So something happened to my car the past couple days, I. will let the pics speak for themselves.



Before




During

















Had to get a little creative to make holders for the heat exchanger. My " vise"





Mounted in..









And now for the story,

I finally put the damn thing on.



Ok really, despite many destractions, including..... a trip to Zzp, test driving a car for another member here, a trip to lane automotive, chasing down other odd parts and odds and ends,fixing the brake lights on my truck, using said truck to haul the coupe I have been stripping down over to the yard, having some company, and just being genneraly distracted for 2 days straight the core is in and bolted down, the fmhe is mounted, I just have to run hoses and mount/wire the pump. ( will be getting that done after work today and tomorrow ) ,

then the big day comes, dyno time.... which I have scheduled for first thing friday morning. This is the make your guesses part comes in... what do you think she will make? I am gonna self guess at 322 whp ,


buddy of mine is getting tuned the same morning. He has a 96 ssei that is almost bone stock. Just a hai, cat remove, 2 1/2 all the way back with duel magnaflow, and a 3.5? Pully ( makes 10 psi) and that is it.. nothing else, and it.has run a 14.2 on just that. I have scanned it with a snap-on scanner and only get little blips of kr at shift.









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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

hmm lets see that car with that bottom end 330

it has always dyno'd high for what ever reason lol


and is that front mount a rad rom a diffrent car?

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

Not sure on the fmhe I have heard that it is a Zzp early front mount and that it is the same a some vw rad or some such thing.

I know Hickman runs the same.one with his ssic and it works good.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

i think you are right on the VW rad. i just looked at my frind VW fox (a rabbit truck) and that is the rad from it looks identical

makes finding a replacement easy any way i guess lol

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

I know where there is one of those sitting in my usual yard, I will have to look into that.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

Well it is 1am and I just got done putting the snowflakes on for the pull ( little shorter and lighter ) had it running and seems pretty good. Have one small tick in the exhaust , but I don't think that will be an issue. The blower I am not sure about at the moment. The rotors out of another blower I had here looked great so I put then in the case and tested them and the seemed fine.spun good and free. When running the car tonight it was not major but had a different whine while ideling sounded kinda like the noise from an old school blower or like the noise from a gear timing set. Not to loud and not conserning. Everything looks great and no leaks. Have pump on switched hot so I think I am good to go.

As for.the fuel pump I am kinda expecting it to run out and if it does I will put in a pump and desire om the spot. So we will.see


Gonna take a shower and a few hour nap and head out, wish me luck and good numbers!

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

$20 they say the pump is "bad" lol

just so you know that pump has less then 20,000 miles on it was freshly put in by the PO of the car before me and i bought it at 130,000. i found a bunch of recepit repairs for that car. most of witch hav ebeen replaced now haha

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

I usually leave for work a little before now, but damn this is early for a day of!!! ( about 6:20 ) and I will be sure to keep that in mind mater. I doubt it will be enough but I am hoping.

Hitting the road in 10. Will update when I have it.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

yup but even witha fairly new pump your set up is on the edge of it still might run out of fuel

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

Well the news is win lose. The numbers where crap but I think I have figured out why now it will be on to the how to fix.

A modest 280 and 350. Everything looked good across the board and pulls like a train and is a good safe reliable numbers. Now I think I have found that the water stopped flowing for some reason ( found out well after I had left zzp ) and if that is the case then the numbers seem about right for an ic system not working ( pump runs but it is not flowing through all the hoses.) So wtf does a guy do?

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

wow same numbers it put out with the mistery pulley, headers, stock heads and S/C

and i mean the exact same (give or take) after SAE correction. get that IC working

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

It was a disapointing day for sure. I will get things sorted out and see what happens.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

I must have missed it. What S/C pulley did you run during the dyno?

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3.0 and even right now with the ic pump unplugged I am getting 0 kr. So i am sure that it was not flowing while i was there . I had checked it after ( after i left there ) and the pump was making noise so I unplugged it and I didn't get any kr.then either, so I think I will do good once I get the blockage taken care of, I just know that the fuel pump is right at the edge.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

what about the fuel pump hotwire?

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not done but realy it would do little to help i checked the voltage drop to the pump and it was only loosing 2v.

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

i used to have a link to badass fuel pumps but i lost it

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i have a hotwire, just need to put it in.. but that will not be nearly enough once everything is working and flowing like it should be.

i am figuring on running this probly..

http://zzperformance.com/grand_prix/pro ... php?id=573

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

Well today after some much needed cleaning and rearranging in my barn I finnaly attacked the car, got the fuel pump I picked.up.from.Zzp the other day installed along with a fp rewire and all.seems to be working well so far ( was a little weird putting the new pump in)

I breifly looked at the ic system, and I think I may have just had a massive air bubble get in there. I added water to it and got nothing, but I grebbed a "pulsed" the hoses by squeezing them and the pump took off and started circulating like it did e night before I went up to Zzp. So I guess I will bleed the system out good and see what she does and swap the Pully and see how that goes, I may have one peppy ride to bring.up to woodward!


Edit to add.some pics.


Dyno sheet















As I went up for.the dyno







As for the ic system I will do my best to lay it out I will start and end with the ic pump

Pump sucks from lower fmhe hose has a 90* out of the pump and goes to the front of the core, comes out the back of the core has the "T" fill up high by the coil packs then goes back down and feeds into the top of the fmhe.

Both hoses come down the front side and feed through by the lower rad hose and goes beside the rad support at the side and back up and around to the pump and fmhe. ( the hoses feed right by the pass side front cradle bolt in the recess there.)


Well the other day I got the ic working then the next night I got the 2.8 put on and took it up the road and all was good 0*kr and running good. So I got all set to head out for woodward and no start.

Here is what I found the problem to be.







So I fixed it and put a clamp on both ends of the hose..











Fired right up and ran good.. will get some info possibly I can make the gr cruise.

I think I will get the windows done soon too, and be done but for some paint work ( hood and such) then projectors later.


Possibly do the trans in the green car next weekend or so.


And boy I tell ya getting in and out of the back seat with the passenger seat out was super easy. For just 2 bolts I will have to remember to pull it out if I have more to do back there.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

by by less thne 20,000 mile pump lol

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

belive me it is far from gone, just not being used hight now. besides now i have a pump with about 50 miles on it. lol (had 0, was brand new)

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

Very impressive setup.

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Thanks, I am waiting to go to the track AND for it to be reliable before I become tooo impressed. I know part or it is first time bugs and issues so I am still being optimistic about it.. it does feel great tho.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

reliable.... we are talking about the 01 yes lol

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater