Bluezone
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I hadn't tried Tasca so I don't know if they ship to Canada and what the shipping rates are. Plus there's import fees and about 30% difference between the value of US and Canadian dollar.
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Must be agitating. Are you just going to get a reman?
Bluezone
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Yeah I'm just going to get the reman and keep it on hand in case this one goes. It's a year old Ford unit. It's actually pretty hard to damage this type of CV joint just by taking it apart. It's whether or not the grease stays in with the hose clamps on it. Mind you you can get rebuild kits for the boots which include the strap style clamps.
Edit, just got word back from my supplier and it's $165 bucks but it's a brand new unit.
Nice
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I've come to realize after playing around a little bit that I'm going to have to upgrade the transmission mounts. Little hard to launch. I just sent off an email to Anthony DiCunzolo to inquire about his transmission mounts. Anyone know if he's still making them?
Pretty sure he is.
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Thanks hopefully I'll hear back from him relatively soon.
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Okay I decided to do a little modding and preventative maintenance on the car today.
I decided to see what I could do to stiffen up the front transmission torque mount. So I removed it and installed a metal dowel in the slotted portion of the metal sleeve between the bolt and the sleeve to take up the slack. This shouldn't have too much effect as the torque arm shouldn't move that much with the bolt torqued to spec. I also drilled a couple holes in the rubber bushing, one forward one and a half and inserted small bolts with nuts. This is to take up some of the slop in the bushing.
Next I decided to retort the front subframe bushing bolts, plus the steering rack bolts. At about 20 lb higher than standard torque. All six bolts felt like they were a little loose to start with so this probably improved the situation with subframe and steering rack play.
The results from what I've read are similar to having the upgraded torque arm. There's a much better shift from first to second, plus putting the car in park on an incline doesn't hold back as far. I now have a slight chirp on a hard take off and haven't noticed any wheel hop at this point. Probably need to do more upgrades before it becomes a problem again.
The chassis is giving much more road feedback as well as the steering. The steering feels more connected with the rubber bushings in the rack being more compressed. Probably not quite as nice as a solid bushing used in the 2013 up Taurus and MKS.
I decided to see what I could do to stiffen up the front transmission torque mount. So I removed it and installed a metal dowel in the slotted portion of the metal sleeve between the bolt and the sleeve to take up the slack. This shouldn't have too much effect as the torque arm shouldn't move that much with the bolt torqued to spec. I also drilled a couple holes in the rubber bushing, one forward one and a half and inserted small bolts with nuts. This is to take up some of the slop in the bushing.
Next I decided to retort the front subframe bushing bolts, plus the steering rack bolts. At about 20 lb higher than standard torque. All six bolts felt like they were a little loose to start with so this probably improved the situation with subframe and steering rack play.
The results from what I've read are similar to having the upgraded torque arm. There's a much better shift from first to second, plus putting the car in park on an incline doesn't hold back as far. I now have a slight chirp on a hard take off and haven't noticed any wheel hop at this point. Probably need to do more upgrades before it becomes a problem again.
The chassis is giving much more road feedback as well as the steering. The steering feels more connected with the rubber bushings in the rack being more compressed. Probably not quite as nice as a solid bushing used in the 2013 up Taurus and MKS.
Bluezone
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Okay I have gearhead intercooler, transmission torque mounts and a catch can on the way. Also purchased a slightly used PTU for a spare.
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Okay the car's been in the shop for a couple days. My MKS is a very early model, so I decided to have the timing chain and water pump changed out. Well they were in there I had them throw in a high volume oil pump.
Unfortunately things went a little sideways. The kit the shop procured didn't have the cam bolts in it. So they were stuck running around and waiting for replacement torque to yield bolts. They also informed me that the front ball joints we're starting to get worn and apparently I had a broken engine mount. So overall it was good thing it went into the shop and they picked up on those things. Ran 3300 bucks. Remember that's Canadian dollars. He also put fresh oil and coolant in the car. Seems to run a lot better with the new timing chain in it.
The garage owner had thought I was going a little overkill requesting them to change the timing chain and tensioners. He said when the mechanic got in to the engine it turned out that the tensioners and timing chain were about ready to let go. There's about 78,000 miles on the car right now. Kind of glad I got it changed knowing that.
When I was younger I would have just held this sort of thing myself but I'm getting a little too old.
