S550 Upside Down and on the Wrong Side Build Thread Profile - S550 Mustangs

[GAR944]

Glad i waited till the next day.
Right hand drive car is fun. Battery out, battery box out, battery box sheet metal divider and the 10 bolts that hold the thing in.
That said, once the plate was out the access was great.

The actually cam cover is the easy part.

Now to delete this silly sound tube. Way better access when it disappears.

 

[GAR944]

Ok, sound tube deleted. But, who the hell at Ford thought it was a good idea to mount it to a stud about 40mm (1' 1/2) long. No wonder i saw people posting about just yanking it off.
For reference the hole is 29ish mm so 28mm grommet or 1' 1/8 for you old school folks.
Glad i had the battery steel plate out to do this or i would have been pissed trying to reach down there.

 

[bnight]

Glad i waited till the next day.
Right hand drive car is fun. Battery out, battery box out, battery box sheet metal divider and the 10 bolts that hold the thing in.
That said, once the plate was out the access was great.
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The actually cam cover is the easy part.
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Now to delete this silly sound tube. Way better access when it disappears.
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So I guess the plastic Coil Covers don't work with the GT500 Valve Covers ? Otherwise your cams and springs looks amazing that's one healthy engine !

 

[GAR944]

So I guess the plastic Coil Covers don't work with the GT500 Valve Covers ? Otherwise your cams and springs looks amazing that's one healthy engine !

The covers should fit, the cam covers came with the ball studs for them. I just don't run anything that covers the engine. The poor thing gets punished so anything that traps heat is removed. It doesn't get driven on the road a great deal so i'm not concerned about water sitting in the engine with all the bonnet venting.
Threw in the pictures of the internals as its out of my knowledge base as to what is a good look. Its only done 34000 kms but the last 5 have been the hardest of its life. Was hoping someone would tell me if they looked ok.

 

[Fabman]

So I guess the plastic Coil Covers don't work with the GT500 Valve Covers ? Otherwise your cams and springs looks amazing that's one healthy engine !

They fit.






GT500 covers painted black:

 

[bnight]

They fit.

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GT500 covers painted black:

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My dealership is installing mine tomorrow. So hopefully it will work and my oil issues will be resolved.

 

[GAR944]

Still building for ultimate reliability, full aluminium radiator with triple pass internal arrangement. Just had it modified for 2 npt ports for entering and leaving temperature. Tired of fords suspect, let's guestimate, guages. It's been modified enough that I want the real data. Now if my sensors would arrive I could fit this sucker and the corresponding oil temp and pressure for the oil cooler I'd be happy. One step at a time. Just spent some time porting the radiator inlet and outlet. Not a statement I'd expect to make but wasn't happy with the way they had done the fittings, way too much excess material blocking flow. Quick grind job with the vacuum blowing through the radiator to keep all the crap coming out and a big improvement in my eyes.

 

[Fabman]

Still building for ultimate reliability, full aluminium radiator with triple pass internal arrangement. Just had it modified for 2 npt ports for entering and leaving temperature. Tired of fords suspect, let's guestimate, guages. It's been modified enough that I want the real data. Now if my sensors would arrive I could fit this sucker and the corresponding oil temp and pressure for the oil cooler I'd be happy. One step at a time. Just spent some time porting the radiator inlet and outlet. Not a statement I'd expect to make but wasn't happy with the way they had done the fittings, way too much excess material blocking flow. Quick grind job with the vacuum blowing through the radiator to keep all the crap coming out and a big improvement in my eyes.View attachment 103063View attachment 103064View attachment 103065

I’m not seeing the deflectors in the tanks that make this into a 3 pass radiator?

Do you mean 3 pass or 3 row?
A 3 row has 3 rows of tubes and fins and is often mis advertised as 3 pass.

A true 3 pass radiator has deflectors welded into the tanks that change the direction of flow 3 times so the water makes “3 passes” through the radiator.

 

[Fabman]

Maybe I am missing something here….

 

[GAR944]

Oh, I know the difference, there is a guy on here called Fabman who has kept me educated. It hard to see but I have stuck my fingers in there and it's blocked. Just not visible externally. I'd hope these guys know how to build a 3 pass radiator.

 

[Fabman]

View attachment 103071Oh, I know the difference, there is a guy on here called Fabman who has kept me educated. It hard to see but I have stuck my fingers in there and it's blocked. Just not visible externally. I'd hope these guys know how to build a 3 pass radiator.

Don’t believe that guy and if you see him, tell him he owes me money!

 

[bnight]

Just FYI my oil issues were from missing driver side catch can ordered the GT350 one (only option available) my Air filter was full of oil. Have that in mind when building the car. That radiator looks bad ass.

 

[GAR944]

Not exactly car related but a nice light weight single part mount for the Aim Solo DL. Quick bit of CAD, test print, small revision and then send out for proper printing.

