What did you do to your foxbody mustang today?
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Had a spare quarterhorse and my son has too much time on his hands. And turn off EGR and thermactor with QH. It ran good before, fueling was ok. Cold start and idle is better now. It is still the stock computer. The datalog capability of a QH is pretty cool
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Looks great. Ford got it right with the 5.0 HO. Great performance, reliability and one of the best looking and sounding engines. No plastic shrouds to hide things.
I'll be adding a Ford motorcraft battery tomorrow. This one is on its way out.
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Yup went to Ford today. I'll have one by tomorrow.
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All I can say is, check the date on the battery before you accept. Ford tried to give me a BXT58 battery that was brand new, yet old enough stock that it was already out of warranty before I would have even walked out the door with it.
Honestly I've always been a big Motorcraft battery guy, but after this current one, I'm moving on. This new one doesn't charge past 12.2v
The one that I'm replacing is a Duralast? Volts check out at 12.90, the cranking or whatever it is only reads 270's...
The date on this one is 5/15.
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I'm saying check the date on the Motorcraft.
The date on the one they tried to give me (as new) was 12/17.
The date on the one they tried to give me (as new) was 12/17.
@Bdubbs 98svt is correct, that’s not a high volume battery. When I got mine two or three years ago for the 1992 my local Ford dealer had one in stock. I went to get it and the parts guy was very nice and said I don’t wanna sell you this it’s a year and a half old. Would you be willing to come back tomorrow and I can get one newer and that’s what i did. They one they had in stock had been sitting on the shelf that long.
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Thanks for the heads up. The date is 9/21 on this one. I also changed out the battery cables. I'll be keeping all the oem stock parts that I take off.
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Nice fresh battery! You're doing it all right, Brady. As always.
Looks great! I'm getting ready to start this process on mine soon. Going to pull the rear to have 3:73's installed, new seals/brakes and upper and lower control arms/bushings. While the rear is out i'm going to get everything cleaned up and painted.
My son changed the oil in his 89 this morning and they didn’t have a motorcraft filter. He put in a STP filter and as soon as started it the oil pressure pegged, dropped, pegged. He took other car to town and found a motorcraft filter and was fixed instantly. Now he knows why I told him to only run motorcraft!
Wow! I remember WAY back in the day STP filters were pretty good. Apparently, that is not the case today. So stick to Motorcraft. There are, of course, other excellent filter choices but Motorcraft is an obvious "best" choice.My son changed the oil in his 89 this morning and they didn’t have a motorcraft filter. He put in a STP filter and as soon as started it the oil pressure pegged, dropped, pegged. He took other car to town and found a motorcraft filter and was fixed instantly. Now he knows why I told him to only run motorcraft!
Do you have a rear set to match? Those look a bit different from the ones in the car now. At least comparing them to this photo. Maybe it's just the photo that makes those new seats look different. ??
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