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96blak54 Reanimated
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RAU03MACH
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I moved mine back
Mine still works and I'll keep it that way
But I believe its just unhooking and plug the fittings
Not real sure
I may end up doing it later
Mine still works and I'll keep it that way
But I believe its just unhooking and plug the fittings
Not real sure
I may end up doing it later
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Been a few years since Ive updated my build thread. I have since acquired a new career path with the FAA and its been a God send. No more 7 days a week on night shift. I dont feel tired 100percent of the time. No overtime and i have the weekends off along with all the holidays. Im going on 4 months with the new position and im settling in good. From what i came from and the stress levels to what im doing now is night a day....literally.
Plans are in motion and fingers crossed Ill be wrenching on my car in about a 45 days. We got my sons 1989 F250 truck rebuilt and running really good with my new open schedule. I need to finish up some work in my shop. Then rebuild the upstairs bathroom. The bathroom is stripped down to wall studs, so its a matter of just putting in new. Then I got to do some training out of state for a few weeks with the new job. And then the plans(my plans, everyone else can kiss my _ _ _) are to get my car running again.
Catching up with what ive been moving towards with the car,
Rebuilding a set of NPI heads with bigger intake valves, cnc and hand ported ports,
Regrind the compcams I have for them,
Attempted machining a set of aluminium rods(fail). Simple fix to correct the fail, just needs time,
Freshen the 5.4l short block,
A few things ive been moving towards is eventually delete the fuel injection in favor of either carbureted or carb injection system and distributor drive driven from the camshaft. Im currently mocking up a dist drive valve cover and hacked up cheap aftermarket HEI distributor. Im using the stock composite valve cover. I made a brace to hold the distributor to the valve cover and be rigid. The brace was fitted to the distributor and then machined, which was oddly very rigid when being machined. I figured if the cover could withstand the pressures of being machined with steel attached to it, it can withstand its purpose during operations. Its a gray area of R&D, but im going to send it.....see what happens.
Plans are in motion and fingers crossed Ill be wrenching on my car in about a 45 days. We got my sons 1989 F250 truck rebuilt and running really good with my new open schedule. I need to finish up some work in my shop. Then rebuild the upstairs bathroom. The bathroom is stripped down to wall studs, so its a matter of just putting in new. Then I got to do some training out of state for a few weeks with the new job. And then the plans(my plans, everyone else can kiss my _ _ _) are to get my car running again.
Catching up with what ive been moving towards with the car,
Rebuilding a set of NPI heads with bigger intake valves, cnc and hand ported ports,
Regrind the compcams I have for them,
Attempted machining a set of aluminium rods(fail). Simple fix to correct the fail, just needs time,
Freshen the 5.4l short block,
A few things ive been moving towards is eventually delete the fuel injection in favor of either carbureted or carb injection system and distributor drive driven from the camshaft. Im currently mocking up a dist drive valve cover and hacked up cheap aftermarket HEI distributor. Im using the stock composite valve cover. I made a brace to hold the distributor to the valve cover and be rigid. The brace was fitted to the distributor and then machined, which was oddly very rigid when being machined. I figured if the cover could withstand the pressures of being machined with steel attached to it, it can withstand its purpose during operations. Its a gray area of R&D, but im going to send it.....see what happens.
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The distributor sticks out a tad....like 7inches...lol
But I had to start somewhere and i wasnt about to hack up a $350 msd. A remote coil mount dist cap is made for these as well and would cut down the length to 5inches. Ill be buying that here soon too.
You might be wondering why im not simply using aluminium valve covers instead. Well that was the original plan and I actually have a set of aluminium valve covers just for this project. Problem is the covers are not space saving conformed to the head like the composites are. They are bigger and box shaped. Me having the wide and big 5.4l, there wouldnt be room between the cover and brake reservoir and the a/c box. The covers would be rubbing against them.
But I had to start somewhere and i wasnt about to hack up a $350 msd. A remote coil mount dist cap is made for these as well and would cut down the length to 5inches. Ill be buying that here soon too.
You might be wondering why im not simply using aluminium valve covers instead. Well that was the original plan and I actually have a set of aluminium valve covers just for this project. Problem is the covers are not space saving conformed to the head like the composites are. They are bigger and box shaped. Me having the wide and big 5.4l, there wouldnt be room between the cover and brake reservoir and the a/c box. The covers would be rubbing against them.
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Bigger intake valves
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1 angle exhaust seat
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Here in this thread, you can see my other projects that are most likely associated with my car build.
https://www.sn95forums.com/threads/96blak54-on-going-projects.73719/
https://www.sn95forums.com/threads/96blak54-on-going-projects.73719/
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congrats on the new job. So no more inside info on the intakes?!
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Last pic of car....6 years ago.
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Sorry ttocs, i never noticed your post. The new job is great. No more nights, no more weekends and i still have connections at the old job for intake info.....which pretty much is a has-been. They were phasing out all manifold production at that facility. Sending all new manifold production down to Mexico. However the 7.3L/6.8L manifold is still being produced there. At one time, they produced nearly all Ford plastic manifolds there along with some Chevy, Nissan, Mazda, Dodge.
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Im getting closer!
Since the year begining, Ive been telling the wife im going to be putting the car back together soon as current projects finish up and here we are at the end of March. The current projects mostly include house updates. Redoing the basement and upstairs bathroom. And then my new job traveling and training for weeks. Speaking of, ill be heading over to Oklahoma again in the middle of May. Ill be in Orlando for a week in April doing cheerleading competition. We just did a weekend of cheerleading competition in Gatlinburg TN. If anyone wants to meet and greet while im in your area, let me know.
Pictured is a npi head ill be running on a 5.4l. Its been cnc ported, hand ported, cut for bigger intake valves, seriously decked and will harness a modified set of comp 274 npi cams. But look at the rust on cam cap bolts.....i need to get busy!
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Those are opened up nicely , more people need to do 5.4 builds .
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I figured more would respond to the "CNC porting" judging by how the ports look. They look like trash, but thats the whole idea.
Honestly, ive debated stepping back to a 4.6l only because of size. These 5.4l are big and painful for literally no gain in HP
Honestly, ive debated stepping back to a 4.6l only because of size. These 5.4l are big and painful for literally no gain in HP
garrittpwl
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They don't look pretty but I bet they'll atomize the shit out of the mixture going in.
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Its not that way for the length of the port. Just there at the beginning.
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I figured they were there on purpose or that you would smooth them out later
