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LvC Dues Collector
Well, for those of you that know, I had to buy a new (well new to me at least) motor because of a problem with my motor. So, I picked up my new motor the other day, and started cleaning it (it has been sitting in a salvage yard for some time...so there is ALOT of corrosion on the block and everywhere else). So, you will see in the following pix that I did a bit more that I had planned.
The biggest problem that I had was that I HAD to take the fuel rail off of the motor. You see, it is a 94 motor and I have a 93 motor. Now, you would think that they are all the same........NOOOOOOO, they are not. The 93 motor was the test bed motor for the Cobra motor as we know it now, so what they did was parts source certain parts off of the 93 Mustang.......the fuel pressure regulator....the 93 Mark VIII, and the 93 Mustang both have a 3 bolt flange pressure regulator, whereas the 94 and up have a 2 bolt flange pressure regulator. So, the removal of the fuel rail was necessitated.
I also removed the whole wiring harness from the donor motor mainly because I upgraded the wiring on my car, and the wiring that was on the donor motor had some water infiltration.
I just wanted to put the motor in the car, but being the person that I am, I decided to polish the livin hell out of the front of the motor. I tore apart the intake manifold and I will have it sand blasted on Monday, and then I will polish the rest of it. And since I had the intake manifold off, I decided to clean up the top part of the motor that is not normally seen when the motor is totally bolted together. I even knocked down the corrosion that was on the side of the heads next to the intake so the corrosion is not visible (and partially polished it as well).
I took a few brackets off and painted them either silver (the brackets that are not that visible are silver) or the Mirage paint that I have on the interior panels of the car. I will most likely take the valve covers off, but not at this time, I will take them off of the other motor (the one that is still in the car) and have them blasted and powder coated.
Here are the pix: :tmi:
The biggest problem that I had was that I HAD to take the fuel rail off of the motor. You see, it is a 94 motor and I have a 93 motor. Now, you would think that they are all the same........NOOOOOOO, they are not. The 93 motor was the test bed motor for the Cobra motor as we know it now, so what they did was parts source certain parts off of the 93 Mustang.......the fuel pressure regulator....the 93 Mark VIII, and the 93 Mustang both have a 3 bolt flange pressure regulator, whereas the 94 and up have a 2 bolt flange pressure regulator. So, the removal of the fuel rail was necessitated.
I also removed the whole wiring harness from the donor motor mainly because I upgraded the wiring on my car, and the wiring that was on the donor motor had some water infiltration.
I just wanted to put the motor in the car, but being the person that I am, I decided to polish the livin hell out of the front of the motor. I tore apart the intake manifold and I will have it sand blasted on Monday, and then I will polish the rest of it. And since I had the intake manifold off, I decided to clean up the top part of the motor that is not normally seen when the motor is totally bolted together. I even knocked down the corrosion that was on the side of the heads next to the intake so the corrosion is not visible (and partially polished it as well).
I took a few brackets off and painted them either silver (the brackets that are not that visible are silver) or the Mirage paint that I have on the interior panels of the car. I will most likely take the valve covers off, but not at this time, I will take them off of the other motor (the one that is still in the car) and have them blasted and powder coated.
Here are the pix: :tmi:
