napoleon
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I dont give a rats ass where theyre made as long as I get MY money.
A problem all too common with Americans nowadays. Its really a shame.
Id like to say I hope you lose your job and have to panhandle for a living but I just cant do it, no matter how much I dislike someone I have never met in real life.
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Not so funny:
With my '05 F-350, PSD, I've had the engine out of it once to fix an oil leak (in the shop twice for oil leaks and had to take it 60 miles to another dealership to have it fixed), the EGR replaced twice, the turbo worked on, the steering gear box replaced, two recalls, three software flashes, seat belts replaced (wrong one installed at factory), and now the front tires appear to be cupping due to possible bad ball joints. The truck has 26K miles on it.
Three weeks ago, I requested that Ford, with the concurrence and support from our dealership to buy back our truck because we have lost total confidence with its reliability. Last week, the Ford Regional Rep replied, "...Ford will only honor the remaining warranty on your F-350. Your truck does not meet our buy back requirements."
My Ford fixed-rate-notes just matured this month. My wife is looking for a car to replace her ’03 Sable she bought new in 2003.
Does anyone want to take a guess what company isn’t getting our business and our investments again?
You forgot to mention how the balljoints took a catastrophic failure right when you hit 25,000 miles, and then right after your hubs froze then your brakes started pulsing.
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Most Ford Super Dutys are lucky to make 25000 miles before having brake pulsations, worn out ball joints, frozen hubs, etc.
Your funny. Insane but funny.
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Hey now, Lemon might get some good cash for his site from Corona. Or do they use Limes?
That a$$wipe would have a better chance of getting sponsored by Cottonelle than Corona
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Theyre also adding a lincoln to the Chicago assembly line.
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With the current liability atmosphere today, I don't think we can look to Ford to help in this matter.
For example: I went to my local Ford dealer to get an IAC that I planned on using on an aftermarket intake with an aftermarket ecm. The counter guy, as soon as he heard I was planning on using the part in a 'non-stock' situation immediately backed away, as though I was pointing a loaded gun at him, and told me that it was strict Ford policy NOT to aid/abet/support in ANY way the use of factory Ford parts on/in anything that was not a factory Ford application.
You want Ford parts in streetrods? Look to the aftermarket. It would be nice if Ford gave the aftermarket a good base or foundation to start with (smaller (dimensionally) block with more cubic inches might be nice), but it is the aftermarket today that needs to step up.
To make matters worse, Ford is going after people in the aftermarket that use Mustang in their names in any way shape or form and suing them. I know they shouldnt allow them to dilute the mustang name but these people, mostly restoration specialists are doing anything but.
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It's easy. Do what I did. Toss out the chevy and put a Ford in it. :happy feet: Coupe3w
Thats what I like to see.
A while back I seen a picture of a 70's corvette that had a 460 in it, It had a pretty clever liscense plate, something like NOTAGM or FORDPWR either way it was really cool.
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O K the LSx GM engines are good. Never said they were'nt, nor did I knock the original sbc. Not my purpose here. I have to tell you though the GM LSx engines are not that great a fit in early Ford engine compartments. They appear to be very compact in height and width but are also quite long. This fact requires surgery to get them in there. These are antique vehicles with marketly different underhood dimensions compared to more modern vehicles. Yet you're correct they are showing up in a variety of vehicles. All the more reason I think it would be good for Ford to step up their efforts to get their stuff in order. It is uncanny that it seems twice GM has configured their engines to the same package size as the hot Ford powerplant that preceded them. In the mid- `50's the sbc bore a striking resemblence to the cornerstone of hot rodding the Flathead Ford V8 at least in terms of size and weight targets, not to mention block profiles. Then in the `90's we get the LS engines which are very similar to small block Ford engines in even more ways. Did the GM engineers take note of what a great little package the modern 5.0 Fords were and that they were very much over- achievers? Who knows but it is food for thought. BTW the Modulars are actualy a good fit and can have an impressive underhood presence. Check it out.
Ive seen some of the mod motor swaps into fox bodies and they are a decent fit, I wouldnt say good, atleast the 4 valves swaps, I never seen anyone bother with the 2 valves, and Im not even thinking of the 5.4. Course one of the great things with the fox bodied cars is that you can fit just about anything under the hood of one of those, but the mods I have seen still took some cutting and fabbing.
Agreed, after seeing 15+ year old ford headers match up to the LS1 I cant help but think some notes were taken from the 5.0.
I know the LS motors are longer but most of the cars I have seen them go into didnt have so much an issue of length as they did in width, I did a set of headers on a cobra and let me tell you I wont be doing it again, of course I wont be doing spark plugs on an f body anytime soon either but its just tough working around such a wide engine, that and the fact that you can get so many cubes out of the relatively small LS engines, cubic inches = free horsepower.
I am absolutely dying to see the hurricane engines hit the showrooms and the FRPP catalog. I really feel the scales will tip toward Ford powerplants once there is an overhead cam engine that can support some cubic inches, and it would also be nice if ford quit changing the F***ing bellhousing bolt pattern (Bonus to the LS1 for having the same tranny pattern for 50 years). Thats also the kinda changing stupid shit that pisses off hotrodders and keeps em sticking to Gm engines. It would be nice to see it about as wide as a 3 valve 4.6 but around 6.2 liters
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That said, There is no reason to build a Ford rod with a Chevy engine today. The 302/5.0 engine is plentiful and can be built to put out over 400 hp.
