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A few years ago my wife took my '95 to the grocery store. She never drives it. She comes home with the back seat full of groceries. Said the trunk won't open. She had tried the ignition key to open it.(her car had only the one key.) She tried the key fob by pressing the unlock button repeatedly. (her car worked that way and didn't have the trunk button.) She didn't know about the button in the console or using the key pad. Four ways to open the trunk and she couldn't quite do it. :P
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Get on the horn and try another place.
Otherwise, I guess it's the auto wrecker for your search.
What do ya think??
That is a '87 fuel injected 302.
But the question is, is this a good idea?
Seems like a fair amount of work and expense, even with a "free" motor, for piddling 20 HP. The Mustang motor of that year has more HP than the Marquis motor.
If you are saying that the Marquis motor used to actually be in a Mustang, then you have 165HP instead of your stock 120 HP--but still no big deal for all the work IMO.
I'd go either with a used T-Bird V-8 motor, or with a 5.0 crate motor that was built up. I'm sure there are kits around to make this kind of swap and the engine builders probably know which ones work best.
If you find an entire 1986 T-Bird to cannabalize parts from, all the better.
Also you have to consider that a 1986 T-Bird is not worth very much, so this will be a labor of love, not any kind of investment.
Best thing to do is HOMEWORK and a BUDGET before you buy, or try, anything. Find someone who's actually done a V-8 swap and find out what difficulties they ran into. Did they use the same transmission? How did they mate up the V-6 wiring and computer to the V-8 engine?
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However, if they all have been replaced, they should be good for years. Maybe it is another issue and the dealer automatically replaces the COPS because they are usually the culprit when there is a miss?
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Be careful, these things can have a lot of torque.
I have a 95 T-bird with non-PI heads. I am doing a head swap to PI heads. I was reading that the 95 T-birds with non-PI heads have 205 HP and the 96 - 97 T-birds wtih PI heads have 195 HP. I don't get why the newer T-birds dropped in HP when PI heads flow way more better. Is it because in 96 - 97, they dropped the compression and the 95 T-birds have a higher compression? Can anybody answer my question or have any thoughts on this.
2005 Ford Thunderbird overheating after being parked all day drove about five miles in about seven minutes. Had same problem last year in the exact same place as tonight. Last year took car to Ford and they could not duplicate the problem. Only after I talked to the service manager they decided to replaced the thermostat even though it was not stuck. Tonight I pulled over let car cool down and drove home with heater on with car operating in normal range.
I once had a hung of rust break lose and plug the lower hose just enuff to get the temps higher.........
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I have seen many good words on synthetics and am thinking complete change over and going to 5k between oil changes instead of the 3k now?
Comments please ?
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Any ideas ?
Also what is the biggest I can put on my stock engine.
I'm just looking to do some mods.
Any idea ? I think alinement !
A lot of people mod these motors and would probably know what would work.