We get "The Fridge" on the rollers for a bone fide stock baseline now that the emergency repairs are complete. This video includes results and a cap and rotor upgrade with dyno results to get the ball rolling on this project!
I did a whole sequence on the dyno when this was shot, but I ended up deciding to break it into a couple of videos because I have been very short of time for editing video lately. Anyway, you will like the next ones I think.
Been looking for numbers for a stock aod car. My 87 made 240 rwhp and 265 tq through a aod and a 3500 stall non lockup. Maf converted, 80mm maf, 70.m tb, explorer intake, gt40p heads, and crower 15511 cam running 1.7 roller rockers.. shorty headers and off road h pipe. Everybody said i probably only gained 30rwhp but after seeing this i gained much more! Love the content and explanations on your channel. Keep em coming!!
@mattmeyers81 For whatever reason, my dyno here usually reads on the low side. To help with your comparison I looked up a similar combination to yours - gt40p heads, explorer intake, mild cam, off road exhaust - and it made 234/271 through a manual transmission on my dyno. This was one of the better results I have seen for this type of setup. An AOD car will typically show between 15 and 25 HP less at the wheels than a manual transmission car here.
@@tecmotiondyno thanks. This was my first attempt at doing any porting. I ported the lower intake and opened up the throat of the upper to match the throttle body I used. Then I port matched the heads to the intake and did a little chamber work. If I would have known I was going to convert to mass air I would have went a step up on the cam but for what it is I'm pretty happy with it. I'm installing a old powerdyne bd11a this winter keeping with this 90s build theme.
The corrosion in the cap and rotor is due to the dissimilar metals, the cap being aluminum and the rotor having a brass piece contact. This is when a brass pinned cap would help and in turn prevent the corrosion.
Fair enough. The biggest shock is that the nasty cap didn't really impact the performance, though I am more certain that it would have had an impact on a more typical Foxbody with a bunch of speed parts on it and substantially better power and RPM potential than this car. It shows how terrible some of the parts can be and the car will still run "ok".
Do you know how to lock second gear in those autos.... I've also seen someone explain why not to put aftermarket coils on these unless you have other things set up to go with it I hear if it's all stockstill ignition use the stock coils OEM
You can do the 1-d-1 shuffle, but sooner or later you are going to blow it up with that. My Lincoln has a Lentech street terminator valve body with electric overdrive lockout and a B&M Hammer Shifter on the AOD and that is the best way to get a true 1-2-3 shift with an AOD. As for an aftermarket coil, there is no problem with running an aftermarket replacement type coil like the MSD Blaster with a stock motor and otherwise stock ignition. In fact, when I get a weak production coil, I normally replace it with an MSD Blaster.
This car is an automatic. On this dyno, bone stock 5 speed cars are typically around 170. 93’s were rated lower so one of the things I am looking at is whether they actually were weaker.
