A Marriage
As promised and I’m sure as anticipated, at least by me, we started working on the engine this weekend in preparation to install it next week. Here are some pics of the engine with the plastic pulled off and it still sitting on it’s shipping pallet. In case you’re wondering, all the blue tape is sealing off all the openings to keep whatever miscellaneous junk might be floating around out of the engine. It’s a Ford Coyote 5.0 Liter all Aluminum Twin Overhead Cam V8. It produces 412 horsepower and 390 foot pounds of torque. This is the same engine that’s in the current 5.0 liter Mustang. The nice thing is that there are plenty of aftermarket upgrades that can get even more horsepower out of this engine without opening it up. For now...
Getting Hosed.
No not in the bad way. Last weekend before taking off to Atlanta for SCTE EXPO I got a chance to run the fuel lines and some of the fuel hoses. As for the hoses I’m running Braided Stainless Steel hoses to go with the Stainless Steel hard lines. If you have been following the build you’ve heard me talk about them before. All of the fuel line fittings will be the 37ยบ AN-6 fittings. So to start I ran the hard lines first. The pic below shows the 2 lines running along the rear down tube on the passenger side. This is right behind the passenger seat but on the outside of the car in the wheel well. You can see one of the cockpit panels on the right. On the left side you can see the differential. The lines run underneath the car along one of the main...
The Great Pumpkin
With Halloween right around the corner I couldn’t resist. The differential is also referred to as the pumpkin so now you know. So the diff went in this weekend. I got it back from Lou’s on Friday, Lou took care of rebuilding it for me. I decided that I would be better off letting Lou take care of it since he has all the right tools and experience. Now getting it installed was a whole other thing. For the first couple of hours it seemed like a classic case of square peg-round hole. The install manual says it comes up from the bottom, pinion first with axle holes aligned front to back. As you can see in this first pic, given the weight of the unit about 45 pounds I used my engine hoist so I didn’t have to worry about it falling on my head and...
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