Mercury Cougar XR7 Convertible 1970.

Mercury Cougar XR7 Convertible 1970.
Mercury Cougar XR7 Convertible 1970

lördag 24 augusti 2013

Traction and handling improvements

A new bigger swaybar in front 1" and a 3/4" in the rear, new shocks rear plus new poly bushings to the leafs. In the front i put 620lbs colis and new mounting seats, shocks already changed.
Also going to do the Shelby drop and put reinforcement plates to the lower control arms and lower outer part of shock towers. A bump steer kit going in also right now.
This winter im going to build my own sub frame, x frame and traction bars.
Also a homemade rack and pinion kit going to be installed.
A monte carlo bar going to be assembled, the reinforced export brace is already there.
New motor mounts is ordered and going to be changed soon.
Relocate the battery to the rear is also planned.

Some of the new parts:



torsdag 1 augusti 2013

I have 351C-4V Closed Chambers heads!

My motor aint the original so i did some investigation of what motor i really have.
The heads have #4 on the left corner so i did know that it was 4V-heads but not if it was open or closed chambers.

I started to meassure the deck height to asure me about that it is a Cevelamd and not a 351M or 400.

Meassured several times and got 23,4 cm/9.2" each time. :)

Took pictures of the backside of the motor and found a chassi number for the car the motor was originally in OF....

Then i tried to see what casting number it was behind the starter, could only read DOAE,,,,

Pulled the valve covers to see the date code 9J9! :) :)

9J9 means 1969 sept 9:th, and is so called closed Chambers or Quench Heads.
Compression ratio is 11.0:1.