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CarMichael Angelo · Sep 30, 2021

Mustang5L5 said:
Well, not going to work. Too much bend. I have to find a tight s-hose with a 3.25” overall lenght and .4” offset.

Or I redo the bracket.

I might try to put a “clean” 20 degree twist on the upper portion of this bracket first and see if that rotates the bottle into a better spot. Nothing to lose since I have three brackets I no longer can use

I took froday off from work. I need some garage time to think about this.

What’s to think about? add some spacers to your bracket to create a stand off and use a regular piece of hose. Why reinvent the wheel trying to find some lazy s shaped hose?

Mustang5L5 · Sep 30, 2021

Once again Mike is right.

Went to the garage looked at it a bit and decided to chuck the bracket up in a vice and give it a little tweak.

Twisted it maybe 20-30 degrees. This actually worked out great. The ports were almost perfectly aligned, and it rotated the canister a bit tighter to the ac compressor allowing me to access the rear bolts to mount the reservoir. Worked nice

Mustang5L5 · Sep 30, 2021

Really not a significant change up front, which is good. It’s not noticeable

Mustang5L5 · Sep 30, 2021

Here’s the downside. Rotating the pump and moving closer to the front closed the distance between the 6AN return line fitting and the pump bracket.

Originally I was going to use a 6AN 45* fitting here which would have dropped the line into the perfect spot. I tried a 60 degree fitting and that didn’t work. Now I have to use a 90 degree fitting and the battery tray is close.

I have some misc fittings. I will play around with this a bit tomorrow to come up with the most ideal way to run these lines

Since the hose will be so visible, I’m not going to run worm style clamps. I’m going to try those pinch type bands we all hate to remove on CV boots.

I’ll bend up the other two brackets to match tomorrow. I’ll rattle can black one for now, and powdercoat the other two later

WindsorPenchant · Oct 1, 2021

Looks real good with that modification! I like how it's pulled the canister away a touch oppositional the valve cover's space.

Everything looks much more proportional with that tweak! In my mind anyway.. depends where a folk's eye take em.

Mustang5L5 · Oct 1, 2021

Bent the other two brackets up. Picked the best one to get powdercoated and rattle canned the other two.

Made up the rest of my hoses

Need to pick up my two clamps for the big 16mm return line to the pump. Also, if you remember correctly the high pressure line to the rack got a bit cross threaded on the fitting. I got it to go on. After thinking about it, it did feel a little funny and I’m questioning it. So I bought a new fitting and am going to redo that line.

Almost there and then I can fill with power steering fluid and prime it.

Mustang5L5 · Oct 1, 2021

Done for now. Small stuff to do and then I’ll fill with fluid

WhiteCobra95 · Oct 1, 2021

Looks great! Can't wait for the fire-up video!

Mustang5L5 · Oct 1, 2021

Going to reinstall my 19# injectors just to get the engine running. Even though this is temporary, I can’t put dirty crap on my engine. Decided to clean them up a bit.

First took a bit of scotch brite and cleaned the bodies up a bit. My original injectors are uncoated which I think changed in 1989? The reason one is black is because one injector was dead when I brought the car back on the road after 6-7 year back in 2009ish. Drove on 7 cylinder for almost a year. Funny story.

Decided to clearcoat the bodies to prevent them from flash rusting

To flush them, I used a taper plug and drilled a hole for the areosol straw. Press it into the end and attach some carb cleaner. A 9v battery activated the injector. Believe it or not, original 100k injectors were not clogged at all. They sprayed quite well

Where I stopped for now. Will wait til I have a quiet night to finish these up. Then I can swap them out real quick and pressure test the fuel system

CarMichael Angelo · Oct 1, 2021

Mustang5L5 said:
Done for now. Small stuff to do and then I’ll fill with fluid

Isn’t everything you do ”small stuff”?

Literally, there is enough “small stuff” on this build to make the big stuff seem trivial.

i.e. “ I installed the engine today”.
versus
“I obsessed over the hydro boost for about a week these past few days,…I decided to order this stainless little ding dang, this ptfe braided hose, this nit picky little banjo style hose end, that nit picky little hose end. After I mocked it up, I decided that the little nit picky hose end was at the wrong angle, So I ordered a completely different little nit pickier hose end, and bolted all of it together using 12 point arp hardware“.

Mustang5L5 · Oct 1, 2021

Just gonna rename this thread “how to milk this build out for another year or two”

Today, I polished a screw. Gotta think about some stuff now see you in a week.

General karthief · Oct 1, 2021

CarMichael Angelo said:
Isn’t everything you do ”small stuff”?

Literally, there is enough “small stuff” on this build to make the big stuff seem trivial.

i.e. “ I installed the engine today”.
versus
“I obsessed over the hydro boost for about a week these past few days,…I decided to order this stainless little ding dang, this ptfe braided hose, this nit picky little banjo style hose end, that nit picky little hose end. After I mocked it up, I decided that the little nit picky hose end was at the wrong angle, So I ordered a completely different little nit pickier hose end, and bolted all of it together using 12 point arp hardware“.

Ahhh, right Mike!! You tell 'em

CarMichael Angelo · Oct 2, 2021

General karthief said:
Ahhh, right Mike!! You tell 'em

I challenge you to find one piece of cad designed, laser printed, water jet cut doodad, held on by anything other than the bolts I scrounged out of a bucket on my engine.

I only obsess when sht don’t work right.

derek1993 · Oct 2, 2021

CarMichael Angelo said:
I challenge you to find one piece of cad designed, laser printed, water jet cut doodad, held on by anything other than the bolts I scrounged out of a bucket on my engine.

I only obsess when sht don’t work right.

and that's fine for you, mustang5l5 did it his way. Both are great builds to follow.

CarMichael Angelo · Oct 2, 2021

derek1993 said:
and that's fine for you, mustang5l5 did it his way. Both are great builds to follow.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m certainly not slighting M5l5’s build ethic (s). Anybody that knows how I look at things, knows that I will always give Kudos to a super clean, high detail project, over a rattle canned water pump on a greasy engine any day.

I was just pointing out that I do not sweat the small stuff to the Tow Mater in charge.

*But…truth be told…if i had access to a 3d printer, was capable of writing the program to make it do something, then had a shop that could model and cut that rendering from a piece of steel…I’d probably be doing it too.

General karthief · Oct 2, 2021

CarMichael Angelo said:
*But…truth be told…if i had access to a 3d printer, was capable of writing the program to make it do something, then had a shop that could model and cut that rendering from a piece of steel…I’d probably be doing it too.

AHHHH HA!!!
I kinda figured you were complimenting his skills in your own 'I like your shoes but get the fk off my lawn' way of communication.

Mustang5L5 · Oct 2, 2021

I will take that as a compliment

Mustang5L5 · Oct 5, 2021

Ok, power steering done. Filled with fluid and purged of air best I can do before starting the engine.

Tightened up all the header bolts on the drivers side, the spark plugs and ran the drivers side wires.

Gotta do the other side next, and then swap the injectors

Lines all run

I really like the look that is coming together

RaggedGT · Oct 6, 2021

Ok-take it all back apart and color match all the accessories to the intake…
Just kidding-coming along nicely

Mustang5L5 · Oct 6, 2021

RaggedGT said:
Ok-take it all back apart and color match all the accessories to the intake…
Just kidding-coming along nicely

If I knew I was going to do the intake in this color I might have……

But too late now. Next motor

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my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

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That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

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That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

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my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

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That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

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