The 98GT - 4.6L to 460 (and a turbo!)

[Captain]

Reaccess, Adapt, and Overcome!
Sometimes the Distance is the SAME,
To Go AROUND a Mountain as to Go OVER It.

[BBR]

Felt like crap today but I still went to the shop. I should have worked on the Red 95 but this car has been at the front of my brain lately.
I yanked the serpentine setup that I made off. That was a neat idea, but man there are plenty of things for me to worry about without that being one of them.

I slipped a mechanical water pump on it and trimmed up the power steering bracket a little to clear the frame and to clear the flipped exhaust manifold that is behind and below it.

In doing so, I think I may have come up with a much better way to actually do a serpentine-ish belt. I can low mount the alternator on the passenger side and that will open up space in front of the turbo where I can actually put an air filter on it.

On the power steering/ac compressor bracket, there is one boss that is supposed to bolt to the water pump right near the water pump inlet. This particular boss was broke off on my power steering bracket, so that left an unused boss on the water pump that is in the perfect location to mount an idler pulley.

I'm not going to try to figure out the AC right now. That is something I can do later because I really just want to get this thing running and moving.

It was a good day. I feel so much better about this setup than the one I built.

[BBR]

Today was a good day in the shop.

I really wanted to make enough room up front so I could run the stock Mustang fan. It's a big sucker. It should keep this thing cool very nicely.

I ended up taking a cutoff wheel to the core support and I made a notch in it about an inch and a quarter wide. Then I trimmed up some of the side pieces in the core support and massaged the bottom quite a bit with a big hammer.

Final result was I created plenty of room to mount the radiator and the big fan. Also mounted the water pump and the power steering bracket. The alternator bracket fits nicely but I need longer bolts and different length spacers. Not a big deal though.

[BBR]

[Captain]

Just curious
Is that cone air filter big enough for the volume of Air that Turbo is going to Draw Spooled Up ?

[BBR]

I think so. It is the same filter I used with this turbo on the F100. It is pretty dang big!

[TheSilverBuick]

What ignition coils are you using?

[BBR]

What ignition coils are you using?

They are the IGN-4 coils I got from Bill years ago. I ran them in the 83 and then in the Nanner.

[TheSilverBuick]

Solid coils! I was thinking they were IGN's of some kind but hoping it was some OEM take off I wasn't aware of.

[BBR]

Coil mount is done, coolant bypass connected and heater port blocked. Movin on.

[BBR]

Radiator and big fan are mounted. Gosh the up-front room I have now is awesome.

100% considering moving the battery back to the front.

[BBR]

Proper coil connectors swapped on, coils are mounted and upper radiator hose is in place. I also started looking at putting the battery back up front.

[Captain]

Look at ALL that ROOM !!
Enough for a Full Size Pool Table
And A Trampoline !!

[BBR]

Look at ALL that ROOM !!
Enough for a Full Size Pool Table
And A Trampoline !!

[BBR]

Did a little trimming to allow the battery to slide over into the fenderwell just at a little. I will make a tray and a hold-down to keep it in place.