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Mass is far from the best and the worst when it comes to inspection stickers. Sometimes it all depends on which place you go to and who drives the car in. Example: Years and years ago (when in high school) a buddy of mine failed to get an inspection sticker for the same sound reason...

I’ve been very fortunate since I’ve owned the car. The motor is stock and still got past the sniffer w/o having the cats installed. My big concern (like I mentioned) about emissions is how far can you go building a naturally aspirated motor and still get past emissions testing. I presently...

I have a quick question to any to any of our regulars who live in Massachusetts and have a modified small block with EFI. About how far can you go with heads, camshaft, and injectors before you have too radical of a motor that will not get past the sniffer at inspection sticker time? I’d...

It all depends on what you like. As far as looks go: The Fox Chassis GT’s after 1986 have a stylish look. The ground effects and cheese graters give it distinction. They basically had two body styles. Most of the LX’s offered a clean and sedate look. If you want a sleeper that weighs...

I plan on installing a Tremec 3550 on my ’90 LX. What are my options on a bell housing besides the Fords SROD or aftermarket scatter shields? Will any of the earlier bells work with a Tremec? Thanks in advance!

KOER- #32- “EGR Valve Position (EVP) sensor or Pressure feedback EGR (PFE) sensor- signal voltage is below closed limits or, had gone beyond set limits. or, Problems with EGR valve controlling”. Did you disconnect the battery? It's common practice to not have power in the system for a...

7/24/04 I checked my Actron scanner codes with the Actron manual and my “How to modify and tune Ford Fuel Injection” book. KOEO- #85- “Canister Purge (CANP) solenoid-circuit failure . The solenoid is shot. It had no continuity at all between its pins. It should have showed 40-90 ohms. Ford...

Over the last few days, I've looked things over. Other than the spark plugs looking on the lean side, the ignition system looks good. I attached a vacuum age and all looks well. There were no strange vacuum readings telling me tales about backpressure or internals going bad. I disconnected...

I plan on giving the motor a good looking over! Before the next track trip I'll: 1) Look over the whole ignition system. The last tune-up was 17k miles ago in 2000. 2) Check engine vacuum with a vacuum gage to maybe see if there is anything suddenly wrong with the engine internals or...

If everything points to the exhaust system after checking the motor out, I might consider only removing the cats and keeping the X-pipe. Maybe I could slip in the cats at inspection sticker time, but run some kind of test pipe in their place when performance counts. This just isn't right...

Has anyone ever installed a 2-cat X-pipe and have it take a serious toll on your performance at the track? After running the car for the first time after having it installed last year, my trap speeds went down a solid 4MPH and my times have slipped a solid ½ second. This is a Bassani 2 ½”...

I was cruising around the other day and I stopped in at this new speed shop in town. This is a huge place! They don’t only offer the parts, but they offer 100,000 sq. feet of floor space. They will use this up for storage rental and restoration bays. This will be quite and operation! I got the...

This definitely sounds like some kind of a short in the system. I think about the only source of power drainage with all of the fuses pulled might be the computer. Cars with electronic ignition cannot run w/o the 12v battery source. Check to see what kind of voltage that alternator is...

I've decided to do something about my low charging issues. I installed power pullies a while ago and there is no way my stock (75 Amp) system can keep up with charging the battery the way it should at idle. It hasn’t been a problem yet, but it just doesn’t do it too well! I don't have a large...

The toughest thing about find a 5.0 is locating a good one. Remember that Fox Chassis cars are now at least 11 model years old. Besides age these cars often had hard lives of wheel spinning and high-speed action. Are you familiar with finding the typical trouble spots they may have? I’m a...