CrazyCobraSpeed

ok i will soon be gettin ym heads ported and he will assemble the heads and send the gaskets and everything so im guessing thats a bolt on and torque to specs?? as for the cam its an E303 and it comes with a Double roller timing chain and gear set w/9 position key way.. what else would i need for it?? i heard i should get new bearings put in for the cam how much does that normally run?? well most machine shops do that?


any info or a sticky walkthrough for a head cam intake swap would be great cuz its all goin to ahve to come off and go bak on

OnyxCobra

This is a pretty good write-up, i'm in the process of doing it right now.

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/techa...intakeswap.pdf

CrazyCobraSpeed

thanks onyx ill check it out

LTnone

How many miles on the engine? You probably won't want to waste the time/money on new bearings, they should be fine. Lifters should always be replaced with a new cam, aside from that it's mostly just new gaskets than you need. Replace the head bolts, definitely. After 1992 1/2 Ford switched to torque to yield bolts, basically they're a one time deal. Don't forget thread sealer for the ones that go through the water jacket and moly assembly lube for the ones that don't. This will affect your torque specs as well. Just go with ARP bolts and lube, they have specs for bolts w/ lube/sealer on them anyway. At least if you go ARP, you'll need to torque them down and loosen them and retorque a total of 5 times (torque, loosen, tq, loose, tq, loose, tq, loose, tq). Pain in the butt procedure but do it

LTnone

Double post...

anyone else get crap from MF about submitting a post all the time? It'll freeze and not submit, I have to refresh the page then submit and it'll double post. Stupid computers.

CrazyCobraSpeed

Are you sure its not worth putting in new bearings? also does ARP have a website?? ill need head blots from them... should i get header bolts while im at it too?? the ones i but on that came with my mac LTs blow... also do i need any bolts or gaskets or nething like that for the cam?? what about intake bolts and gasket... should they be replaced when i take it off?

90Lxstanger

here on too- http://www.andersonfordmotorsport.com/
go to the tech articles, 5.0 mustang and superfords, and the Feb 2007-Reach for the Sky article

LTnone

It's probably arp.com, if not type arp bolts in a search engine and you'll find it. If you're more comfortable putting in new bearings then there's nothing really wrong, but that would involve taking the shortblock apart, which is a huge hassle when you wouldn't need to do it otherwise. Header bolts can be reused, but they're cheap if you want better ones. Any gasket that you expose should be scraped off and replaced