers, take out the head bolts...and i should be home free. then its reassembly and spending money on head bolts, rockers, etc

Gaskets are more expensive then they seem also. Then I usually go other tune ups when stuff like that is off. Oil, plugs and so on .... so add in antifreeze, belt, pcv valve, 2+2 cleaner, ect. The you spend 200 bucks on other things you didnt think of when you started doing it. :)

[GP99GT]

just ordered a head stud kit, 1.7 roller rockers, and an a/c delete kit

[maroman88]

way to get the carpet all dirty lol

[Jared1970Chevelle]

hey i got a ton of mustang goodies for sale.... aerospace components brake kit...2 piston front with modified spindals and 5 lug with d/s rotors..... global west tubular lower control arms...

lemme know... cheapp....

[GP99GT]

ill let you know when i actually have money again :lol:

all i want to do right now is get this thing back on the road for the summer

[Blacdout96]

wow, good work on that thing man. whats the difference between mustang heads and explorer heads, more airflow?

[GP99GT]

yeah explorers have GT40 heads and intake, basically what the 93 cobra has. i only have the explorer intake, the heads are stock mustang heads but theyre ported

[Blacdout96]

They have GT-40 heads!!! man if i knew that id of taken a friends motor of his, he had an explorer block, and i always wondered y he wouldnt let it go so cheap, I was like dude its not like its out of a mustang or anyhting, man was a sneaky bastard lol.

[GP99GT]

yeah...the 96-97 has GT40 heads, 98+ has GT40P which has a different spark plug angle which makes it hard to use with certain headers, but they flow the best

[Fast92RS]

way to get the carpet all dirty lol

You beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing...:lol:

[GP99GT]

eh the carpet already was dirty, and the stuff i laid on there is actually pretty clean

[Teds89IROC]

nice progress!

[GP99GT]

lunch break update...one head is off, the other one is just about ready to come off..then i get to scrape my life away

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2166/progress008md4.jpg

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2419/progress009lr0.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4641/progress010sk3.jpg

[deadtrend1]

:woot:

[Blacdout96]

damn those cylinder heads look like they got alot of cc's in them, how low was your compression ratio with those heads?

[GP99GT]

i dunno, theyre the stock heads...probably 9.0:1 or something

[GP99GT]

victory.

PS, i hate the AIR system with a passion...thank god its gone now

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7922/progress011yj0.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5986/progress012yk2.jpg

[The Fixer]

Very nice, that's coming along great! I suggest you cover the block up with some heavy-duty plastic trashbags, then clean the strut towers/firewall and paint everything. It's not a lot of work, for a huge improvement in looks under the hood.

[GP99GT]

eh i just wanna drive the car....no time for painting :lol:

its so nice out, i wanna enjoy it for the summer

[Teds89IROC]

lookin good, when you call it quits for the day, I suggest spraying inside the cylinders with WD40 to protect them against any form of precipitation/condensation, unless of course you're going balls to the wall and throwing the new heads on tonight :lol:

[GP99GT]

hmm good call ted...i cant put the heads on til my studs get here tuesday

[The Fixer]

eh i just wanna drive the car....no time for painting

i cant put the heads on til my studs get here tuesday

Then you have time to clean and spraybomb between now and then! :lol:

[GP99GT]

lol i have to spend all day tomorrow scraping off the old head gaskets, then monday i have work...hmmm i should take tuesday off

[The Fixer]

hmmm i should take tuesday off

DOOO EEEEEEEEET. I might play hookey on Tuesday to do my brakes/shocks on the Jeep, and new fenderwells on the Monte. Gotta see how many sick days I have left for the year first. :)

[Teds89IROC]

all day scraping off head gaskets, what are you using, your thumbnail? :lol: pick up one of those plastic scrapers that you put a razor blade in for scraping paint off glass...save you a lot of time

[Ian]

even easier...get a 90* die grinder with a roloc adapter and buzz all that crap off in 2 minutes 8)

[deadtrend1]

all day scraping off head gaskets, what are you using, your thumbnail? :lol: pick up one of those plastic scrapers that you put a razor blade in for scraping paint off glass...save you a lot of time

hes a smart man here! You dunno how much i had to scrape when I resealed the L98 in the 86TA last month. .... :evil:

[The Fixer]

even easier...get a 90* die grinder with a roloc adapter and buzz all that crap off in 2 minutes 8)

And if you don't have air, you can get the one that goes in the end of a drill. I used my drill/roloc wheel to clean the gasket crap off the intake manifold, and it went quick. If you do it with the roloc, just make sure you have a GOOD ShopVac to suck all the dust outta the piston holes.

[GP99GT]

we've got roloc discs at my work, so maybe ill wait til monday or tuesday to get the gaskets off

[GP99GT]

both heads are on...torque wrench is broken so i have to get another one and torque them down still.

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8316/progress013xk6.jpg

and my new proform 1.7 RR's

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/7470/progress014rh7.jpg

shiny stuff makes me happy

[Teds89IROC]

blueeee!!! nice matt!

[Blacdout96]

aw man, dude those rocker arms are FTW man, nice color and pick.

[GP99GT]

yeah actaully those rocker arms suck....torquing them down, a bunch of the pedestals broke in half

[deadtrend1]

yeah actaully those rocker arms suck....torquing them down, a bunch of the pedestals broke in half

I was going to say I prefer Crane over Proform

[BigAls87Z28]

Pro Mags, only way to go.
Chromemolly > Aluminum.

[GP99GT]

i ordered ford motorsport pedestals and crane shims...and apparently i was doing it wrong anyway so....yeah

[Blacdout96]

You got aluminum pedestals? FTL on that one, oh well.......at least they look nice....until you putthe valve cover back on :lol:

[GP99GT]

k so i took a week off from the car, now im back at it. lower intake is on, fuel rails are bolted back down, electrical connections are made...rockers still need to go on, then valve covers, then upper intake...and then i pray that it runs.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4895/progress016qp7.jpg

how the car has been sitting for the past few weeks...ugh pollen

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4686/progress018tt3.jpg

and this one goes out to Big Al...yes, i Frammed it before i slammed it. (FRAM filter is only for the first hour or so of running to get all the s*** out of it, then a WIX is going on)

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6717/progress017kh7.jpg

[Camvill]

nothing wrong with fram >_<

[GP99GT]

nothing wrong with fram >_<

theres a lot wrong with fram, except for the price :lol:

[Teds89IROC]

is fram really crap?

[Blacdout96]

I use fram all the time, only I use the tough guard.

[maroman88]

i always use fram, air and oil

[GP99GT]

fram is cheap for a reason...google it

[Blacdout96]

well my camaros not an LS1 or anything, so a K&N or Wix is not needed for my ride, as long as it keeps the oil clean enough im happy with it.

[ss01layinwheel]

Fram = poo....

[deadtrend1]

I wont use Fram ever ....

[GP99GT]

doesnt matter what kind of motor you have, blackd...fram sucks any way you look at it.

anyway, more pictures from the hour or so i spent on it tonight...rockers are on and torqued down. i put on the valve covers and upper intake just to see what it looks like, and it turns out the 1.7 rockers are a tad too big to fit in the valve covers so i gotta grind the baffles out. but anyway, looks pretty sweet i think.

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2923/progress019lw3.jpg


http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/9354/progress020nz6.jpg

[Mike]

sweet matt

[Jared1970Chevelle]

loooking to buy an offroad X pipe???? i got one.... practically brand new.... 100 buckssss

[GP99GT]

already have an ORX

[bubba428]

I use a Moble 1 filter and Q-Power....any who....all this work...you gonna be faster than my jacked up V6?

[GP99GT]

I use a Moble 1 filter and Q-Power....any who....all this work...you gonna be faster than my jacked up V6?

if youre only running low 14's like you said....yes

[slasherbarb]

i use an AC Delco filter and Mobil 1..i like to keep OEM parts on the car, well, to a point...:-)

[BigAls87Z28]

PureONE and Mobil 1 every time, every car.

[GP99GT]

lol @ purolator

wix/napa gold owns you

[bubba428]

if youre only running low 14's like you said....yes

you do realize I wasn't serious right???

[BigAls87Z28]

PureONE is said to be one of the best oil fitlers on the market. Some guy on TGO did a engineering study on a handful. Of course, Fram came in dead last, Wix was good and so did Purolator and PureONE filters. I havent seen anyone around here who sold Wix, and when I worked at Straus, its all we had.

[GP99GT]

no NAPAs down there Al? they sell "napa gold" which is wix with a different name

edit: oil filter comparison http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilterstudy.html

[bubba428]

Moble one FTW!!!

[deadtrend1]

no NAPAs down there Al? they sell "napa gold" which is wix with a different name

edit: oil filter comparison http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilterstudy.html

I use napa filters alot. No clue they were WIX. Thats cool. At work we use wix on our diesel fuel tank.

[BigAls87Z28]

There are some, but I can hit Autozone, Advance Auto, or Pep Boys before I hit a Napa. 2 of the 3 carry PureONE's.

Here is teh Wix info.



Wix (http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilterstudy.html#wix)

Another quality oil filter similar in design to the Purolator.
It has metal end caps on the filter element, a standard nitrile
anti-drainback valve, and a seemingly good flow. They are
manufactured by the Dana corporation. These appear to have a depth
gradient filter element, which uses cotton fibers to progressively
trap smaller particles as they get deeper in the filter. This helps
maintain good flow as the filter gets plugged.


Seems they are on par with the Purolator.

[deadtrend1]

There are some, but I can hit Autozone, Advance Auto, or Pep Boys before I hit a Napa. 2 of the 3 carry PureONE's.

Here is teh Wix info.



Wix (http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilterstudy.html#wix)

Another quality oil filter similar in design to the Purolator.
It has metal end caps on the filter element, a standard nitrile
anti-drainback valve, and a seemingly good flow. They are
manufactured by the Dana corporation. These appear to have a depth
gradient filter element, which uses cotton fibers to progressively
trap smaller particles as they get deeper in the filter. This helps
maintain good flow as the filter gets plugged.


Seems they are on par with the Purolator.

cool, I use them both

[CJDZ24_Z28]

I see it all came together but there is no way i would go thru all that tear down and not cam it. I remember years back when i used to have my 306 Notchback i got a barely used e303 cam for like $55.00. Wish i could do that now lol the cam that just went into my 01 SS on Saturday cost $400

[GP99GT]

E303's are crapola anyway..decent cam but outdated

we'll see how it does with the stock cam and these heads, and then ill spray it til it dies