I used a good old hacksaw to get mine off. then I unbolted them from the back of the heads, and filled the holes with a 9/16" bolt and some threadlocker. Then I put on a pair of mustang shorty headers and a Mustang H-pipe, and I filled the smog pump line coming off the h-pipe with some JB weld. You don't gain power so much as "free up" hidden power.
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1989 Lincoln Town Car - "Anabelle" - Original block, .030 over with SpeedPro pistons, rods fitted with ARP hardware, FRPP +volume oil pump, GT-40 3bar heads, Crane 1.72 rockers, 89' Fox cam, 93' Cobra lower intake, Explorer upper and 65mm TB, 93' Lightning EGR spacer, K&N intake kit from a 4.0L Ranger, 19lb/hr injectors w/ 87 Mark VII ECM, cat/smog deletes, Big Brake conversion, 3.55 K-Code Trac-Lok/Disc brake rear axle, CVPI LCA's w/1" sway bar in rear, wagon front sway bar, BBK 2.5" off-road H-Pipe, Flowmaster super 40s, HPP wheels, 3G alternator w/LMR.com wiring kit, gear reduction starter conversion, Best 1/4 time: 16.0 @ 85mph. -
The smog pump takes about 0 HP to run. It's ugly, as are the lines, but you'd gain more from an electric fan by a pretty big margin than from removing the smog pump.
The HO swap definitely takes more time than anticipated. I did H/C/I on my Mustang in a weekend, the Lincoln took two weeks because I ended up needing custom-length pushrods. It's all in the details. If you know what you are doing and get ALL the parts beforehand, you could theoretically have it done in two days or so, working on it at a reasonable pace and being relatively anal about how it's being done. My hold up was simply the pushrods, which took a week and a half to come in.
I probably lost more low end than the other HO conversion guys because of the Explorer intake, the car is "soft" out of the hole but you can REALLY feel the cam coming on as soon as it starts to get into the rev's. It will break-free both back tires at about 40Km/h if you really lay into it, that is with 3.27's.
How healthy IS your tranny? If it's to the point where you are worried about it with the HO conversion..........1989 Town Car Cartier: 3G Alt. Upgrade, Mark VIII Electric Fan, Police Interceptor Suspension, 40-series Flows, loaded. HO+ Conversion: E7 heads, Cobra 1.7RR's, Explorer intake, 65mm TB, FMS "E" Camshaft, 4-hole 19lb/hr injectors, A9P ECM, 76mm C&L MAF, BBK CAI. 338,000Km, stock bottom-end.
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oh it shifts just fine, sometimes it kinda jams into gear when u slam on the pedal in 3rd or 4th gear, but i try not to do that, idk im putting in the shift kit and adjusting the tv cable this weekend.Comment
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