Just got back from the dealer

Because our Canadian Peso is climbing out of the toilet they were able to quote me $61 Canadian for 9mm Ford Racing plug wires.

The best I could do on Taylor SpiroPros (my normal favourite) was $77.00 and weeks of waiting.

Sixlitre

Damn! Thats a good price. I had to pay $90 a few months ago for some premiums. Its good that our dollar has gone up. The price of steel though has shot right through the roof. I just ordered a set of American Racing 15X10 black spokes for $93 a piece. A tad high. But on the other hand, I too went to a Ford dealership and bought a timing chain for $24.00. The guy at the counter had to ask two other people if it was the right price.

Which means im gonna be leaning on you heavily when I tackle this.

-Matt

Thanks for posting. I'm gonna head over there tomorrow and pick up a set.

Damn! Thats a good price. I had to pay $90 a few months ago for some premiums. Its good that our dollar has gone up. The price of steel though has shot right through the roof. I just ordered a set of American Racing 15X10 black spokes for $93 a piece. A tad high. But on the other hand, I too went to a Ford dealership and bought a timing chain for $24.00. The guy at the counter had to ask two other people if it was the right price.

Which means im gonna be leaning on you heavily when I tackle this.

-Matt

Glad to help out

Finally American parts are affordable again. There's good and bad points for both weak and a strong dollar I guess.

That's a great price for American 5 spokes ! As far as the timing chain swap goes no problem. I did this right in the truck in no time flat;

http://www.supermotors.org/vehicles/registry/detail.php?id=4970&s=18193#content

The big thing is to make sure if your harmonic balancer has a groove worn in it that you use this gasket set;

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile/124691/fullsize/IMG_0104.JPG (http://www.supermotors.org/vehicles/registry/showmedia.php?id=124691&original=1)

It comes with all the regular gaskets and the repair sleeve AND the loctite !

Read up on it here;

http://www.supermotors.org/vehicles/registry/detail.php?id=4970&s=18207#content

Great time to clean and paint the timing marks on your balancer too.

Sixlitre

p.s./
I bought non-descript black 9mm for under the hood of the Lincoln (which still has the distributor condom and 1990 on the grey Ford wires !).

Gonna super tune the ignition and see what that does to the mileage (which is already stellar compared to the Bronco). Today I fueled up and and the Bronco was at 21.8 mpg (Canadian units as we're in the Canadian forum). A few of the same tricks on the Lincoln and I'll be in the low to mid 30s I bet !

Strangest looking manifolds I ever saw. Kinda like somebody made em' in their garage ?

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile/227725/fullsize/IMG_0098.JPG (http://www.supermotors.org/vehicles/registry/showmedia.php?id=227725&original=1)

Half header, half butchered IMO. Still the Lincoln forums all swear by them so I guess I lucked out as they're 90 only.

Sigh. Sadly, they will have to wait. I just got back from the truck in hopes to take the carpet out and try your handy dandy pressure washer trick. Unfortunately, two bolts in the centre console just spin, yet dont come out no matter how hard they are pried and pulled. Ill have to shampoo and rub the hell out of it for a few days. Im sure it will reach a tolerable level of clean. While the seats are out, I pulled most of the carpet back for my yearly hole check. (Not to be confused with MY yearly hole check.) Passenger side in behind the seat has a small crack showing sunlight, the front side of the hump under the rear seat with quit a large area of cancer, and drivers side behind the seat in the corner where the seat belt retracts to has a good size hole. Funny thing is, all these cancer spots are surrounded by immaculate metal. The last hole is going to take some figuring out and metal bending. Im at the point where im wondering if I want to get the pop rivets and roofing tar out or whether to borrow someones MIG welder. My ARC welder just burns through thin metal like that.

Im sure ill figure something out. For now, I pulled the carpets back and vacuumed out all the dirt and rust flakes that were on the floor. Then wire brushed them. I brushed on some stuff I got a while ago called Rust Treatment from Permatex. It goes on brown then turns black as it kills the rust. Im gonna brush on some Tremclad on.

Those have to be the weirdest manifolds I have ever seen. You say they are stock ones for that year? You could have fooled me.



So much work to do.

