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Old 08-23-2011, 07:10 PM
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Well, it was bound to happen given I've sprayed it quite a few times and last time at the track I ran it hard which was in April, It was a 1011-2 gasket, not the best Imo for Poweradder applications, anyway it blew on the way back from CAD car show in PA on the 13th, Fortunately, I was 10 miles from home and limped it home. it blew between 2 & 3 and 3-4 was showing signs of it too, I pulled both heads to inspect and driver side was fine, no damage to head or block surface, Anyway, it should of been back together by now, however, the ole wheels started turning and I said, well ya' know, while it's apart.........and you guys can guess what comes next..lol. So, I've been talking with ED at FTI AND IT looks as if he's goona do me up a set of TFS TW'S 203cc heads prepped with his own selection of valvetrain parts such as 8mm valves and lsx valvetrain, gonna have it port matched to a victor jr single plane intake prepped by him as well, and I'm gonna ditch my 1 5/8's lt's headers for some 1 3/4's lt's with 3 inch collectors and eventually make the rest of the exhaust 3 inch, hopefully this will put me into 10.90's all motor with some mad driving skills, also even with a oil seperator, catch can and all , pcv is still pulling to much oil into my intake tract/ heads, so gonna delete the pcv and add two vapor/puke tanks and -10an line from valve covers to the tanks to vent, anyway, here are the torn down pics



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Old 08-23-2011, 09:54 PM
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ooohhhhhhh boy here we go lol
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Old 08-23-2011, 10:05 PM
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Sucks that it broke that always opens other doors!
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Old 08-24-2011, 01:38 AM
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What is the color on that block? That looks nice, though the red wire looms are a bit loud against the white
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Old 08-24-2011, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by stdyhand
What is the color on that block? That looks nice, though the red wire looms are a bit loud against the white
what ever color a 68 couger/ford used........looms aren't as bad when everything is in the car, just nothing there to offset them right now
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Old 08-24-2011, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by sn95_331_GT_ yellow
ooohhhhhhh boy here we go lol
yup....and if the 347 goes, it's windsor time
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Actually I like the colors kinda reminds me of a candy apple metallic
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Old 08-24-2011, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by grabbem88
Actually I like the colors kinda reminds me of a candy apple metallic
I didn't like the ford red, looked to orange, I had done a friends 68 cougar and they wanted the engine to match the color of the car, I liked the red so much, I did mine the same way.
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I blew 1011-2's on a lean out on the 302 before. I'm running the 9333's on the 331 now.

At some point in the very near future I'll prolly be swapping over to the FAST EZ-EFI port setup(no time to tune these days and it has a lot of flexibility). Then have Ed set me up with some AFR 185 Comp heads and a valvetrain package. Maybe another cam too, since the current one is for a 302 =\
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Originally Posted by 67mustang302
I blew 1011-2's on a lean out on the 302 before. I'm running the 9333's on the 331 now.

At some point in the very near future I'll prolly be swapping over to the FAST EZ-EFI port setup(no time to tune these days and it has a lot of flexibility). Then have Ed set me up with some AFR 185 Comp heads and a valvetrain package. Maybe another cam too, since the current one is for a 302 =\
he's gonna do me up a victor jr port matched to some 203cc tfs tw's
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