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  1. bmo37

    Overheating With Ac On

    I've batlled my fair share of overheating issues but this summer I've ran into an overheating issue that has me pretty much stumped. The car at this point has a new high flow water pump, new alumnin 3 core radiator, dual ford contour electric fans, new thermostat and cap, new hoses, system has...
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    Engine to Bell Housing Block Plate

    Has anyone run their car without a block plate in between the engine and bell housing? Pretty much tore the car down to redo the rear main seal and check to see what was causing excessive chatter on the clutch. Sure enough it wasn't the clutch itself rather my flywheel weight actually wore a...
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    When to ditch the PCV system?

    Never really thought about it but what would be a good threshold to switch over to a catch can evac setup versus the stock pcv system. Is it applicable with low boost setups 7lbs or less, does it apply for larger cubes or just higher spinning motors? I know in my case I'm looking to go this...
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    New Engine and Tweecer

    Well it's been a long time since I've tried posting stangnet but after moving to my new house and getting settled in my brother and I have tried to resurrect the beast after about a 2 year down time. Prior to moving I had the car in the tuning stages, to the point where the engine sounded...
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    Rear Mount Battery Shut-Off

    Looking for some advice on the rear mount shut-off switch, recently my brother and me changed up his wiring on his rear mounted battery to try and avoid charging issues since the guy before him didn't take it into consideration when hooking it up. To me something still doesn't seem right with...
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    Car won't start after being garaged

    Over the coarse of a few years I put together my project car (mods in sig) when money was available. During the end of the completion stage I had the car running consistantly but fairly rough due to no tune. I bought a tweecer system and fiddled around with it. Over time the the car sat idle for...
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    Engine Finished Now What Do I TWEEC

    To make a long story short. I built this car back in college and its been sittin in my garage about 90% done until recently I decided to tackle the tuning part with it again. I'm new to the tweecer and would like any pointers/tips where to start. Here is what I did already, I have a feeling im...
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    Smog Pump Tube And New X-pipe

    awhile back I bought a new catted x-pipe from ebay, looks great well made but there is a discrepency cause the tube that connects the smog pump to the cats is facing in another direction other than the stock one. Aside from this the tubes are different outer diameters so it doesn't fit at all...
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    Lower control arms too short

    anyone else ever have this problem, my brother bought a set of those mac upper and lower control arms off ebay new for his 92 mustang gt, when trying to install them it seems the lowers aren't long enough to reach the rear end tried jacking rear, and jacking control arm all with no success
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    93 Struts/shocks Install

    does anyone have any idea how to get those damn nuts off the top of the struts on the rear suspension, I was fighting them today and gave up, tried clamping it with vice grips from the bottom but still kept spinning.
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    Boost problems

    i've been fighting this problem for awhile now, I basically built and engine from the ground up by myself, and the last piece of the puzzle was the supercharger. Now for the life of me I can't build any boost, at idle it reads 0 psi, just all vacuum (don't know vacuum reading cause only have a...
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    Boost Gauge Intake Fitting?

    I never had any readings from my boost gauge, since installing my supercharger. Now I'm still trouble shooting the problem but I have the nut and ferrule mounted to the fitting on my typhoon intake, could this be the problem why I'm not reading any boost? I don't get it the vaccum lines exit out...
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    What size wheels up front on a street car?

    I have 3.5 welds up front right now, but I always have in the back of my mind when taking a corner that the wheel is going to give. Anyone run a 15x7 wheel up front. I'm looking for style but saftey is more important, car is driven on weekends only not a daly driver, thanks again
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    engine shops in NJ? also how much to replace headgaskets?

    really pissed right now after re-building my combo all summer long in my limited time after work, today i fill her up with fluids and notice that my my coolant is going somewhere, i look under the car and its raining coolant from the head/block seal on both sides of the engine and heads. Now...
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    Where to buy MAF sensor connector

    Some how I managed to break the clips on the maf connector on the harness is there anywhere anyone knows of that sells these things, I really don't want to buy a new harness just cause of this one stupid connector.
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    Engine Plate???

    Seems my stock engine plate (goes between the block and bellhousing) has actually vaporized, I'm not kidding actually cracked and turned into a powder in some areas. The problem is i have no clue where to buy this thing at, i searched the net and no one has them. I really don't want to goto the...
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    transmission experts

    My friend just bought a older tko tranny for his fox mustang, now the input shaft is 26 spline while the output shaft is 31 spline. The slip yoke he has is a 31, but there is a notch in it, but when you look at the output shaft on the tranny there is no notch. Are we susposed to hammer it on or...
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    Final CR 10.3:1 Max Boost I can run?

    I'm trying to figure the max boost I can run on this engine, its a 347 with all forged internals, main support on a new stock block. I know I can run probably around 6spi but I was going to add a power pipe to kick it up to around 8-9psi and put a by-pass valve on it. No fmu cause I'm running...
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    7qt oil pan dipstick and stock dipstick

    I went with a larger volume oil pump and decided to get a larger 7qt oil pan to feed the pump, now it came with its universal pan mounted dipstick plus I still have the stock provision in the block for the stock dipstick, does anyone sell a block off of some sort to plug the stock dipstick hole...
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    oil pump won't clear main studs? Any ideas

    I'm building another engine and the melling hv oil pump i bought won't clear the main studs, take in mind i have main support and studs are a little longer than usual, i tried clearancing the pump but its still not enough (actually went to far and made a hole in the oilpump which i have to weld...