New additions to the family.

[tedly]

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.

It is damn comfy and roomy as hell inside! That's why I'm wanting to keep all the creature comforts, it'd be a shame to waste them. It will be driven often and everywhere so I think I'll keep the IRS or upgrade it to a bigger one.

[tedly]

LS1 would slide right in there

That's been swirling in my head too. Think I'm going to go with Ford power though. If I do anything just to mess with people It'll be the turbo 2.3. She's a portly girl and something about using a 4 cylinder in there is just... wrong! I've been needing a V8 fix something serious though so I don't think I'll go that route. Toyed with the idea of a diesel setup for a minute but It would just be wrong for what I want from the car.

[SpiderGearsMan]

LS1 would slide right in there

[milner351]

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.

[BangShift McT]

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...

[Stich496]

Yeah, 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.

drill a few holes in rockers (unless there are already plugs) heat up some wheel bearing grease/ oil mix and spray it into the rockers..
cheap/easy/and works..

[tedly]

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.

Yeah, 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.

[Buckeye]

I approve! I have had 3 t-birds and now have a markviii, While technically a different platform they art mostly the same

[antmnte]

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.

[tedly]

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.

[Stich496]

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..

[1trickpony]

Good buy! Dont listen to Brian he drinks too much cawfee.

[tedly]

In Boston we call 'em Windsahs....and that's the way I would go!

That's what I'm really leaning towards. My basic plan is after getting rid of the rust and putting the body back where it should be I'm going to upgrade the interior to the top of the line model: Leather seats, any options I like that it doesn't have already, etc... After that it will be worked into a multipurpose car that will put down respectable numbers on the strip, auto cross and road course, LSR, and still be able to drive on road trips with the A/C blowing, the cruise control on, and the stereo cranked. I don't expect to excel in any of those arenas and I have no specific power or performance goals in mind, I just want to be able to do them just for fun. A Windsor will help keep the weight down and be simple enough to repair easily, but a blown Romeo engine has a strong appeal too. I'll burn that bridge when I come to it though.

[Brian Lohnes]

In Boston we call 'em Windsahs....and that's the way I would go!

[tedly]

Hell yeah, it looks like a great deal!

4.2 from a truck and a turbo, then let your folks drive it again.

I'm going back and forth between a Windsor stroker or a 32 valve 4.6, then yesterday I had a stroke of genius (or maybe it was just a stroke...): Turbo 4 banger.