At a point later on, I rewired and installed the relays behind the PS headlamp bucket....cleaning up the Underwood wiring.

7am Car Show with expected 400 cars?  Pass..

All these FOD stories make me cringe.  Spent my career in Aerospace Quality....

Yeah, Mustang Owners Club of Austin.  I haven’t been to one of their shows since about 2007, but it was pretty good.  At that time the 05 body style was making a big impact so several late models.  Also this club at this time had several Shelby guys.  Yellow Rose types.

Need someone local to weigh in that knows.  It was fun 15 years ago.

It would be fun to find a good size car event and ‘crash’ it...

Well guys, after 22 years of owning this fastback, I've sold her.  For the last 10 or so years, I hadn't put 1000 miles on her and quite frankly at this age I don't enjoy manual steering, manual brakes and no AC.  Yes, I could have modified her to add all those things, but I just didn't see the ROI of sinking 10K or so into her.  So, off she went.  If anyone's interested, PC Investments in Sherman bought her and now has her for sale.



That being said, I didn't leave Fords altogether.  I wanted something with low/no maintenance, AC, PS, and a little curb appeal.  

Say hello to my lil' Mule.  1993 Gen 1 Lightning with 16,500 miles.  

You're exactly right.  I spec'd a 4/12 pitch for this very reason
 

TKOPerformance wrote:

I will say this about locating the air intake, if the filter is in the engine bay an unprotected open element filter is a bad idea.  The 5.0s used an airbox for a reason.  The filter can pick up eddy currents in the air generated by the engine fan.  This tricks the MAF into thinking the air entering the engine is fluctuating, and can lead to an unstable idle.  This took me several years to figure out.  We used to just think that the unstable idle was due to the car being modified.  Then we shielded the first air filter and the idle immediately improved and we all felt like dumb@$$es.  On a 5.0 I would always run a fenderwell CAI.  I'm using an Anderson one of my '89 GT.  

 
I had a very similar experience.  Thought I’d build me a cold air box and draw air through a small grill I’d cut in the core support.  Turns out this forced air played havoc with my MAF and the engine would sputter and backfire after I’d get going fast enough to get some air pressure going.  I ended up blocking off about 95% of the air entering through the grill.


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I soldered all my splices/connectors and all I can tell you is that I've yet to have a failure due to the soldered connection after 15 years since doing the mod.
 

Hey Deb, 
I'm over here in Greenville if you ever want to take a look at a swap and poke around on it.
JamesW

www.midnightdsigns.com/james
 

Lemme see. What else I can find

Bought my 65 in ‘99 so probably 2000 when i was doing the Granada swap.  Then came the T5 cable clutch period....then came the EFI period....