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so in the last 72 hours, this is what has happened....
driving my kid home from daycare, we hit a deer in the wifes SUV, car is toast.
Head of deer and a mailbox I hit when I tried to swerve out of the way, impacted the windshield, and glass went in my mouth. Spit most of it out
So now we are down to only my truck and the saleen....
1 day later, I wake up choking up blood, blood all over our bed sheets. I have glass stuck in my throat. I get in the saleen and haul ass to the hospital. I live in a very rural place, so nearest hospital is 45 minutes away. I am about half way to the hospital and bam!!! the ****ing goddamn piece of shit intake manifold cracks. antifreeze everywhere! I pull over on the side of the road.
luckily my mom is retired and she comes and gets me to take me to the hospital, my wife shows up and waits with the saleen so no one steals it, until the tow truck comes.
ER puts me into an emergent endoscopy to remove the rest of the glass...
Now I order a new intake.....the dorman POS one.
I started tearing down the car today to get to the intake and boy..... what a piece of shit job this is. Ford did an awful job engineering it. I can get my Tundras intake off in 30 minutes. This POS intake is going to take me a few hours.
as i start the tear down....I notice this in every spark plug hole....its ****in filled with antifreeze.
I checked the oil and its perfect. No milkyness or anything. Then I take off the spark plug and notice that the original saleen wires are corroded and its so bad, its like pebbles inside the connections. how was this car even running???
so heres my dilemma...since I am rebuilid the cobra motor (as seen on this thread here: 4.6 4v Teardown & Build Thread)
should I just start the swap now? or....is the car savable? I really need two cars right now and the repair shop cant even schedule us for an "inspection" unit october 25. From there is another 2-3 months before the can fix the car.
For anyone that has done this? is the 2v to 4v swap pretty straightforward? does almost everything bolt up without issue? if so, ill just rip out the damn motor now and try my hardest to have it fixed asap. if not, ill just put the intake on this weekend and call it a day until the 4V motor is finished.
All i can say is FML.
so in the last 72 hours, this is what has happened....
driving my kid home from daycare, we hit a deer in the wifes SUV, car is toast.
Head of deer and a mailbox I hit when I tried to swerve out of the way, impacted the windshield, and glass went in my mouth. Spit most of it out
So now we are down to only my truck and the saleen....
1 day later, I wake up choking up blood, blood all over our bed sheets. I have glass stuck in my throat. I get in the saleen and haul ass to the hospital. I live in a very rural place, so nearest hospital is 45 minutes away. I am about half way to the hospital and bam!!! the ****ing goddamn piece of shit intake manifold cracks. antifreeze everywhere! I pull over on the side of the road.
luckily my mom is retired and she comes and gets me to take me to the hospital, my wife shows up and waits with the saleen so no one steals it, until the tow truck comes.
ER puts me into an emergent endoscopy to remove the rest of the glass...
Now I order a new intake.....the dorman POS one.
I started tearing down the car today to get to the intake and boy..... what a piece of shit job this is. Ford did an awful job engineering it. I can get my Tundras intake off in 30 minutes. This POS intake is going to take me a few hours.
as i start the tear down....I notice this in every spark plug hole....its ****in filled with antifreeze.
I checked the oil and its perfect. No milkyness or anything. Then I take off the spark plug and notice that the original saleen wires are corroded and its so bad, its like pebbles inside the connections. how was this car even running???
so heres my dilemma...since I am rebuilid the cobra motor (as seen on this thread here: 4.6 4v Teardown & Build Thread)
should I just start the swap now? or....is the car savable? I really need two cars right now and the repair shop cant even schedule us for an "inspection" unit october 25. From there is another 2-3 months before the can fix the car.
For anyone that has done this? is the 2v to 4v swap pretty straightforward? does almost everything bolt up without issue? if so, ill just rip out the damn motor now and try my hardest to have it fixed asap. if not, ill just put the intake on this weekend and call it a day until the 4V motor is finished.
All i can say is FML.