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No emissions, still has the cat. Remove the belt and pump, what do you do with with the air tubes?

Hello good people of the FMJ world :) ! I dont post often, because for the most part my old girl runs along just fine year after year. However, at the end of last season I got stranded for the first time in about 7 years AND the front brakes finally wore out. I don't know that they've ever...

So, I have an 88 5th. Years back the ECU or the carb died and it wouldn't run right. To replace those items was looking at near $800. So I went the cheaper way and scored a TQ, performer 4bbl intake and a regular ignition distributor. Fast forward 7 years and 15k kms. It has always ran pretty...

So I have an 850, atop a stock 318. LOL, Yes it is over sized. However, the issue is not to do with the secondary situation.. Only off idle hesitation. So the thing runs about as good as any carb anything i've ever seen except for when it is not at full op temp. Although tonight it was raining...

Not necessarily to tow anything (although I'd like a hitch on it eventually..) but when I have my own fat ass plus 3 other people she's well loaded down lol. The leafs are pretty soft, so I imagine it is really the only way aside from stronger leaf springs to be able to have the rear end handle...

When idling, the engine is slow enough that the DC meter (is this amps or voltage btw?) is in discharge, and my plug-in 12v power socket shows like mid 11v. However at cruise I see like 15.2v! WHOA. No wonder the lights and fan really pick up when it gets up off idle! LOL Obviously that wild...

I have an issue. My thermo-quad leaks out the secondary wells, yes. I should remedy that, but it just isn't in the books at this moment. I have tried to reseal the wells twice to no avail. Can I get an electric pump to push through the mechanical pump? I already know it will not suck through...

I have this HORRIBLE racket on rough roads, which I attributed to completely shot shocks and it being the wire wheel covers banging around because the wheel is obviously hopping too much. HOWEVER, I have noticed that the sound is negated when on the brakes. A little bit of brakes doesn't stop...

I have an 88 5th with the 318. Originally it had the lean burn 2 barrel and 2 barrel 150lb iron intake. That carb died years ago, and instead of find a 2 barrel solution at the time.. I put an aluminum edelbrock on with an 850 Thermoquad. It got the car running for very little spent, and it...

okay, so they stopped working.. i don't drive the car often or even remotely regularly. Things will fail i get it. However they would work intermittently, and hitting the motor seemed to work in March (last time I touched the car). But then they died completely. Thought it was the motor based on...

Hi all! So the climate control has been wonky for years, some modes don't select. Never bothered to look in to it, cause I just used the modes that did work lol. Anyway. Upon checking out my windshield wiper issue, I noticed that the rubber/plastic manifold for the vacuum lines was broken at...

So, some back story. They died sometime last year. The car only gets driven a couple times throughout the good ontario days. So they haven't been needed. Lol HOWEVER yesterday I was gonna take a trip in it, and I remembered they didn't work and it showed a cloudy forecast. So I set out to...

I just want more power and the added efficiency of those LS motors. I'd use a 4.8 with the weaker trans, leave it completely stock and also add a smaller single turbo to the mix. Completely not for huge power or racing lol. But I think a solid 300whp would make an M-body quite the smooth...

I am not looking for all out power or mileage persay.. Just more or less looking for reliable starting and running. The way she sits now.. it will crack off at most any temp with a few pump-shots, but will take a while to warm up where low rpm driveability is suffering hard. The car is just...

My 1988 5th gets about 20L/100km(11mpg) from a straight highway tank. It has 205/70/15 tires, 318/904/2.22 combo. It has been switched to electronic ign with vacuum advance, and the larger TQ 4bbl. Yeah, i know the primaries are way larger than the 2bbl it replaced. However your foot only need...

Looking at doing a blow through setup on the bone stock 120,000km 318 in my 5th. Ive been thinking about this for years.. but the recent engine masters turbo 5.0 sealed the deal. I likely wont use a used powerstroke turbo like they did, and infact use a better wheeled smaller turbo to keep...

Driving to work today, the ignition completely went away. The engine died and i coasted to the side of the road. There was only spark leaving the coil when you'd be on your way off the key. Nearing the off position the engine would kick over almost every time. But only whatever cylinder was...

Not really looking for the one that is gonna give me the most hp, as that is not the aim of this car. Drive-ability is #1. If I can't drive it, doesn't matter how much hp it makes right ? lol.. I need one one that is gonna start properly every time between -10 to 35 Celsius. One that will have...

The engine has.. 118k or 218k, I am unsure if it rolled twice or not. I got 155-160psi on all but number 6, which had about 145psi. I am impressed.. here I was all along thinking these late 80's teeners were turds with small valves/heads. They do have small valves/heads and a horrible exhaust...

Were you in Orillia yesterday (April 18th) by chance? :) GF said she saw a silver 5th with a red stripe, and a middle aged man driving it. Was just wondering if it was you!! If it wasn't your clean 5th, someone else in this area has one I haven't seen before lol.

Hey there feller's, I got this issue which I thought was possibly an empty carb situation however it seems like it may be choke related. What I have is this. Last 3 weeks it has been starting pretty damn good first thing in the morning, but this past week it has been stumbling immediately...

I have a pretty gnarly leak going on at the top of the windshield. I think I need to at a minimum remove the chrome strip and apply some silicone around the windshield. I didn't wanna start prying up stuff and possibly damaging things. Any ideas here?

I see on TTI's website they list a 70-74 e body header isthe same part number for theirs that crosses to the 79-89 m body I have a set of e body challenger headers local for cheap. Will they fit my 5th? They don't appear to have the #7 tube that goes way up and to the side.. ?

Will the swirl-port "302" heads from my 88 318 5th bolt on to and work properly with the 360 block/bottom end? I was thinking of getting my heads well worked over and mating them to a 360 stock lower-end for a nice mild-to-wild power build in my 5th. However, my question to you.. Iron? or...