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

Well...this is what my morning looks like today...

I know,....it sucks. But 2 months ago Kate's mom died. She had her cremated then, so that all of her relatives could make it to a funeral service for her. Her mother has sisters and brothers from Europe and Canada, and 2 months ago, it was just too sudden logistically to get everybody here.
That was then....this is now.
Today, I am to speak on behalf of her daughters,...all of whom are too emotional still to do it. Right now, I have my little speech all put together on this iPad, and I'm confident that what I have written is what I want to say.....but things change for me when you put me in front of a group of people..even if I know you.

One on one, I'm a perfectly confident and capable speaker...put me in front of a group of people, and I'm ........uhh..err,...umm
* cough * cough!

You'd think that a one on one prick would have no issue being a one on 50 prick, but I'm here to tell you....I'm a deer in headlights.

Anyway,..all of that will be over and done with by 10 am,...then I/we spend the remainder of the day and evening in this God foresaken place, and I get back to landlocked dry land on Sunday.

I'm using my spiff monies that BMW pays directly to fund the 2j. When we sell certain cars, they qualify for additional incentives, and every quarter or so..a nice wad of cash just drops into an account, and I get an email letting me know that it happened. Yesterday, 375.00 just popped in, and I rushed right out and bought the intake

Since the oil pan is just about done, the next thing will be the trans adapter. Once I figure that out, I'll be able to mock up the engine, and build/modify the mounts. I now have an exhaust that fits and looks killer, and now I have an intake that looks like the old Monster's...once this thing is painted, I don't think anybody that has looked at the car will even notice the difference.

Speaking of my poor old monster,..both induction systems just got sold off...for next to nothing.
For the bargain basement sum of 250 bucks, some guy in VA. Just bought the funnel shaped intake, the ITB system and its box hat, and the fuel rail..seems like a good deal when you consider that the throttle bodies cost me 300, and the 70 mm TB, another 100.
But, who am I gonna sell this stuff to? The ITBs are modified now. They won't even go back on the BMW they came from. And the 70 mm piece got the same treatment..it won't ever work on a 5.0..now that I've plugged the IAC ports..so..it's all a bunch of scrap, unless it's bolted on another cross flow head...and that's where this stuff is all gonna end up.

So this morning before I get all dressed up in black...I've got questions for a few of you..

For Steve: @a91what. The new intake uses some goofy looking IAC motor that bolts to the underside of the intake. I want to be able to use that, but if you'll remember IAC 1 or 2 on my board is bad. I have a 3 part question for you: 1. Do I have a work around, or do I need to get that fixed? And 2. if I do, who can fix it? Lastly, 3. Is getting it fixed gonna mess with any other circuit ( like the Boost Control mod)?
For Jeff: @TOOLOW91 . ( actually for both of you) Injectors..let's say I want 500 WHP out of this thing..how big of an injector am I gonna need. Will the 60 pounders I have work? (converted it's only like 630cc) from what I'm seeing, I'm gonna need something like 800-1000 cc's,..and that is gonna force a fuel line upgrade, and a bigger 340 lph pump ( upgrade from the current 200 lph)

I'm guessing that I'm going to rigidly mount the engine like I did with the current monster,...other than the obvious additional harshness I'll get from doing this, is there any reason that I wouldn't want to do so?

When you're making these engines make 500 hp, what boost level is required to do that? And what do I do about intercooling it? Will the water/meth system suffice, or should I consider re-installing an A2w intercooler system like I used to have, and open up the G-gills again?

if I run tubing down and out of the engine bay,..along the bottom of the radiator saddle like I did before, and re-enter the bay on the driver side through the old hole that I used When the a2w system was in place, I cannot imagine a difference in performance between I/c, and non- I/c..but if I do all of that now, I can get the charge tube out from being immediately behind a 200 degree radiator like it was in the old setup,..and then id imagine that my charge temps will drop to a more tolerable level. Then I can install the same style intercooler I used before so that the water meth can be staged and not relied on for everything all the time.
I still have the radiators, I still have the fans, I've now got two 35 GPH water pumps with no place to go. all I have to do is figure out where I want to duct the hot air out of the trunk ( already got that covered),..I'm gonna cut the inside of the quarter panel apron ( trunk floor) on the driver side, open up the G gills and duct the supply air back into the trunk again, then make a partition to seal those radiators against the driver side quarter.

Anyway,...obviously I've got time on my hands this morning..two hours before the eulogy...guess I better get around.

a91what said:

How many wires does that idle valve have?

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I don't know yet. There's a hole under the manifold for the thing. I just know I wanna use one this time around.