It Lives

Plickety-plickety-plickety-WHOOM-WHOOM!

Wow. Roller cams are, like, cool. The throttle response is unbelievable. Laid a patch for about fifty feet. I highly recommend the 5.0L H.O. Daa-a-a-amn. The gear drive sounds really cool, too.

Gotta work the bugs out of it, tune it, take it on the freeway, etc. Ah, what a tough day it's going to be.

Back to it,

- Joey

Back from a trip down the freeway. Two miles at speed. The engine just hums at 60, really quiet, and doesn't feel like it's laboring at all. The cam starts to pull right about where the secondaries kick in -- which is where the tunnel ram gets its mail -- and the car just goes ape$#!+ from 3500 up.

My sig is truer than ever. This thing is nuts.

Induction is a pair of sync'd Holley vacuum-secondary 390's on a Weiand 289 tunnel ram intake.

The cam is a custom job from Delta Camshaft; I'm using a stock '86 H.O. motor with flat-top pistons (no valve reliefs) so I had to go conservative on the lift. .471 / .441" , 219 / 209 @ .050, 115 deg separation. It opened the engine up nicely, though. Intimidating plickety idle but still feels streetable, and tons of power in the tunnel-ram's sweet spot.

I also opened the E6 exhaust ports out all the way to match the headers, and then cut the gaskets to match. She breathes really well. Those freaking E6 ports were the size of peanuts. WTH was Ford thinking?

EDIT:

Build Sheet:

- 1986 5.0L H.O.
- custom-ground Delta cam .471/.441 , 115 deg sep.
- Torrington bearing billet gear drive
- gasket-matched and polished E6 heads
- Weiand 289 Dual-Quad Tunnel Ram intake
- sync'd Holley 390 cfm carburetors
- C4 w/B&M shift kit & 2600 stall
- Pertronix flamethrower ignition
- Hedman full-length headers with 2.5" cutouts
- Turbo mufflers

Appearance Mods:
- John Deere Blitz Black (satin finish) paint
- gloss white stripes
- Hilborn scoop
- 225/60R14's on 14" Centerline wheels
- chopped and channeled '88 LX rear spoiler
- skull logo grille
- factory T-tops