After our little excersize in swapping injectors over, Alan's SVO flies now.

While everything was apart, I took it apon myself to tighten the exhaust manifold. Lo and behold, the bolts were all pretty loose. Once those were snug, it was on to the crappy MSD spark plug wires which came apart when Alan tugged on them. How nice! Some recycled Taylor wires were put into place and the car was buttoned up. Before the intake manifold w/throttle body was installed, I took apart the throttle body linkage to see what was causing the high pedal effort. In addition to everything being coated with silver paint, it was also coated with corrosion. It also had some extra heavy owner added spring between the two linkages for the throttle body. WTF? I have laid eyes apon that before. Spring removed and pieces cleaned, depainted and lubricated, low effort throttle application was to be had once again.

Alan and I take the car out for a spin. The light throttle amazes both of us and Alan goes to romp on it once it is warmed up. Holy crap, bogging is gone and the car turns the tires over all the way through first as it pulls strong as hell now! This has changed the whole personality of the car now. Pre-fix, I thought the car was a dog, now it has a nice hard pull up to redline that it never had before. Color me impressed...I actually like working on a Mustang again, even though it showed me some "love" by busting a knuckle or two.

Step 2: 255lph fuel pump and new fuel filter install. Stay tuned for 13's hopefully.

 

Sweet!!!!!!!! Sounds like you had fun, got to love the "busted knuckles"

 

It had better be...Alan is my ride unless I feel frisky and want to caravan out there in front of him. She is gonna be pretty sound and pretty stout for a while now. I might gank it from his work tomorrow and do a fuel pump swap if I am bored.

 

Thanks again for the help Craig.

Not sure if I will run her at the TR track event tomorrow. I really want to get the clutch issues worked out first, and get a wideband on the car before I start hammering on her constantly. I think once we install the 255 pump and find an adjustable fuel regulator she won't have to worry about leaning out.

 

Hmmm...good to know. Maybe I'll try to get a run or two in just for a baseline test on the car.

I notice it has a bit of hesitation in the upper rpms. No knocking or detonation...just a bit of a slight surging feeling. I'm going to pick up a set of plugs soon and hope that helps...who knows the last time those were changed. Been doing a bit of reading, is the best gap around .034?

 

What do you mean by fighting the motor?

 

Something to do with the carb.