fox confusion help...
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You have to keep in mind you did not buy a brand new car, It's been through a lot and...well, honestly it is up to you to do your homework prior to buying it, if you know what I mean. I have had several cars that make me scratch my head wondering why this or that was done but in the end I knew what I was getting myself into prior to buying it.
I hear ya. I have become a bit anal when I go to buy a used car now as a few years ago I grabbed a 88 GTA that I thought was at a steal of a price with out thoroughly checking the car out and what a mistake that was.
Rear end was leaking a hair so I got a new gasket and started removing the cover, easy fix I thought...heh was I wrong, when removing the bolts I found the po had actually snapped 3 of them and literally gobbed rtv on the heads and just stuck them back on.
Engine was swapped to a carbed 350, but the wiring harness was intact so swapping back to tuned port wasn't going to be that bad...yeah, you guessed it, harness was cut at the computer for some unknown reason. On top if that the block and heads came off a 73 pickup if I recall correctly and they were about the worse combination gm ever used was something like 114hp.
When I went to look at the car it had just rained and the car was parked in the grass, and was just recently ran...reason for that was to cover the massive oil leak from the rear main, I looked under the car but everything was wet from the rain. so once I got it home, in the garage I had an immediate project to deal with.
Point of all this is now I check the car bumper to bumper and make a mental note of what I am getting into and decide before hand if it's worth it to me, knowing that with older cars it's gonna normally have some issues but it's a question if I want to deal with them, most of the time it's not to bad as people are generally honest and I know I am not buying a off the showroom floor car. Every thing the po did wrong becomes your issues.
Rear end was leaking a hair so I got a new gasket and started removing the cover, easy fix I thought...heh was I wrong, when removing the bolts I found the po had actually snapped 3 of them and literally gobbed rtv on the heads and just stuck them back on.
Engine was swapped to a carbed 350, but the wiring harness was intact so swapping back to tuned port wasn't going to be that bad...yeah, you guessed it, harness was cut at the computer for some unknown reason. On top if that the block and heads came off a 73 pickup if I recall correctly and they were about the worse combination gm ever used was something like 114hp.
When I went to look at the car it had just rained and the car was parked in the grass, and was just recently ran...reason for that was to cover the massive oil leak from the rear main, I looked under the car but everything was wet from the rain. so once I got it home, in the garage I had an immediate project to deal with.
Point of all this is now I check the car bumper to bumper and make a mental note of what I am getting into and decide before hand if it's worth it to me, knowing that with older cars it's gonna normally have some issues but it's a question if I want to deal with them, most of the time it's not to bad as people are generally honest and I know I am not buying a off the showroom floor car. Every thing the po did wrong becomes your issues.
indeed...such as chopping the wires to alot of crap to install a tach...chopping the wires to the top that runs the motor..???which i dont get at all...dropping that engine in and not disclosing that or where it came from. So yeah I will live and learn thru this one. I am just trying to figure out exactly what i have so that I know where to start to get it up to par. or if it is a lost cause all together
Ok I finally got the push pen to release so that I could get to the computer. Numbers are: EEC IV SFI-SD1 E7SF-12A650-E1A DE..... From what I can tell that is a speed density 87 auto computer for a 5.0.
http://fordfuelinjection.com/?p=17
The car is a 5 speed. So wondering now if PO converted it to a 5 speed or if it was one already and just changed the computer when changing the engine? Now where would I find numbers on the engine harness to figure out what that came out of?
1987stangman
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Don't sweat it. There are a lot of Fox 4cyl to 5L conversions out there. Some done right, some not.
check this site out. Has a lot of good info.
1982-1993 Mustang GT Registry
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