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Been sitting on this one a while, ~ a year. It started with a late night oil change, and under the garage lights I saw glitter in the oil -- a concerning amount of it. But the engine was running fine. No noises, stumbles, etc. Just as smooth as ever. But I was worried about it after one hard...

I'm going to split this up into a couple posts to make it more digestible. Here's the background and the dilemma, posts after will be w/ the options. Here we go: A couple weeks ago I got a set of 19x8.5 and 19x10 "Magnetic" style wheels from American Muscle and got some Bridgestone's to match...

I've got a small amp (75Wx4 RMS) sitting around, so I was looking to put it in the trunk. I've seen lots of people mount theirs on the back of the rear seat, on top of the spare tire, or even on a shelf hanging down from the rear deck (saw this one here in the forums): The thing is, I don't...

I took advantage of Diode Dynamics black friday sale and snagged some SLF H10 LED bulbs for my fog lights! This is a long post for what amounts to changing light bulbs but these things are $$$ and I couldn't find much info from other people who might've forked out $90 (black friday sale price)...

Back in March, my car didn't pass Virginia emissions because not enough of the monitors were showing ready/complete. IIRC, I had 4/5 needed tests pass but O2 sensors were reporting not supported and that's what got me. I have cams, JBA long tube headers, & hi-flow cats which were installed in...

I've got to send my Magnum XL back to Tremec so they can look at a grinding issue I'm having on my almost brand new transmission. If it's covered under warranty, they'll refund me the shipping charges. If not (and I'm sure they're going to try to make sure it's not), then I've got to eat the...

Quick background -- back in February I upgraded to a 6 spd (T56 Magnum XL), and it's been awesome. But while I always had problems with 2nd gear fighting me from time to time (just figured that's how the transmission was), lately it's started grinding unless I'm driving like a granny (like...

I'm working with my local speed shop on doing an N/A setup (decided not to go FI in the end). We were looking at doing a custom grind to put the meat of the gains in the midrage -- more for stoplight to stoplight than dragstrip. After waiting to hear back from the machine shop for 2 months...

I searched on this and couldn't find anything that really matched my situation. There are two suspects - the battery and the alternator. Here goes... What happened: Yesterday I installed a set of Steeda underdrive pulleys on my car. I had the radio on for about an hour and then it just...

I'm shopping around getting quotes on some work done, exploring both N/A and FI setups. For the N/A it'd be the usual stuff like TB, FRPP Intake manifold, LT's, and cams (either Hot Rod or Comp Camps Stage II NSR). Limited power gains though. For FI, I asked my local speed shop what...

I Plasti-dipped my wheels a couple weeks ago and finally got them on the car. I think the wheels themselves look awesome dipped, but not sure if they look good on the car. Thoughts? Here they are before I dipped them

It started a week and a half ago when I was looking at eBay for the hell of it, and ran across a set of Saleen HIDs - the complete kit w/ ballasts, harnesses and everything for a lot cheaper than I'd typically seen. Only 10k on them and the seller had clear shields installed. I took a gamble...

Ever since I installed my first aggressive chin spoiler, I planned to close off the lower valence, at least with a billet grille to give it a more finished look, plus I want something to fix the wavy inlet (take a close look at the pic): When I bought the upper grille off American...

Yesterday morning was ridiculous enough that I've got to tell the story that goes with this. So yesterday morning I'm driving through my neighborhood on the way to work, and I start hearing a thunk thunk thunk coming from the front of the car. I immediately pull over, can't see anything wrong...

I'm looking at getting LED bulbs for my tail lights and was hoping I could replace the flasher instead of installing resistor modules to eliminate the hyperblink. Diode Dynamics sells flasher modules to do the job, but they don't list the applications. They list these CF14 (EP35) LED...

Title says it all. Anyone got valve covers, stock or aftermarket, for an 05-09 GT? Color doesn't matter, I plan to sand it down and paint. Thanks

As you guys might have seen from one or two of my other posts, I'm eating blower motor resistors right now. Last week I changed by blower motor resistor because speeds 1-3 were shot. The new Motorcraft replacement worked great at first, but this morning I smelled the magic smoke again and sure...

Anyone have this happen? I didn't drive my car for just over a week since I was out of town and when I took it to work I couldn't believe how heavy it was --my leg was burning. By the time I got to work, it still felt a little heavy but it was closer to what it's supposed to be like. When I...

I wish I could say it was something like a supercharger --some day -- but I've been having clearance problems with my stock GT motor and my Shelby CS6 hood. I'll get pics up of this. I've had problems with this hood since day 1, but I've been getting them one at a time. The rear of the...

I'm amazed at how little I can actually find on this doing searches. I'm getting ready to do my inner tie rods and have a question about the "rack and pinion bellows clamps" as ford calls them, or boot clamps to the rest of us. 3k662 and 3C650 in the diagram: I found in the FSM that...

I've got a front end shake/clunk I couldn't seem to track down, and I figured I could take advantage of the shop's free multi-point inspection that they do with an oil change to help me pinpoint it. They proved me right on the strut mounts, definitely clunking. But they also said my driver's...

Found my tire flat when I got out of work today. Looks like I ran over a damn spike on the way in today: So the question is, can it be patched? What makes me worried is that this screw is 1/4" in diameter (threads) and the shaft w/o threads is 3/16". the angle it when it at...

And it's definitely less than 7 years on my car. Yikes. The streets in my area are rough and lower clearance from my Steeda Sport springs definitely did a number on them. I ordered the Ford Racing ones as replacements and got them installed today. Somehow I expected more...

Not sure if this qualifies as tech or not, so I put it here. I found a couple threads on this using search, but didn't run over too many conclusive ones except leaks from: Tail light bolts that need re-sealed 3rd brake light Spoiler mounting holes/spoiler delete holes Well, I can...

The cop let me off without a ticket, but said that the fog lights were brighter than the surface of the sun and melted the eyeballs out of his sockets, tears of aqueous humour (yep, I remember high school bio) streaming down! Ok, fine, he told me they looked like high beams and knew they...