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  1. 2FastLX

    Newbie Building a Pro-Street 83 Hatch

    Yeah, it has been. Making the roll cage was about the worst of it. I bent the tubes at work in Indy (70 miles away), then brought them home and did the test fitting. Then back to Indy for tweaking.
  2. 2FastLX

    Newbie Building a Pro-Street 83 Hatch

    It will more than likely run 9's. I'm just saying that 10's would make me happy. That's plenty fast for a street car. I've driven down the strip a few times. It's fun, but not my thing.
  3. 2FastLX

    Newbie Building a Pro-Street 83 Hatch

    I really don't ever plan to drive it down the track. If I do, it will be when and if we rent US41 dragway again. No worries with tech. Anyway, if I built this car to any certain specs, or whatever, then I would be building a car the way somebody else wanted it built. That is the reason I am...
  4. 2FastLX

    Newbie Building a Pro-Street 83 Hatch

    The engine I had originally planned for the car is a 306 with Canfield Stage II heads. It should have around 450hp or so at the crank. But I think that engine is actually going to go in my vert. I am still debating on either a 460 or staying with the small block platform, but going with a Dart...
  5. 2FastLX

    Removing T5 without Bellhousing?

    I swapped out five t5's in a month. I kept having problems with the tranny jumping out of 2nd and reverse. We had it all figured out and could remove and install the tranny in 35 minutes. But I can't remember what the exact tools were. I do remember instead of lowering the jack to get to the top...
  6. 2FastLX

    Efi......Intake Spacer or no spacer??

    On my 90 5.0 with the Ford racing GT-40 (not the Explorer) with the 1" spacer it will not clear the stock hood. I changed to the Ford Racing tall valve covers and the 1" spacer was required to clear. I can say that after adding the spacer I thought I felt a little difference. But the car was...
  7. 2FastLX

    Newbie Building a Pro-Street 83 Hatch

    You basically start out by getting the car level front to back and side to side by sitting it on jack stands and shimming where needed. I put the jack stands under the pinch welds under the rocker panels. I also added some stands attached to the rear bumper supports, because the back of the car...
  8. 2FastLX

    WHERE CAN I TAKE WEIGHT OFF OF CAR

    There is a book called "Mustang Performance Handbook 2" that has dimensions for making a replacement bumper that is a lot lighter than the stock steel bumper. It's a pretty simple thing to make without the proper dimensions, but the book is worth buying. Lots of cool stuff in it. Also, I...
  9. 2FastLX

    Newbie Building a Pro-Street 83 Hatch

    I really don't know exactly. But I have seen other cars that have had the floor replaced and they had a lot more tubing than I have in mine. The front will be a lot lighter than stock. I have a PA Racing K-member, aluminum heads, and nothing but go parts on the engine. The roll cage weighs...
  10. 2FastLX

    Newbie Building a Pro-Street 83 Hatch

    I am currently in the middle of a 4 year long project that started out as a head swap, and has now evolved into a complete transformation of a 1983 Mustang Hatchback. I am building my first Pro-Street car (if that's what this monster is called). It's not being built for any drag racing class...
  11. 2FastLX

    My car is a slug, I'm out of ideas

    I'm betting the O2's were pretty bad. My 90 was the same way until I changed them out. I wouldn't think an off-road h-pipe would cause anything like the conditions you had. Unless there was a squirrel nesting in the crossover ;) Also, have you tried advancing the timing a bit more? I only use...
  12. 2FastLX

    Help needed with engine tuning

    I'll try regapping the plugs. I didn't make it out in time to get the codes scanned again. But I drove it all the way to work today (70 mile trip) and it did fine. The check engine light came on again about half-way here. But it goes away when it cools off. I'll update again tomorrow after I...
  13. 2FastLX

    Help needed with engine tuning

    I really don't know on the TPS vs ping, but it did get noticably better, and all but went away when the new TPS was installed. And the power was a lot better as well. The old one was reading .005 volts, so it wasn't working at all. I have tried everything from 10 - 15 degrees on the timing...
  14. 2FastLX

    Help needed with engine tuning

    I just bought a 90 GT vert, and it had never been touched before last weekend. I figured I'd do the normal timing adjustment, remove the air silencer, tps setting, etc. Other than this stuff the car is completely stock. It had a lot of spark knock before I tuned it, and it got a bit better...
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