The Mark Being Featured in a Magazine

[mlschultz]

Update - I dropped the Mark off at Aric's shop last Friday. He is going to take the motor out, and send some parts to be powder coated, and transfer other stuff from the old motor to the new motor.

Will Smith is going to come back to Aric's to shoot photo's of the completed engine, then, come back again and shoot the feature photo's of the car when it is ready to go on the dyno.

I understand that the plan is to feature the Mark in a special edition of Super Rod magazine, that will focus on late model cars.

While the engine is out of the car, the engine bay is going to be cleaned up and made nice and purdy for the new motor. And, Aric has a couple sets of Mustang rims with slicks that are going to be test fitted on the back of the Mark, to get an idea of how wide of a slick tire can be fitted in the wheel well.

I am going to try and get a set of off the shelf Mustang drag rims if I can. If not, Ryan has a vendor that will custom make some drag rims.

The goal here, is to shoot for everything to be done and dialed in by the rescheduled Atlanta Fun Ford Weekend event, on June 13, 14, 15.

[driller]

Good luck!

[Sierra3]

Sorry this is a little late, i just recently started getting back and reading alot of the posts. I agree with Lonnie. Its time to put Fort Knox into lockdown before the photo shoot!
We have a star from the board in the mags now! Ill be picking up a copy of MMFF for me too. I'm just waitingg on AN -08 and -10 fittings for mine before i put fluids back in her.
Then its time to get sticky and play with the fiberglass for the front scoop and hole i cut off the front of my nose on car.
I'll be looking at my favorite news stand.

[Roadboss]

Way to go Mike ! Those dates are coming up sooooon so keep on um. Looking forward to your results and the mag article.

[mlschultz]

Thanks, Guys

Glad to here you are making progress, Jeff. Are you making any plans to race your Mark this November at SSHS yet?

lol Charlie, That clock is ticking louder every day. I have no doubt that Aric can get it done if his other customers would just leave him alone for a couple days.

Aric is backed up bigtime with dyno tuning those hemi mopars. He figured out this new tuning software for mopars, and the word is out that he can get some real good results on the dyno. He even has Landmark Dodge - a car dealership here in GA, sending him all their modified brand new hemi cars for tuning.

I know Tyler can have an engine on the ground out of a Mustang GT in less than two hours. So, hopefully, there is still enough time to get it done. The things I see slowing this down are the powder coating, modifying the IC tubes, and these impatient mopar owners...

[mlschultz]

Ryan called me today, and said the motor is out of the Mark! Waiting for the cam covers to return from powder coating, and then transfer the accessory parts over to the new motor.

Will is going to come back and take a couple more photos of the complete engine assembly, and then come back again when the Mark goes to the rollers for the dyno session, and the final photo shoot of the car.

All this is going to take place before Fun Ford Weekend at Atlanta Dragway - June 14th. I will try and get over to the shop tomorrow to take some pictures.

[mlschultz]

Oh the carnage... lol Take a look at all my junk scattered all over the place.

Some stuff is going to be pulled off the old motor - like the front cover, and get a chemical bath to make it look like new again.

Ryan has to go over and pick up the powder coated cam covers (used a pair of Aric's covers that I am trading him for}, and he is calling the Bradshaw Bros. and PI to see if they can either ship me a triple disc in a week and a half, or at least tell me if there is any chance the single disc in it now will survive at the track with the new motor.

Crunch time... Ryan found a extra set of 16" steel rims and MT slick's off my friend Steve's Marauder that bolted right up to the Mark. Just need to get one inner tube replaced, and see what Steve will sell them to me for. I have not seen them, but Ryan said they have a spare tire look to them - just much wider than my 255's I had on the stock rims. Here is a link to some more photos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/papapeac...76708149637698

[mlschultz]

Update - A lot has happened since lunch time today. The old motor is now torn down, and there is no obviously hurt pistons or valves found.

Aric is going to totally tear down the to the bare heads and block to see why there was compression loss in number 7 cylinder - not that it matters to me, but he wants to do it anyway.

He was able to get a hold of Vickie at PI this afternoon, and she is going to ship me a new 3600 stall triple disc torque converter, while Aric boxed up my PI 3600 single disc TC and shipped it back to her today. Hope to see the new triple disc here next week!

And, since the car is already taking up the lift, he is going to take out the Focus fuel pump and replace it with a Ford GT fuel pump to get that out of the way. I posted more pictures of the old motor in my prior post link, along with a picture of the Marauder slick that I am going to use at Fun Ford.

108k miles on the old motor in the pictures below. Mobil 1 oil since I purchased the car with 50k miles, and Royal Purple since supercharged at around 100k miles.

[driller]

That PI triple disc should do you well.

[95blklsc]

Any details on the gt fuel pump? I still need to do something about my pump and basket. Without holes drilled it empties the basket and with holes it will loose fuel with much less than an 1/3 of a tank and a hard corner or acceleration.