daaaaaaamn,... that garage is like a PARADISE!!
....... (I've finally got mine where I want it now too,.. Lift, 3 bays, insulated, decorated, lots of light, and A/C / Heat. I'm a happy camper too) .... but yours has lot of room to spread out. Love it.
Yes, those Beru look like originals, as well as the cable mgmt clamps too. My boots on 3.3l for 1991 have a slightly different collar on them though.
When it comes to the smallest garage award, I win going away.
@Metal Guru I hold the record for owning the smallest toolbox! I have owned this toolbox for at least 25 years, and I have restored at least a dozen motorcycles and half a dozen+ cars, plus I maintain at least a dozen cars at a time. Rarely do I need to borrow a tool from anyone!! This amuses many friends.
By the way, I read that your post that you are a Ford engineer and buying a GT350? I am a big Ford fan and have bought at least 25 F250s for my own company every year for 20+ years, and my daily is an F350. Ford has given me access to buy one of the rare "SVT" mustangs every year which I have. Here is my 2017 GT350R, did you design this?
Sadly, no, I didn't work on the last generation Mustang but the fuel systems for the others from 1999 until the latest generation, from the manufacturing engineering side of things.
I was deeply involved with the Super Duty line for the last six years of my career. Product design, test and release of diesel fuel filters, fuel cooler and the F-550 aft axle fuel tank. Real glamorous stuff but definitely more important to FoMoCo, financially, than the Mustang is.
Is there a business reason that you daily your Super Duty or do you just prefer them?
Steve is going to get mad at us for derailing his spark plug thread!
The new SD is really great, you guys have done a great job! I daily drive a ‘20 F350/LB/Supercab/Powerstroke as it matches my DNA, I also have a newer F450 for heavier towing but really when I want to look cool. I am really glad that you brought the F550/650 back in house, that also goes for the 6.7!
I appreciate a fuel system guy! I always made the guys order Davco with WIF sensor, primer pump, and heater.
no way ... I enjoy our little tucked away sub forum gatherings. I feel like we have this secret little hideaway down here. Very few 964 Turbo guys, so we gotta stick together.
I'll try to take a pic of my small little craftsman toolbox I have from 1979 (or was it 1980), can't remember. All I know is that I've had it all my life, and even though I have bigger ones now to supplement,... that little one sits atop an old wooden work bench that my grandfather I & built for my first home. We wanted it in the corner of the basement, but we had to build it with a cutout underneath so it could straddle the sump pump. To this day I still laugh that we did that.
We've now been in our forever home for 25 yrs. Originally built in 1928, it has been a labour of love for my wife & I, plus our kids, who helped in just about every renovation we've done..... and there have been many. My garage was the LAST of the areas to be renovated. Just completed it last year. It's a detached 3 car, but has low ceilings and needed a lot of TLC (shuring up walls with add'l studding, lolli columns, insulation, wiring, lighting, TV, sound system & a cold refrigerator for beer, 3 new garage doors {2" clopay with Liftmaster torsion springs on the header}, 220 for my compressor, MaxJax 2-post lift, Moduline Cabinets, BASF Acrylic Epoxy .... geez the list goes on).
I finally did everything I wanted. And I love it. It's my oasis now.
I just finished pulling my 396/325 out of my '68 RS/SS Camaro (my kids want that motor for their '69 SS Camaro), and I'm mid-way through restoring the whole front end (soda blasted the frame, POR15,... plus rebuilding all the front suspension ball joints, bushings, tie-rods, etc). Last year I had Brian Roche racing engines blue-print & balance my 1968 "MQ" stamped 396/375 (that I found out in Chicago about 12 years ago, and been holding on for this long). Full roller cam, roller lift, roller rockers,... should be about 500hp. It's gonna make a nice upgrade for that car, especially since it's stamped & coded for EXACTLY my car (three things: 1) '68, 2)Camaro & 3) 4-speed ... is what MQ means). Plus I have all the 1968 date stamped heads, manifold, etc on that motor now too. The aluminum manifold is an original snowflake foundry stamped L78 square port manifold. Those things are unobtanium these days. VERY hard to find. I am stoked to be putting that motor into that car. As soon as I'm done, I'm taking the car to Jerry MacNeish for his appraisal evaluation of the car. I am fortunate that he lives just up the road from me here in Maryland.
So that's my winter solace in my garage this year!!
.... The Porsche's will just be sitting there sleeping underneath their covers,... every so often the skirts get lifted up, just to check that the paint is still the same color. LoL.
So how's THAT for off topic on my spark plug thread!! hahaha.
I'll see if I can snap a few pictures to help all this mean something. 1,000 words & all....
Steve is going to get mad at us for derailing his spark plug thread!
The new SD is really great, you guys have done a great job! I daily drive a ‘20 F350/LB/Supercab/Powerstroke as it matches my DNA, I also have a newer F450 for heavier towing but really when I want to look cool. I am really glad that you brought the F550/650 back in house, that also goes for the 6.7!
Bringing the 6.7 Scorpion engine into the market was a stroke of management genius. The Navistar engine was just garbage and never got better, no matter how much pressure Ford applied to them. The Godzilla 7.2L pushrod engine is really cool too. It was created for the Super Duty.