A LS2 will do that without doing any work to it, besides being all aluminum and not splitting down the center when you put serious power to it. The last time I watched overhaulin or maybe american hotrod they put an LS something into a car and with the basics (cam, heads etc) was putting down 600hp n/a.
The thing that kills me is that it costs around $45,000 for a crate GT engine but you can buy a Z06 engine for around $15k with some very exotic internals. They may not be blower friendly but a shot of some nitrous and those damn engines scream.
I wouldnt put anything Gm into anything Ford or even drive a Gm for that matter, but you cant argue with the cheap horsepower coming from the LSx engines. On the street an LS1 with ANY kind of nitrous hooked up to it is pretty much the all feared combination. Terminators are the same but are way more expensive to buy into initially and arent as common as an f body.
And once the newer piece of shit LS1 camaros inevitably end up in scrap yards the engines and transmissions will more than likely find homes in just about every kind of car EXCEPT a Gm.
So far Ive seen LS1's in a mark VII, rx7, mercedes c230, mustang, ranger, and countless hot rods.
For a time 5.0's were finding their ways between the fenders of different makes of cars because they were dirt cheap, easy to get running with the factory engine harness and made good power, and dimensionally compact but the trend has shifted back to Gm for that not so much in hotrods but in peoples daily driven street cars. It creeps me out to know that the new Ls1 exhaust ports fit up to factory 5.0 headers, it just makes it all that easier.
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Well g14850 is a bastard! I'll say thanks for the pictures!
No problem dude
where was that? Sauk Trail?Im a real southsider, Hegewisch baby!!. Those pictures were taken a few blocks away from the assembly plant on Torrence, going into cal city.
This is the usual route when the plant pulls a random car to test on the road, then on the way back they hit 80/94 most of the time. The only reason I pulled the camera is because I have never seen them driving cars around here in full camo, I figured it might be something interesting.
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Nice and out of focus, look out, Brenda Priddy might hire you. She's a hack job of photog just like you.
Damn dude just bust my balls why dont ya. I can take good pictures just not with one hand on the camera and one on the steering wheel in traffic.
Next time I cruise out by the plant Ill look around for the car and have everyone pose around it around dusk to get a nice backlight for ya.
I believe it is a montego, the tails look like they have the big LED arrays.
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I didnt know if this is old news but I found this car running around today by the Chicago assembly plant with a group of people from detroit. Its rare to have cars driving around here under cover so I just had to take some shots.
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Did you know that The HVAC system on the YARis, Tc and MZ3 are fully electronic?
I.E. the mechanisms that actuate the flaps and blend are little motors, not the Cables and gears but a digital connection From the switch to the flap.
This allows lighter feeling switch gear, lighter HVac system and optional Automatic HVAC, without adding too much cost.
By sahreing this sytem on soo manny models, like power windows a decade before, ou redue the cost to sometime less than a mechanical HVAC, system.
Are people that much of wusses now that they dont even want to feel a HVAC cable being moved around? like theres that much drag on it for crying out loud. How numb of a feeling in a car is required to make it 'feel' high class. Take a vicodin before you get in the car then youll feel nothing.
I dont see how adding all these electronic connections is comparable in cost AND SIMPLICITY to a cable and gears.
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call us when it needs a new tranny at 50k.
Should I be worried? Im at 40k on my '04 ranger. Come to think of it I have had a problem with my ranger, Ive noticed smoke pouring out the passenger rear tire. It seems to happen only when I hit the skinny pedal on the floor. Whos bright idea was it to use 4.10 gears, 4liter v6 and an open differential. Ill let ford slide on this but for the sake of the poor kid in the civic on my way to work that has to listen to my tire boil next to his drivers window at the light they better work on a fix.
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Unless car and driver had a pretty well beat fusion then that might explain their front end body gap issues, but the few I looked at on the road and at the dealer the front end seemed pretty tight as far as fit and finish, the door seals thought did stick out more than Id like them to.
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Ford offers a fire suppression system on these cars ... do they not? .. why doesn't anybody tell these companys to stop being so cheap and purchace a factory option designed to save lives ... the caprice classic was just as bad for catching fire but you didn't see anybody doing a write up on them did you?
OR maybe we should just put everybody into an Impala and see how many people live to say their cars burst into flames?
I got into an argument on some website about this topic, I eventually stopped replying cus I realized I was arguing with someone I dont even know on the internet. Anyway do you have any articles and such about caprices and rear end collision fires? I couldnt really find anything documented, crown vics on the other hand people were getting into parking lot fender benders and the news writes it down.
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Kinda funny. The power is in metric. The weight is in metric. The tow rate is in metric.
And, it has 18 INCH wheels.
Do they even say DUBS in europe?
Boss Engine
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Correct me if I am wrong but I sincerely doubt the twin force is going to be in the F-150, from my understanding they tend to use pickups to test engines because they are inconspicuous and there is plenty of room under the hood to tinker with stuff. I remember when a super duty was running around with the GT's engine, you dont see any 500hp superdutys out now, and I doubt you will see the twin force in an F-150.