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Slow process. Baby steps. Got the air conditioning bracketry bolted on and belt in place. Also bolted on the power steering bracket and rear steam hole block offs New Mantic clutch showed up as well. Pics of that soon
Looks simple but a royal pain in the *** to get the bracket centered and the two lower hidden bolts tight before mounting the compressor and the upper bolt and stud/nut
Drive belt in place
Alternator and power steering bracket. Three main bolts have to be tightened with an open ended 15mm wrench
View from the other side. Water pump idler pulley, alternator and belt coming
So far got the clutch pressure plate on, disc centered with plastic alignment tool and waiting for the bell housing and loom brackets. Fun stuff
Then it's pre assemble the Trans to the rearend and torque tube
Car was tuned by Tom Billinger from Slinger, WI
He popped my 3800 Bosch injectors in, threw some new data at it
And began to work his magic Within about ninety minutes I was
Off and running. Very strong combination that makes terrific
Torque with near stock civility
I would highly recommend this guy to any cheese heads that need
Their combo to perform well
Well, ran it about 250 miles then dumped the break in oil. Converted it to Mobil One 0W40 and at temp it has 30-32 lbs of pressure with idle @ 875
Which makes sense since my STD polished crank ended up with main clearances in the .0022"-.0023" range.
Valve train is very quiet; so far
Put another 250 miles on it yesterday. Beautiful weather; in the low thirties. Headed up to Green Bay and took a few photos in the parking lot there
Tune is getting a Lil touch up tomorrow and we might strap it down for a few pulls just to check the torque band and make sure my valve train is stable. So far upshifts in the 65-6600 range seems to keep it happy. If so; I'll post the graph late Tuesday
Also got my Tick master today. Gotta get that in too
So this shop; Endless Motorsports in West Allis told me their Mustang dyno is a soul crusher. Take what you think it should dyno and chop thirty off that. My original goal was 440; so I guess I figured it to be in the low fours. No matter the number, I really wanted a clean torque band with stable valve train.
First pull was 408/416
Second one 412/410
Third was 412.6/412.2
There was no wide band in my header and no plug wire hookup Printout stopped at 6200 but the tuning computer he was looking at showed 6750 rpms
Next up is installing the Tick master to alleviate my second gear shifting issues
Hoping Shane @ RPM is right about that call
Then it's off to Union Grove ; if they're still open on the weekends to get my ET slip
3.42 gears mean the sixty foot will suffer trying to prevent needing a tow home
The car "feels" like an 11.3ish @ 125 range
It's currently getting 27-28 mpgs on the freeway at 75
I would spring for a FAST over a modified LS6 intake. A friend had one on his car, granted this was before the fast (or just as they came out) was available but the 90mm snout which was glued to the LS6 intake would separate.
Wow! I don't remember seeing a 50 HP gain from a manifold & TB
swap before. Don't remember seeing a 2nd Torque hump like
That NA either, What did the tuner say, what are cam specs again?
Reasons for not going to, through 6500 RPM? Is the dip from
Letting off @ ~6200 ish?
Great results! Must respond like a beast.
09-13-2016, 01:08 AM
