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When I worked at Ford my manager would always make comments on my lack of brand loyalty because I’d drive a big smelly diesel Ram to work. He suggested I buy a ford product. So I asked for a Mondeo wagon, but apparently we aren’t allowed them in the US. So I asked for a stick shift truck, it too turns out we can’t have them in the US.

There was an impasse.

Then I found this:
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For some unknown reason my manager wasn’t pleased with my choice :D
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Then, naturally, I took the engine out of it and didn’t work on it for 2 years..... grrr.
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Old one. Picture doesn’t really do it justice. It leaked so bad I was adding a quart a week almost. And it fouled no8 plug about every 300 miles.
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New one. Mmmm shiny. Mustang GT specs, only I didn’t want to mess with firing order for the HO. So I have a custom grind cam for the 1-5 firing order. Should be roughly 300hp, give or take.
Oddly enough I’m keeping it 50 state legal.
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Cool project James!

Interesting you're able to change the firing order.
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Trigger_Andy wrote: Tue Jul 28, 20 2:22 pm Interesting you're able to change the firing order.
It’s not that I changed it. Ford did it themselves. There were 2 firing orders on the Windsor engine. In this period the HO engines ran on 1-3 and the truck and full sized car engines ran on 1-5.

In this case I was bolting HO bits into a full sized car. But I wanted no part in re wiring a 30 year old loom to put the injectors in the right place etc. so whilst I was buying a cam I just asked them to grind it on the non-HO order. Didn’t actually cost much more money.
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That workshop is something else, if it makes that car look small inside there!
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Bratfink wrote: Tue Jul 28, 20 5:58 pm
Trigger_Andy wrote: Tue Jul 28, 20 2:22 pm Interesting you're able to change the firing order.
It’s not that I changed it. Ford did it themselves. There were 2 firing orders on the Windsor engine. In this period the HO engines ran on 1-3 and the truck and full sized car engines ran on 1-5.

In this case I was bolting HO bits into a full sized car. But I wanted no part in re wiring a 30 year old loom to put the injectors in the right place etc. so whilst I was buying a cam I just asked them to grind it on the non-HO order. Didn’t actually cost much more money.
What was the reasoning behind the two different firing orders?
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Trigger_Andy wrote: Wed Jul 29, 20 3:04 pm What was the reasoning behind the two different firing orders?
1 & 5 are on the same journal. I asked some old timers when I was at Ford about that. Apparently it was an attempt to spread the input forces between the journals on consecutive firings.

I guess we’re about to find out if it was needed or not :(
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MattH wrote: Wed Jul 29, 20 10:34 am That workshop is something else, if it makes that car look small inside there!
I didn’t want to say anything, but that isn’t the workshop. That’s my regular garage :oops: it fits 6 cars. Has heating and insulation, but some other larger structural issues I need to correct when I get the workshop done.
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