The F-650 was a tough program for me. The higher load-carrying capacity drove some changes. It took some out of the box thinking but I'm especially proud of the result and it made the whole commercial line more robust.
I'm a guy who whined about the size of my '21 Explorer ST until I got used to it. I couldn't drive a SD daily; I'd be a nervous wreck. My son's got a '78 SD but it ain't as big as a Super Cab w/8 foot bed. My daughter has a '20 F-150. If I could swing a Raptor, all that would change but I don't think they are worth the asking price since I'm not an off-road guy.
I'll try to take a pic of my small little craftsman toolbox I have from 1979 (or was it 1980), can't remember. All I know is that I've had it all my life, and even though I have bigger ones now to supplement,... that little one sits atop an old wooden work bench that my grandfather I & built for my first home. We wanted it in the corner of the basement, but we had to build it with a cutout underneath so it could straddle the sump pump. To this day I still laugh that we did that.
We've now been in our forever home for 25 yrs. Originally built in 1928, it has been a labour of love for my wife & I, plus our kids, who helped in just about every renovation we've done..... and there have been many. My garage was the LAST of the areas to be renovated. Just completed it last year. It's a detached 3 car, but has low ceilings and needed a lot of TLC (shuring up walls with add'l studding, lolli columns, insulation, wiring, lighting, TV, sound system & a cold refrigerator for beer, 3 new garage doors {2" clopay with Liftmaster torsion springs on the header}, 220 for my compressor, MaxJax 2-post lift, Moduline Cabinets, BASF Acrylic Epoxy .... geez the list goes on).
I finally did everything I wanted. And I love it. It's my oasis now.
I just finished pulling my 396/325 out of my '68 RS/SS Camaro (my kids want that motor for their '69 SS Camaro), and I'm mid-way through restoring the whole front end (soda blasted the frame, POR15,... plus rebuilding all the front suspension ball joints, bushings, tie-rods, etc). Last year I had Brian Roche racing engines blue-print & balance my 1968 "MQ" stamped 396/375 (that I found out in Chicago about 12 years ago, and been holding on for this long). Full roller cam, roller lift, roller rockers,... should be about 500hp. It's gonna make a nice upgrade for that car, especially since it's stamped & coded for EXACTLY my car (three things: 1) '68, 2)Camaro & 3) 4-speed ... is what MQ means). Plus I have all the 1968 date stamped heads, manifold, etc on that motor now too. The aluminum manifold is an original snowflake foundry stamped L78 square port manifold. Those things are unobtanium these days. VERY hard to find. I am stoked to be putting that motor into that car. As soon as I'm done, I'm taking the car to Jerry MacNeish for his appraisal evaluation of the car. I am fortunate that he lives just up the road from me here in Maryland.
I think I got my 1st Craftsman box stack after I bought my 965. I was suprised when I filled it completely from all the little tool boxes I owned. I bought the 2nd one after I retired and immediately filled it too.
I'm landlocked so I won't get my dream garage until I move someday (where is still under negotiation ).
My neighborhood fellow car nut buddy was born with a Bowtie tattoo on his butt. First car was a new '70 396 El Camino. Then he had a '72 Z-28 that he'd swap a 427 in and out of on the weekends for street racing (earning him the nickname Wingnut). He's still a dedicated GM customer.
My 1st restoration project was a '70 Corvette coupe; 454 with the optional 3.90 rear end. Not long after I finished it, I sold it with the intention of buying a 911, which I got around to doing 15 years later
Those '68 Camaro/Firebird coupes have a solid following even after all these years, which is interesting in that I saw very few 1st generation Camaros in my neighborhood back in the day. Now, the Detroit area is loaded with various Chevrolets, all packing big block engines.
I do like my 13 Raptor. I have owned so many pickups and the raptor is the perfect size and feel. I had considered trading it in but not a an ecoboost fan. For now i will drive it into the ground. I picked it up a year old for far less then new. I can trade it in for just about what i paid for it 80 k miles later.
To close the loop on this thread!
The Beru plug wires for the Turbo 3.6 arrived! The package is marked Made in France, and the wires are marked Made in Germany! Wires are nice and fresh OEM looking, and the 6" coil wire is included. Purchase via Pelican Parts; P/N: 10-8533-119-M47
For those following this thread, or find it down the road - THOSE Pelican WIRES ^^^^ WILL NOT WORK ON 1991 3.3l Turbo
The shoulders are not the same (hence the reason I was having such a hard time finding the right ones), PLUS the end caps are SCREW ON for the 3.3 type.
Supposedly the ones for the 930 Turbo 3.3l would work,.... but finding them was the hard part. I never did replace mine as they were still in excellent shape. I only needed to replace the screw-on end caps.
Steve, Nice Thread. Today I clean my wire set up. Got my 3.0 readers on to find out the mice liked chewing on my wires. These Beru wires are 22 years old, they have 900 miles on them. The very outer rubber was slightly chewed on.
Feel like new. Can the wires be replaced and save the plug connectors?
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