BUILD 1984 Ford LTD Wagon 4.8L 78/75 Turbo 4L80E Build

[Sprayin]

That is ALOT of excuses . You sure you didn't mean to post that on FB?

I know it is. I'm just explaining why it made max power at 5400rpm mostly and why it's not much power. I'm actually pretty happy with what it has for what's going on. Car isn't going to see anything for a while I horde other parts like suspension and stuff. Just needed some motivation to keep buying shit. This is basically built by teaching high school kids how to work on cars.

 

[Mook]

I'm more impressed by what it did on 87.

 

[Sprayin]

6PSI+87?

Turn it up to 8, get to about 450 at the tire and drive it. Don't get greedy if it's a production block, she'll be gtg. I wouldn't go to more than 12 in general on a 5.0 that's stock, just my paranoia though. That seems to be where you get to head gasket issues if you're dealing with production heads at least based off what I've seen.

Being a wagon she should dead nuts hook and you'll still break some off for a lotta people.

It's a Chevy 4.8L. These things are supposed to eat

 

[Mr_Roboto]

It's a Chevy 4.8L. These things are supposed to eat

Thought you were on a 5.0 with some mods my bad.

 

[Sprayin]

Thought you were on a 5.0 with some mods my bad.

Nope went with the basic bitch combo of 4.8L, BTR cam, and an On3 turbo.

 

[Sprayin]

I'm more impressed by what it did on 87.

I think it had 450 in it spinning it out to 6500+

 

[Sprayin]

Wastegate didn't open on this one and cooked the plugs. Peaked at 16psi before it started sputtering. Still working out the tune.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

So wait are you an auto shop teacher?

Props on spreading the wealth of knowledge ya have. I often think my knowledge is wasted on just me.

 

[Sprayin]

So wait are you an auto shop teacher?

Props on spreading the wealth of knowledge ya have. I often think my knowledge is wasted on just me.

Nah, a friend of mine is. Gives the kids something fun to work on that the school would never bank roll.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Those lucky punks. Best we had was when I brought in a bag of 307 olds piston parts and chunks after I had put a 200 plate on my 84 lesabre out of the blue.

Your living proof that Ford guys can be heroes not just zeros

 

[Sprayin]

Those lucky punks. Best we had was when I brought in a bag of 307 olds piston parts and chunks after I had put a 200 plate on my 84 lesabre out of the blue.

Your living proof that Ford guys can be heroes not just zeros

 

[Sprayin]

Car is stable on 93 at 11psi. Switching to E85 and cranking to 17 psi.


Car for sure needs a real converter in it. Trying to manage getting it running the worrying about upgrades.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Did you open up the ring gap at all in this thing or did the truck it came out of so a decent job?

 

[Sprayin]

Did you open up the ring gap at all in this thing or did the truck it came out of so a decent job?

Didn't touch it. Didn't even look at it.

 

[Sprayin]

Tune seems like it's in a good spot (albeit on the conservative side). Not making the power I was hoping for; can't figure out why yet. It basically picked up nothing on E85 with more timing. Doing some troubleshooting.

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

Lame

 

[Teege24]

Tune seems like it's in a good spot (albeit on the conservative side). Not making the power I was hoping for; can't figure out why yet. It basically picked up nothing on E85 with more timing. Doing some troubleshooting.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Lean is mean buddy.

If your oil ends up smelling anything like ethanol back off your AFR like one entire point

 

[Sprayin]

Car is in the state that we've put all the parts that I've bought onto the car and it runs. It "drives" too but only in a straight line. When I bought the wheels, 2 things went wrong: I looked at fox body fit specs, and we out SN95 spindles on it, and the way the fairmont/LTD/Zephyr is, they tuck the wheels under the body lip (Mustang doesn't have the lip) kinda like an old school Caddy. So the wheels fit inside the wheel well but I can't turn the wheels more than like 20* either way

Car needs to move on from where it's at, so I'm not quite sure where I'm going with it just yet. At least it looks nice.

 

[IDAFC21]

Turning is for pussies

Looks great!

 

[daturbosix]

All them big wheel guys weld bolts to stop the spindle where it rubs. I suggest that. Lol. It's gotta work. Seen it on 95% of big wheel stuff

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Rear wheel and tire setup looks great

 

[Sprayin]

All them big wheel guys weld bolts to stop the spindle where it rubs. I suggest that. Lol. It's gotta work. Seen it on 95% of big wheel stuff

Lol it would work if the wheel had a different offset to tuck them in more. They just stick out too far.

 

[daturbosix]

Lol it would work if the wheel had a different offset to tuck them in more. They just stick out too far.

Same with the big wheel stuff... Always sticks out to the lip of fender at the wrong ride height..

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

At least jegs wheels are on sale right now