After all these years, FINALLY!

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  1. Jamie Miles

    Jamie Miles the road warrior

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    Congrats man! That's awesome. (y)
     
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    Real cool, congrats.

    "Endeavor to persevere"
     
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  3. Dan Starnes

    Dan Starnes Original owner

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    Awesome Rick!!! Made my sucky day turn into a great day reading this thread!!!!!!!!!
    Dan
     
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  4. Mavaholic

    Mavaholic Growing older but not up!

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    Congrats!!!! Now..... the Round up is still a few weeks away.
     
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  5. Rick Book

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    Ha! Now that might be a stretch to make it this year, but I'm definetly planning on being there next year.
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    Dan, 'glad the news cheered you up. I know a lot of you (long-timers) were wondering if I was ever going to get it to run - or even if I really owned a Maverick! :rofl:
     
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  6. Stefan

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  7. Acornridgeman

    Acornridgeman MCCI Wisconsin State Rep Moderator Supporting Member

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    Way to go Rick! :bananaman :bananaman


    Should give encouragement to all to keep the nose to the grindstone and follow their automotive dreams!

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  8. moms70

    moms70 Obsessive mav disorder

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    Congrats Rick! looks goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
     
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  9. don graham

    don graham MCG State Rep

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    way to go rick. you are the new maverick message board hero. :bananaman :bananaman
     
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    T.L. Banned

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    Excellent!...(y) :clap: :lolup: :yup: :bouncy: (y)
     
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  11. Grabber5.0

    Grabber5.0 Gear-head wannabe

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    That's awesome Rick! Can't wait to hear some performance results.
     
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    Holy Crap! Rick that's soooo sweet!
    Man I can't wait to see your first post after race day!
    I am genuinely happy for you.
    Great job my friend!
     
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  13. dmhines

    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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    Another Maverick hits the streets! (y)
     
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  14. Jamie Miles

    Jamie Miles the road warrior

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    Kinda' reminds me of that old song by Queen, Dan. :D
     
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  15. Rick Book

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    Thanks, Stefan! I searched until I found my first post, 01/09/2002! And what was it about? You guessed it, I was requesting information on HEADERS! Ha Ha! :rofl:

    There's other stuff in the thread also that I found amusing. Knowing hardly anything about these cars at the time, I believed a neighbor of mine when he told me I had a Mustang II front end. :biglaugh:

    Ken Merring (aka BlueGrass now), RickyRacer, and 74Merc replied to my first post, which reads,

    "I recently purchased a 1970 Maverick. It is currently has no motor, but it does have a C4 tranny and has the V8 motor supports (I was told 'someone' put a 289 in it long ago).


    I have an AOD that has been upgraded to suport 700 h.p. 1st through 3rd gear with a manually controlled electronic overdrive (nice for highway). I have used this in a '90 Convertible (heaviest of all stangs) and have been VERY pleased with it while running 7.2 in the 1/8 mile (1.5 60'). That was with Windsor Jr. Heads, Small Cobra intake and 19# injectors

    The engine I am putting in it is a 347 C.I. (bored and stroked 5.0). With a 200 shot of nitrous, I intend to put out around 600 h.p. (as I wrote this I remembered again that the Maverick weighs 2500 lbs. - can't wait)

    I've looked at Jegs and Summit for headers that will fit the swap, however I am unclear on which type to get. I look for all the 302 styles but I see many that say "NOT FOR C6 Automatic" or "C4 ONLY", etc.

    I wonder, does this apply to the 1990 AOD as well?

    If anyone has done this swap, or knows of someone who has, I'd appreciate the help (see my up-coming EFI post - I want to stay with EFI using a F.A.S.T. ECU ("formerly SpeedPro" and "FelPro" also). (plan at the time - a F.A.S.T. distributor wanted to put one on my car for $zip)



    Great board, Guys. I look forward to stopping by often. I had no idea it'd be this many times!

    Rick Book
    Houston, TX

    I loved going back through the archives and seeing where other 'old-timers' chimed in to help this green horn out way gack then - and thank goodness, you're still doing it today!
     
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    Rick Book, Jul 8, 2005
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