Distributorless 5.0HO w/ coils?

[yellowstang1994]

Hey guys, awhie back most of you might remember the '5.0 Mustang & Superfords' issue March 2006 with the black foxbody on the cover. I just thought it was pretty interesting how he has a distributorless system on his car. I scanned the one page where you can see a little bit about it. Unfortunatley, they don't talk too much about how he did it, but they did mention he was using an 99' EEC V w/ custom programming. I don't know how relevant it is towards Fords, but my friend has a 94 Trans AM with an LT1 in it that I helped him convert over to a coilpack system. He did it using some parts from a cadillac. It was pretty interesting how much it affected the ride, we both noticed it seemed a lot smoother and overall better feeling. Anyway, I imagine it could get pretty hard with ford's programming and such. I know MSD offers a distributorless system for $$$ I was reading about. Anyway, I just thought it was an interesting topic and figured I'd start a thread about it and maybee hear some of your guys thoughts on it. I wonder if any of the 5.0s in the explorers or anything used coilpacks?

Anyway here's the link to the page I scanned. Click 'save as' to save it, and then reopen it so you can read it, explorer will resize it.

 

[HISSIN50]

It seems to me that some flavor of Explorers did have coil packs, but I also dont know if that only came about with EEC-V.

I thought one of the fox guys on here was going to or actually did that. It's been some time back though (swapping to a dizzy from coil packs is the more normal swap. I can understand your friend ditching the Opti though).

 

[BlueOvalStangGT]

Some intake required to swap to coil packs, i dont remember which though.

 

[94GTMOOSE]

i thought that was a cool idea. I wonder if the explorer set up would work on our cars.

 

[fox racer]

that car is insane. the guy had ferarri modena 360 rim rebored to fit the rims to hid car.... incredible.

 

[Henceforward]

There was a guy in CarCraft who dropped a distributorless Explorer engine into a 70s Comet or some non Mustang car...

I'll dig through the pages...

 

['66 coupe]

Is it me, or is the only part that actually looks like it's from an Explorer the Camshaft Positioning sensor? The rest of it looks aftermarket being Coil-on-plug and all. I would think just running an entire GT40P setup and finding a place to mount coil-packs would be a lot more affordable.

 

[MysteryMachine]

OT: Hence you forgot the wooooooooooooooooooh

I love that comerical they should have had him doing the one where the guy said he got hit in the rear. "I got hit in the rear woooooooooooooooooh"

 

[urban96]

those coil on plugs look like the 99-04 ones

 

[tjh566]

my 2000 explorer has the 5.0 with coil packs, as for me im happy with a distributor

 

[SN95StangMan]

He told me how he did it at a car show this past april, but Ill be damned if I remember how he did it.

heres a few better shots of the car.

 

[WhiteDevil]

When you have no dizzy what turns the oil pump?

 

[Redsnk95]

The explorere cam sensor has the gear on it for the oil pump.

Its a pretty easy conversion nonetheless.