Yeah I guess that would be prudent huh?
Edelbrock
Intake / UPPER [PN: 3821]
LOWER [PN: 3820]
Heads [PN: 60379] '1.90 Intake/1.60 Exhaust, 1.460 Spring Diameter, 0.575 Spring Max Lift'
Ford Racing
Cam E303 [PN: M-6250-E303]
Crane
Rocker Arms [PN: 11746-16] '1.6 ratio'
This is how the original owner set the car up in 1997. Still sporting the stock maf, injectors, ecu. I'm the 3rd owner so i had to chase a lot of this information down from the available paperwork provided with the sale + I later got in contact with the original owner.
When I got the car, its running pig rich and gotten rotten mileage. I just chalked that up to 'well its still running the stock ecu, it really needs to be tuned'. I identified a lot of other small items that were wrong/failed due to age and spent the past year fixing all that stuff, but still always ran rich and mpg's in the dumper. As of recent I started losing coolant somewhere, no leaks, no james-bond smoke screen out the tailpipe. Just no idea where its going. I'm not having any pwr issues, nor any cooling issues either. I decided to do a cylinder balance test and cylinders 1,2,3,4,5,7 all came up. I'm going to do a compression test next, but will likely be pulling the heads anyway this winter.
While I'm at it, I'm not overly fond of the e303 and was thinking about going to a milder profile. I get that it can be tuned correctly, but even when tuned the idle is still gonna be upwards of 800-1000 and will still periodically surge by design. While I don't want to go entirely back to stock, I do miss the low rpm idling from a stock setup. Plus I'm looking to add more drivability to the car.