I figured I'd start one of these to try to keep me motivated in this car, and see if I can get any suggestions on paths to take, or help spot any screw-ups I'm doing.
My plans for this car have changed in the last year and half: I moved back home after my mom passed, sold my place (not having a mortgage again is nice), and bought a '12 GT to drive every day. That means the fox can go from the "multi-purpose" role of dd/show/cruiser/racer to mostly just a 40/60 split of the last two. Still intend to drive this thing to work on nice days, but I'll have much less emphasis on creature comforts (not that there were many in the first place, it is an almost 25 year old car after all). I also want to do this in stages, more for the sake of sanity and getting used to things before diving into them than budget concerns.
So here's what I'm starting with, most of you know this car already, but it's nice to have reference:
Specs:
'89 GT
2001 Explorer 302 (GT40P)
TFS Stage 1 cam
TFS spring kit
TFS Street intake
T5 conversion (was an aod car till i blew up 4th gear)
4.10 geared rear
Misc. bolt ons (shorty headers, 2.5" exhaust, 3g conversion to name the big ones)
Heres the pile of stuff waiting to go on, some of which (heads) I've had a while:
In the "new" pile is:
TFS Twisted Wedge Heads (I had these on before the explorer motor and crashed the valves, just got em fixed and milled to a 58cc chamber a couple weeks ago)
Fel-Pro 1011-2 head and 1250-S3 intake gaskets
T5 rebuild kit which i'm not going to use now
FRPP Steel Flywheel
McLeod Super StreetPro 10-spline clutch (being exchanged right now for a 26-Spline)
FRPP Carbon 8.8 rebuild kit
TFS diff cover
Accufab 70mm t/b and egr spacer
Continued in next post
My plans for this car have changed in the last year and half: I moved back home after my mom passed, sold my place (not having a mortgage again is nice), and bought a '12 GT to drive every day. That means the fox can go from the "multi-purpose" role of dd/show/cruiser/racer to mostly just a 40/60 split of the last two. Still intend to drive this thing to work on nice days, but I'll have much less emphasis on creature comforts (not that there were many in the first place, it is an almost 25 year old car after all). I also want to do this in stages, more for the sake of sanity and getting used to things before diving into them than budget concerns.
So here's what I'm starting with, most of you know this car already, but it's nice to have reference:
Specs:
'89 GT
2001 Explorer 302 (GT40P)
TFS Stage 1 cam
TFS spring kit
TFS Street intake
T5 conversion (was an aod car till i blew up 4th gear)
4.10 geared rear
Misc. bolt ons (shorty headers, 2.5" exhaust, 3g conversion to name the big ones)
Heres the pile of stuff waiting to go on, some of which (heads) I've had a while:
In the "new" pile is:
TFS Twisted Wedge Heads (I had these on before the explorer motor and crashed the valves, just got em fixed and milled to a 58cc chamber a couple weeks ago)
Fel-Pro 1011-2 head and 1250-S3 intake gaskets
T5 rebuild kit which i'm not going to use now
FRPP Steel Flywheel
McLeod Super StreetPro 10-spline clutch (being exchanged right now for a 26-Spline)
FRPP Carbon 8.8 rebuild kit
TFS diff cover
Accufab 70mm t/b and egr spacer
Continued in next post