Tim Sacco6g 👍👍👍👍

89 GT here..yep I know the click. First car I ever owned back in 1998. Still have it.

Tim Sacco6g the last great muscle car with those door latches

The Click is the Plastic Door Striker ring missing. Replace the Striker...

Glad you enjoyed it 👍

Right on Mr Bob. Or may I just call you Bob?

But you can make that 5.0 SCREAM!

Fun & smiles are what we’re all about. After The Lost Year we managed to get to the track in ‘21. Reports on that coming up. Agent AOD is getting prepped for a new assault on the 1320 in 2022

Trying to have fun. If it’s not fun then why bother!

We all have one, or many, cars that got away!

😂This is absolutely the most stupid title to a video ever. Why is the word stock mentioned at all?

Sounds like a cool truck. Let us know how it runs

Sounds like it’ll be a good time.👍👍👍

👍 Thanks for watching Greg!

Sweet

Thanks for watching Dark Man!

Glad you like it.

I'm sure he has tons of spare parts for when it breaks ..... people throw "tons" of power sometimes because they like having ac , safety, nice ride , looks over stripping the car down and having it a nightmare to drive around when not racing .

Thank you. We are trying our best with what FOMOCO gave us.

If I were to have built the car from scratch with the intention of racing it I would have gone with a c4. I’m using the AOD because A- Thats what was in the car and B- I like the challenge. Density Altitude is a MAJOR factor with how this particular car runs at the strip given the nature of how stock the motor is. My favorite times of racing season is the beginning and the end since thats when we see the best conditions for quick ET’s. 👍

Pick one (both are fun) or build a no budget drag car out of leftovers and borrowed parts. Pretty easy to do. Either way, shoot it so we can share the fun with the viewers

Thanks for watching Tevin!

Patrick Springer Me too, man! Me too

John Baker Doing our best. Thanks for watching.

Welcome John!

Interesting thought. Might just have to replace the roof skin completely. It’s not exactly pristine

The roof skin is being replaced to get rid of the sunroof. I hate sunroofs and t-tops because sooner or later they will start leaking.

Absolutely, the power is there in the oem pkg. Putting it to the ground is the key. Why build more power for any car if your suspension can’t handle what you already have? A good foundation is the place to start. Maximizes every future mod

Bran Sho Much easier with a T5 than an AOD.

@@black88coupe Very true, You'll need gears and a converter for sure.

@@stickmansgarage9452 you think it's a good idea to have a k-member to reduce weight on the suspension or its bad for the car on the long run? Curious about your thoughts?

That's what made these cars so popular when they were new. A guy could buy the car brand new on Friday and by Saturday afternoon have it in the low 13's--high 12's. (Timing 13 degrees, removed engine air intake silencer, Flowmaster cat back, M&H Racemasters and some lower control arms would get you there)

Jorge Jimenez The video tells a lot if you really take a look at the car as a whole. Definitely not 100% bone stock. But like I said it really is a junk motor I bought off Craigslist.

Jorge, the video was already long, man! We’ll get into more detail as we go along

TheMattc999 took me a lot of boost to get mine into the 12s. 4000 lbs fights back

Rooster Cogburn Thanks, we’ll keep it coming. Love Australian cars. Hardcore!

Arthur Sperotto High tech explanation: Camera tracks your movements. I moved close, background blurred so I went with it. Empty pockets motivate creative thinking

79tazman Thank you.

Always some kinda Mitchuation

Have you tried putting the shifter back into first as soon as you make the 1-2 shift? After that when you are ready to make the 2-3 shift you just put it into drive to achieve the 2-3 shift. Or maybe the TV cable needs adjusting?????

An AOD transmission shift points can by adjusted by the kick down cable.

BolognaTheTiger More to come hope you like it.

@@black88coupe Nice! Yes I do for sure.

Glad you’re on board! And BolognaTheTiger is now tied with MaoTseHelen for best screen name

Musky Elon Thank you

Badass is right. There’s a Radial Revolution going on and we’re going to be talking about it

We’re trying buddy. Thanks for watching.

It’s not impossible for a stock 5.0 valvetrain to run in the 12s under the right conditions (at or below sea level air).

The car ran it's best pass (12.68) with 4.30's. It has 4.56's now in preparation for future upgrades. It does have 1.7 Cobra rockers and I also did replace the worn- out stock valve springs because after 120,000 miles and 6,000rpm shifts- the valves were floating. The car went 12.89 with stock E7 heads/ intake spacer/ electric water pump/ roller rockers. When I put on the modified E7 heads it went a best of 12.68.

Downriver life

@@black88coupe haha hey! It’s you. Love the fox brother! Would love to see it in person. I’m currently building 2 foxes with my dad (his name is mitch as well) But it would be amazing to see it all in person and learn some stuff!

