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Old 01-26-2009, 09:01 PM   #17 (permalink)
gascort
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Originally Posted by almightybmw View Post
I remember cylinder deactivation on my brothers old '89 bronco... lol idled great, revved great, but couldn't move the truck in 1st gear over a 3" bump on the dirt pad. Took us forever to figure it out, entire left bank was unplugged :P We were amazed it sounded so normal and ran at all.
Sounds like my mustang - we ran out of cash when building it and I destroyed my oem camshaft so my buddy convinced me to put an F-150 cam in it. It runs pretty well, a good amount of power and torque, which I attribute to the truck specs, but last year (about a year and a half after fixing the car) I found out that two of the cylinders on the F-150 firing order are opposite what they are on the mustang, so I've got piston, ignition, and fuel events happening at one time, and valve events happening at another. I can't wait to see how much power and MPG I can get when I get a good cam for it.
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