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a91what said:
Well seeing that it's a convertible I never considered a full cage. A 6 point at most. Couple the fact that my wife wants to drive the car as well.... I don't think she could have recovered the car from 70+mph wheel spin.
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http://www.maximummotorsports.com/Mustang-Roll-Bars-83-93-Conv-C272.aspx

Somewhere in there is a story of a kid with one who rolled it off a hill/cliff. Iirc it was an sn vert.
 

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Okay now that I've started adding timing and pulling out fuel in the cruise ranges of the tune. The car starting to run rather warm on the highway I figure this is probably a classic case of a bad air deflector so I'm going to order a new one the one I have now is in pretty bad shape. Being different I was also wondering if there would be any benefit of taking some aluminum sheeting and making a pan that would go from the bottom of the bumper across to the bottom of the radiator core support closing off the front area of the car in front of the radiator core. I was thinking that this would force the air coming through the bumper opening through the radiator and not allow it to go around it. Any thoughts
 
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I too have wondered about this but haven't seen anyone do anything other than put a deflector in
 

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I've been pondering that idea, too. I want to build a splash pan between my bumper and kmember....to pull air through the radiator like newer cars.

My core support is tubular so no air deflector for me [emoji20]
 

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90sickfox said:
I've been pondering that idea, too. I want to build a splash pan between my bumper and kmember....to pull air through the radiator like newer cars.

My core support is tubular so no air deflector for me [emoji20]
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About 10 minutes with a welder to weld some tabs on the core support would fix that...
 
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jrichker said:
About 10 minutes with a welder to weld some tabs on the core support would fix that...
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Or a drill and some screws, or pop rivets. You could make it Dzus-able.
 
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Behold!...... my next failure.... may or may not be this sheet of thin aluminum!! results tomorrow after I drive to work.
 
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a91what said:
Behold!...... my next failure.... may or may not be this sheet of thin aluminum!! results tomorrow after I drive to work.
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Wait a minute,....I thought these cars depended on air intake from the road, deflecting up. I thought you were looking into replacing the DEFLECTOR w/ an aluminum version,..NOT totally blocking that pathway.

I don't think that there is enough cross section in the front of the car solely relying on that to cool the radiator.

But what do I know? I've never tried that.
 

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well I had considered that, but the intercooler is so large that it almost takes up the entire space directly in front of the radiator. I figured that any deflected air would just be hitting the bottom of the intercooler and not make it through..... we shall see sir.

I could just hack a big hole in the bumper but that would look stupid.
 
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curious to see Chris if that pice of aluminum raises your underhood temps cutting off the airflow into the radiator like that? Guess you'll find out
 

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well I had considered that, but the intercooler is so large that it almost takes up the entire space directly in front of the radiator. I figured that any deflected air would just be hitting the bottom of the intercooler and not make it through..... we shall see sir.

I could just hack a big hole in the bumper but that would look stupid.
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You could mod it and put a terminator lower bumper on it.
 
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conclusion...... the intercooler must be blocking the air from the dam... lol 95* day car got up to same temp around 212.
212 aint that hot but this concludes that the air dam is doing nothing... I will remove the sheet of aluminum and make a couple of new standoffs to pull the intercooler away from the radiator further. I think this will alleviate my issue.
 

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conclusion...... the intercooler must be blocking the air from the dam... lol 95* day car got up to same temp around 212.
212 aint that hot but this concludes that the air dam is doing nothing... I will remove the sheet of aluminum and make a couple of new standoffs to pull the intercooler away from the radiator further. I think this will alleviate my issue.
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I worry a little about when I get my beast running. I want my temps around 195. Hope my cobra bumper helps. [emoji27]
 

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90sickfox said:
You could mod it and put a terminator lower bumper on it.
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Can you expand on this?
 

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I think he's talkin about this Willis

 

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Can you expand on this?
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Hopefully, on my car the cobra lower should allow more air flow. The hole is twice the size of an Lx bumper. Anyone with a little skill can make it work...especially if you have 90- 93 fenders.

Mine will be running soon so we'll see how well it works. I've got contour fans, 180 thermostat, 3 row radiator, and will be running megasquirt 2.
 

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Can you expand on this?
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Here Steve, this is the link to Scott's thread and his ultra cool front bumperhttp://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/the-ole-4banger-auto-v8-swap.887781/page-2
 
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Just ordered the air deflector from an early 90's ranger/bronco. This mod has been done for years by the auto cross teams.
 
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@madmike1157 what's that off of exactly?

@90sickfox thats a bit involved for my stage in the game. But it looks badass
 

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@madmike1157 what's that off of exactly?

@90sickfox thats a bit involved for my stage in the game. But it looks badass
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Thanks man....it is involved.
I've got to check on the the mod you're doing. Never heard of it before now.
 
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