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Thank you for your reply. I'm hoping to do between 5-6 track days a year, but other than that, the car will see some street miles. So I'm hoping to stay with the factory pedal setup and power brakes to make it easier for my wife to drive. Personally for myself, I would love to put a manual setup in the car.If you are going to track the car heavily I would convert it to manual brakes, either the maximum motorsports kit or one of the wilwood pedal setups so you can adjust the master cylinder sizes to what you like. Much better than having a booster in the system for brake modulation.
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Thank you for the advice. Since I will have the Holley TX coming one of these months, I might end up ordering a Holley Dual Sync distributor and running that. Still undecided though since this distributer has been good all of these years. (even though it looks old and tired)The boot heat covers you have are very helpful. Almost all of the ignition failures I have seen at the track are the TFI, hall sensor, or the coil. The aftermarket versions of most of those are not up to the heat load of racing. Especially the import TFI modules, so making sure you have good parts there and known good spares are important. One guy this last weekend had the bearing in the distro die and take out the hall sensor, had to drop in his spare distributor.
The way Ford solved the TFI heat failure issues was to mount it off the dist. on a alum heatsink on inner fender using a harness running back to the Dist. I think this was found on some P/U's and Explorers or 5.0 T birds. I think there was also a aftermarket kit but its been years since I messes with this setup. Looked like thisThe boot heat covers you have are very helpful. Almost all of the ignition failures I have seen at the track are the TFI, hall sensor, or the coil. The aftermarket versions of most of those are not up to the heat load of racing. Especially the import TFI modules, so making sure you have good parts there and known good spares are important. One guy this last weekend had the bearing in the distro die and take out the hall sensor, had to drop in his spare distributor.
Perfect, thank you. Time do do some research over a few beverages tonight.The way Ford solved the TFI heat failure issues was to mount it off the dist. on a alum heatsink on inner fender using a harness running back to the Dist. I think this was found on some P/U's and Explorers or 5.0 T birds. I think there was also a aftermarket kit but its been years since I messes with this setup. Looked like this
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Found this from my past files. LMR may still have a kit. This was common in Rangers, Aerostar's , T birds ect. Salvage yard may still be best bet to findPerfect, thank you. Time do do some research over a few beverages tonight.
Thanks again, Justin.