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This is a discussion on Fuzion's Engine bay & H/C/I Progress Thread within the 5.0 Talk forums, part of the 5.0 Mustang category; Originally Posted by SMOKEDYA WHITE notches rule! hey are you in grove city ohio? peace john No im from the ...

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Old 09-20-08, 06:55 PM
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WHITE notches rule! hey are you in grove city ohio? peace


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No im from the west side of cleveland. North ridgeville to be excat. And yes white notch's do rule.
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Old 09-20-08, 07:01 PM
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Im kinda torn as to what CAI to use, i really dont want to spend a huge amount of money on one cuz i am planning on going turbo within the next couple years.

what are my options? its gotta fit a 80mm mas and 70mm tb. i was thinking about a c&l.
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C&L should be a good choice for you combo.

You'll be able to recoupe the money for that setup on Ebay for sure. Good CAI's and other things like T-bodies, MAF's always sell good on Ebay.

I sold a used 70mm T-body for 125 bucks Buy It Now!!! I couldn't believe it, it was within hours of my listing!
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Old 09-21-08, 10:27 PM
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nice looking coupe man! coupes rule! he he ha ha! my buddy is in progress on his 306 black on black coupe no options also. he's doing a 76MM turbo from quick time turbos. i know the feeling of opening all those goodies my boxes from summit started showing up today for my 351! is that a stock 5.0 block? any reason you went trick flow over AFR? what size are those heads?peace john
I am planning on running the Quicktime turbo kit one day as well. i've seen a local guy make over 550rwhp with the same heads and cam i am building now and the 76mm precision set up. I basically went with the trick flow heads because of the packaged deal. took all the guessing work away. I believe that the tw heads are 170cc.

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I have a 88 no option car with 14000 miles on it that i am doing h/c/i on over the winter.
Heads are trickflow. Intake is NOS gt-40 tube intake. And yes it is brand new in the box.
Trickflow stage one cam and ford racing ceramic shorty's to. I am also doing a 5 lug conversion with 03 cobra brakes and 10th anv cobra wheels. Cant wait to start.
good luck with the notch.

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C&L should be a good choice for you combo.

You'll be able to recoupe the money for that setup on Ebay for sure. Good CAI's and other things like T-bodies, MAF's always sell good on Ebay.

I sold a used 70mm T-body for 125 bucks Buy It Now!!! I couldn't believe it, it was within hours of my listing!
A friend of mine has got me thinking about building my own cai out of pvc piping. he says that he has seen it done before and that it is way cheaper. I'll let you know what i'll decide. LOL

Little update, now that all my parts are here and can't wait to put it all together and start driving I haven’t been able to get my hands on a cherry picker yet. A local guy from the Northern virginal mustang club is letting me borrow his but we haven’t been able to schedule a time to meet up. So this weekend I continued sanding down and painting some other accessories and brackets in the bay. I took off the exhaust, disconnected the clutch, speed cable, shifter and took of the engine mount bolts. All I would have to do is remove the cross member and lift the engine and trans right out.

BTW, I just realized this weekend that when I removed the water pump 2 or 3 of the bolts had rusted and broke while I was removing them. I know that this is a very common issue even though I was being very careful when I was removing them.
Does anybody have a right up as to how to get the broken bolts out? And does anybody know if Arp makes a bolt kit for the water pump? Thanks
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Old 09-22-08, 12:43 AM
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WHITE notches rule! hey are you in grove city ohio? peace


john
my last name is grove! im in hilliard..aka...construction central right now.

any of the bolt exposed? if so if you can grab onto it. or tacking an old socket that will fit onto whats exposed to back it out.

