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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
Last post by gtbird -Rick
Rick
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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
Last post by EricCoolCats -73
Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
Last post by Chuck W -
Engine in the garage, ready for rehabbing.
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Other Vehicles / Re: Added another Fox to the fleet - 1985 Marquis LTS
Last post by Chuck W -
It wasn't playing nice on the hoist, so I conned my wife into being a second set of hands to get it out without damaging anything.
As I mentioned, the seals on this engine are merely suggestions.
There is nothing open here. That is oil actively draining from the oil pan or rear main seal
Messy, messy.
The engine is on the stand and hopefully I can get the powerwasher out tomorrow and clear off the crud from the engine and transmission and start getting things taken care of.
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Other Vehicles / Re: Oops, I did it again. I bought a new car. (1986 Ford LTD wagon)
Last post by Chuck W -Switched to using an HP Tuner instead of the SCT, as I wanted more control over things. Have that all set up and moving forward.
Otherwise, just been basically chasing down some trouble codes and sorting out the bits of wiring I hadn't done at the bulkhead connector yet.
One of the things I needed to do was sort out the fuel pump and tank, and get it close-ish to being mounted. Before mounting a tank, I needed to prep the floorpan, as I was going to seal things up a bit, because this car was going to get driven on the regular.
I grabbed a case of this stuff
It's a wax-based encapsulator/sealer.
I'll be doing the entire underside of the car with it, but just got the rear cleaned up so far.
The closer stuff was still a bit wet when the pic was taken, but you can see that it dries to kind of a satin finish.
Next was to get the new fuel pump installed.
I'm using a Deatschwerks DW200 (similar to a Walbro 255hp), that I needed to modify the hanger to get it mounted.
Before finalizing things, I wanted to check to make sure things were in the proper spots. (You can see the test spacer I made up in this shot (green))
When I was happy with how it all was, I reprinted my spacer out of some PEKK material, which is gasoline resistant. Modded the pick-up tube and installed the correct submersible fuel hose.
Next project is to drop the valve body out of the 6R80 to replace a faulty lead frame (Shift position sensor), as a few of the DTCs are pointing that direction.
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Lounge / Re: Podcast?
Last post by Haystack -77
Lounge / Re: 10sec tbird
Last post by Haystack -Only video I could find was this. "Mike sitar's twin turbo t-bird". There are two videos on that channel, I don't think it was his YouTube.
https://youtu.be/0dKqH-LYjkA?si=r4xK4kUhNovP-t6c
He used to have some really cool builds. Twin turbo 351w, 600hp for $600. Used a blowthru carb with a cfi injector under wot.
Also had a large center mounted fuel injected throttle body 460 he was building. Website was almost never updated after 2005 or so. Shame it's gone.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / WTB-5.0 stock air intake set-up
Last post by Chuck W -Wanting to use one on the LTS with the port injection set-up instead of a cone filter, etc.
86-88 TBirds, Mustangs, etc.
Let me know!
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Last post by Chuck W -I have a replacement for the TBird on the way.
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