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Update finally got around to pulling the motor and tranny out to ship off to respective shops to have some work done. Pulled the head off the driver side and one of the pistons looks brand new and the other 7 look beat to hell. Anyone seen such a strange sight before? was the side that lacked...

wow mikestang63 just checked out that saleen club and found another link to my car. It was for $8500 back in feb. guy said he replaced the tranny, gas tank, shocks, starter, and brakes. Of course the shocks feel dead now, the tranny is leaking horribly from the rear bushing, and the ebrake...

lol 5.oLoco. that is awesome! so far i've uncovered that this ride was stolen from the original dealer in Kalifornia, recovered and sold. Reappeared last year on a site, a guy bought it from an auction for seven grand and was trying to sell it for ten grand. Got into that auctions achieved...

The 1990 saleen came stock with 5 lug as well as disc's on all four. This link shows all upgrades on the 90 saleen. http://www.soec.org/datasheets/mustang/1990_mustang_spec_sheet.pdf The car does need new u-joints, struts, and probably shocks! The dollars keep adding up, but I think i'm...

just curious newschool but what is obvious about the suspension work? I'm not home to check but it looked like the stock saleen suspension to me. well minus the rims, only one original saleen rim was left in the trunk...

Thanks gearbanger I'll check that out today. for that price it really would be silly not to. this might end up being a all summer build, but really want to only build it once this time. sorry vibrant red but the motor has to be faster... I got this weird thing in my head where I have...

the plan is to replace just the top end but check everything once the motor and tranny is out. how much does a good stroker kit cost these days? any recommendations?

lol thats pretty much what i expected. Yeah i verified that she is a real saleen, still has signature even. And yes it is only money, its either spend it on my wife or my cars, and well my cars put out more, lol Well engine rebuild is going to cost 3200 with the trickflow engine kit...

Fun story for the day, curious to what you all think. I'm a craigslist junkie and noticed a 5.0 saleen appear for 4500 last week. I ditched work and drove to the trailerpark in a shady neighborhood to check it out. The poor car was sitting in the street bleeding out of every orifice on her...

Holy hell I finally got it! After speaking with justin from msd support(awesome guy) we figured out by putting a jumper from the +coil to +battery that the 12v ignition wasnt giving enough power to the coil!!!!! He had me put a 5 10 relay inbeween the battery and the coil and my beauty is...

lol I love it. I never mind people giving me the discount double check. I have the same info, and i've rebuilt the top end three times in the past due to various reasons, never had an issue. thanks for the link I'll study while I'm working today.

And no it was just a top end rebuild this time. Cam timing was good after last rebuild, the car just ran awesome when i drove it to my new garage a month ago.

nah its a 3.78 in a 9" (code H). I fat fingered it lol. Thanks for the explanation on tooth off, in my mind it just seems like turning your distributor a few more degrees would do the same thing. I'll try to pull it and set it a tooth over when i get a chance and maybe 180 degrees just for...

I have stock 8.78:1 gears, torque converter is a tci breakaway converter in a c6. Not very familiar with the tooth off theory, perhaps someone can enlighten me on that if anyone has the time. As for rotating the engine, the rotor will point at the #1 @ tdc and then the #6 180deg opposite the...

Also as far as distributor install goes let me run how i installed it by you all just in case i messed it up. I first tried install it by simply marking the old one at the base and marking where the rotor was pointing and put the msd in the same spot with the rotor pointing the same way...

I actually did check pushrod geometry this time, it was good times getting the right length push rods before i even tried firing her up. I did just check the push rods and valves and at tdc and valves were closed, and push rods could still spin with what felt like a little tension on them...

Hack-The carb sat for about a month total, I did try my holley 700cfm with the exact same result. poppy- the compression does seem low to me too, motor was warm and carb open with a screw in guage with all spark plugs out, the pistons and rings were put in about 10 years ago going for 10:1. And...

I will double check the valves in the morning? My needles are turned 1.5 turns each. I pray that i dont have two wires crossed after a month but I'll double check that again just be safe:) . It doesn't idle at all, needs a lot of gas to run smooth, which brings me to your next question, how...

thanks for the reply robert, I too feel the same way but cannot figure it out. I do have the dizzy pointing at the #1 cylinder @ tdc. Any advice on trying something else?

Howdy I'm brand new to stangnet so first just wanted to say hi, and thanks for all the help i have received in the past from reading/ learning from all of your post. I am a junior mechanic so I'm really still learning everything and hopefully one day be able to help others. As to my problem I...