I think I’ll leave the “V’s” to you and Bill and the rest of the adventurous souls out there in TDr land

— My “other” TDr Emma is a BCW kit that the PO juiced up by replacing the 1600cc single port engine with a 2332cc monster ( which I found out too late was set up for mud racing — could pull stumps but not so great on the highway).

Emma…[Read more]

Congrats on getting back on the road.

New springs solved steering issue.  New high torque starter solved intermittent starting issue.  New fuel pump solved rough running issue.  Almost had a disaster when top radiator hose came loose on test run.  Bought bottled water at convenience store and everything OK.  Now ready for a test run on Interstate.  Probably have wife follow in her car.

Nice to see that you have the car on the road.  Once you get the kinks worked out, I would be glad to help you with a V6 and 5 speed conversion.

Glad the new car’s running good for you, Jack.

…and I thought I was being risky in running the RPMs up to 3500 — but this is an unknown engine that has about 30 miles put on it by me — prior to that it was sitting for a year in the PO’s shed and prior to that, it was in a 1988 Mustang prior to being swapped out for a 5.0L V8….

The PO pulled the throttle body injection off and installed…[Read more]

It was fine at 3-4 grand. Flog it at 6. It was the sustained 7 that did it in.

Keep in mind it was cammed and ran a 4 barrel carb. The cam came on at about 2,500.

I’ll let Bill answer but pretty sure he usually shifted at 8,000 rpm whether it needed it or not.

Thanks Bill —

A quick question:  think back to when you had that SMALL, OLD, FORD 2.3L engine in your car — what was the red line RPM?  What RPM did you typically shift/run the car?

I’ve been a VW-kit person and don’t know “kit” about this Ford engine….????

Great news. I’m glad to see it up and running.

I can’t remember how I got mine to work. I remember it was an accident, so probably I grounded the wire to the GEN light or something.

Again, this was the Subaru engine (and alternator).

If I knew what to do I’d tell you. When I don’t know what to do I just Google and then start, ya know, trying…[Read more]

I am using an incandescent bulb – the original bulb was blown when I got the car.

Trying to figure out how excite the winding on the Motorola alternator I have. B+ wire to the field terminal?

I have wired the alt lamp directly to terminal 15 on the coil and still get no light nor any charge – even at close to 3k RPM.

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IT’S ALIVE!!!

I finally got the North Carolina VIN attached to the car, Hagerty Insurance, and registration done — I timed it just as the forecast calls for 2 weeks of rain.

By the way, the “won’t idle below 2500 RPM turned out to be a problem with the progressive  Weber carb on the car.  The throttle plate would not close completely, even w…[Read more]