If you're buying the parts yourself, fordparts(dot)com has a 20% discount thru the end of year for orders over $150. Code is parts20., useable three times. Shipping seems to be free (was for my order). Use dealer of your choice. (Dealer's own online prices might be lower than their prices on Ford's website but the disc./free shipping should beat it)
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Found this this morning.
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WHAT'S MY WIFE DOING ON YOUR VALVESPRING?! (lol)
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Few parts showed up. Headers are 1-7/8 stainless and intake is a factory 2018 piece.
OPG/crank gear will arrive today and Ford parts should arrive tomorrow.
Head is at machine shop and I will be dropping off the new valve springs on Monday for install onto the head. When I dropped it off, a guy took a brief look and didnt think the valve was damaged in any way.
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OPG/crank gear will arrive today and Ford parts should arrive tomorrow.
Head is at machine shop and I will be dropping off the new valve springs on Monday for install onto the head. When I dropped it off, a guy took a brief look and didnt think the valve was damaged in any way.
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Nice, can't wait to hear it.....
BTW, you need to change your location. You are in a better place now....
BTW, you need to change your location. You are in a better place now....
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I'm instructing at MSR-H on Dec 16th. I'll be learning the setup then.Nice, can't wait to hear it.....
BTW, you need to change your location. You are in a better place now....
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Dropped valve springs off at machine shop today. All parts are in from Ford. Just waiting on the call from machine shop to pick up the head and hope to have the car back maybe this weekend. Or Monday.
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Got the head checked and valve springs replaced. Intake valve was perfectly straight so I really lucked out.
Got it back last night but couldn't really get on it at all due to traffic.
It is very (almost excessively) loud so I may quiet it down somehow.
Had the broken valve spring (and all the others) replaced and added:
2018 IM
Texas Speed LTH
GT350 CAI
OPG/Crank gear
Tune revision.
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Got it back last night but couldn't really get on it at all due to traffic.
It is very (almost excessively) loud so I may quiet it down somehow.
Had the broken valve spring (and all the others) replaced and added:
2018 IM
Texas Speed LTH
GT350 CAI
OPG/Crank gear
Tune revision.
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Based on similar combos, probably picked up 40ish hp to the wheels.
Short video of cold start.
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Wow that makes some noise now. Happy to see it back in your hands though, good luck out there!
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Glad it's back together with no additional drama or costs!
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Well got car back together and drove to work today. It definitely picked up power. Though roads were a bit wet, I was able to tickle it up to about 6500 rpm with a huge grin afterward.
Now, of course I have a new issue. Last track time, I was getting 3rd gear grind on downshift. Now I'm getting it intermittently on quick upshifts or shifts above 5k rpm.
I'm gonna swap fluids (just did that back in May) and see what happens, but I fear synchro issue since every other gear is fine, so it probably isn't the clutch (newish hyper single) or shifter (MGW Race Spec).
Ugh.
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Now, of course I have a new issue. Last track time, I was getting 3rd gear grind on downshift. Now I'm getting it intermittently on quick upshifts or shifts above 5k rpm.
I'm gonna swap fluids (just did that back in May) and see what happens, but I fear synchro issue since every other gear is fine, so it probably isn't the clutch (newish hyper single) or shifter (MGW Race Spec).
Ugh.
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Bummer but it happens. The third gear in my Boss 302 sheared in half but that was much better than breaking into several little parts. I was at a track day and just lost third gear but everything else worked fine. I was able to drive it 100 miles home and then to the dealer to have it rebuilt. Good luck.
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Having fun on track with the new setup. This is the first session on track since the engine repair/upgrades. I actually picked up another couple of seconds off the best lap time on here later in the day. This session was a 4 second PB, but I ended up with a 6 second PB by the end of the day.
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Another video. A little faster.
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Nice videos and driving! How did the trans do throughout the day?
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Few nibbles here and there. Nothing major.
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Nice driving, very smooth. So now that your lap times have dropped what to you think of the NT01's?
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