i want to upgrade the alt on the 84 svo and also the electric fan(stock is hidious). which parts will work. i'm sure the 3.8 taurus, but what about the alt. want a 100 amp at the most.
Why not grab a 130A alt off the Taurus and do a little grinding and a few minutes of wiring. If interested the Taurus comes with 2 different cases on the 130 you will need the smaller one it is like 6 inches bolt hole to bolt hole and the other one is 7 inches. They can be found in early to late 90's Taurus and a couple other's but the Taurus in the most common. they can also be had at the pick and pull yards for less than $15
Pretty much, Make sure to get the single wire plug from the Taurus with some lenth to it so you have something to work with. You can re-use one plug on your car now. The two heavy wires can be turned into the 4 gauge and the other little wire from that plug goes right to the single wire one you will keep from the Taurus alt. Be sure you have something to do a little grinding with on the Mustang alt bracket, you will see where when you sit it in there. You will also need a longer bolt (nut and washers well) for the upper mount.
I'm crossing over from 5.0's. I need to know which year cars I can get these parts from. larger VAM, LA2/LA3, throttle body, injectors. thanks
The 87-88 Turbocoupe will have everything. Injectors can be from 85 and up Turbocoupe's (brown tops) and some XR4Ti's I think. Throttle body can be from just about any 2.3 but I believe the N/A's wont have an adjustable TPS (throttle position sensor).
ok cool. i already ordered a ric gillis stage 2 boost controller kit. can i swap in a 5.0 fuel pump, adj. fuel pressure reg. & gauge? also, I have a 93 n/a engine, can I swapover the tps from the svo? also, what about swapping computer's. which ones? thanks alot for your help.
5.0 pump is the same, oh wait this is the SVO I am unsure on the pump(s) on those. As far as computer's if you want to fork out the cash for the PE I believe it is a direct plug in. If not there will be some wiring issue's for the la3 that are covered on a few website's that I no longer have the bookmark's too (recent comp upgrade). Why are you changing throttle bodies?
The adjustable regulator can be made cheaply (I have been running one for a couple years) from a 3.8 T-Bird TBI regulator or you can buy one, the aftermarket 5.0's adjustable's are the same just so the base is triangle shaped like your's.
i have a kirban adj. regulator already, so that'll work. i'm changing tb for a larger one. or, is there no difference.
If you gonna change the fuel pump do it once with the 255 LPH those can be had here http://www.s-rracing.com/every.html they can't be had much cheaper than this and Scott is a good guy. He sells lot's of 2.3T stuff too.
Yes, vam (vain air meter) 87-88 Turbocoupe's and some SVO's I think. Measure your the big one's are 3" you might already have one. I'm not real familiar with some of the SVO specific stuff
Yeah Stinger post's here too, he has done good thing's for the 2.3T world. I would say support him so he can keep making afforable stuff for us. I can get crush bent 3" DP made for $25 but that is because there is a bunch of local's here and the shop has an extra one for a jig.
