CORRAL TALK

Good day fellow Mustang enthusiasts and fanatics! Well, we did it - another successful show!!! And we have the number to prove it – 98 vehicles registered, 32 of them Stangs (non club members), 21 repeat entrants from past shows, 334 cans of food raised, $62,000 dollars worth of donations to the food bank, 6 new members joined, 82 trophies handed out, 7 car clubs brought more than 2 vehicles to the show (average was 5), and we gave out over 100 door prizes.

Now it is time to kick back, relax, and enjoy the rest of the show season.

LAST MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

Our last meeting took place on May 16th – we talked mostly about the final details for the show and upcoming events. One in particular is the TSMC annual pool party at Danny and Lu Ann’s on June 12th - festivities start around 2:00 PM. Swimming, eating and good times and of course corn hole are all on the agenda. Burgers or dogs will the main course. Please bring a side dish of some sort to share.

BLUE OVAL/MUSTANG NEWS

By: All Ford Mustangs News Desk

Reports have begun to surface that Ford will take it to the streets, “it” being the brute-force 2011 Mustang Boss 302R. The $79,000 limited edition racer was aimed at numerous Grand-Am, SCCA and NASA classes. The base model claimed a 5.0-liter four-valve engine and a six-speed manual transmission, with a roll cage, race seats, safety harness, data acquisition and race dampers/springs, and a Brembo brake and tire package included in the deal.

Ford said just 50 Boss 302R units would be built, but lately a couple of sites have been reporting a change of plans. 4wheelsnews.com said Ford executive vice-president Mark Fields spilled the beans. At a recent dealer conference, Fields told his audience, “We did the Bullitt, we did a Mach 1, we did the C/S. I can’t tell you what the next special edition Mustang will be, but I can give you a hint.” Then a 1970 Boss 302 Mustang drove across the stage. “Is that a subtle enough hint?” Fields asked. Could be, could be. Or it could be we’ll see a version of the 302R before much longer.

Ford is hoping to relive its racing heritage with the new race-ready Boss 302R. It has been 40 years since Parnelli Jones won the 1970 Trans-Am championship in a Mustang Boss 302 prepared by Bud Moore Engineering, and to mark the event, Ford Racing has unleashed a new 5.0-liter monster, the Boss 302R, a factory-built racer aimed at numerous Grand-Am, SCCA and NASA classes.

“To keep pace with consumer demand, the Ford team has built modern versions of the most iconic performance Mustangs over the years,” said Jamie Allison, director, Ford North America Motorsports. “From Shelbys to Bullitt, Mach and Cobra Jet, it is now time for Boss to join the list of America’s most coveted Mustangs. The original Boss 302 was a championship-winning legend and the new Mustang Boss 302R will carry on the tradition. The Mustang was born to race from the start, and this new Mustang is bred to win.”

The Mustang Boss 302R is a specialized track weapon, track only and ready to race. The base model claims a 5.0-liter four-valve engine and a six-speed manual transmission, and is equipped with a roll cage, race seats, safety harness, data acquisition and race dampers/springs, and a Brembo brake and tire package, starting at factory price of $79,000.

The Grand-Am Homologation Package (M-FR500-Boss R1), gets the Boss 302R ready to compete in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series (formerly known as KONI Challenge), which starts in Daytona on Jan. 29. As of Monday, December 28, five Boss 302R race cars were delivered to customers ready to race in Daytona at a cost of about $129,000.

The Grand-Am Boss 302R will feature a sealed high-output race engine with an upgraded cooling system, a close-ratio six-speed transmission with integral shifter, a seam-welded body, race suspension/KONI dampers and ABS brake tuning, race performance exhaust and a high-speed-balance one-piece driveshaft.

“We expect the Boss 302R to continue the successful tradition of winning with factory-built production-based race cars from Ford Racing,” said Allison. “The FR500C and FR500S road racing Mustangs, and the Mustang FR500CJ (Cobra Jet) for drag racing have proven to be great cars for our customers, helping teams win races and championships. We believe that the Boss 302R will provide that same sort of competitive product for our customers with the tradition you can only get from Ford Racing.”

Each Ford Racing factory-built production-based turnkey race car has won its competition debut. “Racing has long served as a technical proving grounds for production engines,” said Allison. “What’s good enough for the streets is now good enough for the racetrack. The 5.0-liter block and architecture in the Mustang Boss 302R is the same as the 2011 Mustang GT.”

“We have a great team on the Boss 302R project,” said Andy Slankard, Ford Racing engineering supervisor and the lead engineer on the Boss 302R project. “Between our partners at AutoAlliance International, where the Mustang is built, Team Mustang, Multimatic and the entire Ford Racing team, we have once again proven to be a leader in turnkey production-based race cars.”

Available through Ford dealers, a total of 50 Boss 302R Mustangs will be built by Ford Racing. Delivery is anticipated in the third quarter of 2010.