I spent a few hours driving around to make sure everything was okay with the car. It seems pretty good and there's a track day out at Sharonville that I'm going to go to tomorrow. Providing that the possibility of rain doesn't turn out to be true. Anyhow happy Canada Day to my fellow Canucks on the forum. Have a great Independence Day on the 4th of July my American Friends.
Unfortunately things went a little sideways. The kit the shop procured didn't have the cam bolts in it. So they were stuck running around and waiting for replacement torque to yield bolts. They also informed me that the front ball joints we're starting to get worn and apparently I had a broken engine mount. So overall it was good thing it went into the shop and they picked up on those things. Ran 3300 bucks. Remember that's Canadian dollars. He also put fresh oil and coolant in the car. Seems to run a lot better with the new timing chain in it.
The garage owner had thought I was going a little overkill requesting them to change the timing chain and tensioners. He said when the mechanic got in to the engine it turned out that the tensioners and timing chain were about ready to let go. There's about 78,000 miles on the car right now. Kind of glad I got it changed knowing that.
When I was younger I would have just held this sort of thing myself but I'm getting a little too old.
I spent a few hours driving around to make sure everything was okay with the car. It seems pretty good and there's a track day out at Sharonville that I'm going to go to tomorrow. Providing that the possibility of rain doesn't turn out to be true. Anyhow happy Canada Day to my fellow Canucks on the forum. Have a great Independence Day on the 4th of July my American Friends.
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Unfortunately I got a rather long trip ahead of myself so I'm not going to have a chance to get this on for a couple weeks at least. I have installed the catch can and the transmission torque mounts. What a difference these things make. Launching is much easier and the engine feels so much more connected and controllable. Translation no lag between throttle and movement. For me the nicest thing is the throttles much more controllable will cornering. Didn't even realize the torque mounts are a problem in throttle control.
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Yeah the wheels look good brother, and I wish you the best on your modding my friend
Bluezone
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Okay this is going to be a bit of a lengthy post.
I have some personal business to take care of in western Canada. I live in Ontario. So to get to Saskatchewan where I was headed I had to travel through Western and Northern Ontario. It seemed like a simple enough thing. Install my gear Head intercooler packed my bags and checked the fluids and take off.
So I start my journey and end up traveling through Toronto. I get cut off a couple times but generally the traffic isn't bad. I turned onto the 400 highway headed north and started heading towards the Barry Ontario area. When I got into Barry I stop for a quick bite and drink and stretch my legs I've been on the road for about 3 and 1/2 hours. The Sun was shining but I got this really strong urge to get traveling, I thought it was just that I had so far to go to reach Wawa. Yes this is a real town name not the sound of Charlie Brown's teacher. Lol.
10 mi north of Barry I ran into a rainstorm that was like a monsoon you couldn't see more than two feet in front of your car. Traffic crawled to almost halt and I thought holy this is tornado like weather. So I continued on my way. Little did I know 1 1/2 hours after I left Barry a tornado touchdown 10 blocks from where I had stopped. Holy hugging ****** Batman.
Well this is going on I continue North. It starts to get dark and I'm into the wilderness region of Northern Ontario with mountains and sheer granite cliffs. It was joyous, the road was like spaghetti thrown on the mountains. Winding and turning left and right up and down. A great drive. In the darkness ahead I saw a car. It turned out to be a black Dodge charger. When we come to straightaways he'd take off. I was going at a good clip and didn't want to go any faster, because I was already enjoying myself. But he was afraid of corners. So we dice back and forth through the twisties and then he'd scoot away. I kind of got tired of this so I blew him off through the curves in the passing zones that happened now and again. For those who don't know these are when the two lane road opens up into three lanes with passing for one direction. Cars traveling the opposite direction have a separate section now and again for passing for them only.
Anyhow after I left him behind after schooling him on how to drive quickly through curves. Something he slowly picked up from following me. Learning not to hit the brakes of time corner came up. I slowly left him in the gloom of the night. Traveling alone up a tight left hand sweeper a bit of a cliff on my left and a sheer granite wall on my right. A wolves head appears in front of my car for about a second. I could see it from the shoulder up. I brace for a thump and nothing. It appeared and disappeared like a ghost. I had to scratch my head and ask myself did this really happen.
