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November 14, 2006, 05:33:24 PM

all right, stupid question. what is the little gadget mounted on the brace right in front of the radiator that looks like a heat sink. all it says is ford on it.

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Reply #1 – November 14, 2006, 05:37:49 PM

Heat Exchanger? It's for the ac

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Reply #2 – November 14, 2006, 05:43:03 PM

TFI Module?

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Reply #3 – November 14, 2006, 10:17:20 PM

On a 3.8 it's the TFI Module.

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Reply #4 – November 14, 2006, 10:24:11 PM

Can you get a picture of what your talking about. Or a better discription please. I'm getting a different pitcure of what your seing then the others are.

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Reply #5 – November 14, 2006, 10:54:54 PM

It's the TFI...

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Reply #6 – November 14, 2006, 11:05:38 PM

"mounted on the brace right in front of the radiator that looks like a heat sink."

Is it this ( Coil)

Or whats here? ( Heat exchange for the A/C?)

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Reply #7 – November 15, 2006, 12:22:07 AM

Mike give it up! Its not what your pointing at in any of those photo's!

3 people (the only other people to post in here aside from yourself) have said TFI! One of them for sure has an 88 with a v6! I also have a 88 3.8 and I'm 100% sure its the TFI as well. So I'll be ed if you don't know what the hell you are talking about!

Oh and guess what, thats the coil in your first picture not the TFI.

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Reply #8 – November 15, 2006, 12:28:04 AM

The only cars to get a remote mounted TFI were the '88 3.8's right?

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Reply #9 – November 15, 2006, 12:36:42 AM

Correct! Minus MN-12's and later pickups that came with "black" TFI's instead of "grey" TFI's

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Reply #10 – November 15, 2006, 12:50:39 AM

I was speaking, of course, within the realm of our own cars.

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Reply #11 – November 15, 2006, 12:54:15 AM

My 84 T/c coupe has the heatsink TFI up front. Ofcourse I made it that way with the heatsink from an 88 3.8.

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Reply #12 – November 15, 2006, 06:50:56 AM

I know claude, the TFI in on the distrubitor. I'm trying to learn here as well. So i'm asking questions

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Reply #13 – November 15, 2006, 09:33:52 AM

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I'm trying to learn here as well. So i'm asking questions

There were so many problems (and lawsuits) that Ford said "This TFI thing keeps failing because of the heat from the distributor. Find a way to keep it cool." Mister Designer Guy suggested mounting it away from the heat, maybe right where air would blow on it, attached to a big heatsink to keep it really cool.

And it ended up looking something like this:
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Reply #14 – November 15, 2006, 05:49:44 PM

I'd love to have a remote mounted one for my car. Maybe I can con Eric into selling me the one off the old '88 max, if it's still there.