New engine is installed. Just a couple of minor things to work out on it before it gets fired up for the first time. Had to order a Bullitt EGR tube, it arrived this morning. The rubber Bullitt air inlet tube doesn't clear the Oil filler tube on the valve cover, so we'll be working on a solution for that tomorrow morning. Gonna either fab an extension for it, cut down the oil filler tube or see if a CAI will work to clear it. Other than that, its 98% done, woooot !!!!!



I had a new, balanced short block bored .020 over and built with Manley forged rods and Diamond forged pistons. A set of heavily P&P'd Windsor heads I bought from R3n3ck is topped off with a Bullitt intake from 03gtmustang. I swear, if this doesn't fix that damn idling problem I started this build with back in December, my next mod will consist of dynamite packed in around the engine bay.

This is going to be it for a long while. The next step will be a procharger D1-SC or Paxton Novi 2000 next summer. This install pretty much broke the bank, so I'll need to recharge my accounts before I do any major modification. Thanks again to R3dn3ck for the heads and 03gtmustang for the Bullitt intake.

Edit: As much as I'd like to take credit for working on this, I can't. I'm not a auto mechanic, I'm more of a human mechanic/plumber. If your in the Austin/Central Texas area, check out ProModular Performance. Kirk Prewitt is the owner and has the best customer service I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with. He's quick to call and update you on the progress and/or snags that may happen as well as emailing photos of the build in progress. He's had my car in his shop since the end of March and not a week would go by without him calling me a couple of times or emailing me pictures of the UPS deliveries lol, he cracks me up. Anyway, the Kirk and his crew do awesome work, give him a call if you need any kind of performance work done.

 

Looks nice..

 

with all the horror stories out there about shops like this it's nice to hear a good one... congrats and enjoy

 

Oh man,looks good. Sounds like you did it right for

 

Yeppers, ends up with 9:1 CR and should be able to run with around 14 psi when its all said and done.

 

w00t. lookin good man. That thing should be pretty sick. Those heads were ported by one of the best free-handers I've ever seen. Even I was impressed.

 

Looks good man..

 

Looks good man. I can attest to kirk and his work at promodular performance. I had my procharger, subframes, clutch and control arms installed by them. I had all of this done while in Iraq and kirk kept me updated the whole time either by email or phone call. I've never dealt with anyone more serious and proffesional about the work they do. He even emails me now that I am back in Iraq to see how I am doing. Thats service. Now I am curious, is that the pmp forged shortblock?

 

I saw your car there while he was working on it. He did an awesome job, it looks great. As a matter of fact, the 42# injectors you bought used to be mine. I was going to use them when I had the s/c installed, but Kirk said you were having problems and needed to replace yours. Since I wasn't going to need them for a while, I told him to go ahead and sell them to ya.

And yes, thats the PMP forged shortblock with a stock crank. I was at Kirk's earlier today cus they fired it up for the first time and I wanted to be there. He laughed at me when I said I was only thinking it would make 250 rwhp. He's estimating close to 300rwhp +/- 8 hp and 320/330 rwtq. I'm not going to get hung up on the numbers though, I'm just happy that I can finally drive it again.

Here's a pick of it as of this evening:



I was like a giggly little school girl when he fired it up

 

Looks ****ing sweet.

 

Thanks R3d. The guy that did the final machining and valve job was pretty impressed with the port job as well. Between that engine and the 4.10 gears, I thinks I'm gonna need to beef up the rear a bit before I tear something apart. LCAs, subframe connectors, shock tower brace and a strut tower brace are in the near future.

 

nice!!! looks awesome

BTW how did you blow the engine??

 

Man, honestly, I'm not sure how it happened. Alot of little things happened that finally drove the nails in the coffin. It started in December when I wanted to play a little with the 4.10 gears I had installed. Got on an onramp and punched it. Hit 100 mph or so and I felt something snap and it start running like crap, limped back home after that. Turns out the right bank timing chain tensioner shredded itself under the load of acceleration. Fixed it. Car still idled like crap. Changed the plugs, flushed the fuel lines, cleaned the IAC, MAF and TB/Plenum, and all that didn't help. Advance a couple more weeks and the car starts spewing tons of white smoke out the exhaust. But after driving the car for a short period of time and turning it off, I'd hear a boiling sound coming from the cats. Turns out that was unburnt fuel (very scary). My mechanic and I were very puzzled cuz the car wasn't throughing any SES codes, so he sent it to a buddy from Ford that specializes in electronics and PCMs. Turns out my PCM had corrupted injector files and I had a failed TPS sensor. Put those two together and it was causing an overload of fuel to be dumped into the cylinders washing down the walls and corroding the piston rings, essentially, a blown engine cuz they'd have to tear into the block to fix that problem. I opted for a new short block instead of having the old one rebuilt. During the process I got ahold of an awesome set of heads and a Bullitt intake. PCM is reflashed and replaced the TPS sensor. Went ahead and replace the injectors with new ones and had a Cobra oil pump installed. The only thing left from the original engine is the IAC and MAF. Also, came to find out today, that the MAF on my car is not the correct one for a mustang engine. The part # is for a Econoline 3/4 ton truck engine, not sure how that happened, but I'll be replacing that soon as well.

 

Damn, you've caught up to me as far as mods pretty quickly! But be careful once you put that blower on there... those 4r70's do not like alot of torque. Congrats on the new motor such! I'm sure you'll make around 290ish with stock cams and all that flow! But why not go with an EGR delete while the motor was out? Anywho, let us know the #'s ASAP!

 

Thanks lol, yeah my plans for lightly modding it kinda got thrown out the window, oh well lol. As for the EGR delete, we talked about it briefly cus the intake manifold was already capped off and we needed to order a Bullitt EGR tube ($90), but since its my DD, I didn't want to take a chance on it not passing inspection and without the EGR in place, that would be a possibility. I could be mistaken about that, but my mechanic also preferred to install it as it would be from that factory and modify in the future if need be. For now, I'm gonna break in the engine for about 800 miles, then take down to S.A. to get it chipped and tuned.

 

Thanks Foncarelli, like I said, I can't wait to get it back and start driving it again.