Welcome to our collective. :beer:04dsglightning said:
A lot of work involved in that swap. A lot of fabricating that will be needed. There are other means of making blown power. There are a few centrifucal choices and there is the Trilogy Roots-Type blower which I have.04dsglightning said:
all I can say is WHY would you trade a factory flyer for something that will cost thousands to make something that might keep up with a good tuned Lightning. Bang for the buck will always go to the Lightning.04dsglightning said:
Bracketbomber said:
well, we have a Lightning and a Marauder. if I knew then what I know now, I would have saved a alot of money by not buying the Mercury. Basically, I could have had just as much fun and comfort with a Crown Vic LX and saved about 10,000 buckaroos. In 35000 miles I have already changed 4 tires, had to have a front hub assembly replaced, have smoke at start-up since about 20000 miles, and we basically use this car for traveling and not beating up on it. On the other hand, The 99 Lightning has been flawless, has the original tires on it, will run 12.70's at the track and is used regularly to tow our Mustang drag car wherever we go to race. just my .02 cents worth.BrookhavenTuner said:
To the contrary, in case you haven't really read my post, I HAVE A Marauder and being an owner does in fact give me the right to be on this site and speak my opinion. Sorry if your feelings are hurt by my post but, facts are facts. I am in no way bashing the car but the problems, compared to the price are what they are and I'm sure there are other owners that would agree with me on this. Please, don't get me wrong, but, L/M hosed every person that paid, in my opinion, a lot of money for a car that really did not deliver.RTStabler51 said:
It does not give you the right. Its not a democracy. I'll give you some leanacy(sp?) since you do own one, but constructive criticism is appreciated. Posts like yours are Smackdown material. Period.Bracketbomber said:
First of all, you own neither so anything you say is just your opinion. second, read through the Marauder sites and see just how many owners have the blue smoke on start up problem along with the low tire life. third, ask the Lightning community how many of their trucks are as YOU state junk. I bought the Lightning new as well as the Marauder. I never said the car was junk, I only stated the facts about the problems with it as opposed to the Lightning. Bone up on the facts before you share your uneducated opinions. Sorry about the seals on your dads truck.BrookhavenTuner said:
To be honest, I don't know anyone personally that has a Mach l, but, I did get a personal message from one gentleman who does own a Mach and he was asking me if Ford had done anything with our Marauder about the smoke because his Mustang was doing the same thing on start up. There is an issue with the 4V cylinder heads and if you know anyone that works at a dealership, ask him about the heads. The dealership did an oil consumption test on the Marauder, i'll explain how they did this. First, they changed the oil and filter. after that, they marked the dip stick at the ( full ) point, the problem is, when I got home, I checked the oil and found the mark they put on the stick was nearly 3/4 of an inch below the full level. What that means is that when I brought the car back after 3000 miles, the level was reading pretty close where they marked it. therefore, it didn't use any oil !!. When I brought this trick to their attention, they proceeded to tell me that Ford considers using 1-1/2 quarts of oil in 1000 miles normal. I don't know how old you are but, in today's close tolerance engines, using that much oil in 1000 miles is totally ridiculous. My first car was a 1964 Marauder, it had a 390 in it and maybe and I mean maybe used 1 quart of oil in 2500 miles, also, I was young and beat the snot out of that car. I'm not trying to say you don't know anything about these cars but, I've owned a lot of cars and none of them have been to the dealer for warranty work as much as this one. Back to the Mach 1. the early automatic car uses the Marauder engine with the Marauder cylinder heads as does the stick car. The heads were upgraded later into the model run ( why ? ). The stick car also uses the Cobra steel crank, rods and pistons so it depends on which one you have.BrookhavenTuner said:
