its been a while since ive been on here
Thread Starter
2nd Gear Member
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 266
From: California
its been a while since ive been on here
well its been almost a couple months, but i would say almost a year that i have been on here. Ive been on another forum, but just wanted to say hi to everyone AGAIN lol.
anyways here the update so far, well last summer i was on a date and a taxi decided to rear end me in the back luckily it wasn't that bad (though the taxi drivers car was done!) long story short their Insurance company was rude/unhelpful and the body shop gave me a bad paint job...later i took the insurance company to ca dept of insurance and they decided to pay 3700 for body work/paint which i will take it soon. Just recently i installed my new motor that i finally built 331 stroker anyways enjoy!
here are some info on what ive done/and going to do:
331 Long Block Components
Cylinder Block: FORD 5.0 Roller Cam
Crankshaft: New Nodular Iron 3.250" Stroke
Connecting Rods: New 5140 Forged I-Beam W/ ARP Bolts and silicon bronze bushings
Pistons: KB FHR Forged aluminum, full floating pins.
Piston Rings : Child's & Albert performance plasma moly
Timing Set : .250 True roller with heat treated cam gear and billet steel crank gear
Camshaft: Comp Cams Hydraulic Roller #35-424-8
Cylinder Head Pro-Comp 60cc angle plug 190cc intake runner w/ 1.600 x 2.020 valves.
Valves: Comp Cams 2.02 intake and 1.60 exhaust polished stainless
Valve Springs Isky dual spring w/ steel retainer and Hp 7 degree locks.
Rocker Arms: RPS stainless steel full roller rocker w/ needle bearing fulcrum
Damper: Professional Products 28oz External Balance w/ dual 3 & 4 bolt pulley patterns.
Edelbrock Performer RPM Intake
Holley Street Avenger 675 cfm electric choke
Ford Racing "tall" Valve Covers
EXHAUST:
Headman shorty Headers 2.5 Collector
2.5 H-Pipe
Flowmaster 44 series turn downs (will be extended to the rear)
with some str8 angle tips
DRIVETRAIN:
Ford c-4 from performance Automatic transmission "street Fighter" up 450hp this transmission can take.
Hughes 2500 Stall Torque Converter
Stock Drive Shaft (will be replaced by an aluminum Drive shaft)
Rear End: Ford 8 posi (non posi, i believe the gears are 2:79 - 3:00 again the third member will be replaced with 3:55 gears. )
INTERIOR/AUDIO:
Standard black interior
Pioneer 400-ub cd/mp3/ipod deck.
rally 6x9's with tweeters
EXTERIOR:
Stock body will be re-prepped and painted with the same color but a little bit of more metallic.
American Racing polished Torque Thrust 17x8 4.75 B/S with Nexon Tires 235/45/r17 245/45/r17
SUSPENSION/BRAKES:
Front Heavy duty Granada front disc conversion
Stock Rear Drums.
New Upper and lower grab-a-track suspension
Kyb Gas-a-just shocks in front/air shocks in the rear (will be replaced with KYB's)
Stock Leafs (will be replaced with 4 1/2 mid eye's)
620 Springs
Universal Traction Bars from Lakewood
(old Motor)
(the Accident)
(when the body shop ****ed up my paint job)
(before the accident)
anyways here the update so far, well last summer i was on a date and a taxi decided to rear end me in the back luckily it wasn't that bad (though the taxi drivers car was done!) long story short their Insurance company was rude/unhelpful and the body shop gave me a bad paint job...later i took the insurance company to ca dept of insurance and they decided to pay 3700 for body work/paint which i will take it soon. Just recently i installed my new motor that i finally built 331 stroker anyways enjoy!
here are some info on what ive done/and going to do:
331 Long Block Components
Cylinder Block: FORD 5.0 Roller Cam
Crankshaft: New Nodular Iron 3.250" Stroke
Connecting Rods: New 5140 Forged I-Beam W/ ARP Bolts and silicon bronze bushings
Pistons: KB FHR Forged aluminum, full floating pins.
Piston Rings : Child's & Albert performance plasma moly
Timing Set : .250 True roller with heat treated cam gear and billet steel crank gear
Camshaft: Comp Cams Hydraulic Roller #35-424-8
Cylinder Head Pro-Comp 60cc angle plug 190cc intake runner w/ 1.600 x 2.020 valves.
Valves: Comp Cams 2.02 intake and 1.60 exhaust polished stainless
Valve Springs Isky dual spring w/ steel retainer and Hp 7 degree locks.
Rocker Arms: RPS stainless steel full roller rocker w/ needle bearing fulcrum
Damper: Professional Products 28oz External Balance w/ dual 3 & 4 bolt pulley patterns.
Edelbrock Performer RPM Intake
Holley Street Avenger 675 cfm electric choke
Ford Racing "tall" Valve Covers
EXHAUST:
Headman shorty Headers 2.5 Collector
2.5 H-Pipe
Flowmaster 44 series turn downs (will be extended to the rear)
with some str8 angle tips
DRIVETRAIN:
Ford c-4 from performance Automatic transmission "street Fighter" up 450hp this transmission can take.
Hughes 2500 Stall Torque Converter
Stock Drive Shaft (will be replaced by an aluminum Drive shaft)
Rear End: Ford 8 posi (non posi, i believe the gears are 2:79 - 3:00 again the third member will be replaced with 3:55 gears. )
INTERIOR/AUDIO:
Standard black interior
Pioneer 400-ub cd/mp3/ipod deck.
rally 6x9's with tweeters
EXTERIOR:
Stock body will be re-prepped and painted with the same color but a little bit of more metallic.
American Racing polished Torque Thrust 17x8 4.75 B/S with Nexon Tires 235/45/r17 245/45/r17
SUSPENSION/BRAKES:
Front Heavy duty Granada front disc conversion
Stock Rear Drums.
New Upper and lower grab-a-track suspension
Kyb Gas-a-just shocks in front/air shocks in the rear (will be replaced with KYB's)
Stock Leafs (will be replaced with 4 1/2 mid eye's)
620 Springs
Universal Traction Bars from Lakewood
(old Motor)
(the Accident)
(when the body shop ****ed up my paint job)
(before the accident)
Thread Starter
2nd Gear Member
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 266
From: California
yeah thanks everyone
and yeah its dan body shop in the bay area, i guess they were painting it in the dark when they were trying to blen it. but also they were charging up the *** just for that minor damage either way i reported the insurance (which was very unhelpful) to ca dept of the insurance and i asked them to repaint/prep the whole car and they decided to pay half of the cost which will proly cover the body work, also i got a gallon of paint that i got and mixed the other shop well do the body work and my friend will spray it.
and yeah its dan body shop in the bay area, i guess they were painting it in the dark when they were trying to blen it. but also they were charging up the *** just for that minor damage either way i reported the insurance (which was very unhelpful) to ca dept of the insurance and i asked them to repaint/prep the whole car and they decided to pay half of the cost which will proly cover the body work, also i got a gallon of paint that i got and mixed the other shop well do the body work and my friend will spray it.
Last edited by rwcstang; Feb 7, 2009 at 11:09 AM.
6th Gear Member
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 6,417
From: Cork, Ireland
it's only after reading those posts i realised that someone actually painted that trunk. LOL
on a sidenote do you really want to stick with those screws in your rocker cover. i have never seen that before and doubt it's any practical if you ever want to take those off
on a sidenote do you really want to stick with those screws in your rocker cover. i have never seen that before and doubt it's any practical if you ever want to take those off
