Foxy Green Foxbody Build

Fuel cell update. $350 plus freight for complete custom build. Wayne at RCI seems like a good dude. 2 day build time is pretty awesome. Will update when it arrives
 
Dual fans are all wired up now. Quick touch of the wires to a battery and these fans are fuckin HUMMING. Derale claims 4000cfm and it sure seems like it.

I ran separate grounds to each, hopefully helping eliminate any grounding issues.

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I made a new headlight harness using the old factory connector. Ran out through the firewall and tucked the wires up behind the fender and hiding behind the radiator support. Trying to hide as many wires as i can.

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Also, the cowl gauge concepts wiper cowl (for 3 gauges) is a pile of shit. As long as you're capable of fucking with it to make it work you'll be fine.

  1. Gauges don't fit, the holes need to be opened up almost 1/16" to get the gauges in.
  2. The hood won't open and clear the edges with my 3in cowl hood.
  3. The fit and finish aren't great.
I solved problem 2 with jb weld plastic bonder. I filled in the underside, and sanded it down from the top side until it cleared.

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And i also discovered cylinder 1 had no compression. Intake valve was not lashed properly causing it to stay open at tdc.

Though im not sure if it's actually TDC because the dumbass builder put the timing marker directly under the neck of the waterpump.

Based on this, I'm going to set the lash on all of the cylinders next week and figure out how to fabricate a new pointer elsewhere
 
Buy a 5" cowl from Fiberboy, that will solve your clearance issues..... LOL
Talk to Chris Mitchell, he's over on YB, not sure if he's over here. He works with Allen at Fiberboy Fiberglass.
 
89 Fox 351 said:
And i also discovered cylinder 1 had no compression. Intake valve was not lashed properly causing it to stay open at tdc.

Though im not sure if it's actually TDC because the dumbass builder put the timing marker directly under the neck of the waterpump.

Based on this, I'm going to set the lash on all of the cylinders next week and figure out how to fabricate a new pointer elsewhere
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Are you 200% certain that the pushrods are properly seated in position?
 
89 Fox 351 said:
I made a new headlight harness using the old factory connector. Ran out through the firewall and tucked the wires up behind the fender and hiding behind the radiator support. Trying to hide as many wires as i can.
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Where are you getting the wire from? I need to do a tail light harness for my car.
I see some on epay, 16 gauge and a bunch of different colors but I am worried about it being cheap chyna crap.
 
Lowrider said:
Where are you getting the wire from? I need to do a tail light harness for my car.
I see some on epay, 16 gauge and a bunch of different colors but I am worried about it being cheap chyna crap.
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Ron Francis. However, I'll have several lengths of labeled wires leftover, i was going to put them in the free section, I'll keep you posted. Should be less than 2 weeks I'll know what i have and how long
 
RacinDuallie said:
Are you 200% certain that the pushrods are properly seated in position?
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Yes and no. They all pushed oil out of the rockers when i primed it. However, they look goofy on the valve tips so i need to do the ol marker trick and see wtf. The pushrod guides might be wrong. You'd think one of the 3 engine builders would have looked at that.
 
...Manny, Moe, and Jack?
 
Did you mention it was a Ford motor (engine)? You would think the would have suspected something due to distributer placement. :shrug:
 
Thanks for sharing your trials and tribulations, especially the problems. Shows I’m not the only one having problems!

Cheers 🍻
 
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