`89 Notchback Motor build

This GearHead installed some serious ponies in his '89 Mustang Coupe. Blind (aka Kevin) opted to go the turbo route with a fresh motor. Kevin is a true GearHead; all of his work is done in his own garage with his own tools (when I'm done borrowing them. lol)

I'll let Kevin tell the story.

Here's where my spare time has been going recently (spare time being none lately )


Old combo - stock `87 forged roller longblock with a few bolt-ons




249rwhp - 295rwtq baseline dyno.




Broke the throw out bearing sleeve clean in 2, I drove it like this for about a year, heaviest clutch EVER, but it never made noise or chattered so I'm re-using it
I bought the summit steel upgraded sleeve to replace, along with a new clutch fork and TOB.




Torn down, ignore the AOD in the background, it's a spare for my girlfriends `91 convertible lx 5.0




During cleaning, 'Easy off' brand oven cleaner is the shit! That, and green scotchbrite pads with WD-40 are all I used.


Like new


TFS Stage 1 cam, TFS billet roller timing set, installed dot-to-dot.




TFS heads, ARP headstuds, MLS Permatorque gaskets, Trick flow valve cover studs with rubber valve cover gaskets, stripped and painted stock valve covers, Scorpion 1.6 RR

New timing cover, summit SFI balancer, ARP balancer bolt

High volume oil pump, Canton main stud support / girdle, Canton pickup tube (not in picture - Canton windage tray, to be installed still)

Shot showing off the baffle doors of my Canton 7qt road racing oil pan.


So now for opinions, paint the heads black to match?

Eventually I am going to get the black wrinkle finish powered by ford valve covers with the silver accents, and plan to paint my intake manifold wrinkle black and polish up the raised lettering and such.

I know the heads will get dirty and tarnish, so I'm definately not going to polish them, so I think I'll be painting them to match the block. What about the pan, does paint stick well to that zinc finish, or does it react like chrome and flake off? How about the accessories...I was thinking of doing them black but the brackets and such in silver, my vortech 8 rib crank and headunit pullies are black, but my supercharger is silver (but I can easily paint it black...). My intercooler tubing is already powder coated black, and the engine bay is black....too much black? Hahaha.

Checkout the complete thread here -> http://www.westcoastgearheads.com/sh...linear#post429