88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

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88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

Reply #15 – April 19, 2006, 04:51:42 PM

Ooooo, yay, plastic! Chalk up another thing I'm going to be replacing...

88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

Reply #16 – April 19, 2006, 10:39:46 PM

Eric, I don't think the plastic gears were for weight savings, I think they were for NVH. At least I hope so, because I would hate to think Ford did something like that for weight savings. Not that nylon gears are inherently bad - many of these timing sets have gone well over 200k miles - but the weight savings might net you what, 1 billionth of a second in the quarter?

88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

Reply #17 – April 20, 2006, 06:28:04 PM

thanks to reading wat you guys just said i'm doing the conversion.

88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

Reply #18 – April 21, 2006, 01:17:30 PM

Just my advice but if you’re shopping for heads and an intake. Go with the 96-97 1/4 explorer heads they are the exact same as 93 cobra gt-40.and intakes on 96-up are modified gt-40.but only cause you’re replacing them.

88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

Reply #19 – April 21, 2006, 09:33:41 PM

Thanks a lot for that info. I'm on a low budget and the regular H.O. 5.0 stuff is in my price range right now. I have already bought the H.O. upper intake, but I'll see if I come across that set of heads you recommended. Also, what does the 1/4 stand for?

@ XR7 Greg - Cool! Have fun and good luck with your conversion! :D

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Reply #20 – April 22, 2006, 01:03:36 AM

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Also, what does the 1/4 stand for?

The first 1/4 of the 97 model year;)

88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

Reply #21 – April 22, 2006, 02:23:30 AM

How can I tell the difference between the first 1/4 of the '97 model heads and the other 3/4? Is it a part number difference?

88 Tbird regular 5.0 questions

Reply #22 – April 22, 2006, 08:46:38 AM

Yes. The later heads are GT40P, the spark plugs are at a different angle than the regular GT40. Supposedly they require a special header, but people in this forum have used regular 50 headers with them, just with a different spark plug boot

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Reply #23 – April 22, 2006, 10:58:32 AM

Oh I see, thanks :) .

Dad and I took a trip to the junkyard (in the Tbird, of course) to see what 5.0 HO parts they have, but the guy my dad normally talks to wasnt there and it started raining. Oh well, maybe another day.