Dugzy33
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Well its been about two weeks and everything is running smoothly.
Car runs great.
Idles nice
good power bump
Got gt40 heads and intake from a 1996 explorer Heads rebuilt, no resurfacing.
professional products 70mm TB
trick flow sn95 elbow
fox valve covers (longer bolts required to bolt to heads)
arp head bolts
arp intake bolts
new plugs for gt40 heads
Don't worry about the hole in the middle of the intake...
this gasket is fine.
The gasket set is from a 95 cobra
reconditioned the injectors
like 2.50 each for the o rings and cap
i cleaned all surfaces with a flat razor blade and acetone
vacuumed out all the junk with a shop vac
kept push-rods and rockers in same order as before with egg crates and a box with holes poked in it.
just number everything on the box and egg crates
i didn't change the cam so the same push-rods and rocker arms worked fine on a budget
had to skinny wheel a 3/8 chunk of the egr off to clear fox valve covers
also the trick flow elbow had this already cut off as it was used
drilled hole through both and essentially moved the lower bolt up to secure them together
used this next picture as a guide to plug and or connect the vac lines from the upper intake to the existing lines
get some extra vac line hose in the 2 sizes and use bolts to plug the ones not needed
I had to remove one of the alternator bolts and replace it with a machine screw to fit with the fox valve covers
(these are the 3 bolts that actually hold the alternator case together)
Final product
I left the egr valve connected but ditched the smog pump and tubing associated with the smog pump.
got a shorter belt from auto zone (search belt routing to find the right size)
put a bolt in the line that goes from smog pump to h pipe.
previous owner used high temp hose as connection from hard line under car to hard line on h pipe.
that is where i put the bolt and used a clamp to hold it tight.
my new TB and cold air kit just missed the oil fill tube, so i didn't have to modify that.
marked dizzy before i started
never rotated engine
put dizzy back in the way she came out
fired right up when i was done
marked balancer
got car up to temp
pulled spout connector
set timing to factory for now
done
runs great!
That is all I can think of now, any questions let me know
And thanks for all the help from you all during the swap
Doug
Car runs great.
Idles nice
good power bump
Got gt40 heads and intake from a 1996 explorer Heads rebuilt, no resurfacing.
professional products 70mm TB
trick flow sn95 elbow
fox valve covers (longer bolts required to bolt to heads)
arp head bolts
arp intake bolts
new plugs for gt40 heads
Don't worry about the hole in the middle of the intake...
this gasket is fine.
The gasket set is from a 95 cobra
reconditioned the injectors
like 2.50 each for the o rings and cap
i cleaned all surfaces with a flat razor blade and acetone
vacuumed out all the junk with a shop vac
kept push-rods and rockers in same order as before with egg crates and a box with holes poked in it.
just number everything on the box and egg crates
i didn't change the cam so the same push-rods and rocker arms worked fine on a budget
had to skinny wheel a 3/8 chunk of the egr off to clear fox valve covers
also the trick flow elbow had this already cut off as it was used
drilled hole through both and essentially moved the lower bolt up to secure them together
used this next picture as a guide to plug and or connect the vac lines from the upper intake to the existing lines
get some extra vac line hose in the 2 sizes and use bolts to plug the ones not needed
I had to remove one of the alternator bolts and replace it with a machine screw to fit with the fox valve covers
(these are the 3 bolts that actually hold the alternator case together)
Final product
I left the egr valve connected but ditched the smog pump and tubing associated with the smog pump.
got a shorter belt from auto zone (search belt routing to find the right size)
put a bolt in the line that goes from smog pump to h pipe.
previous owner used high temp hose as connection from hard line under car to hard line on h pipe.
that is where i put the bolt and used a clamp to hold it tight.
my new TB and cold air kit just missed the oil fill tube, so i didn't have to modify that.
marked dizzy before i started
never rotated engine
put dizzy back in the way she came out
fired right up when i was done
marked balancer
got car up to temp
pulled spout connector
set timing to factory for now
done
runs great!
That is all I can think of now, any questions let me know
And thanks for all the help from you all during the swap
Doug