My used to be 5.0 on the dyno

2000xp8 · Jul 26, 2010

S&B said:
what is the exhaust setup? What K member are you using?

SOrry for all the questions but I trying to figure our this 4.6L in a fox deal

Stock cobra headers.
96 bassani 3 piece offroad x pipe
my 1990 flowmaster catback
Fit like a glove without ever touching the catback. Rather have a bassani catback, but i've spent too much already.

AJE k member.
I would not recommend it.
Fit terrrible, was out of square, hit the oil pan, i could go on.

Use a Griggs or MM, ya you are going to get wacked financially, but IMO it saves time and money elsewhere.

5.0Droptop · Jul 26, 2010

Weight to power ratio would make for crazy ride.

Cobra912 · Jul 26, 2010

I surprised by the AJE k-member being so bad, I recall only hearing only good things. I'm gonna put one in the fall / winter so that's good to know

2000xp8 · Jul 26, 2010

Cobra912 said:
I surprised by the AJE k-member being so bad, I recall only hearing only good things. I'm gonna put one in the fall / winter so that's good to know

There's alot bad out there on them.
My buddy has had multiple issues with them on customer cars too.

If you didn't buy it already, i'd recommend not doing it.

Their customer service is piss poor.
You get BS lies and the run around.
14 days to get replacement parts to supposidly fix my problems, when it should of have been like 2 days.
I had to call them at least 6 times.
And the replacement parts still needed to be modified, again. And even after that, they created other issues.

Shaolin Crane · Jul 27, 2010

2000xp8 said:
There's alot bad out there on them.
My buddy has had multiple issues with them on customer cars too.

If you didn't buy it already, i'd recommend not doing it.

Their customer service is piss poor.
You get BS lies and the run around.
14 days to get replacement parts to supposidly fix my problems, when it should of have been like 2 days.
I had to call them at least 6 times.
And the replacement parts still needed to be modified, again. And even after that, they created other issues.

Thats why there is more to MM than the price, when i ordered my K member and Torque arm, my TA was delayed because the powder coating didnt make it past quality control. So to make up for it they refunded me 10% of the Price of the TA and promised it in a week, not only did it not take a week, someone (most likely Jason) drove the TA down to UPS after they closed and the TA passed quality control, the very next day! If all companies had 50% of the customer service that MM has the world would be a MUCH better place. And everything fit perfectly.

S&B · Jul 27, 2010

hey post some pictures of it up so we can drool over it

2000xp8 · Jul 27, 2010

S&B said:
hey post some pictures of it up so we can drool over it

I barely took any, lol.
There is a couple in my cardomain link in my signature.
I kept telling myself to document stuff.
But when you are dirty, sweaty, hungry, and you just finished burning holes in your good clothes with the grinder's sparks, the last thing you want to do is take pictures.

And i'm a crappy photographer, i have zero patience for it.

Shaolo, you are right about MM, they (or brothers performance, who sold me the stuff cheaper, as suggest by mm) botched my order, and sent me 10 inch springs.
They took care of it quickly, and sent me a free spanner wrench.

2000xp8 · Dec 4, 2010

I'd like to add after driving this car for a few months that if you try this swap, do NOT use an aftermarket oil pan.
I have the MMR, with canton windage tray and custom extended pick up, and with myself 225 lb (6'2, so you don't think i'm fat) and another 230lb guy in the car, it rubbed on a bump.
No real damage, just a scrape and dripping oil.
Bought a stock pan and pick up and i'll swap them out. Not really something i'm looking forward to, but sometimes i've got to learn the hard way.

No other solution is possible, trans is at the top of the tunnel, so the engine can't go up, and i have no interest in raising the car up.

Mustang5L5 · Dec 4, 2010

That is awesome! I want to do this swap one day!

S&B · Dec 5, 2010

i just want to pay someone to do it, i end up hating cars that i work on

2000xp8 · Dec 5, 2010

S&B said:
i just want to pay someone to do it, i end up hating cars that i work on

I know the feeling.
But, with the right parts to begin with and a 100% assembled donor engine, there isn't that much hard work.
Would make it more like an erector set.
I made a pretty extensive parts list on modularfords for the guys, and honestly with the things i learned and the right purchases, this could be done in a few days.

Coil overs, an MM k member and a completely assembled engine would have save me hours, even days.

Shaolin Crane · Dec 6, 2010

You really hated that AJE K member huh?

tunedin302 · Dec 6, 2010

Congrats on an awesome job! I'm in the early stages of a similar heart transplant.

2000xp8 · Dec 6, 2010

Shaolin Crane said:
You really hated that AJE K member huh?

Yup, it was the part that delayed progress the most.
And the BS they fed me on the phone just aggravated the situation.

Shaolin Crane · Dec 6, 2010

2000xp8 said:
Yup, it was the part that delayed progress the most.
And the BS they fed me on the phone just aggravated the situation.

Is it something that is bad enough that you'll change it down the road?

2000xp8 · Dec 6, 2010

Shaolin Crane said:
Is it something that is bad enough that you'll change it down the road?

Would i like to change it? Yes, on principle alone.
Do i need to change it? Probably not. The situations it caused are taken care of.
Will i change it? If i do, it won't be for a while.

I would change it now during the oil pan swap, but i'm not up to spending another grand right now, with a pending house purchase.

The part that really pisses me off is that they knew i got it at jegs, 2 years before the issue, they knew i never used it, and they knew they screwed it up, yet didn't stand by it by giving me a new updated one. These projects take some time, so it was out of warranty before i ever even touched it.
Then they tell me they have parts to fix it, they will go out immediately, i call a week later and they didn't ship them. Then they come another week later.
On top of that the parts they sent didn't fit properly and had to be modified yet again.
To make it worse the lower cross bar was too high, so the rack hit the pan (even after the parts came that were supposed to fix that), so i had to use offset rack bushings reversed, which in turn make the tie rods too angled, so now i needed an outer bumpsteer kit.
Domino effect.

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