TheMustangStampede

Alright now that the demon is running. I wanna to ask about rev limits. If I missed something that would help in finding a safe rev limit, let me know... 306 ford small block It's balanced to like .005 I have the spec sheet in the garage on the balance. I know flexplate is 28 oz, the harmonic balancer is stock but drilled out to make the 28 oz weight. All of this was blanacing and bob weights and crazy math was done at Watson and Ruppel All bearing clearance's were checked with a Mic at W&R and inscribed for installation. Scat crank, polished by W&R, all journals were matched to the largest journal, it was drilled to make weight for balance It's has forged pistons ICON, with plasma ductile ring package 1/16 1/16 3/16 the plasma ductile is for the planned boost at later date E303 cam rods remaned with arp studs and bolts. GT-40 x heads 1.94" Intake and 1.54" exhaust valve diameters with Arp head bolts, Comp Cam adj roller rockers pedestal mounted, hardened comp cam one piece push rods. MSD distru and coil Full exhaust Gt-40 lower with a little port work, Gt-40 upper I think the Throttle body is 70mm BBK, fed by CAI, and I think Stock Mass air meter If you can help me come up with an idea of safe rev limit thanks. If you just want to talk shit about the parts and can add nothing of value to the question, copy and paste this to the kitchen and have fun bashing it all you want...

Well, I don't think it's to cheap 2300, at the machine shop alone. By Watson & Ruppel. Severance in Somerset rebuilt AOD 22-2500 stall, with shift kit, chromoly input shaft, kevlar bands. That was $800-850. New water pump new gaskets all over, ARP bolts Brand new headers, full exhaust, new inner fender CAI new wheels and rubber 17 black 95 cobra from AM, new set of drag radials on 16 inch pony wheels. New line lock sitting on shelf ready to be put in. We went back over TQ specs on headers and lower intake after 2 heat cycles and 10 miles, will check them again around 500 miles. After switching to the recommended gasket car is running like a top.. Here's how this went wrong. I ordered a fel-pro 5.0 gasket kit. Then we order the heads and never looked backed. We grabbed the fel-pro gasket kit off the shelf when we started putting it back together and the stock lower manifold to head gaskets was wrong on both sides. No one caught this when we was putting it back together, simple oversight led to hours and hours of delays. That won't happen again...

LoL, just a typo thanks for catching that

Nice pass

Not this time, I found a post on Mustang corral guy had same problem, and it was something I questioned right away. I noticed a slight gap between the heads and the lower intake, but everyone kept saying no that's not it. Well, me and a buddy took the lower off today and there were little gaps above every runner on the heads which was not sealed by the gasket. Purchased the larger gasket, that Ford recommends some people call it a 1262, all I know is the ford part number ends in -A50. Replaced those gaskets put everything back together and bingo fired right up and idle with not a single problem... This is the post that solved the issue with our build... http://forums.corral.net/forums/5-0-5-8-engine-tech/1237349-cobra-intake-does-not-fit-gt-40x-heads.html

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oh shit double post

do u still have stock valve covers

When I see this car sitting out in the parking lot, I always check it out.. nice ride man

Vacuum leak found.. GOt her up to an idle hit it with starting fluid in the rear rpm's picked up.....Sprayed it in the front rpm's picked up..... TIme to pull the lower and reseat it, that mean new gaskets and all that fun shit... Dad has nicknamed the car the green demon....I know that demon like to eat money $$$$$$$...Once we get the vacuum leaked sealed out thing should run like a champ..

Totally stumped, last night was closest thing to idle it ran for about 1 minute at 500-600 rpm. Then it went back to popping and unable to hold idle. Then in the next few attempts it would kick over surge then die. I think I'm still looking for a vacuum leak, I plugged the one that was found the other night. Plan on spraying to pinpoint the surge..

Traded for a pair of REAR Jegs weld wheels brand new with two Hoosier DOT radials brand new still had stickers.

It's okay, yeah Dad raced small block Chevy in dirt car IMCA, firing order clockwise 305 and 350 firing order 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 SBF firing order counter clockwise HO 302 firing order 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 4 8 3 7 2 5 1 6

Hey Brady, it was nice meeting you this weekend.

Well the gaskets may or may not have been problem when I pug that gaping hole in middle center of Cobra intake facing rearward with a vacuum condom. I think all may be well. Thanks for idea on spraying areas to locate leak..

I looked around after a google search seems quite a few people have had a vacuum leak cause intake pop..

I can only hope, we have a rather good local knowledge base around here and everyone is quite stumped. However the guy that mentioned the vacuum leak pointed us to triple check each possible leak area low and behold I think that I found two. However, many of are still wondering how a vacuum leak or unmetered air can keep an intake valve open during the firing to hear the pop.

Ok, here is what happen over weekend. Picked up piston stop, to check True TDC, balancer was off some made new comp stroke mark then reversed to exhaust stroke made mark used electrical tape to measure the distance it was 2 inches made new TDC mark. Pulled piston stop, re-installed distru. Checked all wires again, fired it up and pop in the intake. Although, it was not as loud so, I think that the balancer was part of the problem. Since it was still having intake pop, went ahead and pulled timing cover and just like I thought timing set was correct timing dimple tooth pointing to 0 . So I start looking for vacuum leaks which would allow un-metered air in the intake and heads. Sure enough, there was one fitting that need a vacuum cap in the middle of the underside of the intake not visible in the front. All other intake vacuum line were hooked up. So, I pulled intake to check spacers, since dad bought carb valve covers since this efi we had 1 inch spacer and 1/2 inch spacer with 3 gaskets. Think that this is not sealing properly. So we are going back to stock valve covers and the original 1/2 inch spacer. Going to start putting everything back together with stock valve covers and 1/2 inch spacer. To see if we cannot get rid of the pop in the intake. It was explained to me by local guy who bought fixed and resold 14 Foxes to get his Anderson built hatch pushing 650 to 750 hp, that a vacuum leak of considerable size can allow the unmetered air from a vacuum leak can cause the intake pop. I hope he is right. Has anyone else seen a vacuum leak cause intake pop. Like I said the true TDC made the pop slightly less audible, still audible by all means though. I'm hoping that the vacuum leak fixes the issue.

You read wrong, the cam gear is what drives the oil pump. The timing gear is what you line up. The cam timing gear has a dimple and the crank gear has 0 then 2a 4a 6a 8a then 2r 4r 6r 8r. The cam is the same cam that came out of car E-cam except it's a brand new. Ford E - cam

Thanks, truckin all of are guys had a blast, and were thrilled when you guys pulled in. 30 Mustangs and 1 Viper. Stampede will be meeting next Sunday for Cruise to Moonshine Festival cruise in.

I wouldn't be sad for test and tune at Pacemakers, once you get the first 1/8th out of the way not a whole lot left to mess up with, keep that bitch to the floor and hit one more gear

Yep, hats him he was being an ass an Friday night, he was acting like he couldn't hear me even though I was standing right in front of him. There was no noise up there everything was standing still, cause they were doing something on the track.

shit begans today multiple boogies east side west and east bound.. I,m heading home and they are thick heading towards zanesville from 270

Grounds are correct they we had to move two to the right location had them in each others location, and that was the first thing we shock down.

You right he is an ass he tried to pass blame to the cars that break, I told him how I felt at Spring swap meet he was not happy, but I don't care. He needed to know, and he was not responding to email. I had an email the next day, so he cares a little bit but not much.. Everyone should just flood his inbox asking him why he is the GM when he won't make any changes