I arrived at Wawa late at night. My room key was taped to the hotel office door waiting for me. It was like 1:00 a.m. . I could hear the local Town wildlife hooting it up and disagreeing with each other. I stepped into my room with my bag and turned on the tv. There are learned about the tornado in Barry. Somewhere over 600 mi had been traveled.
The next morning I woke up and I had roughly 700 mi to cover today. I got a late start and started driving. The price of gas was ridiculous in this part of Ontario. They wanted as much for 87 octane is what I pay for 94 octane around where I live. Roughly $1.62 a liter roughly $6.13 an American gallon.
Luckily I had extra gas in my car to bypass the real gougers who didn't have high test.
Has the day woron still winding up down and through mountains Hills and valleys. Scenic views that would make your eyes hurt. But there was a thorn in my side constant road repair construction. 20 minute waits to get through a half mile section. Apparently forest fires were nearby and the sky was occasionally gray with smoke. It looked like ground fog. I crossed the border into Manitoba and and discovered to my chagrin that my rear sway bar links were shot. The roads in Manitoba are a gift not to be taken lightly. I think they import potholes from out of country. Anyhow I made it to my destination and stayed overnight.
The next morning I woke up at my brother's place and we ran out to grab a couple sweetheart and links from the middle of nowhere. Manitoba and Saskatchewan are much the same. But not only are you in the middle of nowhere but you can see everyone else's middle of the nowhere for 20 miles in places.
Anyhow I got the end links installed and the car now drove relatively smoothly and quietly over the tortured tarmac. If I flew farther Westward about 120 miles down the road great eclouds covered the sky everywhere you looked from Horizon to Horizon for miles in the distance. I was driving into the eye of a rainstorm. Stitch lightning flashing from the clouds. From cloud a bolt of lightning to the next cloud quickly just dating another lightning Sprite onward to another and another and another. Grandiose and frightening. The actual rain wasn't that bad but thunderstorms on the plane are impressive beasts.
Over 400 MI covered today with about 60 of them in a rainstorm.
The car ran like a champ the whole time.
Most of Highway 1 is double lane single direction traffic with the traffic heading the other way on its double lane separated by a wide margin. I think I might have pushed my car too far, I suspect it either was feeling suicidal or attempting to rid itself of me when the following happened.
Just before I came up to one of these.
My GPS "announced entering unknown area. Proceed with extreme caution. Turn left and immediately turn right." it was trying to get me to drive in the wrong way on the other side of the highway. Lol
Anyhow I'm at my destination and I'm here for a couple days. The intercooler works great the car is a little happier with the intercoolerant even with the stock tune. It's been an interesting 1700 mile Journey.
Cheers Brian
I have some personal business to take care of in western Canada. I live in Ontario. So to get to Saskatchewan where I was headed I had to travel through Western and Northern Ontario. It seemed like a simple enough thing. Install my gear Head intercooler packed my bags and checked the fluids and take off.
So I start my journey and end up traveling through Toronto. I get cut off a couple times but generally the traffic isn't bad. I turned onto the 400 highway headed north and started heading towards the Barry Ontario area. When I got into Barry I stop for a quick bite and drink and stretch my legs I've been on the road for about 3 and 1/2 hours. The Sun was shining but I got this really strong urge to get traveling, I thought it was just that I had so far to go to reach Wawa. Yes this is a real town name not the sound of Charlie Brown's teacher. Lol.
10 mi north of Barry I ran into a rainstorm that was like a monsoon you couldn't see more than two feet in front of your car. Traffic crawled to almost halt and I thought holy this is tornado like weather. So I continued on my way. Little did I know 1 1/2 hours after I left Barry a tornado touchdown 10 blocks from where I had stopped. Holy hugging ****** Batman.
Well this is going on I continue North. It starts to get dark and I'm into the wilderness region of Northern Ontario with mountains and sheer granite cliffs. It was joyous, the road was like spaghetti thrown on the mountains. Winding and turning left and right up and down. A great drive. In the darkness ahead I saw a car. It turned out to be a black Dodge charger. When we come to straightaways he'd take off. I was going at a good clip and didn't want to go any faster, because I was already enjoying myself. But he was afraid of corners. So we dice back and forth through the twisties and then he'd scoot away. I kind of got tired of this so I blew him off through the curves in the passing zones that happened now and again. For those who don't know these are when the two lane road opens up into three lanes with passing for one direction. Cars traveling the opposite direction have a separate section now and again for passing for them only.
