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Exhaust is making weird noise and lost some engine power, plz help...

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1987 white mustang convertible 5.0 EFI. Cobra Upper and Lowers. Ported GT-40 Heads. Bassani headers and x-pipe. Not sure what cam is in the car but it is very aggressive (not stock). Cold Air intake. Mass Air. screaming demon ignition. 8mm plug wires. Not sure what size injectors but they are not stock. frame rails. Lowered 1.5 inches. Custom dugan racing rear shock supports. I bought the car as is and have slowly been learning what is on it. I have blown the enging twice already, first time they told me the "bottom end fell out" had to get a new block, crank, and pistons so they are all stock. the second time i broke a valve spring and dropped a valve, it wasnt too bad though. so they replaced my valve springs with 90 pounders. This morning on my way to work the car is making a really wierd noise out the exhaust, sounds like gurgling. Also lost some power, am afraid to take it over 3000 rpm. I have no idea what could be causing this. I just replace my fuel filter last month and I use only 93 octane. everything under the hood and sounds normal so any help would be nice...
 
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Yea, so maybe i'm an idiot. But I found the problem, fried a plug wire on the exhaust manifold. Sucks too cause I just threw out an old set of smaller wires, would have come in handy right now....
 

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Good to see you figured it out, already. Just for future reference, though, you might get more replies to 5.0-related questions in the 5.0 Tech forum.
 

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Moved to 5.0 Tech.
 
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Very good to know. thanks guys
 

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Do you mean your springs have 90 lbs at the seat, if so that sounds kinda on the weak side for anything other than a stock cam
 
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I have no idea. My mechanic (i trust him) told me on the first blow-up that I had 70 pound springs and they looked weak, so he shimmed them to 80 pounds. Thats when i broke one on the second blow-up. So he replaced them all with 90 pound springs. Thats all I know about it.
 
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