Ok, so I bought an 87 SD LX 5.0 with 3.73s an offroad H and flowmasters. It is gutless for low end torque and backfires sometimes at under 2,000 rpms under load but pulls pretty darn good once I get moving. Runs great on the highway but stalls out sometimes when coming up to a light. No codes though.
I went to put on a set of underdrive pulleys last night because I had them laying around from my last 5.0 and the water pump pulley 4 holes wont line up with the 4 holes on the pump shaft. It's like it's not a Mustang water pump or something.
So then I started wondering if maybe it's not a Mustang engine or something. It has the normal upper intake with the 5.0 HO plate on top but maybe somebody just slapped that on a different motor.
The casting on the lower intake is RF-E6SE-9K461-D3A which if I am not mistaken means it's from an 86 Tbird?! Which would be non-HO.
This was all last night at like 2am and I didnt have the pulleys back on it to give it a try moving the plug wires.
The alternator also doesnt have the usual spikey fins on the front, instead it has a plastic disk that kind of looks like a vented brake rotor instead, I forgot to get the part number off it, but it's definately a ford part.
Anything else I can look at to help me know for sure what kind of motor this is?
I went to put on a set of underdrive pulleys last night because I had them laying around from my last 5.0 and the water pump pulley 4 holes wont line up with the 4 holes on the pump shaft. It's like it's not a Mustang water pump or something.
So then I started wondering if maybe it's not a Mustang engine or something. It has the normal upper intake with the 5.0 HO plate on top but maybe somebody just slapped that on a different motor.
The casting on the lower intake is RF-E6SE-9K461-D3A which if I am not mistaken means it's from an 86 Tbird?! Which would be non-HO.
This was all last night at like 2am and I didnt have the pulleys back on it to give it a try moving the plug wires.
The alternator also doesnt have the usual spikey fins on the front, instead it has a plastic disk that kind of looks like a vented brake rotor instead, I forgot to get the part number off it, but it's definately a ford part.
Anything else I can look at to help me know for sure what kind of motor this is?