Chrisssssssss
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Well all, I finally saved a few bucks and am ready to get this thing rebuilt, among many others here. I need some help. Please read.
OK. Here's the deal. I have spent much time and effort, searching and reading post after post of rebuild or engine related questions, and basically just came up with a jumble of basically useless and outdated information on builds (both pre-build and post) some of which have lasted, some have not. There is not a good recipe that can be used as a reference model for our trucks. My goal is to build an engine that will hold together under the abuse that it will endure as a daily driver and also play hard on the weekends at the strip - or when you pull up beside another punk mustang at a red light on the way to the market for milk and eggs.
This is a long post that asks many questions and has a lot of choices to be made. I am calling out for any and all experiences that any one wants to offer that will help me compile a tried and true recipe and a guideline for others to follow hoping to increase the longevity, reliability, and performance in turn reducing the chance broken motors and another rebuild. I will then take all this information, sort through it, document it, list it with sources and current prices, pictures and more pictures, do's and don'ts where applicable, and post the results of the build. I am looking at this to be the best bang for buck value for MOST of us that need to rebuild the engines. I want to know everything that is needed to know to build the motor that can withstand reliably from a plain stock to average mods that the majority of us do. I think that if done correctly with the right parts and procedures and correct tuning, the internals should withstand all but the extreme crazy builds. There are some great products available and there are many people that have the same problems as I do. Need to know what works and what doesn't so I don't have to do this again anytime soon.
These trucks are complicated beasts and have a bad reputation to be jack-stand warriors which certainly adversely affects the resale value and collector desirability. I am hoping with the help from everyone here by providing this recipe as the tried and true, most reliable, longest lasting, less likely to detonate, powerful, thus prolonging intervals at which the trucks need to be on jack-stands due to engine rebuilds and failure. If this can be worked out I think it will help take the guesswork and questions out of a rebuild and maybe help future overall value of these trucks.
I plan on keeping my truck for a very long time. I will provide this information either this site, or separate website and maintain and update as necessary if better solutions are discovered as the process refines as time goes by.
I am also reaching out to the vendors / fabricators / manufacturers / suppliers of parts and pieces needed for this build. If any of you guys on that side of the table want to chime in and want to be the "go to source" for whatever portion(s) of this recipe then feel free to speak up here on what you got. If you think you have the best product available by providing products at the best overall bang for buck value in terms of reliability, performance, availability, and price then I will list contact information and link you to this guide as a source for the specific products and parts used here.
Thanks for reading my post here and if you made it this far, I think you get the basic Idea of what I am trying to do and I think that this will help out the whole group in some way by pooling our efforts to fine tune our rebuilds to last longer, be more reliable, and perform better. There is many different options and configurations out there, but I want one that just works. Come on people. It's time to put our heads together and figure this out. I will put this together and document it, but need the help of everyone to do it right. Do what you can.
See next for more details and specifics to my build. I appreciate any and all help that is received.
Cheers
Chris
OK. Here's the deal. I have spent much time and effort, searching and reading post after post of rebuild or engine related questions, and basically just came up with a jumble of basically useless and outdated information on builds (both pre-build and post) some of which have lasted, some have not. There is not a good recipe that can be used as a reference model for our trucks. My goal is to build an engine that will hold together under the abuse that it will endure as a daily driver and also play hard on the weekends at the strip - or when you pull up beside another punk mustang at a red light on the way to the market for milk and eggs.
This is a long post that asks many questions and has a lot of choices to be made. I am calling out for any and all experiences that any one wants to offer that will help me compile a tried and true recipe and a guideline for others to follow hoping to increase the longevity, reliability, and performance in turn reducing the chance broken motors and another rebuild. I will then take all this information, sort through it, document it, list it with sources and current prices, pictures and more pictures, do's and don'ts where applicable, and post the results of the build. I am looking at this to be the best bang for buck value for MOST of us that need to rebuild the engines. I want to know everything that is needed to know to build the motor that can withstand reliably from a plain stock to average mods that the majority of us do. I think that if done correctly with the right parts and procedures and correct tuning, the internals should withstand all but the extreme crazy builds. There are some great products available and there are many people that have the same problems as I do. Need to know what works and what doesn't so I don't have to do this again anytime soon.
These trucks are complicated beasts and have a bad reputation to be jack-stand warriors which certainly adversely affects the resale value and collector desirability. I am hoping with the help from everyone here by providing this recipe as the tried and true, most reliable, longest lasting, less likely to detonate, powerful, thus prolonging intervals at which the trucks need to be on jack-stands due to engine rebuilds and failure. If this can be worked out I think it will help take the guesswork and questions out of a rebuild and maybe help future overall value of these trucks.
I plan on keeping my truck for a very long time. I will provide this information either this site, or separate website and maintain and update as necessary if better solutions are discovered as the process refines as time goes by.
I am also reaching out to the vendors / fabricators / manufacturers / suppliers of parts and pieces needed for this build. If any of you guys on that side of the table want to chime in and want to be the "go to source" for whatever portion(s) of this recipe then feel free to speak up here on what you got. If you think you have the best product available by providing products at the best overall bang for buck value in terms of reliability, performance, availability, and price then I will list contact information and link you to this guide as a source for the specific products and parts used here.
Thanks for reading my post here and if you made it this far, I think you get the basic Idea of what I am trying to do and I think that this will help out the whole group in some way by pooling our efforts to fine tune our rebuilds to last longer, be more reliable, and perform better. There is many different options and configurations out there, but I want one that just works. Come on people. It's time to put our heads together and figure this out. I will put this together and document it, but need the help of everyone to do it right. Do what you can.
See next for more details and specifics to my build. I appreciate any and all help that is received.
Cheers
Chris
