FordNut
04-04-2006, 06:24 PM
About 3 weeks ago (March 17th) two wrist pins fell out of my engine. Today, I started it up again.
The first down week, I removed all the accessories so the engine was ready to swap.
The next weekend, a couple of buddies helped me swap engines. I was fortunate to have a spare. I had purchased Tom Doan's (thanks!) 13000 mile Marauder engine when he decided to go with the Cobra engine. I had planned a buildup for that engine but since it was still complete a quick swap was in order.
The following week, most accessories were re-attached but there were a few revisions I wanted to make and since I had working room with all the front end accessories removed I made some minor changes.
Skipped a weekend of quality car time for school, then finished up getting everything hooked up the first two days of this week. It's on open headers right now, the cats are out for ceramic coating. The only non-stainless pipes in my exhaust system are the short pieces (about 6" each) connected to the cats and they were getting some surface rust so I'm getting that taken care of.
Car ran a little rough at first but smoothed out as it warmed up, not really surprising since the engine has been sitting so long. Great to have it running again, looking forward to driving it. Probably won't get to run it at FFW this weekend because I want to hit the dyno for AFR check before I hit the track.
The first down week, I removed all the accessories so the engine was ready to swap.
The next weekend, a couple of buddies helped me swap engines. I was fortunate to have a spare. I had purchased Tom Doan's (thanks!) 13000 mile Marauder engine when he decided to go with the Cobra engine. I had planned a buildup for that engine but since it was still complete a quick swap was in order.
The following week, most accessories were re-attached but there were a few revisions I wanted to make and since I had working room with all the front end accessories removed I made some minor changes.
Skipped a weekend of quality car time for school, then finished up getting everything hooked up the first two days of this week. It's on open headers right now, the cats are out for ceramic coating. The only non-stainless pipes in my exhaust system are the short pieces (about 6" each) connected to the cats and they were getting some surface rust so I'm getting that taken care of.
Car ran a little rough at first but smoothed out as it warmed up, not really surprising since the engine has been sitting so long. Great to have it running again, looking forward to driving it. Probably won't get to run it at FFW this weekend because I want to hit the dyno for AFR check before I hit the track.