XR7-4.6’s disjointed build thread 2 Electric Boogaloo

[Grog6]

As far as exhaust goes, the mbs 2.5" with a cheap set of mufflers is awesome on a 2v, I'm betting they sound as good on a 4v.
I tried to curl a 4v head today, lol. I have a ways to go to be fully recovered.
For some reason, I thoughy you bought longtube kooks. I have a 2v set of those I bought used. They'll go on lazarus. As soon as I get the red one driving, Lazarus' current engine is coming out.
Think I can keep a teksid shortblock from knocking with 2v heads and pi cams?

 

[XR7-4.6]

As far as exhaust goes, the mbs 2.5" with a cheap set of mufflers is awesome on a 2v, I'm betting they sound as good on a 4v.
I tried to curl a 4v head today, lol. I have a ways to go to be fully recovered.
For some reason, I thoughy you bought longtube kooks. I have a 2v set of those I bought used. They'll go on lazarus. As soon as I get the red one driving, Lazarus' current engine is coming out.
Think I can keep a teksid shortblock from knocking with 2v heads and pi cams?

I already have the mandrel bent 2.5” SS pipes, I have to redo the front half which is currently a catted H pipe for a Mustang. I’m leaning towards a mid mount magnaflow like I used to have

 

[Zep5.0]

I already have the mandrel bent 2.5” SS pipes, I have to redo the front half which is currently a catted H pipe for a Mustang. I’m leaning towards a mid mount magnaflow like I used to have

No rear mufflers? And I assume you do have cats?

 

[XR7-4.6]

No rear mufflers? And I assume you do have cats?

Current exhaust has cats but no mufflers, next exhaust will have 1 mid mount muffler and no cats. I don’t particularly like the look or sound of rear mufflers

 

[XR7-4.6]

First of the new items in!



And people say the pan needs to be removed to change the oil pump, bah!

 

[XR7-4.6]

This is way overkill for my goals but it’s a easy peace of mind mod





Why y’all ask? Only real flaw with the iron tensioners is if you build too much oil pressure and shock the valvetrain(aka high RPM launch) the tensioners can become hyper extended and the tensioners effectively becomes solid in a fixed position that can lead to guide wear chain stretch and even cam bore wear, as it is impossible for the guide return to normal operating position. Filing the last 3-4 teeth solves that but still does it’s intended job preventing total collapse with oil pressure loss like what happens to the plastic tensioners.

This useful as that means only my halfshafts will snap on a 5000rpm launch on drag radials, but not my timing chains!

 

[XR7-4.6]

Well the weekend and an evening or two project I planned this to be turned out to be slightly optimistic HOWEVER it is officially in the very literally loosest definition of the word cammed!



Now I’m getting excited!