Progress Thread Wish Me Luck! 92 Calypso Lx

[mikestang63]

others may disagree but for most street driven cars you will hate LT headers every time you go over a speed bump, need to work on the starter, clutch, transmission, etc. Yes, they make more power. WIll most guys notice the 15-20 hp difference? No

 

[QuietOne]

others may disagree but for most street driven cars you will hate LT headers every time you go over a speed bump, need to work on the starter, clutch, transmission, etc. Yes, they make more power. WIll most guys notice the 15-20 hp difference? No

And that's the other reason. Been down that road. Since this car hasn't been driven regularly in 4years and the trans is a ? I don't want to be messing around with long tubes.

 

[QuietOne]

Found the original warranty card in the glove box! Tires ordered!

 

[FoxMustangLvr]

Found the original warranty card in the glove box! Tires ordered!

What tires did you order?

 

[QuietOne]

What tires did you order?

Just some kumho 245/50/16s to make it road worthy while I save up for the 5-lug and wheels.

 

[QuietOne]

My tire situation!

 

[Noobz347]

Do you have a tire depth gauge? I'm pretty sure those are toast.

 

[QuietOne]

Do you have a tire depth gauge? I'm pretty sure those are toast.

They are like 4/32-5/32 all the way around but the tire pictured is separated (Bulging in that one spot and tore at the cracks). They all were real dry and cracking.

 

[QuietOne]

Today,

I limped it to the tire shop on the spare tire that has never been on the ground. I had to put 50psi in the spare before I could put it on the car. Got the new tires on there and drove home. Felt like a totally different car, man what a difference. I got ballsy on my was home and gave it 3/4 throttle, it shifted into 2nd around 5k and chirped the tires. This thing shifts like its pissed, shifts hard, shifts fast.

Before all this I limped it around the block to make sure I wasn't going to have any issues, everything went fine. When I started it to head to the shop I kinda got a surging idle and a check engine light. Within a mile it was running fine and the check engine light was off. Leaving the shop after a test drive it did it again and again within a mile it was fine and running great. Any clue here?

 

[General karthief]

First thing is check for codes, codes my be present with no cel on. Jrichker has instuctions on how to do this without a reader.
http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/how-to-pull-codes-from-eec4.889006/

 

[Noobz347]

Holler back at us even if codes are clear.

Pick up a new IAC gasket and a couple cans of engine cleaner.
Read up on how to properly clean a Mass Air Flow sensor or:

View: https://youtu.be/xQGSkWEC_u4


I thought that one was pretty straight forward.

It may also be time for new O2 sensors (codes should tell on this piece).

 

[QuietOne]

Ordered TPS & IAC from RockAuto. Found two broken vacuum lines (1 back of the intake, 1 smog pump) and something let loose inside my passenger side FlowMaster so I ordered two of those also.

 

[QuietOne]

I'm throwing codes 84, 10, 66, from my code reader.

84: EGR vacuum regulator circuit failure
10: no clue its not a code in the book
66: VAF/MAF sensor fault, below minimum voltage

Going to dork around with this today and see what I can get done.

@Noobz347 @karthief

 

[General karthief]

Are you calling me a dork?
@jrichker can give us the electrical values for testing maf and egr circuits, but I would say to clean both using the appropriate cleaners and check for good connections.

 

[QuietOne]

Are you calling me a dork?

LOL Not at all my friend!

After dorking around with the MAF and some vacuum lines I got a nice and steady 900rpm idle with no codes.

I took some videos for you guys so you could hear my awesome, rattling, NoFlowMaster but I can't figure out how to get them on the CPU to post them. Stupid technology

 

[Noobz347]

Yeah man... keep an eye out for more vacuum hoses too. Nice find and we should have thought of that.

 

[General karthief]

 

[Noobz347]

Are you calling me a dork?

That was me.

 

[General karthief]

That was me.

So he was calling you a dork.
I feel much better now.

 

[Noobz347]