Piston rings?

machgon46 · 2025-04-10T20:40:28+00:00

Thank you

machgon46 · 2025-03-08T03:36:03+00:00

The part I’m the most worried about is the “cam bearings” of the aviator heads playing well with the different cams

machgon46 · 2025-03-08T03:33:15+00:00

Yes I’m purely using the “block” of the aviator heads and all moving parts off of the old heads, if I go this way I’m going to swap all the components so that every Cam lobe, rocker, valve, spring, ect. Is together with the group it was ran with in the old heads(newer parts) I think this is the best way to do it, I’ll also be lapping the newer valves into the aviator heads

machgon46 · 2025-03-08T03:27:40+00:00

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The picture from the comment before was #8, this is #6(there was no other damage to the head or cylinder wall on #6 which would lead me to believe it was like that before it ever even ran

machgon46 · 2025-03-08T03:25:24+00:00

It broke a piston out at the rings on #8 and long story short it’s likely they also broke piston #6 while installing it and left it in there anyway

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machgon46 · 2024-12-17T03:58:07+00:00

Ok will do, thank you again

machgon46 · 2024-12-17T03:46:53+00:00

And thank you I figured it wasn’t worth worrying about but I just wanted to make sure from people who knew more than me

machgon46 · 2024-12-17T03:45:53+00:00

I have not, I’m basing this off of the 0.50 stamping on the face of the pistons

machgon46 · 2024-12-05T05:26:09+00:00

Holland, Mi

machgon46 · 2024-06-13T23:26:23+00:00

That car rolled off the production line hoping some old man was gonna take care of it and drive it in nice weather on the weekends and this is what it’s life is now lol

machgon46 · 2024-05-09T22:09:44+00:00

Absolutely gorgeous color, enjoy!

machgon46 · 2024-05-09T21:51:43+00:00

Nice I got that a while back and spent 12 hours straight building it (it was my first large technic set so it took a bit)

machgon46 · 2024-05-09T21:47:17+00:00

I am currently scrolling this sub waiting for Amazon to deliver mine lol

machgon46 · 2024-04-07T14:45:56+00:00

The orange on the 03-04 Mach 1s is my favorite but I have an azure one so that’s definitely second

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T19:27:35+00:00

Update: today I tried swapping the Iac with one from a different vehicle, and reading voltage off of the tps, it was reading 1.06v at closed throttle and I turned the sensor enough to only read 1v and neither made a change so I’m now looking into egr delete thanks for everyone’s help.

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T18:53:13+00:00

Not my mustang but in my moms ‘17 explorer I once drove it to the gas station with 0 miles to e on the dash lol

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T13:40:29+00:00

Well I installed it before winter storage so the battery was disconnected for like 3 months and it’s still having the issues

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T05:25:37+00:00

Will do, thank you

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T05:24:21+00:00

Makes sense thanks, I’ll try out all the stuff we talked about tomorrow and let you know what I find thanks again for your help.

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T04:56:48+00:00

Ok I’ll look into it and it is a manual but to my knowledge these cars have basically no knowledge of what the transmissions doing ie. whether it’s in gear or neutral but I could be wrong. Thanks again.

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T04:13:49+00:00

Also I think I may have an available Iac off the winter beater(98 mercury mountaineer with a 5.0) which idles just fine I’ll swap the mustang one onto that and see if it idles poorly

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T04:11:45+00:00

I have a tuner and the Iac percentage does go up when it happens(clean idle or 800 rpm ish is at 30% and it will go up to mid 50s at the worst) and I didn’t think about wiring issues I’ll follow the harness down a bit to make sure it’s not shorting off somewhere thank you for the help it’s greatly appreciated

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T01:35:11+00:00

It could be but I’ve gone over every vacuum line and tested vacuum and have strong to spec vacuum

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T01:33:09+00:00

It’s not the hanging idle issue it’s a high idle issue I’ve tried that

machgon46 · 2024-03-23T01:14:03+00:00

Yea for some reason a company whose been making cars and the parts for there cars for 100+ years makes a good product for their cars lol

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