The intake/fuel system is cheap enough, it's the ecu and harness that will set you back. Unless you have those in the trunk I would think that to put it all back together would likely cost in the 300 dollar range. Enjoy it as is.Well in the previous owners defense he was turning it into a drag car. Of course now I want to make it a street car. I'd love to go back to Efi and ac but the only way I'll do that will be if someone swaps with me. I don't plan on dropping a ton of money on that stuff.
Although maybe I can pick up a system from a junk yard car cheap?
Very good thought. Pull the valve cover and see what cylinder fires after the #1 cylinder. I forget the firing orders but I think ho is 1 then 3 and non-ho is 1 then 5?Are there any markings on the block and heads you can find? Almost curious if a non ho engine was dropped in and topped with a carb.
Paint the mark on the harmonic balancer with paint -choose 10 degrees BTC or 14 degrees BTC or something else if you have NO2 or other power adder. I try to paint TDC red, 10 degrees BTC white and 14 degrees BTC blue.
Remove the SPOUT connector (do a search if you want a picture of the SPOUT connector) It is the 2 pin rectangular plug on the distributor wiring harness. Only the EFI Mustang engines have a SPOUT. If yours is not EFI, check for a SPOUT: if you don’t find one, skip any instructions regarding the SPOUT
Warning: there are only two places the SPOUT should be when you time the engine. The first place is in your pocket while you are setting the timing and the second is back in the harness when you finish. The little bugger is too easy to lose and too hard to find a replacement.
Connect timing light up to battery & #1 spark plug.
To time the ignition: remove the SPOUT and use the timing light to check the timing against the marks on the harmonic balancer. Loosen the distributor hold down bolt and turn the distributor slowly until the light and the desired mark on the harmonic balancer line up. Tighten down the distributor hold down bolt and re-install the SPOUT jumper. When you put the SPOUT back in the computer will advance the spark. The timing may move around some with the SPOUT installed.
10 degrees BTC is towards the drivers side marks.
Simplified diagram of what it looks like. Not all the marks are shown for ease of viewing.
ATC ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '!' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' BTC
---------------- > Direction of Rotation as viewed standing in front of the engine.
The ' is 2 degrees.
The ! is TDC
The ' is 10 degrees BTC
Set the timing 5 marks BTC. Or if you prefer, 5 marks towards the driver's side.
The HO firing order is 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8.
Non HO firing order is 1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8
Very good thought. Pull the valve cover and see what cylinder fires after the #1 cylinder. I forget the firing orders but I think ho is 1 then 3 and non-ho is 1 then 5?
We have that firing order to thank for the "Mustang sound".You can just look at the plug wires in lieu of pulling a cover.
non h.o. is 15426378.
h.o. is 13726548. Just remember to swap the "54" and the "37".. that's the difference. I was shown that 20 yrs ago and for some reason it stuck.
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