Fuzion's Engine bay & H/C/I Progress Thread

[Fuzion]

your in alexandria? nice.. i like the progress. i cant wait until i open my tfs top end kit one day in the far future. good luck with the build.

Yea im in alexandria. It felt great opening all these parts up for the first time. I've been saving and planning all this for a while.

looks really good. are you doing anything crazy with the engine bay? smooth/wirehide?

Nothing crazy in the bay. I was thinking about welding and smoothing everything down but since my car is at my friend’s house I'm really not trying to take up his garage for too long. Plus I would have to buy more stuff that I really can't afford. I’m just going to clean it up, sand it, paint it and try to hide as many wires and harnesses as possible.

 

[306notchback]

Sweet coupe, looks good!I have the twisted wedge heads and trickflow roller rockers, and love them!

 

[SMOKEDYA]

nice looking coupe man! coupes rule! he he ha ha! my buddy is in progress on his 306 black on black coupe no options also. he's doing a 76MM turbo from quick time turbos. i know the feeling of opening all those goodies my boxes from summit started showing up today for my 351! is that a stock 5.0 block? any reason you went trick flow over AFR? what size are those heads?peace



john

 

[RARE NOTCH]

I have a 88 no option car with 14000 miles on it that i am doing h/c/i on over the winter.
Heads are trickflow. Intake is NOS gt-40 tube intake. And yes it is brand new in the box.
Trickflow stage one cam and ford racing ceramic shorty's to. I am also doing a 5 lug conversion with 03 cobra brakes and 10th anv cobra wheels. Cant wait to start.

 

[SMOKEDYA]

I have a 88 no option car with 14000 miles on it that i am doing h/c/i on over the winter.
Heads are trickflow. Intake is NOS gt-40 tube intake. And yes it is brand new in the box.
Trickflow stage one cam and ford racing ceramic shorty's to. I am also doing a 5 lug conversion with 03 cobra brakes and 10th anv cobra wheels. Cant wait to start.

WHITE notches rule! hey are you in grove city ohio? peace


john

 

[RARE NOTCH]

WHITE notches rule! hey are you in grove city ohio? peace


john

No im from the west side of cleveland. North ridgeville to be excat. And yes white notch's do rule.

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

Im kinda torn as to what CAI to use, i really dont want to spend a huge amount of money on one cuz i am planning on going turbo within the next couple years.

what are my options? its gotta fit a 80mm mas and 70mm tb. i was thinking about a c&l.
thx for the comments.

C&L should be a good choice for you combo.

You'll be able to recoupe the money for that setup on Ebay for sure. Good CAI's and other things like T-bodies, MAF's always sell good on Ebay.

I sold a used 70mm T-body for 125 bucks Buy It Now!!! I couldn't believe it, it was within hours of my listing!

 

[Fuzion]

nice looking coupe man! coupes rule! he he ha ha! my buddy is in progress on his 306 black on black coupe no options also. he's doing a 76MM turbo from quick time turbos. i know the feeling of opening all those goodies my boxes from summit started showing up today for my 351! is that a stock 5.0 block? any reason you went trick flow over AFR? what size are those heads?peace john

I am planning on running the Quicktime turbo kit one day as well. i've seen a local guy make over 550rwhp with the same heads and cam i am building now and the 76mm precision set up. I basically went with the trick flow heads because of the packaged deal. took all the guessing work away. I believe that the tw heads are 170cc.

I have a 88 no option car with 14000 miles on it that i am doing h/c/i on over the winter.
Heads are trickflow. Intake is NOS gt-40 tube intake. And yes it is brand new in the box.
Trickflow stage one cam and ford racing ceramic shorty's to. I am also doing a 5 lug conversion with 03 cobra brakes and 10th anv cobra wheels. Cant wait to start.

good luck with the notch.

C&L should be a good choice for you combo.

You'll be able to recoupe the money for that setup on Ebay for sure. Good CAI's and other things like T-bodies, MAF's always sell good on Ebay.

I sold a used 70mm T-body for 125 bucks Buy It Now!!! I couldn't believe it, it was within hours of my listing!

A friend of mine has got me thinking about building my own cai out of pvc piping. he says that he has seen it done before and that it is way cheaper. I'll let you know what i'll decide. LOL

Little update, now that all my parts are here and can't wait to put it all together and start driving I haven’t been able to get my hands on a cherry picker yet. A local guy from the Northern virginal mustang club is letting me borrow his but we haven’t been able to schedule a time to meet up. So this weekend I continued sanding down and painting some other accessories and brackets in the bay. I took off the exhaust, disconnected the clutch, speed cable, shifter and took of the engine mount bolts. All I would have to do is remove the cross member and lift the engine and trans right out.

BTW, I just realized this weekend that when I removed the water pump 2 or 3 of the bolts had rusted and broke while I was removing them. I know that this is a very common issue even though I was being very careful when I was removing them.
Does anybody have a right up as to how to get the broken bolts out? And does anybody know if Arp makes a bolt kit for the water pump? Thanks

 

[ryan218]

WHITE notches rule! hey are you in grove city ohio? peace


john

my last name is grove! im in hilliard..aka...construction central right now.

any of the bolt exposed? if so if you can grab onto it. or tacking an old socket that will fit onto whats exposed to back it out.

 

[SMOKEDYA]

my last name is grove! im in hilliard..aka...construction central right now.

any of the bolt exposed? if so if you can grab onto it. or tacking an old socket that will fit onto whats exposed to back it out.

oh yeah? i use to work for rick at honda northwest. what a dick. man i miss it there was back there in may/june 08 for a bit. one day i'll be back for good! peace



john

 

[Fuzion]

BTW, I just realized that when I removed the water pump 2 or 3 of the bolts had rusted and broke while I was removing them. I know that this is a very common issue even though I was being very careful when I was removing them.
Does anybody have a write up as to how to get the broken bolts out? And does anybody know if Arp makes a bolt kit for the water pump? Thanks

 

[90lxcoupe]

BTW, I just realized that when I removed the water pump 2 or 3 of the bolts had rusted and broke while I was removing them. I know that this is a very common issue even though I was being very careful when I was removing them.
Does anybody have a write up as to how to get the broken bolts out? And does anybody know if Arp makes a bolt kit for the water pump? Thanks

which bolts broke? if the ones that go into the blokc broke thats gonna be a hassle, but if the ones on the timing chain cover broke i would say just look for a new timing chain cover. getting broken stuff out is a hassle, and if you need a new cover i think i have a spare one, so PM me and let me know. ARP does make a kit for the WP and i think they make a complete kit for the engine for around 100 bucks that will have what you need.


BTW the car looks sick, glad to see there are still people building clean notchbacks out there

 

[Fuzion]

Engine is out, finally ready to get some work done.

This is going to be a lot of work...

 

[1990Coupe]

NICE PROGRESS!!!!


You selling that Cobra intake? PM me

 

[SteedaGT9150]

fuzion pm me about your 5 lug stuff you mentioned to me earlier

 

[SteedaGT9150]

any updates?

 

[Nova]

well thats the easy part done

 

[Mac-man]

yeah any updates ?? inquiring minds want to know .....

 

[bynummustang]

well thats the easy part done

I'll second that.

 

[Fuzion]

well thats the easy part done

You are 100% correct, after taking it all apart it got a lot harder to schedule working on the car for a while. With school, work and the fact that the car is about 45 minutes away from home has really killed my motivation to work on the car.

Good news is that shool is over and i have all next week off of work. I started going back to the garage on sunday and worked on it on tuesday night too. I started sanding down and priming the engine bay.

update pictures will be uploaded tomorrow.