1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

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1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #90 – February 08, 2013, 08:12:29 AM

Why'd you have to plug that hole?? Clearance problems?

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #91 – February 08, 2013, 08:53:52 AM

The hole in the intake pipe?
It's for if I would have a Bypass Valve which is basically a recirculating Blowoff valve. And that is used if you have a draw through MAF. If you have a draw through MAF it's always located infront of the supercharger and having a blow off vavle venting out in the air means that you're venting out already metered air = bad.
So what you're supposed to do is to recirculate that air into the intake pipe again.
But I don't like the idea of draw through MAF on a supercharged car like mine. Mainly because it's taking up waaaay too much space inside the fender = would never be able to fit an airfilter big enough in there. And also I would have to draw a pressure line all the way from the valve to the intake pipe = more work for the same thing basically.
So it's more convenient having a blow through MAF which is located after the BOV which means that the BOV lets out unmetered air which doesn't ruin anything at all. And it's more simple to make it fit because there's no need to recirculate the air back to the intake pipe.

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #92 – February 08, 2013, 09:48:19 AM

Ahh, I see. Thanks for the explanation. :D

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #93 – February 08, 2013, 09:53:13 AM

No worries mate :) Going home from work now. If everything goes really good, maybe there will be a start up on sunday

Going to get the brackets painted and such.

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #94 – February 09, 2013, 09:15:46 AM

snow. Can't do much. I wanted to paint all the brackets but I can't. We've been having snow storm here for the past several days and it's gonna keep on going.
Also bought a P/S pressur hose today which had wrong fittings, bought the wrong belt too and wrong return hose. I've also ordered the wrong overflow tank

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #95 – February 09, 2013, 05:26:04 PM

You may have said it but what type of radiator fan are you using? Mechanical or electric? I'm still running a mechanical fan as it seems to cool really well. With the extra pulley length I'm guessing you have to run an electric fan.

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #96 – February 09, 2013, 05:34:19 PM

Actually it fits well with the mechanical fan. Even the shroud too.
But today I noticed my fan is leaking, badly.
Was thinking of going electric fans later in the spring/summer but it seems like I need to go electric right now. Also going to order a new radiator soon.

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #97 – February 24, 2013, 02:06:50 PM

I haven't updated in a while, mainly because there hasn't been much done.
But here's a few progress pics.

The Procharger P/S relocation bracket came very close to the mounting point for the sway bar so I decided to move the sway bar mounting holes inwards

And then the parts was prepared for paint

Shiny overflow tank doesn't stay shiny for long in my garage!

Tadaa!

My father also got some of his Cobra stuff painted today

Some bonus pics of his work. Ported heads for the Cobra, lots of work with 4 valve heads.

The old man himself taking apart the engine bay

And he also bought a new toy for the garage, ultrasonic cleaner. Works great so far!

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #98 – February 26, 2013, 04:14:33 PM

A small update.
Ordered a Moates Quarterhorse today for the car. Already have one in the car but that one refuses to let the laptop connect to it and therefor I drove all last summer without a real tune running the car pig rich with an A/F of around 12.5-13 at WOT.
Also have a P/S hose on the way home. For future references if anyone is googling and wondering, what you need when using Procharger P/S relocation bracket #AB003A-010 for 87-93 Fox Mustang is a P/S pressure hose for a car WITH A/C. Don't take my word on it fully yet, I'll recieve it in a week or two and will post if it's the correct item I ordered or not and if so I'll also post the part number. I bought a P/S pressure hose for Mustangs without A/C here in Sweden and it did not fit (it's all they could order home). It needs a sharper bend going in to the P/S pump.

Anyhow, a few pictures. Nothing fancy, shiznitty pics as always, for your amusp00get (or suffering, what ever fits best for you

).
Bracket mounted

The idler that comes with the kit

My 0.5L tiny tiny overflow tank. I don't know why but it had 2 extra connections on it which looks retarded and I fixed it like this. I think this overflow tank will be replaced later with something better.

P/S in place

So is the alternator. I really need to clean the engine later on this car. Still have a layer of dust from all the primer that's been on the car during the paint prepping. Thick layer on it!

And also browsed through the thread and realized I didn't post the pic of our driveway.
Ford Dealers Sweden?

Although the '03 Cobra is missing from the pic, it's in the garage unfortinetly. I'm quite proud of the collection of Fords me and my father has.

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #99 – February 26, 2013, 04:33:44 PM

Very nice as always

Are fords common there?

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #100 – February 26, 2013, 04:47:16 PM

I never would have thought there would be so many American Fords in sweden.

wish we had more

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #101 – February 27, 2013, 01:15:01 AM

T-birds aren't as common as they used to be. Most of the fox T-birds has been sped away unfortinetly due to daily driving which causes the to rot in rust as we all know.
But american cars, yes. I can without doubt go so far saying that American cars are the most popular cars in Sweden. The whole american car culture is really big here which is a good thing. I mean, there's a reason why we have one of the biggest car meets in the world (biggest in Europe) with over 13-14 thousand american cars attending.
But I've noticed Chevrolet is more sought after here. Just looking at the prices between a Bronco and a Blazer and the Blazer is atleast 50% more.

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #102 – February 27, 2013, 01:24:30 AM

That sucks but kinda cool ...... I love fox cars it must be nice to have somthing odd to your world

Any fox mustangs around you? That's my passion

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #103 – February 27, 2013, 01:48:45 AM

The Fox Mustangs are around, but they arent that popular. It's more SN95 and especially S197 Mustangs. There's extreme ammounts of S197 Mustangs here in Sweden. Same with the Gen 5 Camaro, really popular.
Here you can check how many Mustangs there's out for sale to give you a fair idea of how much there could be in this small country ^^
http://www.blocket.se/hela_sverige?q=Mustang&cg=1020&w=3&st=s&ps=&pe=&mys=&mye=&ms=&me=&cxpf=&cxpt=&gb=&fu=&cxdw=&ca=9&is=1&l=0&md=th
Just type what ever car your after in the search field, easy navigate so even though it's in swedish I don't think it would be very difficult to search a brand of car

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #104 – February 27, 2013, 02:09:26 AM

Fox stangs are blown up here

What your doing is cool I like this build