DragCat Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Sorry Rob, couldn't resist 🤣 Since I was Monte-Less over the winter I decided to do the electric fan/radiator upgrade on the Mercury....I was very pleased with the results on the Monte and they were on $ale. I also swapped out the aftermarket gauges on the steering column, originally I had white face gauges and it just irked me being a triple black car. Also since Dennis started a trend with pictures with feet and its been carried on by others I didn't want to be late to the party 🤣 The swap was pretty straight forward since I had already done one , except the temp sensor for the fans. I had no "open" ports for the sensor except removing a petcock in the block which I didn't want to do. Also didn't want to splice into a ignition on power wire in the harness (which I did on the Monte)You can barely see in the feet/gauge picture 2 toggle switch's. I took out a few fins in the a/c vent (who runs a/c when the top is down 🤣) One is for ignition on volts and the other is for bypassing the temp sensor signal (since there is no sensor ) and it just grounds the sensor input and cuts the fans on. Clevelands are hot running to begin with and being in Fl it doesn't help. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangeba Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Nice! My wife had a Red 73 Cougar 351 Cleveland 2BBL, nice car but it was stolen, never to be found. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragCat Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 13 minutes ago, stangeba said: Nice! My wife had a Red 73 Cougar 351 Cleveland 2BBL, nice car but it was stolen, never to be found. Ive been looking for a 71/72 factory 429 Cougar for awhile now, I call it my unicorn search 🤣 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny first gen 71 Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 1 hour ago, DragCat said: Ive been looking for a 71/72 factory 429 Cougar for awhile now, I call it my unicorn search 🤣 My brother has a 429 in his 26 roadster 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Boyte Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Nice, Very nice !!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragCat Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 51 minutes ago, cny first gen 71 said: My brother has a 429 in his 26 roadster I have big dreams 🤣🤣 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny first gen 71 Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 28 minutes ago, DragCat said: I have big dreams 🤣🤣 He did too he wanted a boss 429 but they are out of sight. He going in a different direction on his 27 coupe he's putting a 2700 4 cyl race motor. Builder said it'll do 8000 rpm all day long 😳 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragCat Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 31 minutes ago, cny first gen 71 said: He did too he wanted a boss 429 but they are out of sight. He going in a different direction on his 27 coupe he's putting a 2700 4 cyl race motor. Builder said it'll do 8000 rpm all day long 😳 Yea, I looked for more than 2 years, zip....... So decided to go the Monte route. Can't complain, very happy with my Monte and found this site. Life is good 😁 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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