mustanggarage
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hey bronco, I had one question about your heads. did you paint them with alumablast or something like that?
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If I could post pics, I would. But Photobucket is still acting up and I only have access to my phone from work. I received my new hood...2" steel cowl. I also found 24# injectors and matching maf, which is also sitting at the house. I sucked it up and ordered some Comp roller rockers, 1.7's for 3/8 stud. I've been putting it off hoping to find some cheaper ones or maybe a good used set, but no luck. I called Jegs and ended up getting them for $350. Still expensive, but about $50 cheaper than Summit. I may sell some spare parts just to offset the cost lol! These cars have a way of $3-500ing you to death!
my email address is mustangmccance@gmail.com send my your name and address, and I will see how much it costs to ship them to you.I would be willing to purchase those from you. I have a couple other project motors going on.
I started on the subframe connectors and torque box reinforcements this evening. It's tack welded into place, but I need to get some gas for the mig welder if I want to finish. However, I'm thinking about finding someone who can weld them on a lift. It was tight lying under it, even with the car up as high as I could get it.
Pushrods are on order and should be in tomorrow or Tuesday. Once I get them, I can start finishing the motor. Pushrods, rocker arms, intake, distributor, ignition, alternator, power steering pump, radiator, valve covers, etc.
Other new parts I have here include a 1" intake spacer, FMS 9mm plug wires, aluminum 3-row radiator, cold air intake tube, and I even ordered some new plastic wiring harness retaining clips (half of them broke during disassembly).
I'm hoping I can get everything back together and running by Thursday. I can get a state inspection Friday and go on the 1st annual Mustang cruise with the local club on Saturday.
I had the tires sitting on cribbing blocks that I built, so the suspension was loaded (tires on the blocks). So far, I've just tack-welded the torque box plates on and bolted the crossmembers to the seat bolts. I also cleaned and painted the parts that will get covered up on both the new parts and underneath the car. So it should be ok. I just wish I had a little more wiggle room under there...or maybe go on a crash diet lol!make sure it is a 4 post lift. you have to make sure the suspension is loaded when you weld the subframe connectors in. the way I did it on my 94 was we positioned them on the ground and tack welded them in good and solid. then lifted the car and finish welding them. It seemed to work ok. but everything I have read suggests doing it on a 4 post lift.
your experience sounds like me working on a car lol. one thing leads to another. last night I was so happy with myself, I had been having a weird idle issue with my 89 ever since I built the 331 stroker. it would idle to fast when I put it in gear. I could adjust the idle, do the base idle reset, it would idle fine until I drove it then it would idle to fast when I pulled up to a stop sign. I bought an adjustable idle air spacer thinking that would fix it, but it made it worse so I put on a new idle air valve and it seems like it is finally working right. but I was working inside my garage and the exhaust fumes (I thought were getting bad so I shut it off.) then I discovered I had gas leaking all over my floor under the car. I had to go into work for a little while right then so I could not spend any time figuring out what happened. my guess is when I put the new mufflers in I damaged a fuel line somehow. crap, so this weekend I get to figure out what I broke now.