Build Thread 1978 Mercury Cyclone. The pig is in the pen.

How come I'm the only one here that treats this place like a hang out?
I'm always the guy that stops by to show what I got, talk about what I'm doing, or simply rattle on about life.....
The rest of you guys have to have something tied to an internal combustion engine before you'll consider it..

See what it says below where I've underlined it:
1979 - 1995 (Fox, SN95.0, & 2.3L) -General/Talk-
General/Talk.......Nothing says that it has to be about anything,....but unless its about a 1979-1995 fox,sn95, or a 2.3L mustang,....it's just another day in cricketsville. Surely, I'd think that there's more to life with most of you than just sharing a common link to a car...Evidently not.

Fortunately for the sites administrator,.. I'll be the Sites' Huckleberry.


The intercooler system sold twice.....Once on CL, and again on Ebay. On CL, I priced the stuff to sell locally and didn't buffer in a freight cost...On Ebay, I did.
Yesterday a guy texts me and asks if I will send the stuff to Ohio for the listed price. I tell him yes, forgetting that I didn't add in any cushion for shipping on CL....I sucked it up though, and submitted a money request on paypal. I checked all through the night to see if he transferred any money in there, and at my last check around 11PM,.... nothing. I went to bed

This morning, I ck my email,..There's a note from Paypal, and another from Ebay telling me that my item sold, and that there was money in my paypal account...Only this was a different buyer, and obviously from the other site that I listed the stuff.
So,...I'm thinking the first guy is SOL,...too late to the draw, I accepted the Ebay purchase...I just texted slow hand to tell him that that item has sold, and cancelled the money request.. We'll see what he says here if he texts me back.

The intercooler was the one non-essential to the turbo system in it's current tune anyway, So I'm not gonna miss it one bit...After adding the water meth, it was just added weight. So even if I end up with the rest of the turbo stuff on a shelf,...It doesn't affect anything. I just gotta box it all up, (Intercooler, 2.5 gallon water reservoir, Bosch pump) and hope that my guess of 25.00 is enough to get that junk to California.

The head is gonna take a minute,...I need 60 grit cartridge rolls to smooth the rough grinding finish to a flatter-smoother version...Nobody in this town has those things,...I had to order a bag of 100 from Amazon...for 60 bucks..
60 bucks,....I'll end up with a buttload of those things that'll be in a drawer for the next ten years...
All I know is that I gotta get the head done, so I can move it to the machine shop. Hopefully, I haven't phcked the seats up,
and hopefully the machine shop will actually give me a true 3 angle valve job and not just lap the valves in and put the head back together.( I'll let them know that I'll be taking a valve back out to check.)
I need the head to build the intake transition tubes between the BMW throttle bodies, and my intake ports..That process has caused me to lose more than a few hours of sleep,..thinking about how I'm going to build that...
One version has me building a series of bends (that'll look like the J trap under your bathroom sink) To allow the tB's to stand straight up next to the head. It'll mean that there will be about 12" of tubing between the TB's and the port opening...
The other idea is to completely dissasemble the TB's if possible,..and extend the throttle shaft that interconnects the things...It's that shaft that determines the C to C spacing that they currently are at. If there is enough room to cut, and extend the shaft between each throttle body, I'll be able to put each one of them directly over my port configuration with only a "gender changing" mount plate between them, and the head itself (head port has vertical bolt config, and is round,...TB's have diagonal bolt config, and the mating flange is oval.) From the pic, It looks like the TB's have the injector bosses built into them...If I can cut and extend the shaft....I'll be able to use those bosses with my fuel rail.

If I can't,..I'll have to plug two holes in each throttle body....One is the hole that'll be directly below the shaft that was an air injection tube,...and obviously,..the injector bosses.

In the "Personal Life" section of todays' update, I decided to convert over to sales. The GM has offered to cushion my transition w/ a guaranteed 4k monthly buffer until I'm comfortable with the system for 60 days. I know the product, I just gotta learn the financial end of this business...I think 60 days to do that is more than generous.

That's it for today,...The wife has me going over to a friends house to look at installing a 65" TV over a fireplace, and measuring her wall for a piece of art work that I build,..(similar to the one I did in our house here),...both paying jobs that'll go to fund the Monster benevolent build fund....

That car is gonna be just as freakin cool w/o the turbo, as it was with it...............................Only a lot slower.

And yes,....It'll still be just as Orange... Ford,...Competition Orange.