Anyhow after I left him behind after schooling him on how to drive quickly through curves. Something he slowly picked up from following me. Learning not to hit the brakes of time corner came up. I slowly left him in the gloom of the night. Traveling alone up a tight left hand sweeper a bit of a cliff on my left and a sheer granite wall on my right. A wolves head appears in front of my car for about a second. I could see it from the shoulder up. I brace for a thump and nothing. It appeared and disappeared like a ghost. I had to scratch my head and ask myself did this really happen.
I arrived at Wawa late at night. My room key was taped to the hotel office door waiting for me. It was like 1:00 a.m. . I could hear the local Town wildlife hooting it up and disagreeing with each other. I stepped into my room with my bag and turned on the tv. There are learned about the tornado in Barry. Somewhere over 600 mi had been traveled.
The next morning I woke up and I had roughly 700 mi to cover today. I got a late start and started driving. The price of gas was ridiculous in this part of Ontario. They wanted as much for 87 octane is what I pay for 94 octane around where I live. Roughly $1.62 a liter roughly $6.13 an American gallon.
Luckily I had extra gas in my car to bypass the real gougers who didn't have high test.
Has the day woron still winding up down and through mountains Hills and valleys. Scenic views that would make your eyes hurt. But there was a thorn in my side constant road repair construction. 20 minute waits to get through a half mile section. Apparently forest fires were nearby and the sky was occasionally gray with smoke. It looked like ground fog. I crossed the border into Manitoba and and discovered to my chagrin that my rear sway bar links were shot. The roads in Manitoba are a gift not to be taken lightly. I think they import potholes from out of country. Anyhow I made it to my destination and stayed overnight.
The next morning I woke up at my brother's place and we ran out to grab a couple sweetheart and links from the middle of nowhere. Manitoba and Saskatchewan are much the same. But not only are you in the middle of nowhere but you can see everyone else's middle of the nowhere for 20 miles in places.
Anyhow I got the end links installed and the car now drove relatively smoothly and quietly over the tortured tarmac. If I flew farther Westward about 120 miles down the road great eclouds covered the sky everywhere you looked from Horizon to Horizon for miles in the distance. I was driving into the eye of a rainstorm. Stitch lightning flashing from the clouds. From cloud a bolt of lightning to the next cloud quickly just dating another lightning Sprite onward to another and another and another. Grandiose and frightening. The actual rain wasn't that bad but thunderstorms on the plane are impressive beasts.
Over 400 MI covered today with about 60 of them in a rainstorm.
The car ran like a champ the whole time.
Most of Highway 1 is double lane single direction traffic with the traffic heading the other way on its double lane separated by a wide margin. I think I might have pushed my car too far, I suspect it either was feeling suicidal or attempting to rid itself of me when the following happened.
Just before I came up to one of these.
My GPS "announced entering unknown area. Proceed with extreme caution. Turn left and immediately turn right." it was trying to get me to drive in the wrong way on the other side of the highway. Lol
Anyhow I'm at my destination and I'm here for a couple days. The intercooler works great the car is a little happier with the intercoolerant even with the stock tune. It's been an interesting 1700 mile Journey.
Cheers Brian
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The wildlife fires going on, maybe it was a wolf ghost
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What a great tale. And an epic driving journey. Glad everything has worked out for you so far. I look forward to reading the sequel for your drive home.
Bluezone
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Okay I've been back about a week from my journey to Saskatchewan and back.
The trip back was relatively quiet. Except you couldn't see a half mile down the road due to smoke around Brandon Manitoba. The trip back through Northern Ontario was relatively uneventful with only a pack of coyotes and Mama and the three bearlets crossing the road in front of me. LOL
I got to see the road that I driven up at night during the daytime. Nice high view of the lake. Glad I didn't go off the road.
I stayed overnight in Northern Ontario and covered 956 mi in one day. Driving 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 in the morning the next night.
All in all it was a pretty good trip. Last photod are the flatness of Manitoba and Saskatchewan plus the smoke outside of Brandon Manitoba, Or as I prefer Saskatoba.
