2.3l Mustangs Forum

Im getting a exhuast system hung on my car here shortly and I was wanting to know if anybody has a 80 series flomaster on there car or know anybody with one. I am thinking about putting one on. Let me know what yall think of how it sounds. I am NOT looking for the bumble bee in a coffee can sound, I will go back with a stock muffler if thats the case. Im putting 2 inch pipe all the way, then I am ...

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Ok I did some cooling system work on my car (1991 2.3) not too long after I got it. It didn't have a thermostat in it so I wanted to put in one and replace some cooling stuff. Well when I got the housing off, it was in such bad shape I decided to replace it. I when to the store to get a housing for a '91 and the one they gave me looked nothing like what I had, so we went to a '90 and it looked eve...

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heres mine

i know its not a turbo...but that valve cover looks much better than stock
lunati cam (oval track) offenhauser 2 barrel intake...holley 2 barrel(500cfm) and factory header from a 93 ford ranger





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Get really bad mileage with my carbed 2.3l ... almost the same as the Pace Car with its 5.0l (no, not kidding) ...
Most of it should be related to a vacuum leak i'm tracking ... but while reading an old Haynes manual, i noticed something strange about initial timing.
No other my manuals (Chilton and '79 shop-manuals) tells me the factory setting and the underhood sticker is long gone...

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Ok In my opinion a motorcraft oil filter is the best along with castrol's 5w-30 full synthetic motor oil. Here is a good site to check oil's and oil filter's.

http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilters/opinions.html

im hoping its not the piston rings....chances are its the valve guides tell me watcha think...also its smoking BAD and this is oil on the plug

You can install a turbo on a N/A 2.3 but don't turn the boost up past 5-6 psi. If you do, the pistons will disintegrate! And, even running that low psi, they probably won't last very long anyway! True turbo motors came from the factory with forged pistons. Forged pistons will take the heat and pressure of forced induction. N/A pistons are made of cast metal. They're very brittle and simply can't t...

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this is where i got my cam lifters carb,carb spacer and ring and pinion gear its all ministock/2.3 stuff and its kinda cheap

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/racing-mini-stock-and-pony-car.html?category|category_root|2=Oval+Track&category|cat_2|255=Mini+Stock%2c+Pony+Car

Ok here is a free way to make more power. There is a BIG plastic tube connecting the air cleaner housing to the throttle body. Inside that big plastic tube is a smaller diameter tube that takes it from about 2 1/2 inches to about an inch remove that smaller tube, it may take some time to remove but the better air flow will make your stang perform so much better. Or if you don't want to go threw al...

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