What Is That Canister For In The Pass Side Front

Every once counts when your doing a drag car I don't care what you say and yes the ac pump and smog pump do lower your hp not much but yes they do

My daily driver 4-door sedan is probably faster than most "drag" fox Mustangs these days.


For the most part, most of the fox 5.0's on these forums are either daily driven, or weekend cars. Very few guys are making pure drag racing cars, but those that do usually know what they are doing.

Being on the forums since early 2000's, most often the result of arbitrarily yanking stuff off a Fox Mustang is a poorly running car. So yes, yanking the smog pump and A/C off might save you 0.3HP, but is it really worth it when the car runs like crap?

yanking the charcoal box off does what exactly? Saves you 1/4 pound and makes the engine bay look cleaner? But now your car smells like raw fuel when you drive around and you run the risk of an explosion if the vapors build up. But all that's worth it for 0.05 second gains in the quarter mile right?
 
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Yup that's all you do when you "yank" stuff off just pull it off and don't worry about it that's it :leghump: it smog is pointless it's for emission control it will not harm or change anything with driving your car at all no engine light nothing it's there for emissions
 
Yup that's all you do when you "yank" stuff off just pull it off and don't worry about it that's it **** it smog is pointless it's for emission control it will not harm or change anything with driving your car at all no engine light nothing it's there for emissions

Yeah those crazy Ford Engineers! What the hell where they thinking?

PLEASE tell us more about your drag car. Pictures would be great..

@Noobz347 @jrichker @Gearbanger 101 @madmike1157 @madspeed
 
Yeah your right man keep your fox stock don't touch a thing on it there more valuable that way[emoji23] your prolly like a 50 year old guy that thinks it's perfect to never touch anything on the car cause that's how ford engineered it ford also engineered a car that's door latches f up but you know that's how they made it so don't touch it and also I never said I had a drag car lol might wanna learn how to read on that one have fun with your stock fox or whatever you have oh and don't forget you NEED your smog don't touch it it's very important
 
Yeah your right man keep your fox stock don't touch a thing on it there more valuable that way[emoji23] your prolly like a 50 year old guy that thinks it's perfect to never touch anything on the car cause that's how ford engineered it ford also engineered a car that's door latches f up but you know that's how they made it so don't touch it and also I never said I had a drag car lol might wanna learn how to read on that one have fun with your stock fox or whatever you have oh and don't forget you NEED your smog don't touch it it's very important

And you're probably an 18-year-old kid that can't be told anything, because he already knows it all? You know....since we're gonna start stereotyping here.

Yup that's all you do when you "yank" stuff off just pull it off and don't worry about it that's it **** it smog is pointless it's for emission control it will not harm or change anything with driving your car at all no engine light nothing it's there for emissions

100% wrong. You will throw codes immediately when you remove the smog pump and depending how much more of the smog system you pull off, you're very likely to affect drivability. The smog pump takes less than 1/3 of 1 horsepower to spin while operating. Not only that, but it is deactivated at WOT and free-wheels, so the drag is negligible. Removing it however, will in a short time ruin your catalytic converters and shorten the lifespan of your O2 sensor. Of course, a smart guy like you probably already punch out his catalytic converters anyway, so who cares, right? You probably don't care how your car smells to those poor buggers that have the misfortune of being stuck behind you at a traffic light either, right?

And let's be clear.....the smog pump "HAD" to be removed in order to install the On3 Turbo kit.....not because it was a hindrance of any kind. If the folks at On3 could have figured out a way to design the kit that would keep the smog pump in place, they would have.

On3 70mm
Gt40 upper and lower
B303 cam
44 injectors
Stealth pump 340
373 chromoly gears
A ****ty built t5
ARP head studs but stock heads that are ported cause I didn't want to spend money

Your list of mods is pretty basic. Big deal, so you've added a turbo to the mix. That's nothing exotic and certainly far from a "drag car". Although I'm interested in these "chromoly gears" you speak of? lol

Had On3 been able designed your kit in such a way that it would have retained your smog pump, you wouldn't have felt even the most minuscule difference in performance. You complain about how much the smog equipment weights, but I bet you've got 50lbs worth of stereo equipment in the hatch, don't you? Not hearing a big run-down of chassis and suspension mods in there? Got a 12-point cage, 33-spline axles, or drag shocks and struts in there somewhere you forgot to mention? I forgot....weight reduction was your goal. I'm sure you're probably running a set of Weld's, or Bogart's and an aluminum driveshaft and flywheel to shed the rotating mass, right? How's the A/C working. Gotta be long gone? You must at the very least have a wiper delete and a fibreglass front end on the car, right? Tubular K-member maybe? A that interior has got to be long gone. No need for passengers or sound deadening material if it's a dedicated "drag car", right? :rolleyes:

You sould like every other 20-year-old kid I've met at the car show. You've just got alllll the answers and us old timers that have been at this game for decades now and have done the trail and error bit are just clueless old fools. But hey, feel free to continue to convince all of us how wrong we are and retort with smart assed replys? Just please make sure to use punctuation with your reply when you do. Some of your responses are downright painful to read for us old timers that weren't raised on the internet. I know, I know....stupid us for utilizing the full usage of the English language instead of responding to threads like we we're "texting our boyz". Yolo, right bro? :confused:
 
Ten point harness it was a recall fords original harness didn't read smog so they put an adapter that did unplug it and connect the originals

Not following you.. You're saying Ford had an original harness in fox body mustangs that didn't "read smog" so they put in an adapter that did? What does "didn't read smog" mean,? They didn't have oxygen sensors or smog pumps? Can you elaborate. What is a ten point connector?
 
Look on your main harness right in the middle behind your intake how many connectoins do you see?
You are saying the salt and pepper connectors were recalled by Ford because they "didn't read smog"? What does that mean? I know what they are and why they were recalled- it had nothing to do with what you are stating.

Can you tell me what "didn't read smog" means. The cars came with 02 sensors and smog equipment. Are you saying they did not come with the HEGO harness?