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Old 09-22-08, 06:02 PM
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my last name is grove! im in hilliard..aka...construction central right now.

any of the bolt exposed? if so if you can grab onto it. or tacking an old socket that will fit onto whats exposed to back it out.
oh yeah? i use to work for rick at honda northwest. what a dick. man i miss it there was back there in may/june 08 for a bit. one day i'll be back for good! peace



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Old 09-27-08, 12:13 PM
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BTW, I just realized that when I removed the water pump 2 or 3 of the bolts had rusted and broke while I was removing them. I know that this is a very common issue even though I was being very careful when I was removing them.
Does anybody have a write up as to how to get the broken bolts out? And does anybody know if Arp makes a bolt kit for the water pump? Thanks
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Old 10-11-08, 06:23 PM
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BTW, I just realized that when I removed the water pump 2 or 3 of the bolts had rusted and broke while I was removing them. I know that this is a very common issue even though I was being very careful when I was removing them.
Does anybody have a write up as to how to get the broken bolts out? And does anybody know if Arp makes a bolt kit for the water pump? Thanks
which bolts broke? if the ones that go into the blokc broke thats gonna be a hassle, but if the ones on the timing chain cover broke i would say just look for a new timing chain cover. getting broken stuff out is a hassle, and if you need a new cover i think i have a spare one, so PM me and let me know. ARP does make a kit for the WP and i think they make a complete kit for the engine for around 100 bucks that will have what you need.


BTW the car looks sick, glad to see there are still people building clean notchbacks out there
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Old 10-13-08, 10:10 AM
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Engine is out, finally ready to get some work done.

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Old 10-13-08, 10:17 AM
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Old 10-20-08, 07:01 PM
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fuzion pm me about your 5 lug stuff you mentioned to me earlier
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Old 12-08-08, 05:47 PM
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any updates?
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Old 12-08-08, 09:23 PM
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well thats the easy part done
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Old 12-08-08, 09:57 PM
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yeah any updates ?? inquiring minds want to know .....
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Old 12-09-08, 07:12 AM
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well thats the easy part done
I'll second that.
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Old 12-16-08, 09:32 PM
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well thats the easy part done
You are 100% correct, after taking it all apart it got a lot harder to schedule working on the car for a while. With school, work and the fact that the car is about 45 minutes away from home has really killed my motivation to work on the car.

Good news is that shool is over and i have all next week off of work. I started going back to the garage on sunday and worked on it on tuesday night too. I started sanding down and priming the engine bay.

update pictures will be uploaded tomorrow.
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Old 12-16-08, 09:41 PM
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dont get discouraged, it took me a whole year to finish mine. keep at it its coming along well.
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Old 12-16-08, 10:50 PM
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just remember all good things take time.... even if you only work on it a little here and there keep working on it, and sooner or later it will be done ... my car has been down since august doing different things with it, but once it is done it will all be worth it... good luck on the progress
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Old 12-28-08, 12:24 PM
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Update:
Amazing what good weather we had yesterday, it was almost 70 degrees. took care of some business.

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Old 12-28-08, 12:41 PM
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paint does wonders...looks good man nice job
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Old 12-30-08, 04:02 PM
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paint does wonders...looks good man nice job
Thanks for the kind words. Going out to work on the enigne tonight. Things are really beginning to get interesting.
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Old 03-16-09, 11:49 AM
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Well I know I’ve done a terrible job keeping up with this thread... Sorry. But I have good news, after taking a couple months off of the project we started working on it again. Last week we headed back into the garage and noticed that the paint job we did on the engine bay in dec did not meet our standards. So we started sanding again. We redid the bay and it looks 10 times better. It’s hard to tell in the pictures but in person the paint is so much smoother and an even gloss all the way around, instead of random patches. We also disassemble the top end of the engine and painted the block last week.

This last weekend, after all of the paint dried we began assembly the top end with all of the trick flow goodies. I will update with pictures as soon as I can. It looks incredible so far.

Thanks for looking.
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Old 03-16-09, 11:58 AM
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Looks good. That's exactly what I did to my black notch. Just some rattle cans from Autozone and it actaully came out great. So much of the bay is covered anyways, if you aren't gonna hide wires and smooth holes.
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Horray!
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Old 03-18-09, 08:32 PM
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Not to highjack the thread but here is a video i made of my build.
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Old 03-27-09, 08:51 PM
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Updated Pictures
Block Disassembly

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Mobile 1 seems to be doing a good job.
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Little bit of play in the timing chain
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Cam Coming out
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