I'll be making some notes here. Most likely about how I rip open knuckles while using the socket wrenches, etc...

After a long week of doing pretty much nothing but working on the Stang, she is finally running. And yes, I burned another week of PTO to work on the mustang. I really outta update this on a daily basis while I work on it, so I don't forget anything, but there just isn't ever enough time.

So. Everything was turning over just fine, but the injectors weren't firing. Tracked down some NOID lights at a local Advance Auto Parts the folks at the Ghetto Zone (Auto Zone) were clueless. A girl I talked to there, obviously had no clue what the hell she was doing, or what NOID lights are... If you're going to work in a place that deals with cars and auto parts, you should probably take an interest in the stough that you're selling. Anyway.

Found the NOID lights - wasn't getting the computer driven ground to the injectors, so they weren't firing. I got Carl involved at this point (guy I work with who's a genius when it comes to this &h!t) and he started going over the wiring diagrams, and I started testing. Got nowhere. Got him over to the house, and we ended up taking the ECM apart and putting it back together, which we think (possibly, maybe) fixed the ground issue. So the NOID light showed that we were now getting good ground! Tried to crank her up....

Turns out my injectors were too gummed up to kick. It also turns out that Carl had an extra set of injectors laying around. I still don't know why he had an extra set just laying around, but he did, and they all worked perfectly.

End result -SHE RUNS!

And she sounds like she's eating babies, and spitting out the bones. Smooth and MEAN. So - next stop - the muffler shop.

She's been muffled. Running Flowmaster 50's, and she still sounds beastly. Well, Dad said he wanted it loud. So... loud it is.

First, it was off to Henry's Muffler shop on Millbrook Road. 1.4 miles away= $60 in towing = $120 total, including the return trip. That's $42.85 per mile. Nice. What a fucking ripoff. I tried to locate a tow dolly at rental places around town, and was unable to find a single one. As it was, it would have costed $40 per day to rent one, so if I had found one, I would have only saved $40, and would have taken on the additional pain in the ass of loading and unloading the car on the dolly myself.

Loading her up!


1.4 miles (6 minutes) and $60 later.


Finally got to Henry's, where Donald did the muffler work on the car; and he does fantastic work; see below...








So - on to the holes in my head bit. Turns out that the later model Mustang engines have them thar "Air Injection Port" holes in the back (and front?) of the heads. We (me and muffler Don) thought that we had a header leak until I stuck my hand in there to feel around for it. One on each side, in the back, blowing out exhaust gases. Well, you know what they say about people's cars starting to resemble them... nothing. Right. But you catch my meaning.


So. The wonderful folks at Summit Racing have these little bastards. For which they ask a piddly $3.95. Awesome! CLick! Buy! Go to checkout. Summit wants $11 shipping and handling for these two butterbean sized screws. To hell with that. It's a ripoff.

Looks like Forte's Parts has 'em as well. Guess what? $10 shipping and handling. But at least the dude I talked to had a sense of humor about it, and appeared to be almost as outraged as I am that it costs that much. So. I ordered 'em. Still... probably not a bad price to fix holes in your head :-D

I yanked this from the web page that I had it posted on prior to installing the blog, so forgive any formatting issues...

1966 Mustang EFI / 302 / T5 swap

Sound ambitious? You bet. Think I
can do it? Hell no.

 

The history -

After I blew up the original 200 straight 6 (again),
I decided to go with something a bit more "modern". Little did I know...

 

The donor car was a 1993 mustang, and the engine
(bought from a junk yard - the donor car had 30,000 mi. on it, and was totalled)
came replete with all the stock fuel injection apparati. So I embarked on the
journey to convert this beast to EFI, at the same time, swapping out a 200 for a
302, and somewhere along the line, I decided to drop a T5 in it.

 

I may write up details of this later, but for now;
pictures.

 

The original state.

Took the heads off...

And checked under the oil pan...

Put 'er back together and prettied it up a bit.

Slapped it back in the car and installed aluminum
brackets and pulleys from
March Performance. (This shot does not do them justice - the car had
been sitting out and was covered in pollen).

Installed the fuel pump / filter / line (most parts
from Ron Morris Performance).
More pics of this installation follow...

Lots of hole drilling to get as much of the fuel
line protected as possible...

I was able to use the stock supply and return lines
from the engines EFI fuel rail assembly.

Time to add some oil and utilize my custom manual
oil pump pumper.

Three notes on this:

• 
  

   You can use two or three standard
  "screwdriver" bit extensions to run the oil pump.



• 
  

   The drill has to be in reverse.



• 
  

   If you don't have an oil filter on the
  car, you'll make a mess.

Hooking up the mass air flow sensor was going to be
problematic (there are expensive custom rigs out there), but I found a solution
at (of all places), Autozone.

As you can see, the Mass Air Flow sensor still needs
to be mounted. I have modified the

original MAF bracket with a jigsaw and grinder to fulfill this purpose -
pictures will be up soon.

^end^