I'm sure some of you have seen some of my posts about this in the past, but felt like I'd share this story all in one spot, just because I'm mainly relieved it's all over I hope after quite a bunch of hiccups on what's supposed to be a fairly simple swap. Had everything from mechanics in one shop leave, their service adviser doing work who messed something up, shops blaming each other, blaming a 15 year old car, a credit card dispute I later dropped and everything in between when all I wanted was my car fixed and running right.
Back in the beginning of June, the car went into a very reputable Mustang shop for a TVS swap they "do with their hands tied behind their back" and it would be done in a week or two tops. Well no big deal but about a month later I go to get it and it hesitates bad between shifts and come to find out they forgot to delete the PPRV. Back to the shop, tank comes back out and a couple more weeks go by.
Go back to get it this time, 10 miles down the road the CEL comes on. Take it back to the shop and he goes out and data logs it. Says he's never seen this before, but clears the code and the car ran great. Made it all the way to about 10 miles from my house. Stopped to grab some beers, came back out and the car wouldn't start. No fuel getting to the motor. Towed home (one of the worst days i'd had in quite some time). Then the car sat for a month and finally the shop sent someone to come take it back to their shop (90 miles away).
Tank dropped again, line came off in the tank. I get the car back the next day believe it or not, but noticed it was leaking fuel when it was running. Sat in my garage for another 2 weeks before I could get it to a local mechanic who had to again drop the tank and diagnosed it as a grommet at the top of the tank was left out. They fixed that and all good for about 5-10 drives.
Then the car started stuttering real bad that would come and go and mainly only did it when cold. After a few times of it driving good I ran into an old big block nitrous camaro who wanted to do some mexican runs so we did that twice (lost from a dig and won from a roll) but right after that it had a bad misfire. I was thinking well I probably just smoked a piston. Had no noises but I was worried about it. Took another 2 or 3 weeks before they could get me back in the local shop and in the meantime I bought billet pulley idlers and a new belt along with a wideband and aeroforce interceptor.
The misfire was a cracked brand new spark plug (lucked out on that being so simple) so that was all good but now I had belt slip b/c the belt was too long after the new idlers were installed and new belt (I mis-estimated the length).
Went to get in the car a couple days later, and the battery was so dead that the car wouldn't even unlock with the fob. Battery and Alt were brand new. I took the battery to Autozone and they checked and charged it and all said it's good. I then realized the wiring for the Aeroforce and wideband must have been done wrong and it's drawing power when the car is shut off so I unplugged it.
Finally, installed a new shorter belt, put the battery back in, car fired right up, drove around until it was warmed up good and punched it in 2nd and in the 80 deg low humidity the car smoked the 555r's in 2nd gear with full boost and put a BIG smile on my face. So after all that, starting in the beginning of June, now 4 months later I'm finally back on the road and all good (still have to get the Aeroforce wiring fixed but can live with just unplugging it for now). That's all, thanks for reading. Here she is in all her glory in the Best Buy parking lot where I got my new iPhone 7 plus which feels so good to be back but that's something for another thread
Back in the beginning of June, the car went into a very reputable Mustang shop for a TVS swap they "do with their hands tied behind their back" and it would be done in a week or two tops. Well no big deal but about a month later I go to get it and it hesitates bad between shifts and come to find out they forgot to delete the PPRV. Back to the shop, tank comes back out and a couple more weeks go by.
Go back to get it this time, 10 miles down the road the CEL comes on. Take it back to the shop and he goes out and data logs it. Says he's never seen this before, but clears the code and the car ran great. Made it all the way to about 10 miles from my house. Stopped to grab some beers, came back out and the car wouldn't start. No fuel getting to the motor. Towed home (one of the worst days i'd had in quite some time). Then the car sat for a month and finally the shop sent someone to come take it back to their shop (90 miles away).
Tank dropped again, line came off in the tank. I get the car back the next day believe it or not, but noticed it was leaking fuel when it was running. Sat in my garage for another 2 weeks before I could get it to a local mechanic who had to again drop the tank and diagnosed it as a grommet at the top of the tank was left out. They fixed that and all good for about 5-10 drives.
Then the car started stuttering real bad that would come and go and mainly only did it when cold. After a few times of it driving good I ran into an old big block nitrous camaro who wanted to do some mexican runs so we did that twice (lost from a dig and won from a roll) but right after that it had a bad misfire. I was thinking well I probably just smoked a piston. Had no noises but I was worried about it. Took another 2 or 3 weeks before they could get me back in the local shop and in the meantime I bought billet pulley idlers and a new belt along with a wideband and aeroforce interceptor.
The misfire was a cracked brand new spark plug (lucked out on that being so simple) so that was all good but now I had belt slip b/c the belt was too long after the new idlers were installed and new belt (I mis-estimated the length).
Went to get in the car a couple days later, and the battery was so dead that the car wouldn't even unlock with the fob. Battery and Alt were brand new. I took the battery to Autozone and they checked and charged it and all said it's good. I then realized the wiring for the Aeroforce and wideband must have been done wrong and it's drawing power when the car is shut off so I unplugged it.
Finally, installed a new shorter belt, put the battery back in, car fired right up, drove around until it was warmed up good and punched it in 2nd and in the 80 deg low humidity the car smoked the 555r's in 2nd gear with full boost and put a BIG smile on my face. So after all that, starting in the beginning of June, now 4 months later I'm finally back on the road and all good (still have to get the Aeroforce wiring fixed but can live with just unplugging it for now). That's all, thanks for reading. Here she is in all her glory in the Best Buy parking lot where I got my new iPhone 7 plus which feels so good to be back but that's something for another thread
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