I am going to pick up the Mark tomorrow afternoon
I stopped by the shop today, and Aric had the Mark completely detailed inside and out including a Zaino treatment for me
I truely appreciate that.
He is installing all new battery cables from a Mustang GT, since Ford no longer has a battery cable harness available for the Mark VIII.
He had Joey Bell weld the Vortech mini race blow off valve directly before the intake of the intercooler(drivers side of the IC) - venting to atmosphere. He also kept the bypass valve installed in it's original location. Ryan is going to send me a picture of the blow off valve installed.
He has the transmission shifting done, and we were going to take it for a ride until it started raining. A couple things he noted were...
The TC would unlock when the A/C would cycle on (or the other way around - I can't remember all he said). This is a Lincoln thing to not disturb the passengers with the engine load change. He fixed that.
The other is a little more complicated. He said this car will just flat out totally roast the stock tires now, all through first and second gear by just stabbing the gas.
The problem is while in second gear, the computer is reading 85mph and is commanding third gear, when in reality, it might be going half that speed. When the wheel spin finally stops and it hooks in third gear, the transmission is then commanded to drop back down to second.
The brakes, rims, and tires are on order, and the rears are 10 1/2" wide rims and the tire size is now going to be 305/35/18. Bad news is, it is looking like August time frame before everything comes in.
Serge, I will need to get another set of MT DR's when the brakes are done on some 18" rims I think. The set I have now ar 16", and will not fit with the big brakes.