Reply With QuoteI was wondering what happened to the Mustang project. Good to see it back on track.
I've been waiting since August to pull the motor but my hands were tied with work and my mechanic buddy is chronically busy. I wasn't about to tackle this job on jackstands, I'm not a hog for abuse, so I finally talked him into yanking the motor with his hoist and ample tools. He is going to go through the tranny while I transfer the intake, headers, fuel rails and whatever else to the new block. I'll have to trailer the car home and finish it here because there is a lot of brackets and monkeying around to install the blower and I don't want to rush it.
Last edited by Roddychop; 10-25-2009 at 05:07 PM. Reason: speeling
I was wondering what happened to the Mustang project. Good to see it back on track.
Finally got the engine put back in the car. My mechanic buddy went through the T5 and put a rebuild kit in it. I bought a Flowmaster exhaust system with X pipe that was supposed to be bolt in but it was far from it.
All looked good until we put the driveshaft in but discovered it hit the right muffler, so we had to cut out and make a new pipe from the X pipe back to the muffler. If he didn't have a pipe bender we'd have been screwed. Turned into a 3 hour pain in the butt. There was a lot left to do under the hood with regards to mounting the blower and hooking it up so I had the car towed home where I can work on it for free versus $50 an hour at his shop. It was worth it to have him do all the work which required the hoist , but the rest I can do and I don't want to rush it.
This project has been on hold for awhile. I wanted to finish other projects first because I knew this blower install would require a lot of fiddling. The manual which is sparse at best suggests 6 to 10 hours, which is a joke. Maybe if you've done 10 of them you could do it in that amount of time, but not the first time.
Got the blower and bracket mounted to the engine and ran into problems right away. I discovered my fancy aluminum valve covers block the blower inlet so thats $140 down the tubes. I will have to buy another set that will work.
The blower relocates the alternator to a new spot which makes the belt tensioner not work . The kit assumes you have factory air conditioning for everything to work. The problem is that this car was non-air so where the power steering pump was won't work with where they want to mount the belt tensioner. If I had the factory air cond. pump bracket then with a $40 a/c delete kit would solve the issue. The problem is I don't have the bracket and can't locate one so another $40 down the drain. I decided to just build my own out of plate steel based on the a/c delete kit but still solidly mounts the power steering pump. Turned out pretty good, but I'll know for sure when its running.
I had to cut a rather large hole in the inner fender to route the air inlet pipe. This relocates the filter and mass air meter to the inner fender and acts as a cold air intake.
I finally finished installing the supercharger kit. It was probably about 20 hours in total. I decided to vent both valve covers to a remote breather tank because I was told when I put my foot in it that this would prevent blowing my crank seals. I still have to extract the EEC IV computer and cut a hole in the case to install the new SCT chip that will make this whole mess run....I hope. The sucky part is I have a 3 to 4 month wait until its warm enough to drive. In the manual they say not to start the car below 0 C because of the tight tolerances of the blower. " failure to heed this warning could cause a catastrophic failure and void the warranty "
Last edited by Roddychop; 01-02-2010 at 07:14 PM.
Darn so much for putting on a set of paddle tires and a plow and haveing the fastest driveway plow in the county.
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