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Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan View PostLS1 would slide right in there
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One of my all time favorites - an excellent long haul car, very comfy and one of the best aerodynamic bodies ever.
Fix the rust, the upgrades from there are endless.
Find a wrecked MK8 and you could have a field day swapping everything over - upgraded interior, 32V 4.6, wiring, etc.... would be a good way to go if you want to improve road manners without killing the budget - allot of those MK8s have been just about given away because fixing the air ride costs so much.
If you want to turn it into a street strip car - sure - pull the whole power train and put nasty stroked W in there with a trans braked C4, then remove the IRS and replace with 9" or fortified 8.8.... If you're going to drive it more - I would stick with the EFI modular - as much as I love pushrods, I'd leave a modular car a modular car.
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I like it, except for the 3.8...I HATE those motors. Cooling-related issues out the yang. I'd build either a 3v 4.6 or get the 331ci block for a bigger Mod motor...
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Originally posted by tedly View PostYeah, the rust monster is eating away at this one too. The rocker panels are worse than they look in the pic, it's started on the doors, and the rear shock towers are getting pretty bad. Objectively, it's not worth saving. It's an $1100 base model TBird from a non-desireable year that will never be worth much to anyone else. I would drive for a few years then unload if it weren't for the family history. I'm going to put the old girl through one more winter, pick up a good welder and teach myself how to weld, then start on it next spring/summer. It's a gorgeous car that has always gotten a lot of compliments, I think when I lower it a couple of inches, put on some chrome 18" Cobra R rims, and tint the windows it will look pretty damn sweet. I'm still geeked about having a good car with potential right now though and will enjoy the hell out of it until it's time to tear into it.
cheap/easy/and works..
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Originally posted by antmnte View PostI had one of those my only non GM car. It was a 91 with 3.8 liter, really a great car. It was black with limo tint windows and my first newer car (only 3 yrs old when I bought it) I waxed it every weekend too and chicks dug it. Rot eventually got to the rockers and it went through front rotors like cookies,I would still have it if it werent for the rot.
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I approve! I have had 3 t-birds and now have a markviii, While technically a different platform they art mostly the same
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I had one of those my only non GM car. It was a 91 with 3.8 liter, really a great car. It was black with limo tint windows and my first newer car (only 3 yrs old when I bought it) I waxed it every weekend too and chicks dug it. Rot eventually got to the rockers and it went through front rotors like cookies,I would still have it if it werent for the rot.
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Yeah, those intakes really choked the V8s, but I got no problem putting a cowl hood on it and will probably end up going with FI instead of a carb anyway.
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nice buy,, nice color, good luck with it.. if your going v8 remember ford had to cut off it's nose inspite of it's face, and put a choking intake one them to clear that low hood line.. and I'm sure a carb'd set up be no better..
by the time you are read the ecoboost v6 might be in enough wrecked f-150's to swap in, hell the unboosted one, prob. makes more power than the 302 they stuffed in those..
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Originally posted by Brian Lohnes View PostIn Boston we call 'em Windsahs....and that's the way I would go!
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In Boston we call 'em Windsahs....and that's the way I would go!
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Originally posted by Beagle View PostHell yeah, it looks like a great deal!
4.2 from a truck and a turbo, then let your folks drive it again.
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