UPCOMING EVENTS

TSMC Pool Party @ Danny & LuAnn Turner’s
June 12th
6162 St. Mary’s Church Rd.

Elm City Car Show
June 19th
Elm City

Pikeville Independence Day Celebration/ Cruise in
June 26th
Pikeville Community Park
Fireworks @ 9:30 PM

Southland Club Car Show
August 21st
Sheltons Harley Davidson in Smithfield

Stangs –R- US car Show
August 28th
Dunn, NC

Grill 57 cruise in schedule:
Cruise-In Schedule 2010 (5PM-9 PM)
June 19, July 17, August 21, September 18

Note: Details and an up-to-date list can be found on the Twisted Stallions website.

CAR-O-THE-MONTH

OWNERS NAME: Dennis & Keli Hurley
RESIDENCE: Winterville
YEAR: 2010
STYLE: Convertible GT Premium
ENGINE: 4.6L 3V OHC V8
COLOR: White

TIPS-N-TRICKS

MAS Sensor (Mass Air Sensor) also known as MAF or MAM

The MAF is one of the most important sensors in your engine; it is composed by 2 elements, the housing and the meter. The housing is a 3"+ aluminum cylindrical element that sits inside the air filter housing. On top of the housing sits the meter, it is a small black box that contains 2 thin heated wires (when on). Those wires change their resistance as air flow cools them down and the resulting voltage is sent to the EEC to tell it how much air is flowing, the EEC then will adjust injector pulse to change fuel delivery.

One of the most common MAF failures is caused by dirt that passed through the air filter. If you use a stock air filter, the time it would take for the sensor wires to gather enough dust to fail would be long. But in the case of aftermarket oiled filters such as a K&N it will take a short time if the filter is over-oiled. So if you have a K&N that has been cleaned and re-oiled, let it sit for a while to let the excess oil drip, then clean it with a lint free cloth.

A contaminated MAF sensor can be diagnosed by several symptoms: lean condition; backed-up timing, a result of the lean condition in which the EEC will back timing to reduce chance of detonation; low top end power, as a result of reduced timing and fuel. If it is really bad you will know something is up because you will throw a code.

So what can you do to remedy this? The answer is simple – clean it. First, remove the MAF (you can Google to find details/pictures for your particular Stang). With most applications that will be 2 Torx Bit screws at the top of it that you will have to remove and then gently pull the sensor out.

If the 2 filaments of the sensor are dirty(dark in color) clean them with a Q-tip until all contaminants are removed. Check the MAF wiring harness for loose or dirty connectors and bad wiring. You might also try spraying on some electronics cleaner or you can buy some MAF sensor cleaner.

Reinstall and test your car. You will instantly feel a great difference in horsepower, probably as much as 30hp are lost when the MAF fails by contamination.

THIS OLD STANG

1969 – 1970 BOSS 302 Mustang

By: Boss Mustang Registry

What is a BOSS 302? It's a car, right? No, it's an engine. Well, yes, it's an engine and a car. Actually, it's a car, a Ford Mustang, named for an engine, a special purpose built race engine. The Ford Boss 302 Mustang, built for model years 1969 and 1970, is named for its engine.

So which came first the car or the engine? The car. The Ford Mustang was introduced on April 17, 1964. In the 1960's, Ford was heavily involved in racing. The catch phrase was, "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday." In 1966 and 1967, Ford, with the help of Carroll Shelby and his Shelby-American company, raced Mustangs in and won the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Trans-American (Trans-Am) Sedan Racing series.

General Motors' Chevrolet division introduced their Camaro Z/28 to compete with the Mustang in the 1967 model year. Not only did Camaro compete on the street and in the sales showrooms, it competed in the Trans-Am series as well. In 1968, Camaro won the series championship. It was a dismal year for the Mustang. Mustang's failure to win the 1968 championship was blamed on a new engine known as the "Tunnel-Port." For 1969, Ford had to do something to win back the Trans-Am championship.

Actually, something was already being done even before the 1968 Trans-Am race season started. Ford was in the process of developing a new 351 cubic inch engine known as the "Cleveland" for 1970. It was so named because it would be produced at the Cleveland engine plant instead of the Windsor engine plant. Someone in Engine Engineering came up with the idea of putting the Cleveland heads on the Tunnel-Port block. It was tested and the results were good enough to continue development of the new 302 cubic engine as the Tunnel-Port started to show its shortcomings.

One part of the SCCA rules stated the manufacturers had to sell what they raced. It was Larry Shinoda, a former GM stylist, now working at Ford who created the car's unique styling and came up with the name Boss 302 for the car and engine that would go into production so Ford could race it in 1969 and 1970. The Boss 302 was offered in the 1969 and 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator as well. The Eliminator was also styled by Larry Shinoda.

Ford came close but did not win the Trans-Am title for 1969 with the Boss 302 Mustang. The Boss 302 Mustang did win the Trans-Am championship in 1970 and entered the history books.


That’s all Folks – til next month
Kevin
Editor-in-chief