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Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Originally posted by m!key:
whenever the thought enters my head i just remember all the owners that have sold their cars and want to get another, or have already bought another contour and i come back to earth.
...i'm one of those owners,i purp. stay away from the site,so i dont have to think about looking for another one...than my friend comes over with his silfro svt and i start looking all over again 
"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever."-Aristophanes.
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I hear ya Swazo, I did the same thing with the SC 3L cougar, I didn't get as far into it as some but was well over 12K and the car was worth maybe 8K and I was like mmm this don't make no sense no matter how much I love it! Do what you WANT to do the heck with everyone else living a dream through your wallet!
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Im not able to send a PM for some reason. I just wanted to call dibs on the Aussie bar setup. And can you PM me a price for the CF hood. Thanks.
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My car did exactly the same thing when I started my 3L for the first time with my chip... I checked everything for days and thought my engine was messed up until I decided to take out the chip...
Use your stock maf and stock ECU... In my case the Maf tables weren't the correct ones for the maf which I was using...
Hope it works out for you
EDIT: Just read the entire thread your problem seems to be different 
Last edited by 96BlackSE; 04/25/06 06:18 AM.
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I'm going to find out why my car is doing what it is before I do anything else.
Until the compression tester shows....
My exhaust system is filled with oil. I have a pin hole in my system about half way down the system, and there was a decent puddle under it 
I've never had to deal with broken ring lands before, but wouldn't I have oil contamination on the spark plugs?
My block was bored too big for my pistons, and a set of oversized rings had to go in after the pistons were cut for them.
My PCV had failed all together (did not seal at all), and I have since replaced it with a Lightning PCV (from Checkers).... though it doesn't totally seal. I'm going to stop by the dealership and get either a T-bird turbo coupe or a Lightning PCV, wheatever seals better.
I do not have 1-way valves on my valve cover vent or PCV lines that are tapped into my intake (between my MAF and turbo). Could this be the source of my problem?
2005 Ford F150 SuperCab FX4
1964 Chevrolet Impala SS
1998 CSVT: 354HP/328TQ @ 10 psi, now gone 
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Originally posted by TC'd Swazo:
My block was bored too big for my pistons, and a set of oversized rings had to go in after the pistons were cut for them.
Say what? The block was bored correctly for the pistons, it was that none of the OEM ring suppliers made a set of rings to fit a 1mm overbore piston so we had to get a set of rings from Total Seal that would fit and be able to maintain the correct end gap.
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Originally posted by Buckshot77:
I got the correct rings in yesterday and went to fit and assemble today. It appears that the machine shop messed up doing the bores and oversized them too much. I'm checking further, but I'm going to talk to the shop on Monday and see what happened. The piston to bore clearance is fishy in my book becuase the end gaps on the new rings is still past the service limit in my manual.
The rings fit, but not with the bore size the block had. You also wanted to build the skirt thickness up by sending them to Terry. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what took place, but I've gone over our PM's to double check and that is what I've come up with.
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It was my first inclination that the machine shop overbored too much, but we later discussed that the bore was correct and the rings were wrong. If you remember, the piston company sent the wrong rings with the order originally, but too much time had passed so they wouldn't do anything on them. I then ordered a set of Fel pro overbore rings, but they weren't big enough either. I finally had to go to Total Seal and get a set from them, plus send in the pistons to have the top ring groove cut to fit the 1.5 mm ring thickness. In any case, it was the ring issue all along in regards to thinking the bore was done incorrectly.
Rick
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Why am I in that messed up quote? None of what I said is in there...
Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.
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If it runs and idles fine I would be inclined to think it's something with the PCV system.
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