LeeH
09-08-2008, 01:04 AM
Well I think the only person on here that knows this car is Dale but tonight at 9pm she rumbled to life after about 6 months of being scattered. I pulled the T5 to go through it and found more problems than I expected, So I decided since it was going to be down a little longer I would go ahead and go through the engine too.
What I found was 3 broken head bolts and the ring grooves on all 8 pistons were beat out, It had 2 spun cam bearings and the crank was junk. Well after checking the cam bearing bores and finding them to be okay it got another set of pistons, Edy RPM heads 60229, Edy Perf intake, 1.7 TFS rockers, FMS 36# inj., PMAS 75mm, BBK 65mm T-body, BBK AFPR, PowerBond balancer, Another crank, Rings/bearings, ARP main studs, ARP head bolts, Flow Tech LT headers and an S-Trim(well everything is installed but the head unit).
The transmission needed a countershaft(aka cluster gear), Mainshaft, Input shaft and 3rd gear along with bearings. I found a T5 out of a 2002 V6 stang in a wrecking yard so I bought it, I can do an article on converting one to a fox application. LOL
I tore it down and replaced the bearings, Drilled the mainshaft for the speedometer gear clip, swapped the tail housing, Installed a new input shaft and front bearing retainer(The 94 up T5s used the same 5/8 longer input and longer sleeve bearing retainer). The V6 T5s used the 300ft lb WC V8 gear set, It consists of the 068 cluster which is the 300# gear set(also same as the 065) however the Tremec website claim it to be 240# which has to be a misprint according to the gear set used. The transmission I converted was a TTET1798(tag number), So just be aware that these transmissions are keepers if you run across one in a wrecking yard.
Anyway without the head unit installed it rumbled to life and seems to be running pretty good, I have my initial timing set at 14* until I can go play with it. I am going to replace my A/C compressor clutch since the bearings are fubar and weld up a few exhaust leaks before I go run it around town, Oh and put my Drag Lites off the green car on it.:baby:
What I found was 3 broken head bolts and the ring grooves on all 8 pistons were beat out, It had 2 spun cam bearings and the crank was junk. Well after checking the cam bearing bores and finding them to be okay it got another set of pistons, Edy RPM heads 60229, Edy Perf intake, 1.7 TFS rockers, FMS 36# inj., PMAS 75mm, BBK 65mm T-body, BBK AFPR, PowerBond balancer, Another crank, Rings/bearings, ARP main studs, ARP head bolts, Flow Tech LT headers and an S-Trim(well everything is installed but the head unit).
The transmission needed a countershaft(aka cluster gear), Mainshaft, Input shaft and 3rd gear along with bearings. I found a T5 out of a 2002 V6 stang in a wrecking yard so I bought it, I can do an article on converting one to a fox application. LOL
I tore it down and replaced the bearings, Drilled the mainshaft for the speedometer gear clip, swapped the tail housing, Installed a new input shaft and front bearing retainer(The 94 up T5s used the same 5/8 longer input and longer sleeve bearing retainer). The V6 T5s used the 300ft lb WC V8 gear set, It consists of the 068 cluster which is the 300# gear set(also same as the 065) however the Tremec website claim it to be 240# which has to be a misprint according to the gear set used. The transmission I converted was a TTET1798(tag number), So just be aware that these transmissions are keepers if you run across one in a wrecking yard.
Anyway without the head unit installed it rumbled to life and seems to be running pretty good, I have my initial timing set at 14* until I can go play with it. I am going to replace my A/C compressor clutch since the bearings are fubar and weld up a few exhaust leaks before I go run it around town, Oh and put my Drag Lites off the green car on it.:baby: