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I guess by stranded, I meant knee deep in something new and completely lost. Think I'm going to piece a mustang/explorer combo of these parts together and find which ecu would work best and go the QH route. Any one local to Cape Girardeau Interested in the motor let me know. Think I'll use the trans...

Financial not so much, I can just stretch it out over time to do that. Learning curve yes, originally I was into 2.3 turbo cars. I built a healthy motor and loved it and kept going for a wilder combo. Eventually I got up into the 25psi range with a hx35 and then it wasn't fun. I don't have any one a...

Also the left over motor is going to get my c4 out of the tbird and go into the 87 ranger body I have. Me and Dad decided we wanted a track truck to tinker with, he has some 411's in a box for it.

ok let me start over, I actually have educated myself a little in the inbetween here. 331 is built and in 88 t-bird. Explorer parts are 2000 which has pats type B Concerns were 1. Pats and how to bypass if at all possible 2. No distributor, how does crank pickup read and do I have to change timing c...

Ok, looks like PATS is going to be a major hurdle. I'm not against running a different ecu. Is there another computer I can swap into it and not have to mess with pats?

SO I just picked up a complete 2000 explorer motor + trans, body harness, engine harness, fuse block, computer. Thinking of robbing electric bits and putting on my 331 or dropping this in ranger. How hard would it be to put the fuel injection and stuff on my 331 stroker?

Gonna be moving to O'Fallon IL. Its not terribly far but enough that it puts a damper on alot of things. Its an 8k a year raise so not to worried about living expenses, just have about 2 weeks to find a place to live up there.

As you may recall I've mentioned my job was nearing the end since they decided to outsource our jobs. Good news is that I found a new job but looks like I'll be moving north, also will be stuck in the city. Not looking forward to that. Won't be getting to work on my car near as much or at all :S. No...

Pretty poorly actually, looks like an 8 second is a 12 and a 9 is a 14 second. Would like to think I was faster than that but blah.

Want to go faster but everything is on hold, this job is running out of time and looks like I'm gonna be moving for another job :S been parting stuff out to pay off bills so I have clean start.

Sorry for the delay got home late that night and had to do some roofing sat and sun. Best run of the night was a 9.33 with a 1.58 reaction (this is my first time at the track and hadn't figured out the tree) Ran a bunch of 9.66's with all kinds of reaction times, had an issue where my tach would fly...

Its test and tune tonight, hopefully nothing breaks and I bust out a good time. Finally got miles on it and carb stuff straightened out.

Btw running 1/8 mile hoping for low 8's.

Ya, totally mixed the two up. So far running decent, gonna take to track this weekend and see what numbers I can lay out.

Found the issue, the arm to engage the powervalve was bent, this came from ebay so I think some one dropped it. Runs much better.

Carb was a 600cfm 1830 series (think that is right number)

Do you think those power goals are realistic with just minor mods? I've been kicking the idea around, thought that would be pretty cool in my 87 ranger I have waiting for a motor.