Incon 800tti Install (Summer 2002)
So you want to build a TT Mustang, huh? Well, that's good. If you have the right tools, enough Gold Bond, and "Hall And Oates: The Best of Rock & Soul Part 1" (Preferrably in cassette form), you can have as much fun as the No Excuse crew did this summer. Click on the thumbnails to view full size pictures.
Here's a couple of schedule 40 butt-pipes. Do these two look qualified to build
a 10 second, $25,000 race car? We'll see!!
Time to get started. List? Check. Gold bond? Check. Hall and Oates? Check.
Meet Sally with her old power adder - a Powerdyne blower. In order to fund the
Incon kit, Shaun wisely sold the whiner. This shot also shows the old AOD; if you look
very closely you can see it.
If you want to put Incons on, the engine has to come out. We started tearing the motor
apart to pull it, only to find a total of TWO cylinders! No wonder Sally was so slow! Just kidding,
that is the heart of the Snot Rocket, Shaun's home brewed Go-Kart on steroids (and polishes).
The motor came out, and the Incon clearance plate was welded in and painted. Also, the AOD was pulled
and sold to a certified Johnny Hildo driving around drinking beer with his girlfriend.
We pulled the heads off and gave Sally a good cleaning. There was almost no ridge to it, and
also had cross-hatching left! Unfortunately, it had to be surgically seperated from Shaun's pee-pee
before we could put it in. Zip up those pants, buddy! Rico and Shaun lower the motor in while jamming to
Darryl and John (or possibly Rancid or AFI) in the background.
Shaun stands next to his swap-meet-scored Tremec. If you ask Shaun about it, he'll
tell you what he tells everyone else: "It's sick!" I yelled at him constantly to get an SFI bellhousing and
flywheel, because I didn't want to push his handicapped ass all over the place in the event of a failed 6000 RPM
sidestep. So, he listened to reason (Shhhhh! He's listening to reason!) and shelled out for the big boy toys.
One thing was for sure - EVERYONE loved the new Steeda Tri-Ax shifter! After a few nights under the dash installing
the clutch pedal, the 5-speed went in.
When we went to put the rest of the motor together, Shaun realized he made a slight miscalculation
in port matching the heads, so we broke out the die grinder, covered up the lifter valley and
made the needed corrections.
We're either going to Street Racer Heaven or Regular people's Hell for this maneuver. Stock
19#/hr injectors are orange. Shaun's 42#/hour injectors are green. Look closely at the picture and
do the math......I contensted that it would only be fooling Ford guys in-the-know, but it's damned funny,
regardless.
And, she's done! I don't see any turbos.......do you?
Oh, there they are! You might have a better view of them if you are
standing under the car. Like looking down the barrel of a Napalm gun. Yes, this will definately
hang with 7s and quests.
We were so happy when Sally was together that we went out and bought Rico a toilet. Since nobody
was home, we decided to leave it on the front steps of his house so they would see it right
away and take it inside to install it. We added the planter...for decoration.