welp, it finally happened

Poisoned Pony · Apr 28, 2009

CobraRed_96_GT said:
WTF?
That doesnt sound normal. VT stage 2's should be easier to time than comp cams 270AH's. What the heck are up with these cams?
I'm not touching left over VT stuff anymore.

dunno man. I have them stored away, gonna mic them later on to figure out their specs

Poisoned Pony · Apr 30, 2009

Look who has a engine in her bay now

Adams91LX · Apr 30, 2009

atta boy... look good

CobraRed_96_GT · Apr 30, 2009

Is there anyway to make sure the cams are what they are supposed to be?

TheSalad · Apr 30, 2009

Wow. Your progress is amazing. Thanks for all the pictures. Keep it up!

Poisoned Pony · May 2, 2009

CobraRed_96_GT said:
Is there anyway to make sure the cams are what they are supposed to be?

yeah, just taking quite a few micrometer and dial indicator readings off the lobes. I'll drop them off at a cam shop to get them spec'd out.

Poisoned Pony · May 2, 2009

Update:

Ok, so here is where I stand: I got everything hooked up, went to start it and all I got was an ABS light and no fuel pump cycling. I printed up some Alldata wiring diagrams and saw that I was missing a wire on the battery junction box. Hooked that up, blam, normal key-on functions (all idiot lights, fuel pump cycling, etc). I went to crank it over and the starter sounds slow and wouldn't start. Bummer. Pulled the starter, had a local parts house test it, passed with flying colors. I posted this video of the problem on a few other forums:

YouTube - 2000 Mustang GT starting problem

and I was told to look into battery. WHile the battery has a decent charge (12.59v on my voltmeter), it may not be providing enough amps to get the starter going. Now I have an excuse to get an Optima battery, so once I get off of work at 8am, I'm headed to Autozone to pick one up.

Power Steering issue: I picked up a new pump yesterday at Kragen's, however I need to find some way of pressing on my pulley without screwing up the pump like on the stock one. My buddy was pressing on the pulley on the stock pulley when the shaft decided to exit the back of the pump instead of letting the pulley be pressed on.

Once I have these issues solved, she'll be back on the road.

Some pics
on the top is the stock battery harness, bottom is the new Motorcraft one that is currently installed and in question

Looking more like a complete engine

Even more so here

How she sits as of now

CobraRed_96_GT · May 2, 2009

Poisoned Pony said:
yeah, just taking quite a few micrometer and dial indicator readings off the lobes. I'll drop them off at a cam shop to get them spec'd out.

K. Let me know how I can help/solve anything in anyway.
But it's not like I can email VT about it as they are finto.

Poisoned Pony · May 2, 2009

She's aliiiiiiiiiiive!!!!!!!

YouTube - Resurrection of my GT

BurningRubber · May 3, 2009

Freakin' sick man, I bet you are really happy right now.

COBRA90GT · May 3, 2009

Congrats.

waggs · May 3, 2009

congrats! badass setup for sure

02nightmaregt · May 3, 2009

Dude thats awesome. Congrats on having her back on the road!

Pearl02 · May 3, 2009

What about the test drive? We know you are still breaking in the engine. It sure sounds good. Congrats on the build. Pearl02.

Poisoned Pony · May 3, 2009

I've put alittle over 80 miles on her since yesterday. City miles mostly, but I did a quick highway sprint up to 5k RPM's with half thorttle. She's running like a dream. I'm keeping my Predator plugged in while I drive to keep an eye on things. Of course, I'll be switching to SCT in a few weeks to get a tune locally.

CobraRed_96_GT · May 3, 2009

Fuggin sweet man, congratz

Poisoned Pony · May 20, 2009

200 mile check it. Had some issues pop up so she was down for a week:

- passenger side, rear freeze plug on the block popped off. Was complete hell to track down since only the bottom lip was actually leaking. That edge is concealed by the starter.

- front cover seal was lekaing oil, very much fun to fix since everything had to come off the front of the engine to pull the front cover

- while repairing the front cover, a valve cover gasket tore. Junked the crappy Fel-Pro's in favor of FoMoCo gaskets, which fit 100% better.

- a nasty bump on I-5 took out my O/R X-pipe, so I had to swap on the catted X. Problem with that is that it has a clogged cat. So I'm ordering a pair of Magnaflow cats from Summit with my next paycheck. I'll eventually order a new O/R

I'm probably going to do a couple WOT passes here soon since I finally logged some decent miles on here. I think she's safe enough to do so

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