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Fill it with fluids, go dyno test it. Then, drive the wee out of it.
I would, but with this charging gremlin I don’t trust the bucket of bolts to make it to a local dyno and home without a tow truck on hand lol I bought a new toy that has my attention, so once I decide to pull the camaro back out, I’m going to do one of 2 things, sell it as a running project, or do the inevitable... hack it up and put an LS, some fancy 3 piece wheels, and enjoy it. I’m thoroughly frustrated with the old engine management system and I don’t have the knowledge or patients to diagnose the issue correctly to repair it.
Bummer. Wish we lived closer....I'd enjoy sorting that out for you.
I’d be glad to pay someone to help with it, unfortunately in Portland nobody has a clue about these old cars, and or really wants to touch it! I would love to drop it off somewhere and have them figure out the chafing, and write a real tune for it. But unfortunately nobody wants to touch it aside from “we’d love to LS swap it for you” which is looking more and more attractive every time I think about it 😂
Dude...that would be the bomb. Back in my High school/college days in Massachusetts, all of my car-guy friends seemed to always end up at my place, working on one of our cars. Everything back then was a 3rd gen, C4, or a Fox....all great cars to work on and shoot the **** over. I miss that stuff. I really miss it a lot. I work on my 'Vettes all the time, and that is fun...but it's not the same, when you do it alone.
A great friend of mine, (Brian) owned a 5.0 Fox back in those HS/College days, back east...we did a bunch of stuff to it back then. He moved to LA, I moved to UT and on a rare occasion, we've worked on that car together in one of our garages, making it better while making memories. Last summer, he moved back to MA...left the car in LA. While House shopping and renting an apt. in MA his house in LA went under contract, the Mustang was still there. I jumped in my truck, drove to LA and trailered the car back to UT, to store it here, temporarily. I ended up having it here for almost a year and while it was here, I drove the wee out of it and I did some work on it:
New rear main seal,
Rebuilt the T5
New flywheel/clutch/PP/ TOB/Fork,
Fixed some oil leaks,
Converted from cable clutch to a Modern Driveline Hyd Clutch,
Brakes
Tires,
...I'm probably forgetting some things, but that's the majority of it. Working on that car was so fun -a car w/so many memories for me. It was sort of like the old days....the only downer was doing it myself, w/o my pal Brian there. But it was still fun to do it alone. He flew out here in this past April and we did a track day together at UMC which was the BEST, guys....the BEST.
Then he left and 4 days later I loaded his 5 liter into a car carrier headed for MA. It actually brought a bit of a tear to my eye to load the car up....and it's not even my car!
Anyway, I digress, but the point is, there isn't much better than a bunch of pals standing around, talking and wrenching on a cool F-bod, 'Vette, Fox, or whatever. That is a "thing" that is nearly impossible to find around here, in UT.
Last edited by Tom 400 CFI; 08-23-2021 at 05:02 PM.
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