roundman

I am new to the forum as I just recently got a home computer. I am 55 years old and recently retired after 31+ years at Philip Morris USA. My Mustang is an '88 GT with an AOD tranny that I bought new and started racing on the local track when it had 78,000 miles on it. Bone stock it ran 15.45 secs in the 1/4 at 90+ mph on street tires. Soon I bought a set of used wheels and some slicks and would change tires at the track and run time runs on Friday nights. After a year or two, I started racing on Saturday in the footbrake bracket. I put on a chip, subframe connectors, equal length MAC shorties, 2-1/2" cat back exhaust, underdrive pulleys, added 3.73 gears and an Auburn posi and started taking weight off by removing the rear seats, etc. Got down to 13.80 @ 100 mph with an off road H-pipe before I finally took it off the street three years ago. I made over 300 full bore 1/4 mile passes with it and it never left me stranded at the track, not once. In 1999 I won the Quick Ford bracket during the first Fun Ford Weekend at Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, VA and pocketed $500! Went 6 rounds to win the final by .005 seconds after my opponent misjudged my front end trying to dump me at the finish. I guess he was upset, but I didn't care! Last year I installed a complete 9" Ford rear from Strange with a spool, 35 spline axles and 4.57 gears and an Extreme AOD with full manual valve body from Art Carr Performance Transmissons. Made it to the semi-finals last summer at the FFW before I redlighted. Last week at the season opening test and tune it ran a best of 13.533 secs with the still stock motor. Not bad for 3,200 lbs and over 108,000 miles on the motor. This week I installed some 90/10 front struts with Eibach drag springs and a Flaming River manual rack and pinion steering system and can't wait until tomorrow to test and tune it again, although the weather forecast doesn't look all that good right now.
I have a technical question, which connection on the coil is the negative post for hooking up a tachometer, the one nearest the fender or the one nearest the motor???? Any help would be appreciated!

hotrodman

welcome thats one tuff car you got there

hotrodman

heres my pics you got any??

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BlueStang225

my friend had a nice art carr converter paid good penny i have a 89 lx 5.0 with AOD, BBK 1 5/8 Shorties,BBK O/R/H-pipe,Flowmaster American Thunder Catback,373's,k&N Filter,shift kit,9mm plugs, still has smog hook up and no pulleys. pretty much stock here's a picture! I also have some jam, and audio (7.5 flip down tv and xbox) Nice to have you

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hotrodman

nice car bluestang225i know i seen that car before!!!!!!!!

red347

The coil should be marked with a - and + . Most likely out of sight, under the wire? Green tach wire goes to the negative side of the coil. Welcome to the boards. Sounds like you and I did some things in a very similar fashion. I too started racing after the kids left home...then I went nuts.

Ron

roundman

I'm new at this, hope it works to embed picture in post. This was taken at last year's Fun Ford Weekend.

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roundman

believe it or not, there are no markings whatsoever on my coil. I've unplugged the connector and it has no marks, I even took the coil out of the car and there are no marks on it anywhere. there is a smudge of white paint on the connector for the red wire w/blue stripe nearest the engine and that's the one I connected to, so since I moved the ground to the block and that helped a little, I going to re-examine the splice and maybe solder it this time rather than use a crimp connection. I still have the stock in dash tach connected so I can use it until I get the new one working correctly.
since I retired, I can spend a lot more time working on/racing the car without work getting in the way!
Thanks,
Jerry

red347

Well we know that 12V key on goes to the positive side of the coil. I would just check with a test lite. Find the side that has the key on +12V and the other side is it.

Ron