Progress Thread Motivate Me For The Love Of God

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Hey guys, long time no see. Still have the coupe, but man I haven't touched it in years. I got it painted back in 2010? and drove it a while but then got the idea to swap the interior to black. That resulted in it sitting with a gutted interior for a few years until I finally got my ass out to the garage and put the dash back in. Then when it was finally able to be driven, I took it around the block and missed 3rd and snapped a rocker stud off one of my heads. It has sat for about 3 years since then.

I got the old heads off, couldn't get the rocker stud threads removed/drilled out to my liking so I gave them to a friend (who did get them drilled out/helicoiled and is using them). Now I have a brand new set of AFR's sitting in the box, and I've had them for 2 years and haven't done anything with them.

I have new heads, new carpet, new MSD 6AL so I hopefully don't rev this turd to 8500RPM again, and everything needed to get the heads put on and running except for pushrods which I still need to measure for, and that's the biggest hurdle because I'm paranoid I'm going to screw it up.

She's a sad sight to see

 

[Noobz347]

Pull the motor then take your sweet ass time making it perfect.

It's been sitting so long it turned green.




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[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Dude screw that. That's just further down the rabbit hole and I don't have space in my garage for a cherry picker. Eventually I plan on Por-15'ing the engine bay in black but right now I just want to drive the dang thing again.

 

[Chuckman]

Don't be scared of the pushrod stuff, it's easy and with studs rockers even if you're a tad (*/- 050) off you'll have adjustment.

Looks like the rest is just cosmetics, get it breathing fire again and let the rest happen when it happens, cause that's a bad bitch either way.

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

I'm pretty anxious to see how it runs with the new heads. They're replacing my old ported 351 C90E heads which had a little magic pixie dust sprinkled into them and make way more power than iron heads have any business making. I'm actually nervous about losing power. The AFR's sure are purdy though.

I'm not 100% sure about those adjustable rod guides? I guess you need to get the pushrods in place and figure out where they need to be adjusted to, and then you put thread sealer on your studs? Sound right? I had them out of the box and was going to assemble them but then I realized I probably should wait and do them one at a time once I have pushrods.

 

[Chuckman]

I've only ever had the fixed ones so

 

[Noobz347]

What more motivation do you need?

 

[RangerJoe]

What size AFR's did You get? A little advice, ditch the AFR studs and get some ARP studs. The stock ones are known to have little thread engagement and will snap the tops off. You are correct about the guide plates, just snug them by hand so you can move them around a little, then torque them when you are happy. Some guys will spot weld them together, but I don't think its necessary.

Joe

 

[Mustang5L5]

C'mon. You can do it

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Sell the stuff for a loss. You'll never get around to doing all of this stuff, and even if you do, you'll quickly lose interest.
When and if you do get around to putting it back together, it'll just break something else, and it'll be back to sitting,.....again...

Save yourself the headache(s) now.....go to HTTP://losemyasswhenIsellmystuff.com























There,......lets see if a little reverse psychology has any effect.

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

What size AFR's did You get? A little advice, ditch the AFR studs and get some ARP studs. The stock ones are known to have little thread engagement and will snap the tops off. You are correct about the guide plates, just snug them by hand so you can move them around a little, then torque them when you are happy. Some guys will spot weld them together, but I don't think its necessary.

Joe

I had to order up some ARP studs anyway to go with my 7/16 roller rockers that I had on the 351 heads, but that's good to know. Actually the studs that came with these heads are on the C9 heads now...I may need to look into that since they're on my buddy's car.

I went with the Renegade 185s. I honestly had no idea what to get and I was really concerned about PTV clearance with larger valves as I'm not sure what will work with my pistons. It has an Anderson N-91 cam and will be running a Victor Jr intake and Pro Systems 780cfm carb.

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Sell the stuff for a loss. You'll never get around to doing all of this stuff, and even if you do, you'll quickly lose interest.
When and if you do get around to putting it back together, it'll just break something else, and it'll be back to sitting,.....again...

Save yourself the headache(s) now.....go to HTTP://losemyasswhenIsellmystuff.com
There,......lets see if a little reverse psychology has any effect.

Man, I just have a LOT going on in my personal life right now, family members in bad health etc. I do sit on my ass enough that if I can just focus on working on the car it will be done in no time.

Today I managed to get the garage cleaned up a bit around the car so I can move, and got the front end on jack stands so I can get under it and undo the headers from the X so I can move the headers out of the way and get the heads bolted down. Realistically there isn't more than one solid day of work to get it back on the road, I just need to get focused and get to it. Oh, and remember where the heck everything goes

 

[90sickfox]

Get your lazy crying butt up and out there every day....even if you just wipe one thing down or paint a little piece here and there.

You have a nice pretty car sitting there wasting away because YOU made a mistake... and YOU ripped the interior out.

Get those heads bolted on there with some Plasti gauge on the pistons and figure out if those valves have clearance.

We won't have a pity party for your freshly painted notch or your brand new aluminum heads. We will, however, pity a guy that has fallen victim to the same thing many of us have at some point in time.

You can do it buddy !!! Now get your lazy, cryin', show off'n, nice mustang own'n butt out there and do something for yourself. Get that car together and drive the dang thing....and post pics....and ask for help...and post more pics....and get some cool comments.

You know how this works...now go do it !!!!

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Get your lazy crying butt up and out there every day....even if you just wipe one thing down or paint a little piece here and there.

You have a nice pretty car sitting there wasting away because YOU made a mistake... and YOU ripped the interior out.

Get those heads bolted on there with some Plasti gauge on the pistons and figure out if those valves have clearance.

We won't have a pity party for your freshly painted notch or your brand new aluminum heads. We will, however, pity a guy that has fallen victim to the same thing many of us have at some point in time.

You can do it buddy !!! Now get your lazy, cryin', show off'n, nice mustang own'n butt out there and do something for yourself. Get that car together and drive the dang thing....and post pics....and ask for help...and post more pics....and get some cool comments.

You know how this works...now go do it !!!!

Yes Drill Sargent!!

 

[Mustang5L5]

Just go peruse the "how does your fox currently sit" thread from the beginning and use that as motivation

 

[a91what]

What's the hold up here? It's not like your re-engineering everything from scratch! I don't even see a turbo in there anywhere... you can't have jackstands without a turbo!! It's been proven on the internetz.......

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Just go peruse the "how does your fox currently sit" thread from the beginning and use that as motivation

I'm pretty sure my car is no longer in that thread thanks to Photophuckit. I suppose I could post these pics here now.

 

[Bullitt347]

. It has sat for about 3 years

Congrats....you now have a flower pot.

 

[95BlueStallion]

Turn on your favorite music and get to wrenching. Learn to enjoy it again, and not see it as a chore. That is why we all started in this hobby, because at one point we ENJOYED the work! Trying to see it from a different light. I for one cant wait to see what power it makes with the new heads!

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Congrats....you now have a flower pot.

Well at least it's been garaged. Hopefully nothing is seized up.