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Mass air( not typical question)

Has anyone used the plug & play harness that sandwhichs between EEC and EEC connecter to do mass air conversion?  Once adapter is sandwhiched between EEC & connecter, the mass air harness plugs into the adapter.

I aquired one today and if it will work on the bird, that will be nice. That way when I do get ready to more mods later, wont haev to worry about cam selection.  Plus have a stock meter and A9P laying around to do conversion with.

Here is picture of sandwhich type harness I am refering to..



Mass air( not typical question)

Reply #1
You only need to splice in 4 wires.
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Reply #2
I installed one of those about 20 years ago or so on an 88 mustang .
 It worked well and was very easy to install :D
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Reply #3
That should be plug and play.Got an H.O cam or other in the engine yet?
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

Mass air( not typical question)

Reply #4
Quote from: vinnietbird;328921
That should be plug and play.Got an H.O cam or other in the engine yet?


Motor not in yet, got it on stand now waiting for trans to come back. Figured since everthing was out get tranny freshened, since my kids will be driving car most of time. Person building it is install Baunam shift kit. He does that as part of standard build proceedures.  Going to drop motor and tranny in as one, when it comes back.

I have an HO cam, but think I am going to run the explorer cam to see how it will perform.  After talking to a couple guys on Corral that have used the explorer cam, figured I would give it a shot. Worse come to worse will swap it later, with aftermarket siince I have mass air waiting. And by then my son should be use to driving and get him wrenchin on motor.

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Reply #5
Quote from: Haystack;328910
You only need to splice in 4 wires.


True. It took me all of 30 minutes to do mine.

The connector should work fine. The harness in a T-bird is basically pinned the same as a 5.0 Mustang harness.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

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Reply #6
Yes it will work(have one around here someplace), it does not address the need to relocate the TAB & TAD connections or have a connection for the fuel pump monitor circuit... I recommend as others suggested, add the wiring to your current harness...

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Reply #7
I did what Tom stated,added my own harness.I got the kit from Ebay,added 2 wires,moved two wires and splice 2 wires. Took about 45 minutes,then ready to go.KitzKat twisted my arm to do it.Gad he did.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

 

Mass air( not typical question)

Reply #8
Ive done the 4 wire adpater years ago on an 88 mustang I had. But since I already have the kit pictured above, figured I go that route it if works.