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    WANTED: Your opinions on 2.3L reliability...

    Weed whats that? :drool: LOL :banana: LOL :banana: LOL :banana: LOL :banana: LOL :banana: LOL
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    Carbon CleanUp!

    Heres my 10 cents my 2 cents is free! As far as cleaning the carbon deposits, get the engine running at normal operating temp and remove the airfilter. Poor cold water down the intake at idle but not so much as to snuff the motor. Do this a couple of times. Then hold the throttle at about...
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    WANTED: Your opinions on 2.3L reliability...

    2.3L rocksolid, T5 a must! The 2.3L OHC motor is pretty stout. The crank is hung on 5 main bearings so there is one main on each side of every cylinder. The rods are pretty close to those found in Chev 350s in size. I had an '82 Capri 2.3L w/ rare 5-spd tranny and I ran that car into a...
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    is this a good shortblock set-up?????

    Dude, look on the web for a man...Joe Morgan and his poisonous Pinto. You will be surprised at what a 4-pot turbo can do. I have based much of my build-up and ideas on his cars abilities. With a rock stock bottom end! Anyone know where to find info on the Joe's Turbo-bomb. It was in...
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    Anyone bought pistons recently?

    I'm looking for new pistons for my motor. It's from an 87-88 TurboCoupe so I need to find Forged pistons (20 to 30-over). What price did you pay and where? So far I've found (if anyone else is looking) Canada Performance Improvements $97 cda ea. A local Speed shop $92 cda ea.(my price) US...
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    kia wants to race

    Take it to the track. The voice of reason. Is it really worth loosing your dignity to a KIA? 'Cause beating it will get you nothing! Worse yet loosing your licence to the fuzz, forbid looing your life to the car gods or the unmentionalble (whisper: someone elses life!). Go to a drag track &...
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    I need a new tranny

    Check around on traders and in junk yards for a car to donate the parts. You can usually find decent donor cars (read: buy a grinder! ;) ) for a few hundred dollars. Ford put 2.3L engines in almost everything in the 80s and some 90s cars. Find a 2.3L powered car and check to see if it's the...
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    0.060" longer roller followers? better ratio?

    So, there I was trying to make sense of the SealedPower catalogue, while deciding on what rebuild kit to go with, when I noticed that they offer roller followers for the (Ranger) roller cam that are 0.060" longer! Would these be higher ratio? If so, I know the 2.3L is a high tolerance motor...
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