-Matt

Sigh. Sadly, they will have to wait. I just got back from the truck in hopes to take the carpet out and try your handy dandy pressure washer trick. Unfortunately, two bolts in the centre console just spin, yet dont come out no matter how hard they are pried and pulled. Ill have to shampoo and rub the hell out of it for a few days. Im sure it will reach a tolerable level of clean. While the seats are out, I pulled most of the carpet back for my yearly hole check. (Not to be confused with MY yearly hole check.) Passenger side in behind the seat has a small crack showing sunlight, the front side of the hump under the rear seat with quit a large area of cancer, and drivers side behind the seat in the corner where the seat belt retracts to has a good size hole. Funny thing is, all these cancer spots are surrounded by immaculate metal. The last hole is going to take some figuring out and metal bending. Im at the point where im wondering if I want to get the pop rivets and roofing tar out or whether to borrow someones MIG welder. My ARC welder just burns through thin metal like that.

Im sure ill figure something out. For now, I pulled the carpets back and vacuumed out all the dirt and rust flakes that were on the floor. Then wire brushed them. I brushed on some stuff I got a while ago called Rust Treatment from Permatex. It goes on brown then turns black as it kills the rust. Im gonna brush on some Tremclad on.

Those have to be the weirdest manifolds I have ever seen. You say they are stock ones for that year? You could have fooled me.



So much work to do.

-Matt

Matt

Put a bottle jack on a milk crate with asome pieces of wood and jack lightly against the bottom of the self tapping bolts whick hold in the console.

Then just back em' out. It's easier with a friend pushing up against them from underneath.

You'll want to mig the floor if you plan on keeping the truck as gas passes 1.00 a litre. Otherwise rivet your floor into swiss cheese.

Good luck

Sixlitre

Wow looks like Im gonna make a trip to the dealer, now I just gotta find somewhere that sells the MSD coil cheap :scratchhe

Wow looks like Im gonna make a trip to the dealer, now I just gotta find somewhere that sells the MSD coil cheap :scratchhe

Canadian Tire special order

Three to four days, $82 CDN

Just picked up the black 9mm Ford Racing Wires tonight !

Just like they promised $61 plus tax

Gonna slap them and the MSD coil on the Lincoln Town car with some Autolites gapped out to .055 and then bump the timing up to my favourite 13.5 degrees from the stock 10 degrees.

First and foremost on goes the remote trans filter and this huge stacked plate trans oil cooler;

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile/228704/fullsize/IMG_0212.JPG (http://www.supermotors.org/vehicles/registry/showmedia.php?id=228704&original=1)

$20 Canadian in the local junkyard, beats the heck out of the $109 I paid B&M for an identical cooler for my Bronco four years ago.

Then a week or two after the remote filter's done it's work I'm going in to change this;

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile/231097/fullsize/IMG_0194.JPG (http://www.supermotors.org/vehicles/registry/showmedia.php?id=231097&original=1)

Along with as much ATF as I can change. While I'm at it I'll MIG in a drain plug into the bottom of the AOD's pan.

Then it's axle fluid change time too. Probably spring for fully synthetic axle fluid as well.

Sixlitre

Six. looking at earlier threads, how about a few mileage tips that might be applicable to a 90 351 stock manifolds? my mileage has gone through the crapper, runs like a raped ape though! got the 8227 on and 9mm wires, still got the plugs at stock gap....and stock timing....maybe a factor?

Six. looking at earlier threads, how about a few mileage tips that might be applicable to a 90 351 stock manifolds? my mileage has gone through the crapper, runs like a raped ape though! got the 8227 on and 9mm wires, still got the plugs at stock gap....and stock timing....maybe a factor?

Ghostrider

Without that wider plug gap (and a new set of cheap Autolites) you're definately giving away a further advantage. Do that first then crawl under and sand down and paint the timing marks on your harmonic balancer.

Once you've disconnected the SPOUT valve and taken the timing where it is now (so you can return it there if you have to) then lossen the dist and start bumping the timing ahead 2 degrees at a time.

Mine, and every 5.0 litre I've tuned seems to love 13.5 degrees as opposed to the stock 10.

After that start suspecting the engine and pour in some of the miracle snake oil available to loosen things up. Pull your codes, clean you throttle body, etc.

Only after that would I start to improve the exhaust "cat forward". If my kind of pipe is beyond the time you have, start saving for a Bassani and a high flow cat.

To save bucks, just neck back down into the stock muffler and tailpipe until you can afford to do them later. Remember it's the improvements you make "cat forward" that really reap the mileage and power benefits for you anyway.

A bigger muffler and tailpipe made no measureable difference in mileage or performance on mine, the Y-pipe and larger cat were extremely noticeable and measureable though.

As far as manifolds go, if you're in a sniffing area with visual inspections, keep em'. My shorties did make a noticeable midrange power improvement, but zero difference in mileage.

Are you keeping the maximum air pressure in your tires GR? Also a dragging caliper or sticking brake shoe can scrub off mileage real fast.

Got to go, hope that helps

Sixlitre