That was last Wednesday the following Friday there was a mix and match out at shannonville again. With the new intercooler I couldn't hook up for Love or money. Best I managed was 13.65 at 102.9 mph. The track wasn't well prepared and they were running a single Lane due to oil on the other lane. Need to get retuned for what I have for mods right now.
Tomorrow, this Thursday, the car goes in to have a new intermediate shaft and JordanR's performance pack PTU installed. I'm going to try cooling it via the heater core lines. I'm going to tee off the out and in heater core hoses.
Hopefully Gear Head will have a new tune for me soon so that the xdi Evo hpfp can be installed. There will be another mix and match go to shannonville in the next couple weeks. So I will try some runs out there. Hopefully the track prep better or I am probably going to have to pick up a set of Nitto 555r tires. Without the updated tune I was spinning off the line, 17-1800 rpm, and going into second gear. A quick look at the monitoring record from the livewire TS I got. Showed that I was boosting up to 20 psi during gear changes. Also boost was climbing with rpm. Not good when it used to stay a steady 15.5 PSI. Also around 96-97 mph I was having a gear shift just a little before the finish line. My speed would drop a little during that shift.
In roughly 2 to 3 weeks my downpipes should arrive. Going to need another tune after that.
I've been thinking about doing a Dyno run before before and after the evo pump is installed. Nearest four-wheel dyno seems to be in Pickering or Oshawa.
The trip back was relatively quiet. Except you couldn't see a half mile down the road due to smoke around Brandon Manitoba. The trip back through Northern Ontario was relatively uneventful with only a pack of coyotes and Mama and the three bearlets crossing the road in front of me. LOL
I got to see the road that I driven up at night during the daytime. Nice high view of the lake. Glad I didn't go off the road.
I stayed overnight in Northern Ontario and covered 956 mi in one day. Driving 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 in the morning the next night.
All in all it was a pretty good trip. Last photod are the flatness of Manitoba and Saskatchewan plus the smoke outside of Brandon Manitoba, Or as I prefer Saskatoba.
That was last Wednesday the following Friday there was a mix and match out at shannonville again. With the new intercooler I couldn't hook up for Love or money. Best I managed was 13.65 at 102.9 mph. The track wasn't well prepared and they were running a single Lane due to oil on the other lane. Need to get retuned for what I have for mods right now.
Tomorrow, this Thursday, the car goes in to have a new intermediate shaft and JordanR's performance pack PTU installed. I'm going to try cooling it via the heater core lines. I'm going to tee off the out and in heater core hoses.
Hopefully Gear Head will have a new tune for me soon so that the xdi Evo hpfp can be installed. There will be another mix and match go to shannonville in the next couple weeks. So I will try some runs out there. Hopefully the track prep better or I am probably going to have to pick up a set of Nitto 555r tires. Without the updated tune I was spinning off the line, 17-1800 rpm, and going into second gear. A quick look at the monitoring record from the livewire TS I got. Showed that I was boosting up to 20 psi during gear changes. Also boost was climbing with rpm. Not good when it used to stay a steady 15.5 PSI. Also around 96-97 mph I was having a gear shift just a little before the finish line. My speed would drop a little during that shift.
In roughly 2 to 3 weeks my downpipes should arrive. Going to need another tune after that.
I've been thinking about doing a Dyno run before before and after the evo pump is installed. Nearest four-wheel dyno seems to be in Pickering or Oshawa.
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DadMobile
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I just read the entire trip, Canada has so much natural beauty. I was part of an ultralight flying club and we had members with float planes in that area. The views just never end!
The bottom line with these cars and getting the most money back on modifications comes down to fuel. To wake them up you need E30+ OR some sort of racing fuel. Some 275’s on wider rim will be needed at this point.
A good tuner will be able to gleam the most power from your car over the course of several revisions with
Deleting the belly cat appears to have helped net my car 50ish hp, I hope to have a dyno run soon that will back that up
The bottom line with these cars and getting the most money back on modifications comes down to fuel. To wake them up you need E30+ OR some sort of racing fuel. Some 275’s on wider rim will be needed at this point.
A good tuner will be able to gleam the most power from your car over the course of several revisions with
Deleting the belly cat appears to have helped net my car 50ish hp, I hope to have a dyno run soon that will back that up
DadMobile
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Wow it deleted my whole sentence after with for saying:
“A good tuner will be able to gleam the most power from your car over the course of several revisions without xxpploding your engine.”
Ffs lol.
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