Moving to Jefferson County/Fort Drum

workmangc

workmangc

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Hello All,

My familiy and I are moving to the area at the end of July. We are currently in Germany and expect to depart at the end of June.

About me, I'm a fairly decent wrench turner. All of the work done to my car other than the machinework and assembly of the long block was done by myself. I enjoy helping other folks out, but feel that I need to add that I don't enjoy being considered free labor.

I guess my opinion is if you have a project and I give you a hand, be thankful, but not expecting that I have an obligation to take on your projects. I'll get off of my soapbox on that one.

Speaking of projects, I just "somewhat" finished up a single turbo kit on my 98 cobra. By Somewhat, I mean that when I went to tune it, the meter is pegging. I will change from the tonsil style meter to a slot style meter and I hope to have it tuned by the time I arrive. I expect to hit some more snags along the way. For example when I went WOT, one of the vacuum lines blew off. I fixed it, but expect the next weak link to show once I can begin to go WOT....it's a process that I'm sure others who have dealt with FI are familiar with.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to being back in the U.S. and having a house with a GARAGE!!!!! I'm so tired of having to keep my car out in the weather.

V/R
Gary
 
workmangc

workmangc

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Thanks everyone.

Regarding photos, I don't have anything recent other than the avatar. The car is nothing special to look at, Stock wheels, etc. The only difference appearance wise are the taillight bezels are blacked out similar to the old SN95 Saleens.
The car has a full coil over kit, but it's ride height is more than generous. I didn't want to go beyond parallel on them.

The unit I'm going to is the 10 Sustainment BDE. Other than the unit name, I don't know too much about them....I think they may be deployed at the moment. Does anyone local know?

iiiiiiijklmm, every Gary I meet in the mustang world is usually a stand up guy....keep the tradition going!!!
 
workmangc

workmangc

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All,

Reviving this from the dead. I figured by this time i'd need another intro.

Long story short, picked up the mustang at the port in summer of 2012. The car didn't idle or want to run at all. Thinking that the motor was hurt. There was oil pouring from the exhaust.

I had it towed up to current location, where the car has sat for three years, too bummed out to even deal with it.

The only things I did once it was here was to investigate the oil from the exhaust. It appeared to be from the junk on3 turbo, not the motor. The On3 unit was swapped for a Comp turbo unit, with an upgraded oil return line. I also swapped the pegged Lighting MAF for a BA5000. Other than that, time, life and college got in the way from doing anything else.

Finally, I have time and energy to deal with it, so I've decided to get off of my tail and do something. I went out to the car and started poking around.

I noticed that there was no coolant in the motor....Didn't think it was that way when I picked it up, but thought there may have been a chance that a head gasket had blown in shipping and that the coolant went out the exhaust and I didn't notice it.

On to a compression check. All cylinders checked out great with only 10psi from the highest to the lowest. I half expected two adjacent cylinders to be low, but nope...all checks out!!!!

After I did the compression check, I figured I'd put some coolant in the car....which immediately poured out of the thermostat housing. Sure enough, it's cracked even though the car had coolant that was less than 4 months old when it was shipped. These winters up here are brutal.

So, I've got compression, next on to fuel and spark. I rigged up something to get some coolant into the car for testing. I swapped out one of the Coil Packs for a known good unit....and it RUNS, Idles even though other than changing the MAF in the tune for the BA5000, it hasn't been fine tuned which I was happy about.

I've still got many issues to figure out, but there is light ahead.

1. Install new thermostat housing that is on its way.

2. Modify tune to dial in the MAF.

3. Get an exhaust on the car, currently the turbo dumps after the downpipe. I have a stock 03 cobra exhaust, and will attempt to find an exhaust shop that is comfortable taking on this job.

4. Deal with vehicle inspections. If there is anyone who absolutely knows the law/rules on NYS vehicle inspections please PM me. I thought I had read that 96-98 cars can pass with 2 "not ready" statuses, but I wasn't positive.

More to follow, but I hope to have it on the road in a few weeks.
 
Daddio

Daddio

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Welcome! I'm another Gary just outside of Watertown in Dexter. Retired Navy in an Army town. Hope you are up and running soon.
 
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