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#6595185 - 09/18/12 07:05 PM Who likes the 80's?
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Update on my progress ;\) So the mustang has taken awhile to revive, I had it going and then blew a head gasket last summer. I'm not sure if I was too aggressive on the baseline tune, whether it was the used weldon regulator with the split diaphgram not providing solid fuel pressure, or lifting a head under boost with the original head gaskets and head bolts caused the burnt gasket, but its alive again. Its repair got put on the burner while I went to ARP studs, Cometic MLS gaskets, and changed headers because the studs interferred with my race header adapter plates. I also bought a house finally so I wouldn't have to deal with my landlord complaining about my jackstand rides \:\)

This time I treated the topend to a junkyard GT40 setup from a '96 explorer succumbed to by the cash for clunkers "program." I had the heads gone through and put new springs on. The motor is equivalent to a 93 cobra motor sans the camshaft, but it has longtube headers and a complete 3" exhaust for the blower. I'm tuning the car with one of the early aftermarket programmable fuel injection systems with a Pentium 1 based laptop and a DOS GUI interface, trying to tame some large low impedence injectors, so it has been slow progress. It's not like some of the newer systems where you set the target A/F for a range and off you go. I watch the AEM A/F meter and make adjustments in the different menus by repeating driving scenarios with different loads on the motor. Worse than texting while driving when you don't have someone with you :P Anyway I took some video/pictures last night and painstakenly learned Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 last night for a whole 40 seconds of youtube goodness. Enjoy my masterpiece ;P

http://youtu.be/gZFOBV09HGE?hd=1








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#6595236 - 09/18/12 07:36 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: hustler]
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God damn it, that's clean. Love how you incorporated cruise control into a Momo steering wheel. I'm trying to solve the same dilemma, because I want a smaller wheel, and it would be great to keep the cruise control. I did not even think about using buttons out of Fox.
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#6595280 - 09/18/12 07:55 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: ReplicaR]
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admittedly i can't take credit for the cruise control plate/buttons, that was a saleen jobber supposedly only on the 89's before the airbags came on the 90's where they deleted the momo steering wheels altogether. You will be even more disappointed that its disabled since I tossed the factory computer. Saleen did a few things right even though they were early on just known for a body kit, re-done interiors, and some suspension parts. I just liked the styling so it let me work on the engine which is where most of my interest lay at the time.

The backing plate for the cruise control is sought after, but you can find them occasionally, but not worth fighting with the collectors over in price, would think there are other alternatives or just give it up honestly.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00067XZAY/?tag...c_df_B00067XZAY

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#6595471 - 09/18/12 09:06 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: hustler]
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Very nice, in for more vids!

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#6595535 - 09/18/12 09:33 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: vwkaferman]
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sounds good, what are you putting to the ground (ballpark)?
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#6595631 - 09/18/12 10:17 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: OnyxEros]
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its hard to say i've changed a lot of stuff from when i was running the motor before. it only made around 350whp before with too small of injectors (stock with FMU, and it was lean on the dyno with lots of timing pulled) and no tune with stock heads and 2.5" exhaust. Remember a stock tuned 5.0 made 190whp back in the day. the stock e7 heads and intake were power killers along with the lower compression. I had the a/c, smog pump, and clutch fan on before as well which are gone now so less drag. That was in 2003. It's got better flowing heads now, larger diameter valves, and a bigger exhaust system so less backpressure under boost. I have plenty of injector and pump now, so realistically i'm thinking 400whp+ I don't plan on doing anything else except maybe a methanol kit so I can finish the other car. Stock 5.0 blocks give up around the 500whp mark so I will keep it tuned between there and beat on it a little bit. I'll probably frag the transmission anyway at that power level. Most of them were only good for 265 ft. lbs of torque. I love the way the T5 shifts though.
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#6596279 - 09/19/12 09:23 AM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: hustler]
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Looking great man. Love Foxes \:\)
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#6596289 - 09/19/12 09:26 AM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: ElectronVtec]
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lol you go back and forth on that car. i take it you no longer want DD duty on it?
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#6596541 - 09/19/12 10:44 AM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: kyden]
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My gf has told me the same thing, you haven't seen most of it \:\) I tried to sell it half assed, but I really didn't have enough done to market it at the price I wanted. It was still not tuned and I had a really bad rear main seal leak which I finally fixed as well. I still plan to daily it, its just hard making that plunge with a practically new paintjob. I think after I put the modified original tank back in to work with my fuel cell giving me 25 gallons capacity of gas along with a fuel level sender telling me when the tank is empty I can actually start driving it to work. I need to lean out the fuel though its definitely going through 92 octane which isn't cheap.
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#6596821 - 09/19/12 12:09 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: hustler]
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 Originally Posted By: hustler

The backing plate for the cruise control is sought after, but you can find them occasionally, but not worth fighting with the collectors over in price, would think there are other alternatives or just give it up honestly.


Any chance you can take a few picture of the plate and wiring, and pm those to me? I think I can just fab up something myself.
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#6597208 - 09/19/12 01:35 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: ReplicaR]
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Even better.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Saleen-cruise-co...c9d198f&vxp=mtr

http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/555784/fullsize/cruise-control-switch-bracket.jpg

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#6597698 - 09/19/12 04:34 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: hustler]
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I dig it. Very nice.
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#6598100 - 09/19/12 08:09 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: hustler]
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#6598185 - 09/19/12 08:48 PM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: scootergeek]
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turbo and MS2 stand alone and ill split the block for you in no time. haha

nice looking car dude
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#6598696 - 09/20/12 07:35 AM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: hustler]
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i remember seeing the car even before the blower. ohh the old irc days.
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#6599243 - 09/20/12 10:53 AM Re: Who likes the 80's? [Re: kyden]
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Like it!
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