I'm starting a thread that can be added to over time with questions, answers, and past experiences on tuning or rebuilding 79/81 Ford 2.3L turbo engines. What little knowledge there is about this engine seems spread across the net intertwined with misinformation and is not very useful to the person trying to keep their 2.3t on the road or improve its performance.
We will attempt to centralize all known issues and fixes for the 79/81 Ford 2.3 turbo engine.
Please contribute to this thread if you have experience either with a known issue or solution. If you were a Ford tech back in the old days, share with us some of the common problems. If you have repaired or rebuilt these engines to stock, or better than stock, or if you have trick solutions that work around their known issues.
Basically this is a place to discuss and develop ways to keep these historic engines on the road, to restore, or to improve performance, without totally transforming them to EFI, or replacing them with another engine.
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