2003 Mustang owners I need some transmission removal advice

[JohnC]

Are you going to Bowling Green Kentucky this week for the NMRA and all the Mustangs on display and the races ?

Doubt I'll make it this year. I have always loved NMRA, especially the finals at beech Bend! :up:

The class I'd love to see in action is the Coyote stock class. Love seeing those stock coyote engines launched on the rev limiter, pulling the wheels and running 10's!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LV1mN1dZnE

[JohnC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gelrrvYKoGo

[tercel89]

They will have a segment for the Ecoboost 2.3 liter mustangs to run and show out . I'm really anxious to watch that . I am an old SVO fan from back in the Fox days , the original 2.3 liter along with her two  sisters the Merkur XR4TI and the Turbocoupe. One day I'll get me an SVO .

Edited October 2, 2015 by tercel89

[tercel89]

I have owned a XR4Ti and two turbo coupes. I have also helped a few other people get their 2.3's setup. All of mine were really fun once you upped the boost a bit. My last build, and 86 Turbo Coupe with 5 speed, would have been somewhere in the 400rwhp when done but my accident forced its sale after I realized I cannot drive any more.

 

There is a Mitsubishi box truck that has an aluminum intercooler that literally bolts into any fox body car. I bought it in a junk yard for $25. It has a 3" inlet and outlet and is as big as a fox body radiator and about 2x as thick. The inlet and outlet pop right through the holes in the radiator support on either side of the radiator. You can drop intake temps by close to 100 degrees using it which means you can really bump the boost substantially. That intercooler and a fresh tune up gets you over 250 HP without doing anything else. Put in some brown tops, new fuel pump, gut the upper intake and knife edge the lower and you will get some more rpms and about another 25-50 HP. Throw in a Ranger roller cam, tweak the timing some and a free flowing exhaust will probably get you another 50-75 HP. Beyond that you need to either reprogram your ECU or go to an aftermarket setup like the Mega Squirt system as well as upgrade the injectors and fuel pump.

 

I would run boost in the 20 PSI range, up from 10-12, and it really woke the little motor up. I knew a guy who installed a fuel pump that pumped alcohol out of the windshield washer reservoir to the intake. It had a mister in the upper intake that would cool the charge down even more. It would kick on and off based on boost levels in the intake. He said it reduced the knocking when you get into the higher boost levels. I have also known people to use a fuel injector that would. He did say you could feel the car get sluggish as the engine warmed up without it.

 

Those little 2.3's are amazingly bullet proof. I had a friend who had a 87 T-bird who installed a boost controller on an otherwise stock engine. It finally lifted the head when he turned it up to 30 PSI and made a full RPM run. It had lived for years at 20 psi without any mods at all.

 

One thing I ALWAYS wanted to do is buy a Factory 5 Cobra kit and install a warmed over 2.3T. It would be light enough to really handle well and still make enough power to make it fun.

 

 Sir I could talk to you for hours on the XR4TI , the SVO and the Turbo Coupe and never get bored. That information you listed above is awesome :up: