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So a friend of mine bought a 2000 Lighting on the cheap. He says it needs a head gasket because of water in the spark plug well and maybe a spark plug blew out on cylinder #3. So I take a look a look and the threads still looked good on #3 with my boroscope so I attempted to install a new plug...

I'm starting to do a considerable amount of city driving and want to get a front and rear facing camera without breaking the bank. I hear about issues with quality of dual view cameras and was wondering if anyone on here can recommend on from experience. Most of my in-town driving is done at...

I'm looking for suggestions/opinions here so feel free to say what you want. As the title states, this is my first 351w build and it's my first stroker (I am aware of the clearance I need to do, I have been googling it for a few days now). I'm doing a budget build for a friends 1969 Mustang...

Truck is a 2012' XLT I bought brand new on January 2nd, 2012 in Odessa, TX. It's still registered in TX and passed inspection last year but I'm currently in Northern California. Has almost 43k miles. Willing to drive pretty far to deliver the truck if the price is right. I've driven it to...

Anyone know if the OBDII is directly tied into the ecu or if it goes through a body computer before reaching the ecu? Anyone Have a wiring diagram for the F150?

My Harmon Kardon AVR347. It still works great but lacks the codecs for most blu-ray movies so it switches to prologic. I love the HK sound quality but have heard some of their newer stuff isn't as good as their old stuff in this regard. I I don't need anything crazy powerful but quality is a...

Too much timing, can it cause loss of power even with no detonations? I have a supercharged 5.0 and it's tune is set at 24* but I recently added a cooler thermostat and wanted to see if it could take more timing. I used the X3 handheld to add 2* timing. The weird thing is now it goes to 26.5*...

Went to the track last night and ran a new best of 11.72@117! Very pleased. I was able to get one poor quality in cab video (I think the image stabilization was freaking out). It's AED tuned on e85. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a2nxcxqaac

My friends stepson has a 2000 GT with a blower that he says is an S281 Blower that he wanted me to change the spark plugs on. I didn't change the plugs because the engine has just been been driven and it was too hot with the blower neck in the way. Anyway, he was complaining of it feeling like...

I had a set lined up but they were sold before I paid so now I'm looking again. I prefer just plain GT intake cams but will consider other cams. Let me know what you have and how much. Thanks.

Not sure if this has been discussed but I read the heads were redesigned, do you think the intake and PD blowers from the 11-14' will bolt up and match the 15' engines?

Would the ECU adapt without throwing any codes? Obviously it would have less power. The intake has less lift and duration and it has 10.5 compression. Mustang headers and everything else would be reused.

Title says it all. I ask before an after because I know driving in different conditions for different people can yield differing results.

A buddy of mine has a 1955 Thunderbird and claims it's a 312 Y-block (which from what I find can't be the original engine) that's freshly rebuilt and fully restored with only 13 miles on it. He claims not to drive it because the engine shakes. Unfortunately he wasn't about to start it as the...

It's a F-150 (not mine, helping a friend out) but same transmission you mustang guys have. He had his transmission built and new torque converter installed and now it intermittently doesn't want to accelerate. He says it only does it when it's hot, trans temps 180-200. Seems like it's sticking...