I joined the 5.0 Fox club!
 

So my original plan was to pick up my parents '08 GT/CS but after looking at numbers it made more sense to go with something a little older/cheaper. After looking at a few cars I found/picked up a '91 hatch today!

I attached a couple pictures from the ad for the car, I'll snap some better ones tomorrow if it clears up a bit, the car got nasty driving back in the snow/rain!

Watch for me, I'll be around in it! It's the new daily after all..

Nice ass car! Lpve that color on a lx hatch. Be careful with it till it warms up, they like to turn backwards with blowers if your suspension is stock. Lol

With springs, control arms, fresh bushings, sub-frame connectors and DR's I'm hoping it'll hook up nicely. We'll find out when it's dry enough outside. Lol.

Looks great! I love those wheels on that color car!! Clean pick up. Congrats!

Man that car looks clean as fawk in those pics! Nice find!

-Alex

Nice.

Thats a good start... id buy some heim joint adjustable upper control arms, set the proper pinion angle and it will dig in and hook a ton better than now.

Looks good. Is that an old powerdyne blower?? I haven't seen one of those in years.

Sure is! I got the original booklet with it too! Cool thing is that there's a company out there still making the maintenance parts for them.

Nice!!!!

Nice fox. Got any plans for it?

Honestly not really...it's gonna go to TrueStreet and get checked out, make sure its a safe daily tune and then after that just rock it back and forth to work, tidy up little things as I go.

Only problem I'm facing is it was in the shop today getting an alternator and battery they managed to strip the alternator mounting hole. No freaking idea how. So yeah... I get to wait until at least Monday now... :favorites68:

Clean fox!

Looks like a stout car, good luck with it!

Congrats on the new project. Welcome to the "Money Pit Club":)

Awesome. Love the color

Got the car back from TrueStreet this evening... 434WHP and 442WTQ... :signs1:

Thats not bad at all... all stock long block? or does it have heads and cam?

No idea on the bottom end, the previous owner told me it was stock. I know it's got intake, heads and cam, running about 6-7psi of boost. It was running lean as all hell (good thing I didn't dog on it) so TrueStreet added in a little more fuel, changed the plugs and ran it on the dyno. Numbers make it a nice daily while staying streetable..

The 6-rib belt for the blower decided last night it wanted to be a 5-rib so it's sitting on my desk here at work. I guess tonight at 9pm when I get off work I get to go down to the car (parked it next to a dealership) and replace that belt on the roadside. The joys of modified cars!

EDIT: Not the belt. Supercharger headunit seized and shredded the belt. Fuck.

Now what? Do those blowers have a repair place since tgey are out of biz?

I've heard there is a guy that rebuilds them but I can't remember who it is.

Well that doesnt help the poor guy. Lol

I heard a guy had a Powerdyne at TSM.....DONNY. Any idea if yours would be a suitable replacement?

A place called 928 Motorsports has rebuild services and sells all the necessary parts as these blowers are actually relatively simple internally. I'm pulling the unit tonight in the garage to see what really happened. It looks clean looking in from the backside of the blower but that front pulley isn't budging. If I'm lucky it's just an internal drive belt that failed and got wedged that I can replace and be good to roll...

The other option I have is track down a good used unit, preferably just the blower itself, off another car (P/N: BD-11 or BD-11A) for a couple hundred bucks and just bolt it up and go. The replacement belts (if that's all it needs) run $50-80 depending on brand and quality so for a little more money a second blower would be good as then I'll have spares etc. I scoured a few forums and Craigslist to no avail... if anyone has one or knows someone with one they want to offload cheap let me know.

Tim...you guys don't have a spare, good condition BD-11 stuck in a corner somewhere? Lol.

....I have a BD-11A. Uncertain of it's condition 100%. Blownaltered should be able to shed some light on that matter.

Oh really? Let me shoot him a PM...

928 Motorsports is a good shop, should repair it no problem.

Not my blower. The only one I got is on my car. Now if you have a 76 mm turbo laying around you want to say is mine I will take that all day long. :D

Since it's not blownaltered's it appears you have an unclaimed BD-11A... If it is in decent shape maybe we can come to an agreement on it lol. Let me know, it would be pretty awesome to get this sucker back together tonight...

It's a damn shame I'm an honest person. I so could have sold that damn thing and made me a quick buck, but it would haunt me for months for doing it.

I hope you get her up and running again soon. It oissed me off when I at my p1sc on my old GT.

I appreciate the honesty lol. Now if Tim will work out what the deal is on it maybe I can snag it off them and get this turd running again... I've had the car for like 2 weeks and it seems I've barely even used it...

Some reason I thought it was yours, Donny. Maybe because all your %#*& is ancient :hahano:

I'm working on it as we speak.

My car parts are like me, old and broke in.

'Experienced'



I'm gonna use that next time I sell a car... ran when parked, motor has lots of prior experience....

So I took the blower unit off and opened it up on the drive belt side expecting to see carnage... what I actually see is.....nothing really. Pulleys and drive belt look great, bearings on the top side look good. Only thing I do see, tiny little fragments of what look like a bearing, the weird thing is both pulleys are right where they need to be but they don't spin which is real odd as that side of the blower is isolated from the side that actually moves the air... more updates to come...


EDIT 1: Took off the back side of the blower, impeller looks good. Has a little wear on the fins but nothing to be too worried about. After a little looking with the flashlight it looks like the bearing that sits between the impeller and the drive pulley (on the same shaft) has seized. Need to somehow break loose the components on that shaft to get down to the problem, of course it's something BURIED in there, couldn't be an easy fix... on the plus side getting back into being able to work on this kinda stuff has been nice, kinda missed it...

EDIT 2: With no puller/press for bearings I subbed out the bearing replacement to TrueStreet. Hopefully they can hook me up on it and I'll put it all back together... I want my damn car...

Car's fucked. Blower rebuild is more money than I have, car's in pieces in the garage. Straight up S.O.L. Traded in my fucking '13 Dodge and used equity to buy this in the plan on not having a payment...yeah that plan didn't work. /Rant.

Got the blower back together and back on the car... runs good, took a mile or two to get its adaptations back after sitting with the battery unhooked for days on end.

Hopefully that's it for teething issues getting this thing daily ready..

Hows it running now?