Thanks for watching! Be ironic if my stalker got one of his own. Lol

@@heyitsdakota678 Message me i'm in Wyandotte

Traction & gears. All cars need traction. Most benefit from gears

Thanks for watching!

Thanks glad you like it.

Brandon Taylor We preach the gospel of go fast and hope they see the light, my brother! If not, makes it easier for us to win

@@stickmansgarage9452 yes sir, it sure does make it easier!

Thanks

93lx cpe5.0 Guys a rabid Stocker fan. Mitch is the man!

Im trying buddy. Thank you.

Back in the mid 90's between your car and project stocker I read and reread those articles. Still have most of those magazines lol

No it’s not stock. It’s been modified in a few different ways. I’ll list the mods: 1- 4,200 stall converter 2- SilverFox fixed pressure manual valvebody with a trans brake. 3- slight mods to the oiling system just to add a little extra insurance against premature wear and tear. 4- Solid input shaft. Ran it this way for quite awhile. Recently added a better gear set out of a 4r70w trans. Unfortunately, We haven’t really gotten a chance to take maximum advantage of the better 4r7Ow gearing as other things were giving us problems. Hoping to reap those rewards in 2022. Hope this helps.

@@black88coupe do you drive it daily?

@@oscarvillarreal8951 I did.

@@black88coupe does it over heat on you with the stuff you did? Because your car seems stock and can be driven daily with the mods you did. Just curious?

@@oscarvillarreal8951 No issues overheating. I have a good radiator and a really good water pump. No stock stuff but nothing exotic either.

Ray Stang Stay tuned. Doing our best for the AOD crowd.

RUNE!! We talk about you all the time. Glad you found us. Keep in touch, man

Stick Man's Garage I’m subscribed so I’ll be watching. Too bad Etown is shut down. Miss you guys. Good luck with the channel!

Any friend of UTG is a friend of ours

John Laws Whole team (both of us) is editing as I type this. I gotta get back to work! Thanks man

Ben Wynn We’re doing our best to keep costs down. Sometimes you gotta spend money- but not always.

87Fox5. Slow More on the way. Stay tuned. Thanks.

Thanks man. Welcome to the family

Get out the wrenches and start making mods. Nothing really exotic on this car and most of it was done in my garage. Make it happen! Oh yeah, have fun too!

Joseph Taverna Got lotsa Fords in the stable to show you guys, but we love em all, if they’re fast & cool

wilson speed and performance WSP You came to the right place

Thanks for watching! Do you have an AOD car. What does it run? Feel free to ask questions here. Mitch will chime in here also

Start with a quality shift kit in the AOD. Trans-Go makes a nice kit. With the O/D you can get away with a little more rear gear. 1st gear in the AOD’s are horrible. Maybe a small stall converter too if you want. Call me paranoid but I always run a big trans cooler and plumb it separate from the radiator.

Listen to Agent AOD He knows from what he speaks Sounds like a cool cruiser We love wagons here

Dennis Wingfield Nice profile pic, Chief! Got your tux for the Gearbangers Ball? Oh wait, that happens here on the channel. Well, you can wear it while you watch. And watch... And watch...

butch r Thank you

Pitbull was a blast. Everyone should have a car like that to enjoy

@@stickmansgarage9452 I miss the fun ford weekends of the 90s and early 00s. My buddies would race street outlaw , street renegade , mod motor , top truck , trophy stock. I would run true street when I could it was fun times and best years to own a fox.

Sean Ray Thanks. Keep at it and focus on getting the car to work consistently. Then you can chip away at the details.

It’s all about getting the power to the ground. That’s the gospel we preach around here. You have enough power to run low 13s unless you race at super high elevations

@@stickmansgarage9452 so I recently raced my car I’ve installed 4.11’s with a Yukon rear diff explorer intake with a 1”spacer BAMA chip. And upper n lowers so previously I was 2.2-60’. 9.2-1/8. 14.2-1/4.. with my mods I went a best of 1.9-60’. 9.0-1/8. 14.0-1/4.. it seemed like it ran out of power on the big end my mph was the same as stock.. and I also have a b cam now.. I was basically 2tenths faster. Was thinking it would go low 13’s I was thinking about getting new 19lbs injectors and a fuel pressure regulator and a 255lph fuel pump thinking that might wake it up.. but I’m also thinking about junking the efi and going carburetor do you think it would be faster going carb if adjusted right? Or try to get the efi straightened out? I’m in the cross hairs of what’s the best choice thanks for your input

Thank you, Charlie. Please spread the word. We’ll have something for everyone

Scotty Jones Thank you. Glad you enjoy it.

