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  1. 88-GT

    High Idle

    Well just got the car out and safetied yesterday and everything is working great besides a slight idle problem. The car is an 88 GT, still speed density with some bolt ons. The problem is that while driving if I give it moderate amounts of throttle the idle seems to jump up, usually linear...
  2. 88-GT

    Firing order

    But id be careful if my memory serves me that firing order is for the no HO, the HO starts with 1 5 7 I think......might wnana check it out.
  3. 88-GT

    fixed a header leak...now i have a problem

    Yea Mr. Gasket ones are definately the way to go, the hooks on the ends are a lifesaver. And yea I had to learn the hardway that headers smoke at first when the paint burns, did LT's on my buddys 2000 and it started smoking after startup, lemme tell you **** hit the fan until we figured out it...
  4. 88-GT

    Car

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  5. 88-GT

    Car

    Definately dont have a header leak, been checking that but as for the manifold( im assumming your talking about intake there isnt a noticable leak, althought I wouldnt know how to go about checking.
  6. 88-GT

    Car

    Car Misfiring Hey guys, Well today I went out and started the beast and once it was started I could hear the engine misfiring. The car ran fine a week ago but now it runs pretty ruff. Its only on the passenger side bank of the engine(I dont have an H or X) and only messes with the one side...
  7. 88-GT

    Fuel Injector O-ring replacement ???

    Umm you should be able to buy them at your partstore. I had to do a couple on mine and they come with a sort of rebuild kit....comes with the cap and both o rings.....might have to ask for the whole kit I dunno if they come with just the o rings. I got mine from partsource. Good Luck.
  8. 88-GT

    Mustang header's from ebay??? $95 shipped

    Yea better to go with a product that you know is decent. As for equal length I wouldnt waste the money. Gains are very minimal and you get the added confusion with plug wires etc. Id go with the BBK's.
  9. 88-GT

    Homemade Subframe Connectors

    Well seeing as I already have most of the suspension done on my car, (springs, shocks, sway bars, and bushings) the next thing on my list is subframe connectors. Looking at the weld in type the look pretty basic, and I was thinking of just fabbing up a set myself. My friends dad is a jouneyman...
  10. 88-GT

    What causes Dieseling? Need Tech Help

    I always associated dieseling with exactly what a diesel engine runs on, thats why it only does it when its hot, I know a few of my friends with HP BBC's, like around 500 HP diesel out a lot, and from what I hear is normal, dunno if thats true or not but one way to minimize it is to shift the...
  11. 88-GT

    Moisture

    Cool thats what I thought, just fealt like checking. Thnx
  12. 88-GT

    Moisture

    Hey Guys Well when i bought my car the guy thought it had a blown head gasket so I got it for cheap, I took off upper/lower intake and changed all gaskets, including the one for the coolant jacket by throttle body. When i bought it, the smoke was very easily noticable. Now there is no...
  13. 88-GT

    White Smoke??!!

    Yea when I bought my car I thought it was a head gasket too but once I looked at it sumone had put a throttle body spacer with no gasket in the coolant jacket, id check that but mine smoked constant as soon as thermostat opened, but id check ur lower intake gasket too, easy to take off and you...
  14. 88-GT

    Christmas is Coming...

    Yea gears were on my mind too, its just a PITA to get them installed where I live, bout 400 bux plus the gears, shims, etc. But yea I really do need them, still got the stock 2.73s :bang: Thnx for all your help.
  15. 88-GT

    Christmas is Coming...

    1/2 inch wrench? your mean man....by the way you get that out yet?lol...and any one of those ideas that would give me a considerable gain than the others?
  16. 88-GT

    Price of 02 sensors!!??

    Im assuming ure talking about US dollars which does sound a bit high for 5.0 o2's but they are expensive, almost consider yourself lucky, modular 4.6's have 4 and run more around the 90-150 CDN dollar range.
  17. 88-GT

    Christmas is Coming...

    Well as we all know christmas is coming and at an age of 17 money is tight. So I was wondering if you guys could give me maybe a lil list of good bang for the buck mods I could ask for for christmas. Suspension is doing alrite so mainly just motor mods. My setup is: Helix TB Spacer(Useless...
  18. 88-GT

    wtf was that?? (help!!!)

    Yea that happened to me in my moms escape, damn floor mat, just bout nailed the guy in front of me, any of you that have driven them the ford 24V 3.0 moves them things pretty good for an SU, just in that situation wasnt a positive.
  19. 88-GT

    Difference between 87-93 power steering pumps?

    Yea your not kidding when you say pulleys are a PITA to swap...Was flushing mine and broke the plastic fitting for the return line off :bang: , I just went to a wrecker and looked around and found that power steering pumps on all model of fords within about a 10 year span were identical, just...
  20. 88-GT

    smog holes in the back of heads

    Yea I dunno about the Gt-40 heads but on mine all i did was use the original fitting, I just hack sawed the tube off close to the fitting, put a pult in and welded it shut, and bolted it back up. Works great and its free :nice: