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    What combination of H/C/I will wwork best?

    Go with an Edelbrock manifold over the Trick Flow, I never hear anything good about Trick Flow intakes and I'm lukewarm over my Track Heat.
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    5-speed or built AOD?

    Nothing more amusing as a street/strip app than a 5 speed...gotta love banging gears. You can build an AOD to work well, and it will usually outrun a 5-speed at the track unless the guy driving the 5-speed is a good driver, and lets be honest most arent but think they are. Things to think...
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    swapped explorer intake on, runs rich/bogs, please help!

    Well if you want to ET, youre better to bog a little and pedal it. I can't hook up for sh-t on the street with my combo, if I'm in it hard I will be sideways through all of first gear, and still sideways through second gear up to about 70 mph before I hook.....but I can still manage high 13's...
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    Cam Question for stock Motor.

    Intake sure....but is it really worth the money spending $150+ dollars for a cam (for a cheapie), not to mention the effort involved removing the entire front end of the motor all the way down to pulling the cam gear....for an extra 6 or 8 horsepower? And when you start getting into odd grinds...
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    How much better is the E cam than the B cam

    Yes but thats not the only variable. LOTS of things to keep in mind...the lift, the duration, the lobe separation angle, the ramp-rate on the cam, the overlap..... More duration will make the cam idle rougher and perform better in higher rpms....lift will make it perform better in higher...
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    How much better is the E cam than the B cam

    Apples to oranges.... E is more streetable, better for blowers, more lift less duration, better for stock-stalled auto transmissions. B is higher rpm, more duration less lift, better for N/A, probably makes more peak power, rougher idle, needs a 5-speed or a mild stall converter. For your...
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    swapped explorer intake on, runs rich/bogs, please help!

    That sounds more like it.... There's a lot of power to be found between fixing problems that you think are only little....and dialing things in. Keep tinkering with it and be patient and you can get that sucker dialed in reaaalll good.
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    Header Reccomendation

    I have equal-lengths and I like em. I run 45 degree plugwire boobs, with Taylor sleeved insulators over them and they hold up to the heat just fine. I can change all 8 plugs in about 30-40 minutes, taking my time and antiseizing and gapping each plug. You just need a swivel plug socket, a...
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    Problem with Fuel filter hose

    I havent changed mine in a little while....dont they just have the little plastic U-retainer? You either pull it up or push down on it, and slide the clip off. Yours probably isnt positioned right so it's hitting the lip on the filter neck that it's designed to catch onto to keep it from...
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    need some explorer motor info

    Not sure all the years, but the Explorers ran some version or another of the 5.0 for a WHILE, up until 98 or so? Until the redesign....they couldn't fit the 4.6 in the Explorer body so they kept with the 5.0 until they widened the 'sploders, then they dropped it.... I know the explorer...
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    Cam Question for stock Motor.

    I'd still rather see you run an E cam than a B on a streetable setup....B is lumpier and the powerband is pushed higher. And if youre running an AOD, you can get away with a stock converter with an E cam....with the B, forget about it you're going to need a stall converter for it to drive okay.
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    Cam Question for stock Motor.

    Seriously, stock cam is good for 12 second cars and quicker, it was actually fairly aggressive for its day.... If you absolutely have to have that sound, go eith maybe....an E-303 to keep the powerband reasonably matched....or if you can find a cam with similar specs on a 112-114 LSA, but...
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    Exhaust Smells Rich, Problem??

    My A/F is spot-on, and I run a catless X pipe and dumps, and my car hardly smells at all. Believe me or not, but I dialed my A/F in by ear, nose, and seat of pants...kept adding/removing fuel in 0.5 psi increments and driving it, until it didnt stink and felt not....sloppy....but not jagged...
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    The only good use to 4 cyl wheels in my mind. heheh

    True..I own a 91, Im used to GT wheels being 16" so for me, 15" wheels might as well by 4 cyl wheels.... :D And yeah I know theyre far from skinny, theyre 15x7....but I bowed 195's onto em so what they actually put to the ground is fairly thin. And theyre still lighter than my 215/50's on my...
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    Cam Question for stock Motor.

    Yeah a cam swap on a stock motor is pointless, hell stock cams have been known to go very fast on even motors with full exhaust, intakes, gears, and ported heads, even power adders...the stock cam is weak, but not as weak as you might think. If you havent done any head work, don't change the...
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    How do these dyno #s look for stock setup

    I'd call those good numbers. I just like to stress the importance of the fact that a dyno is a tuning tool and not a true measure of what a car will do...seen many cars dyno'd relatively low for their mods, including mine, but they RUN at the track and have outrun many people posting higher...
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    Electric Water Pump? Pros & Cons

    Well I think electric water pumps are capable of moving JUST as much water as standard ones, possibly more in idle and cruise conditions....the only issues I know of are the price and altering the pulley setup to exclude a W/P......and the fact that theyre only rated for a certain amount of...
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    sorry guys, but i have to vent a little...

    Been some time since I've read Shakespeare, but I believe the quote is something like "Sorrows come not as lone spies, but in batallions"
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    sorry guys, but i have to vent a little...

    I know how it goes man.... Nothing like being a kid in school being able to take sick days huh? I haven't taken a sick day in a few years...and Im senior tech now so, I pretty much can't without screwing the shop over.... It sucks but you gotta do what you gotta do.. Haha, my saving...
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    Exhaust Smells Rich, Problem??

    11.9:1 is too rich for an N/A app. I'd look for the high-end of 12:1. I run about 12.9:1 WOT, NA with heads cam etc.
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