Amelia Austen Yo, Luke! Weight box helps adjust 50/50 weight distribution for better weight transfer on launch. Also keeps tires planted during a run. More traction, better ET! We’ll talk more about it in future videos

Oh that’s awesome thank you Stick Man’s Garage! That makes a lot of sense but if you were doing racing not drags \ example, our v8 supercars/ Bathurst, would A weight box help them? I’m really looking forward to watch more of your videos! 😊

Oh and sorry but I’m not sure what ( ET ) is?

Corner weights matter in all types of racing, especially road/oval. Too much/too little weight on one tire, or side of the car, will screw up everything. You guys have some of the baddest cars on earth. Big fan

ET = Elapsed Time in drag racing

Shaun Bennett You are correct on the 84 stuff. Mines an 85. BUT i bought it as a roller so i used the leftover EFI stuff of an 88 5.0. The car is a mix of parts.

Shaun Bennett : But EFi 5.0s were....the Central Fuel Injection HO AOD m-code. Just a top swap of EFi SEFi igntion and Port EFi and four cat exhaust and single fuel pump...it is a relatively easy swap and you get the better earlier E4 or E5 heads instead of the High Swirl 1986 odd balls. The Later model 5.0s, even the Exploders and non forged SN95s...an excellent swap many have done. Its hard to know what the Prev Own has done, eh Mitch?

@@deanstevenson6527 and ecu, and wiring and whatever else is needed, probably fuel lines, a fuel pump like you said, not sure if tbi injection used a tfi distributor or not. Anything can be done but my point is that it isnt all stock.

Shaun Bennett : Totally true..The battery is amajor if you go.MAF, but you dont have to do much if its MitchB Agent AOD'd in the back. I did that on my 81. But its hard to eva say Totally with Foxes. I blame Fords Empty Foxes in Boxes assembly line Squirells. Battery and Exhaust changes are a Major. 95% of the wire and wet gear is there, but the M code Ignition, either 5 speed or AOD, isn't dual synch, even if the AOD one is TFi. Its freekin different! And the "Dizzy" drive is not the same on autos. And the true duals of the Port EFis kill the external 2nd fuel pump on the 84 TBis, but not not the 85s (cause there is none), and all the true duals exhausts interfer with the brake lines..and thats a crap load on mighta be changes. The M code AODs were not roller cam equipped and its real hard to be General. Unlike...GM. Where Scooby..Or Doctor Phil..a Ford guy could potentially have a full wiring and wet gear fuel job swapping. The 60 pin ECM placement and pins differ too. Although there are absolute answers, I cant tell you what they are always and Absolutely. Oh, and the Neutral Safety Swith and Parking inhibitor differences. And the manual T5 Trans hump cut and shut. If your mixing parts, it gets complicated Real Quick. Best one is a 3.8 TBi to 5.0MAF SEFi 5 speed conversion..That forces the best Wise Guy to take his 38 Special and sing A Heart Needs A Second Chance....

@@deanstevenson6527 I've never ran a ford ecu on my 79 svo swap, it was much easier and cheaper to just go with a megasquirt, I'm going the same route with my 4.6 2v swap, I'll be into the megasquirt for less than $400 with 2 step, fan control, boost control, and infinite adjustability. Not much tuning out there anymore for the ford ecm.

Welcome, and thanks! Hope we can be of service. What have you already done to your 92?

Stick Man's Garage Maximum Motorsport Complete rear suspension and subframe connectors. Shorty headers and exhaust.

Nothing bad happened. Other than life 👍

@stickmansgarage9452 good to hear. Just hoping we would've gotten more. Have a good one.

Thanks bro!

SleeperLX Stay tuned. More to come.👍

SleeperLX Tell us what you’re building The right HCI combo will easily run mid 11s or better. Hopefully our 84 will do just that

4.30

Daniel Lindy Thanks. Trying real hard to get that ET down.

Maybe not a full 150 lbs, but they’re lighter, stiffer, work better and look good. Get one! Then tell us about your project

They're harder to find.

Finding any clean model from the 80s is harder nearly 40 years later, but you still find 4 Cyl coupes that make good foundations. We’ll be featuring some original 80s muscle cars to show how they came from the factory

@@foxfordcatguy2283 and getting pricey

T U Thanks sir. More to come.

TheRobertflanary It’s speed density so it doesn’t utilize a MAF meter.

@@black88coupe I figured but where did they hide it.

TheRobertflanary With the motor still being so stock in nature I never saw the benefit in converting it to Mass Air. Remember, This car was never intended to be a race car. It was setup to be a nice driver/ cruiser.

No MAF Sensor. It’s Speed Density Stock factory cam. Runs fine on SD

m wright Absolutely! That’s what I mean by look past the badge. I learned from all types of cars when reading magazines as a kid. You can apply what others do to whatever you drive. What are you driving/racing?

