Rio Red 98 GT Build

lwarrior1016 · Oct 10, 2022

Tore down my 6r80 yesterday. Everything seemed alright. I probably could have ran it without a rebuild. Better safe than sorry though.

Frank.JD.Perez · Oct 10, 2022

this is not a gen 2 coyote with a gen 3 bab intake and bbk lts...

lwarrior1016 · Oct 10, 2022

Frank.JD.Perez said:
this is not a gen 2 coyote with a gen 3 bab intake and bbk lts...

It sure isn’t. But I was looking at that yesterday.

lwarrior1016 · Oct 28, 2022

Oh man. I’m excited for these too.

ju015dd · Oct 28, 2022

lwarrior1016 · Nov 15, 2022

Very soon, it will be that time again.

NXcoupe · Nov 18, 2022

Read the entire thread over the past week. Lol, yeah I have no life when it's this cold out.
First, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE! I was home from the stan when you were on your way over. Glad you got back safe.

I've done quite a few coyote swaps and am xurrently working on installing a D1X procharger on a 98 I coyote swapped in 19. My personal race car/street car has an f150 6R80 that I got for 350 shipped to my door. We took it off the pallet and put it in my car, stock converter and all! We checked the fluid and the damn thing was full! That is winning, and you know how much the fluid is per quart for those. I chuckled when I saw your 60ft times as mine goes 1.7 as well, lol, but goes 9.30 at 155. Yes, it will go much faster, but didn't get out to the track but twice this year and haven't been able to confirm the issue I was having is fixed.
All coyotes have sprayed in cast iron linings. Iron rings on aluminum cylinder walls doesn't work, ask any vega owner. I honed mine .003" and I'd be nervous going .005 in all honesty. I put a set of Probe pistons in it and a set of 03 Cobra rods, stock crank, boundry gears and sprocket. And mine still has the truck intake cams.
Kudos on the lower jeep hose. I will use that on my next one.
So vermillion over white base?
Keep at it! Sorry for my ramblings. Lol

lwarrior1016 · Nov 19, 2022

NXcoupe said:
Read the entire thread over the past week. Lol, yeah I have no life when it's this cold out.
First, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE! I was home from the stan when you were on your way over. Glad you got back safe.

I've done quite a few coyote swaps and am xurrently working on installing a D1X procharger on a 98 I coyote swapped in 19. My personal race car/street car has an f150 6R80 that I got for 350 shipped to my door. We took it off the pallet and put it in my car, stock converter and all! We checked the fluid and the damn thing was full! That is winning, and you know how much the fluid is per quart for those. I chuckled when I saw your 60ft times as mine goes 1.7 as well, lol, but goes 9.30 at 155. Yes, it will go much faster, but didn't get out to the track but twice this year and haven't been able to confirm the issue I was having is fixed.
All coyotes have sprayed in cast iron linings. Iron rings on aluminum cylinder walls doesn't work, ask any vega owner. I honed mine .003" and I'd be nervous going .005 in all honesty. I put a set of Probe pistons in it and a set of 03 Cobra rods, stock crank, boundry gears and sprocket. And mine still has the truck intake cams.
Kudos on the lower jeep hose. I will use that on my next one.
So vermillion over white base?
Keep at it! Sorry for my ramblings. Lol

Man, thanks for reading along and enjoying the ride. And thank you for your service. When and where were you? I was there in 10-11 and 12-13.

Since I broke my engine, I did some learning. The gen 1&2 blocks have steel liners in them. The gen 3 and 5.2 coyote blocks do not have liners. They are plasma arc wire transfer coated. Back then, I was thinking all the blocks were this way.

Right now, this one is stock gen 2 rods and forged pistons. I’ve been heavily debating a procharger Kit on it after I finally get my auto built and installed.

And for the paint, I painted it in 2017 and somewhere in 2021 the clear coat was burned off. Asking around, the general consensus was the clear we used was no good. The same thing had happened to multiple cars. This time I am painting it all again, but it will be rip red/vermillion on the bottom and pure white on top. Going to do the center of the hood, sail panels, roof, and trunk lid in white.

NXcoupe · Nov 20, 2022

lwarrior1016 said:
Man, thanks for reading along and enjoying the ride. And thank you for your service. When and where were you? I was there in 10-11 and 12-13.