 

[GAR944]

Its a good Friday.
Have to thank a new contact @Mikael.RevRunners from REVRUNNERS.com.au here in Australia for getting me this at a great price.
He is a fellow Mustang enthusiast and may show up here for some encouragement as to the crazy things you guys are doing.
You guys are responsible for him getting 3 orders so far.

 

[Fabman]

Its a good Friday.
Have to thank a new contact @Mikael.RevRunners from REVRUNNERS.com.au here in Australia for getting me this at a great price.
He is a fellow Mustang enthusiast and may show up here for some encouragement as to the crazy things you guys are doing.
You guys are responsible for him getting 3 orders so far.

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That’s the one!

 

[GAR944]

Ok, its a really good Friday.
@Fabman this one is on you. Didn't realise it was a full kit so have spare guides coming as well.
@Mikael.RevRunners i think this was a 3 day turn around from the states, pretty bloody good in my opinion. Ordered Tuesday morning and on my desk Friday after lunch.

 

[Mikael.RevRunners]

Its a good Friday.
Have to thank a new contact @Mikael.RevRunners from REVRUNNERS.com.au here in Australia for getting me this at a great price.
He is a fellow Mustang enthusiast and may show up here for some encouragement as to the crazy things you guys are doing.
You guys are responsible for him getting 3 orders so far.

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Ok, its a really good Friday.
@Fabman this one is on you. Didn't realise it was a full kit so have spare guides coming as well.
@Mikael.RevRunners i think this was a 3 day turn around from the states, pretty bloody good in my opinion. Ordered Tuesday morning and on my desk Friday after lunch.

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My pleasure mate! Glad it got to you so quick.

I am personally a mod junkie so I am as likely to talk myself into mods as any of you here.

Happy to help anyone out.

P.S I am now obsessing over the Recaro Sportsters

 

[Fabman]

Ok, its a really good Friday.
@Fabman this one is on you. Didn't realise it was a full kit so have spare guides coming as well.
@Mikael.RevRunners i think this was a 3 day turn around from the states, pretty bloody good in my opinion. Ordered Tuesday morning and on my desk Friday after lunch.

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Wasn’t me.

 

[GAR944]

While the manifold project is stalled waiting for parts to arrive, i got back to the other project that had stalled cause i'm still waiting for a sensor 10 weeks later.
For those following along, had shocking temperatures for oil after doing a lot of work to prevent that. Decided that it didn't believe the Ford gauges so wanted real data.
Time to do some logging. Now what to use. Started looking at the internet and wasn't really happy with the cheap stuff as it was going to be more trouble that it was worth dealing with the data.
Then i remembered i had a Haltech dash sitting in its box because the Mustang got in the way by going down a rabbit hole of just a little bit more. Did some research and realised it could be used for more than the 4 analogue inputs they show by default.
So decision time, what to log.
Ended up with

• Engine oil leaving block temperature
• Actual real oil pressure at the same spot, still waiting for that bloody combined sensor.
• Return oil temperature from the front mount cooler. Is the work i did ducting it actually working after the crap temps i got last event.
• Gearbox temperature leaving going to the cooler.
• Differential temperature leaving going to cooler
• New radiator got modified for sensor so it has entering temp
• And leaving temperature
• Given all this data was stand alone, had an air temp sensor sitting available so that got added to give me a reference frame.

This car has spent more time in the air than i would prefer, i think i actually enjoy this, frustrated fabricator at heart.

Thankfully most of the sensors are on one side and found a grommet through the firewall behind the wheel arch liner.

Now just have to get some power to the display. Relatively easy since i ran a decent power feed to the boot, "trunk" for the confused people, so just run under the rear seat delete with a new fused supply.

Next dilemma is do i mount it so it visible when driving, would be nice as i can set alarms with visual warnings, or just bury it in the glove box and suck the data out afterwards.
Of course its getting a mount, i'm stupid and can spend a considerable amount of time coming up with something fancy.

Word to the people like me, double check what wires you need for the sensors BEFORE you close up the harness. My infamous combined Temp & Pressure sensor was out of sight so out of mind. Forgot the 5v supply and trimmed all the excess cores back inside the wheel arch. Couldn't bare the thought of cable tying a single cable to the outside of the loom so cut it open again and redid it to have an extra core. Stupid.

 

[biggsy]

I would try to keep it in view if possible. Good temps to have an eye on while on track. I don’t know how big your logger is but I plan on going with an AIM MXM and mounting it on the steering column. Then installing a button to allow scrolling between pages.

If not there then you could leverage something similar to the Course Motorsport Mustang mount location. Here is me using it with my phone then a tablet. I swapped out the ball it came with to a bigger RAM mount size B so I could then use the x grip series from RAM with the respective device. Worked perfectly.