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    eco boost reliability?

    late to the discussion but I had a 19. 2.3L. Had 141,000 on it when I got rid of it, was a good car. No issues other than an active shutter failure right after I bought it (29,000 mi).
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    Fox AOD Throttle Pressure/Transmission Issues

    what causes slippage? Lack of pressure. The clutch packs and bands need hydraulic pressure to engage them, on AOD's they're really sensitive to this. The TV pressure actually helps get that clutch pack pressure up where it needs to be depending on throttle position (TV stands for throttle...
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    Fox body 2.3 power steering delete

    I have never found one for 2.3's. Have made one, and it's not too hard to do if you have any fabrication skills. You can use a stock power steering pulley and then make a bearing support for it, I just used an old lawn mower deck spindle-which had the same shaft size as the pulley. Mounted it...
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    Putting a turbo coupe T-5 in 2.3 Lx

    And one more thought, for whatever it may be worth the 4 cylinder engine has a tendency to "vibrate" at low rpm while driving in gear. It has to do with the frequency of the cylinder firing events, 2 events per engine rotation (720 degrees per full cycle divided by 4= 180 degrees per cylinder...
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    Afr heads on sale???

    get in touch with my friends at Craft Racing in Arkansas. I've bought 3 sets of heads from them....they beat everyone else's price, by far. I think one reason is that they are volume purchased on the front end. They buy a bunch of them and then they do their own cnc porting. And they work...
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    Cam bearing wiping, to change or not to change?

    gold oil. oil touches every single internal part of the engine and some of it stays inside passages if you had metal in the oil, some of the metal flake is stuck behind the cam bearings. Remove them, have the engine baked/washed/etc than have new cam bearings installed at the minimum, have...
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    Fuel 5.0 Injectors on a 2.3

    there is no sense in going to bigger than stock injectors unless you are turbocharged and adding even more air to the engine installing 19lb injectors into your stock 2.3L will just foul spark plugs, make it run like poo, drink gas, etc. Probably even have to replace the o2 after a bit, as it...
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    351 headers

    92 GT, 9.5 based engine. Spends a lot of time running around on the street. EFI. Have a set of Hooker headers on it now and they suck to seal up, and it throws the o2 readings all over the place--plus the obvious exhaust stench from the many leaks. I hate them. I see a lot of guys use...
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    Hey whats up! More 2.3 power needed

    with what gas costs, IMO, toss a roller cam and followers in it if you don't already have it, fix the factory airbox/ air valve, and drive it as-is. I don't know on the pre 1990 cars but my 91-93 cars all had a factory airbox with a vacuum operated valve, that opened a passage to the metal tube...
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    valvetrain knock!

    I have used a screwdriver in the past to pry the followers out, and in. Lots easier with Evan's tool though, and that tool is pretty easy to make. That design, though, can get challenging to use on some of the followers (brackets, coils, etc in the way). I actually made a tool that mimics the...
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    Engine External vacuum pump

    some of the early powerstroke diesels had a belt driven pump. Wasn't very big. I can see it being useful for the brakes, and it might even fit in the smog pump bracket. If you can find one at a JY, grab it and try it. Diesels (at least then) didn't have any vacuum so they had to use...
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    Fuel Idle Air Control issues

    yup gotta disconnect IAC AND SPOUT in order to do it correctly but the majority of internet "base idle reset" won't tell you that. ideally you'd watch IPSIBR if you had a way to log it (quarterhorse, tweecer, binary editor, tunerpro, etc) but you don't have that so don't worry about it...
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    Power steering pump noise (fix?)

    The pump is a hydraulic pump, very similar (albeit smaller) than a lot of tractors, and a lot of other equipment that uses a hydraulic system. In all of them, and I'm gonna talk about tractors since I've been involved with them for 30 years, they'll make noise IF there is (A) starvation of...
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    Contour Fans - What you need to know

    the aftermarket contour fans don't turn as fast as the oem ones do, at least not in my experience
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    Advise me on a pressure washer

    I went through this a number of years ago I bought one of those homer depot ryobi or whatever brand it was, gas pressure washer with a honduh engine on it. While it did the job, I found out later on that it wasn't great. They advertised like 3000 psi and 2.4 gpm I think it was. GPM was low...
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    Progress Thread “Rising from Ashes 13” 84 SVO build thread

    did a 93 lx, with a svo 2.3L fun car but the head wheezes, and limits you to about 250hp at 20 psi on the stock head (with a GOOD intercooler and some increased fuel pressure). Beyond that you're gonna spend some money. But they can make some steam. 350-400 ain't too much of a stretch but...
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    1990 coupes are basically SSP mustangs.

    wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong or at least only partially corrects ton's of differences both between civilian and ssp also tons of differences between 4 cyl and v8. Body is slightly different between 4 cyl and v8 too. brakes, rear end, quads vs no quads (no stud on 4 cyl), fuel lines, brake...
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    K member question

    The rims I have are 07 Bullitt's, 17x8 w/ 45mm offset as I recall. I don' tknow what the backspacing is, never did measure. They say 45mm right on the back of the rim. IIRC the 98 cobras (on the other car) are 30mm offset I can always use the 98 Cobra's off of the other car if needed, but...
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    1989 n/a 2.3 auto - stalling issue

    If you have some mechanical ability you can rebuilt it yourself. They aren't rocket surgery or anything. If you wanted to beef up the A4LD, I'm told that you can use some of the clutch packs, etc from a 4.0L v6 Ranger application (same trans but built heavier duty for the heavier vehicle with...
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    86 mustang LX 2.3L

    that's for a Ranger.