Progress Thread She’s a runner

[KZGUNS]

@CarMichael Angelo it crossed my mind but I think I’ll keep it easy on this one. Probably be the wife driving it most of the time. Now, I will stow the old 250 away in the corner in case I feel adventurous some day.

 

[General karthief]

Just in case you need to know how you can take the exact same Maverick 250, cut open the side to expose the lifter galley, create a cover plate to fix that, Hog open the push rod galley to allow them to swing way out to accommodate a canted valve head, and the contact info to get in touch with someone in Australia to Source that head built for Ford Australia by Honda, that you have to put cut down 1.75“ BBC exhaust valves in as intake valves, and + .0500”:extended length SBC 1.50 exhaust valves for exhaust valves, then add Custom length pushrods, guided by custom built guide plates, using 1.75 ratio BBC offset roller rockers, operating BBC beehive springs, then machine the crank to accommodate a SBF balancer, and A SBF timing chain minus 2 teeth sourced from some guy in India, Then give you the address for the Aussie cam grinder that can grind a solid roller cam to accommodate 6 BBF roller lifter pairs to ride on, A machine shop to Bore open the cylinders to allow a .250 over bore sleeve to fit,, held together with a butt load of JB weld…..And Hard block engine filler…

I know a guy.

Yeah, good idea.
He needs some yard art, or was it a boat anchor? Can't remember

 

[WindsorPenchant]

Seriously good find...Funny how back then, the body look was so so. You look at it today with totally different eyes. My grandmother left me a Grabber like that when I was nineteen, and I destroyed it within months. That six motor still has a lot of power.

I think a lot of it looking back is on the associations as well. Nothing is more life or death to youth on whether what they have will impress someone else or not. Now we drive around in these janky looking Fox boxes that are real beauties if you are the type to know what's important to be looking at..

It's funny, in the UK 30-40 years ago Skodas used to have the granny or spend-thrift image, or just generally dreary soviet crap. The worst of the worst.

Now days? A Skoda 120 might be the coolest thing around.

 

[WindsorPenchant]

Heck even a Rover can catch my eye every now and then..

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Yeah, good idea.
He needs some yard art, or was it a boat anchor? Can't remember

The tragedy is that I threw the short block away. With the double roller timing chain sourced from india, the crank machined to accept the SBF zero balance balancer, 6 forged rods, 6 custom 2618 forged pistons, the solid roller cam, and 12 BBF solid roller lifters all still inside. Who would ever wanna do any of that crazy sht anyway?

But you never know…with enough stupidity….The Maverick engine bay can still look like this:

Behold the Lowly Maverick 250, with a little help from Ford Australia, and some crafty repurposing of a few BMW throttle bodies.

 

[KZGUNS]

We had a local car show last weekend. The wife drove the mav and I took the mustang. I told her to be careful because it has manual brakes and steering. We get to the show and she’s like idk what you were worried about my car is easy to drive. I guess it’s hers. Anyway the mustang is doing great. Lots of head scratching and a few “LSswap, what an idiot” look closer dummy. Lol.
Made some progress on my old 5.0 honed the cylinders and got the rotating assembly installed.

 

[KZGUNS]

Getting there… some old parts and some new. Heads are cheapish eBay from J&C they are pretty decent. As cast ports, if you were ambitious you could clean em up pretty easily.

 

[KZGUNS]

Another “not” foxbody post. I repainted the engine bay on my Maverick and got the old 302 from my 87 installed. (A little foxbody I guess) still need to cut hole for floor shifter and pull the diff and have my brother set it up with the 3:55 gears and Yukon limited slip.

 

[a91what]

Looking good

 

[2Blue2]

I found this one owner 1972 Maverick Olympic edition. 100% original everything.

Thats really neat.
We want more pictures of the Olympic sprint package please.
Always liked Mavs

 

[KZGUNS]

Thats really neat.
We want more pictures of the Olympic sprint package please.
Always liked Mavs

Check one page back where I posted a bunch of pictures. It was mostly an appearance package so and combination of options were available. They made pintos, Mavericks, and mustangs.

 

[hoopty5.0]

The maverick is badass!

 

[KZGUNS]

Well the good weather has arrived here in northeast Ohio. Car is running great but I broke it! So I was backing out of my driveway and my foot slipped causing the car to jerk hard a couple times. When that happened a couple things happened. The engine rotated in the k member, belt popped off and wedged itself in the water pump pulley and then tried to rip the tensioner off. So I had to loosen mounts and jack up one side of the engine to straighten it out. Had to replace the tensioner and pulley and need a belt. Was able to get it back together without too much trouble. Now I’m thinking I need something to secure the engine so it doesn’t try to slip in the slots on the k member. I could see wheel hop causing this in the future so I may tie the engine to the frame.

 

[General karthief]

I find it odd that the engine would/could move around that much that didn't involve a engine mount failure.
In the 'old days' we put a chain on one side of the engine to keep from ripping the mount apart but that was when the mounts were 3 pieces with no safety.

 

[KZGUNS]

I find it odd that the engine would/could move around that much that didn't involve a engine mount failure.
In the 'old days' we put a chain on one side of the engine to keep from ripping the mount apart but that was when the mounts were 3 pieces with no safety.

I tend to agree but the mounts seem fine. Perhaps the nut on the stud that goes through the K wasn't sufficiently tight or got somewhat loose? The mounts were new. I'm either going to tie it to the frame or make an insert to fill the gap in the slot that's in the K to prevent slippage.

 

[85GTStangGuy]

...... or make an insert to fill the gap in the slot that's in the K to prevent slippage.

I think that's the way to go, Don't give it a place to go.

Or maybe pin in place whatever slipped somehow.

 

[Monkeybutt2000]

Put solid mounts on it.

 

[KZGUNS]

Put solid mounts on it.

Ya i know i should... In this case though it would have been worse with solid mounts or at least i think it would be. the mount actually slipped in the K member.

 

[General karthief]

Flat washer then a lock washer

 

[Noobz347]

I think that is the first time I have ever seen or heard of an engine twisting in the mount.

I mean... I could see if the bolts were loose? Even broken mounts still have the bolts and top plate still glued to the engine. Weird