So over the winter I added some bolt ons to the stang. Before winter it just had underdrive pullies, cai, deleted smog $ a/c. Now after the winter i added an explorer intake, 1" phenolic spacer, 1.72 crane/svo rockers, 30# injectors on fox rails with a kirban reg with a pro-m 75mm maf, 1 heat range colder plugs gap'd to .035, 190lph pump, and new fuel filter (in preparation for the 100hp dry kit thats not installed yet) o/r h-pipe, flowmaster 40's, stock tail pipes, msd cap/rotor/wires/coil, and finally deleted the egr (valve still on the car, just no longer on the intake, or transferring exhaust gas) because with the intake and spacer the egr tube was no-where near close to reaching.
My question is now that its running, it doesn't like any initial advance at all. Before i could get away with 14-16 degrees, and now i can't get anything more than base 10 or it idles like *$#@.
Also, due to the fuel system upgrades its a little piggish on the bottom, then once your about mid rpm range then things pick up, but the fox rails have no schrader valve, so i have no idea what the pressure is at (didn't notice until i got it on the car, and went to put my fuel press safety switch in...doh, have to go back to the sn95 rails now) so i don't know where to set the regulator. It came off a fox 5.0L h/c/i, so it probably won't suit my application where its set. I don't have an a/f gauge or anything like that yet, but would I be safe decreasing the fuel press in the rails until the car responds better, or is that a bad idea being that its blind.
Lastly, does anyone have these ford pedestal rockers. I tried shiming with the small .030 shims, but was almost not enough lifter preload, and the valve train was a little noisy...but not terrible. Then i tried no shims, but preload is almost too much, like a full turn, to a turn and 1/4.....Should i go back to shims? Being that the car is going to be my friday night test and tune mule, maybe being on the light side of preload won't harm me too much.
Thanks in advance
Aaron
My question is now that its running, it doesn't like any initial advance at all. Before i could get away with 14-16 degrees, and now i can't get anything more than base 10 or it idles like *$#@.
Also, due to the fuel system upgrades its a little piggish on the bottom, then once your about mid rpm range then things pick up, but the fox rails have no schrader valve, so i have no idea what the pressure is at (didn't notice until i got it on the car, and went to put my fuel press safety switch in...doh, have to go back to the sn95 rails now) so i don't know where to set the regulator. It came off a fox 5.0L h/c/i, so it probably won't suit my application where its set. I don't have an a/f gauge or anything like that yet, but would I be safe decreasing the fuel press in the rails until the car responds better, or is that a bad idea being that its blind.
Lastly, does anyone have these ford pedestal rockers. I tried shiming with the small .030 shims, but was almost not enough lifter preload, and the valve train was a little noisy...but not terrible. Then i tried no shims, but preload is almost too much, like a full turn, to a turn and 1/4.....Should i go back to shims? Being that the car is going to be my friday night test and tune mule, maybe being on the light side of preload won't harm me too much.
Thanks in advance
Aaron