What are you driving for the 2020 Power Tour?
I'm starting to tinker with my 2020 ride after two years of mostly neglectful ownership. It's a '91 Ford LTD Country Squire LX with junkyard Mustang heads atop a lopo 302 block, 'Lincoln Log' exhaust manifolds, wide-ratio AOD trans with a Lentech valve body, a 3.55 limited slip to keep things smoky, and a big-ass sway bar to keep it from flipping over in the turns. A few other things, nothing super worth mentioning. Is it fast? No. Is it really nice? No. Is it going to be fun on HRPT? Yup, I hope so anyway.
Over the past month, I've given it 5 quarts of Amoco LDO (anyone remember that stuff? Don't ask me how I ended up with a case of it...I can't even remember!) and finally addressed the 'why in the hell doesn't this thing go into park?' issue. Turns out the linkage in the steering column sheared a bolt, so I had to drop the column and squeeze my fat ass under the dash to fix it. For those who've met me, can you imagine me crawling in this tiny spot?
I had my head under the steering column, left leg out the passenger door, and right leg over the back seat. I'm sure the neighbors had a great time watching this. Of course, they couldn't bother to help! :D
When I bought the car, it had some brand-new Firestones on the stock 15" wheels. Never liked Firestones before and don't like these. Always had a pretty good shimmy to them at any speed above 60. Fixed that with new 17x8 Magnum ripoffs all the way around and 235/55/17 up front, 255/55/17 in the back.
I got the wheels here for $480 shipped; they've since jacked the price a bit.
Still have some swinging to do on this. Bodywork will not be on that list. The rusty wheel wells and all-but-gone clearcoat make this car endearingly crappy. And it's 100% solid underneath - cleaner than most Ohio cars 1/3 its age. The rear axle has an occasional whine or groan noise from it, so I'll have to do bearings and maybe spider gears...trans fluid...and maybe figure out why the tailgate glass only works half the time. Hell, I'll add about 30 more things to the list at some point or another.
But I've got about 300 days left to figure that all out.
SO...let's see what you're bringing...even if it's what you drove last year. What's on your to-do list?
I'm starting to tinker with my 2020 ride after two years of mostly neglectful ownership. It's a '91 Ford LTD Country Squire LX with junkyard Mustang heads atop a lopo 302 block, 'Lincoln Log' exhaust manifolds, wide-ratio AOD trans with a Lentech valve body, a 3.55 limited slip to keep things smoky, and a big-ass sway bar to keep it from flipping over in the turns. A few other things, nothing super worth mentioning. Is it fast? No. Is it really nice? No. Is it going to be fun on HRPT? Yup, I hope so anyway.
Over the past month, I've given it 5 quarts of Amoco LDO (anyone remember that stuff? Don't ask me how I ended up with a case of it...I can't even remember!) and finally addressed the 'why in the hell doesn't this thing go into park?' issue. Turns out the linkage in the steering column sheared a bolt, so I had to drop the column and squeeze my fat ass under the dash to fix it. For those who've met me, can you imagine me crawling in this tiny spot?
I had my head under the steering column, left leg out the passenger door, and right leg over the back seat. I'm sure the neighbors had a great time watching this. Of course, they couldn't bother to help! :D
When I bought the car, it had some brand-new Firestones on the stock 15" wheels. Never liked Firestones before and don't like these. Always had a pretty good shimmy to them at any speed above 60. Fixed that with new 17x8 Magnum ripoffs all the way around and 235/55/17 up front, 255/55/17 in the back.
I got the wheels here for $480 shipped; they've since jacked the price a bit.
Still have some swinging to do on this. Bodywork will not be on that list. The rusty wheel wells and all-but-gone clearcoat make this car endearingly crappy. And it's 100% solid underneath - cleaner than most Ohio cars 1/3 its age. The rear axle has an occasional whine or groan noise from it, so I'll have to do bearings and maybe spider gears...trans fluid...and maybe figure out why the tailgate glass only works half the time. Hell, I'll add about 30 more things to the list at some point or another.
But I've got about 300 days left to figure that all out.
SO...let's see what you're bringing...even if it's what you drove last year. What's on your to-do list?
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