Ty cobb

Sam Hagins Thank you

Trevor Lemon 1.595 best ever. Low 1.6’s normally.

I think all iron oem sbf heads don’t get enough credit. The E7 may be comparatively small, but they’re balanced. Hard to beat up on the GT40s for their time. Technology has come a long way since then.

I flowed them all in the same day on a calibrated machine. E6 124 IN volume--Flowed 154/116 E7 124 IN volume-Flowed 162/124 GT40 150 IN volume-Flowed 200/150 There is absolutely NO COMPETITION for which is the undisputed best late model head.

I know it's a old comment.....but so flagrantly wrong about all the heads mentioned and conclusion met... I own multiple sets of all these heads, and still have a new in box set of GT40 Cobra that were marketed as GT40 "high flow" iron heads. I don't think you understand the differences clearly.....I'll keep this short. No SBF head has ever moved the "chamber" and certainly not by an inch....Think about that for a sec...GT40P did move the spark plug angle, the heads were an attempt to clean up the last SBF while it still sold very well deep into Overhead Valve replacement. Now, as to your assessment on E6 heads...The valves are measurable deeper in the chamber making the shrouding problem that much worse. Reason the true flat top pistons were not compatible with other heads without notches......The swirl concept was not a strength for performance, it was for cleaner smog. Ford disagreed SO much it was a one year Mustang option. The 85 GT heads were E5 castings...exactly the same as 87+ HO E7's with a smaller chamber hence production number change..... E6 combined the smog swirl, terrible shrouding, and abysmal flow. Data point just to show how bad....1986 Capri (mercury's mustang) switching ONLY stock E6's for stock E7''s gained 34 RWHP I only did a after dyno for tuning and nobody could believed the E7 a real performance upgrade, only compared to a truly terrible design....That's why NOBODY uses them... I attached the intake volumes and flow rates above to show not only how much things improved, but why the GT40 series of heads ARE so sought after. My buddies 85 GT Switched out his E5 heads and GT 4bbl for stock GT40 heads and stealth intake. So he started with better heads than E6's. and picked up an unreal 78 HP.... Imagine the gain over your personal favorite E6. If these sound unrealistic, go look on message boards and see how over and over its repeated. This should solve the problem you've experienced but probably not stated about "Why is my E6 headed UTE getting outrun by model T's? You're welcome, you now have Ported wheel chaulks......that don't carry scrap value. I really hope you didn't pay for them....

FoxFordCatGuy That tiny pic looks familiar. Still got the 84. It’ll be a big part of this channel. Thanks for subscribing. Tell all your friends!

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TW Portre 🤘🤘🤘

They were The New Stock. Forged pistons, metric rings, topped with injection. Didn’t hurt being backed by a 3.35 1st geared 5-speed

4200 & 4.30

@@stickmansgarage9452 thanks

Glad you like it. 👍

That depends on many factors. Street car? Street/strip? Drag only? Have you eliminated the convertor lockout on 3rd gear? What cam? What rear gears? Just to name a few

@@stickmansgarage9452 cam,heads stock edelbrock intake with Holley 600 vacuum secondary, bbk headers, 373 gears ,coilovers subframe connectors. Tci trans has a stock stall. Detent cable works on the carb. Tci tech's told me it don't need to be connected because of the valve body it has. I want a low 13sec street car quite to beat those ls crap trucks. Oh I got extreme drag radials too

Manual rack underdrive pulleys and short belt only alternator water pump and crank too.

Oh and new nitrous Express system

The nitrous could be the biggest factor in all of this. But first, Agent AOD ran low 13s in similar trim (4.10 gears) with a 2600 stall convertor and was street driven. Even to the track. It’s hard to know what your comfort level would be driving a loose convertor, but for best all around performance - getting the engine into the power band quickly and dealing with a nitrous shot of 100-150 hp - while maintaining decent street manners - I’d say 2500 stall minimum. 3500 maximum if you’re aggressive and mostly drive local. I’d consult the convertor guys about how much nitrous certain models will withstand - both from a stall perspective and if the unit will stay together. A cheap convertor can live naturally aspirated, but that’s risky with the nitrous. Be careful about activating the juice with less than full throttle (secondaries wide open) and under 3000 rpm with the 3.73 gears. You may have to change the vac secondary spring to make them open sooner on the juice. I’d feel better if you had a double pumper. I’m guessing it’s a Performer/P-RPM intake?

twotwocold Was his a 5 speed? We definitely aren’t the first to accomplish it. We are just showing people how we went about getting to that point. Thanks for watching.

It’s new to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. There are people out there telling you to spend 20 grand on a crate motor to run 13s. And some of us were running 12s with a stock 5.0 engine in the 1980s. But we’re old...