87' Cougar - Few Random Questions

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87' Cougar - Few Random Questions

Reply #15 – March 07, 2009, 08:31:48 PM

Quote from: TurboCoupe50;257970

Unless you plan on spraying or blowing it, there's nothing wrong with cast pistons...

Swap the front accessories, timing cover, etc, use a earlier HO upper and '87-'88 Stang SD or '88-'92 LSC EEC and you are good to go...

Thinking about it though I've decided that some form of boost in in my car's future. Hopefully sooner than later I will be able to pick up a Vortech V-1 SC-Trim. But that'll be a while, for now I'm just working on the HO conversion, so I guess my bottem end will be fine for now.
I have a couple more questions if anyone's got a few minutes. I want some real guages so I'm going to pull my stock equalizer and add voltage, oil pressure, and temp guages there. How should I go about hooking those up?
I found some injectors, rails, and FPR from a 95' GT and one set from a 5.0 Explorer, would either be usable on my car?

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Reply #16 – March 09, 2009, 11:50:29 PM

I'm still curious about the gauges if anyone here has any input. Wouldn't hurt to know about the injectors and all either. But I'm not going full HO right now.
I am going to pick up some stock Mustang headers in the next couple of weeks though. How much work is involved installing them? I've heard so many different things I can't really tell if I'm going to have problems with them fitting or not. Some say fitment is great, but I've also heard others have had problems with the them and the column shifter linkage. I'm going to replace the valve cover gaskets pretty soon too. I've never done anything more involved than a water pump install, or similar. Any tips or anything else I might need to know. Other than just pulling the valve covers, replacing the gaskets, and torquing the covers to the correct specs is there anything I need to know? I'm eventually going to tackle getting some E7s on here, but thats further down the road and alot bigger job I'd assume.