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« on: December 29, 2021, 08:40:25 PM »
I believe this engine arrived at the yard with 130,000 and ran with no issues. Good advice about the timing chain, I will swap that out. The exterior looks much better than the motor in the article, and I don’t plan on rebuilding it, but I will spin it and check compression/leak down, most likely when already installed. Not sure if I will be able to spend time cobbling together a run stand.
Right now the two hang-ups are the Explorer front dress (wanted for good accessories and also because it is the shortest dress for Windsor motors), which requires a custom crank pulley for a supercharger, along with the crank sensor as previously noted. I suppose I can use a TFI distributor if needed, which I pulled from an HO 5.0 Lincoln in case it was needed. I really just want to use the factory coils if possible, or install coil-on-plug or coil-near-plug for each cylinder.
I checked out SDS. I am going to send them a message or call some time tomorrow.