bmdubya1198 wrote: ↑17 Dec 2022, 16:29 Love the Thunderbird! 2.3 or 5.0?

Originally a 5.0 when I bought it back in '96. Been a 2.3T for a long time now, though.

Have a list of projects to go through on it, but it's 3rd in line behind the 850 and the '85 LTS.

There is no filter in a manual transmission.

Got the head apart to replace the valve seals and do the NA cam install on my '97 T5. Got to test out my prototype valve spring compressor tool (finally) https://turbochuckcom.ipage.com/webimages/projects/97%20Volvo%20854T5/2022/Winter%20Work%20Fun/prototool_2.jpg 3D printed it and installed some th...

Front sway bar ID colors.

9173982 O.Dia 20 mm (marked red)
9173983 O.Dia 21 mm (marked yellow)
9173471 O.Dia 21.5 mm (marked yellow/blue)

Finished up the valve seal R&R and NA cam swap on my '97 T5 today.


Haven't had a chance to get it out for a test drive yet, but no odd noises/etc when I fired it up and got it up to temp.

COP conversion? Were you able to use the same ecu and valve cover? I already had an M4.4 conversion on the car. I purchased the COP conversion bin from VAST and modded an ECU per the instructions. The coils all bolt down to the N head, except you need to flip the #1 around and make a provision to b...

Why would somebody downgrade software to m4.3 if allready have m4.4?! I'm pretty sure that posts i read about are for m4.3 to m4.4 upgrade. No idea why someone would. It's just the stated details. You misremember what you read. You drop an M4.4 ECU into an M4.3 car and the AC will not run, period. ...

The revised dipstick/tubes for the P80's have 2 o-rings on them, but I think they are the same as those with singles. They just seal and hold the dipstick in place better. It doesn't take long for those o-rings and the cap seals to get "hard" and not seal well. I just swapped the one out o...

Check the ECU. It's possible it has a tuned ECU, but who knows. The LPT cars have a bit of grunt off the line, but they tend to run out of steam in stock form. My wife's '97 GLT was fairly peppy when we bought it, but since we've put a larger turbo on it, and a mild tune, etc. it breathes a lot bett...

You can see it in the middle of the right edge of this picture. Right were that white vacuum line comes into the picture. You need to remove the cover that's over all of this mess to get at it. https://turbochuckcom.ipage.com/webimages/projects/97%20Volvo%20854T5/2022/Winter%20Work%20Fun/coverinst_2...