Installed my Steeda UDP's yesterday, and a couple of tips that may or may not help someone taking on this project. Total installtime was maybe 45 mintes, and I was working with all hand tools.

1st tip: If you have a manual trans, an impact wrench is not manditory. just put the car in gear and set the parking brake.

2nd tip: Don't forget to install the new bolt that is provided for the driver side alternator bracket before you put the waterpump pulley on.

3rd tip: If you forget how the belt is routed, the belt pattern is located in the Owners Manual.

4th tip: According to Steeda, you can reuse the crank bolt twice. A ford tech I talked to agreed. I would still recommend some blue loctite.

5th tip: And this is the most important... If you opt for the breaker bar method of removing the crank bolt... be aware that the crank bolt will go from "so tight you'd swear it's not a bolt but one single piece" to able to be turned with your fingers in about 1/8 of a turn. Be especially careful of this, so you don't end up breaking your hand when the nut breaks loose and all your weight comes down on your knuckles with the bar in hand on the crossmember.... like I did.
My hand--->[sm=chairshot.gif]<--- the breaker bar. Broke two of the bones in my right hand.. one is one of the ones that connects the pointer finger to the wristand oher is the same bone for the middle finger. No cast until the swelling goes down, expected healing time, 12 to 24 weeks... For the first time in my life, I almost wished I had an automatic.

 

Dude that sucks about your hand......[:@] But it sounds as if you completed the install with a broken hand???

Talk about dedication to the mod........

Sorry, but grats........[8D][8D]

 

thanks for the tips, this is my project sometime after next saturday. sorry bout the hand dude, but u gotta laugh lol!

so tell me, how dou like the mod?

 

I finished the install before I went to the hospital, working only with my left hand. The only tihng I ended up with help was actually starting the bolts on the waterpump pulley, and the final torque on the crankbolt. The strange part... when I hit my hand, it hurt so badI DID start laughing! My brother thought I was kidding about the hand at first, till the bruising and swelling started showing! I guess I get the Blood Knucles Garage "despair and repair under one roof" award..lol.

All and all, I think I can feel a slight increase in power. Anything under 10 hp is hard to feel, so I would say the 7 rwhp that most claim feels about right. The engine revs slightly faster when its not loaded. The PCM reported 196 degree coolant temps before the mod, and now it's still reporting 196 degrees, so no effect on cooling that I have seen. Charging seems ok, tho the largest draw on power I have is my laptop or my sirius radio, which isn't much. I haven't had it on long enough to evaluate any fuel mileage claims yet, but given the amount of driving I do, I should be able to have at least preliminary data in a few days.

All in all, It's a worthwhile mod, IMO.Not quite the bang for the buck of an intake/tune combo, but I am always interested in mods that improve efficiency or reduce parasitic losses. once I get my intake from Modular depot and get my tune set up how I like it, I tihnk my next mod may be an aluminum 1 piece DS.

 

"All in all, It's a worthwhile mod"

Broke your hand and thats what you end up saying. True mustang enthusiast.