Since I broke my engine, I did some learning. The gen 1&2 blocks have steel liners in them. The gen 3 and 5.2 coyote blocks do not have liners. They are plasma arc wire transfer coated. Back then, I was thinking all the blocks were this way.

Right now, this one is stock gen 2 rods and forged pistons. I’ve been heavily debating a procharger Kit on it after I finally get my auto built and installed.

And for the paint, I painted it in 2017 and somewhere in 2021 the clear coat was burned off. Asking around, the general consensus was the clear we used was no good. The same thing had happened to multiple cars. This time I am painting it all again, but it will be rip red/vermillion on the bottom and pure white on top. Going to do the center of the hood, sail panels, roof, and trunk lid in white.

The teksid blocks were the first to have the plasma spray liners. All coyotes have that same process, it's very, very thin tho compared to Teksid. (Did you know Teksid is owned by Fiat? Yep) I will verify with some Ford contacts I have and report back. There isn't a coyote block that can be oversized without the Darton sleeves. That's my next move as with 1k rwhp I'm knocking on the split cylinder door.
I was there supporting route clearance engineers from March of 09 to Oct 10. Daughter was 3 when I left and turned 5 when I got home. Had leave during it but 2 weeks isn't long enough. Got married during that time as well. Nothing like saying I do, I love you, bye!
Sucks about the paint. I'll be watching. I'm back to stay.

96blak54 · Nov 20, 2022

Jaguars and Range Rover has been spray bore for a long time. It aint nothing new.

lwarrior1016 · Nov 20, 2022

NXcoupe said:
The teksid blocks were the first to have the plasma spray liners. All coyotes have that same process, it's very, very thin tho compared to Teksid. (Did you know Teksid is owned by Fiat? Yep) I will verify with some Ford contacts I have and report back. There isn't a coyote block that can be oversized without the Darton sleeves. That's my next move as with 1k rwhp I'm knocking on the split cylinder door.
I was there supporting route clearance engineers from March of 09 to Oct 10. Daughter was 3 when I left and turned 5 when I got home. Had leave during it but 2 weeks isn't long enough. Got married during that time as well. Nothing like saying I do, I love you, bye!
Sucks about the paint. I'll be watching. I'm back to stay.

I was doing route clearance in 2010. I was at for gardez. Moved around to a couple others, Sharana, Solerno, Bagram, and so on. Our paths may have crossed at some point.

NXcoupe · Nov 20, 2022

lwarrior1016 said:
I was doing route clearance in 2010. I was at for gardez. Moved around to a couple others, Sharana, Solerno, Bagram, and so on. Our paths may have crossed at some point.

They may have! I trained operators on Buffalo and HUSKY. I was in BAF, KAF, Sharana, FOB Ribinson, and a few others for short stints. I carried around a footlocker with bomb making parts so we could mock up IEDs for soldiers to find and expose using the equipment. I had a letter from EOD commander saying I wasn't a terrorist basically. Lol.
What part of Lousiana are you staying now?

lwarrior1016 · Nov 20, 2022

NXcoupe said:
They may have! I trained operators on Buffalo and HUSKY. I was in BAF, KAF, Sharana, FOB Ribinson, and a few others for short stints. I carried around a footlocker with bomb making parts so we could mock up IEDs for soldiers to find and expose using the equipment. I had a letter from EOD commander saying I wasn't a terrorist basically. Lol.
What part of Lousiana are you staying now?

I’m in Mississippi in the picayune area. Not to far from the Louisiana border. I work down in Slidell, La.

badass98svt · Nov 20, 2022

I didn't even know 98s came in Rio Red.

I guess you really do learn something everyday. I thought 96 and 98 were LR and and 97 was RR.
I can't believe I never knew that.

Frank.JD.Perez · Nov 20, 2022

And here i was thinking we had some build updates...

lwarrior1016 · Nov 20, 2022

Frank.JD.Perez said:
And here i was thinking we had some build updates...

Nope. Not even a little bit. I’ve been working a bunch of overtime this past month. We just finished up our project at work, so car stuff will resume this week.

Musturd · Nov 20, 2022

badass98svt said:
I didn't even know 98s came in Rio Red.

I guess you really do learn something everyday. I thought 96 and 98 were LR and and 97 was RR.
I can't believe I never knew that.

I think only gt’s and v6’s were offered in rio in 98 . 97 cobras came rio red .