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User Rides / Making some progress- FOR SALE
Wheels man, gotta see the wheels..
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Wheels man, gotta see the wheels..
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User Rides / 1986 T-bird restoration in progress.... Second restoration!!!!"Picture update"
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User Rides / Most recent pics
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User Rides / Making some progress- FOR SALE
Quote from: thundr306;224005
There are some pics floating around, but none with it on the ground/outside yet. Soon, hopefully.
Quote from: thundr306;235509
Kills some of the pride, but I want to drive it. It is finally off the jackstands and ready to be pulled onto the trailer. Just waiting for a phone call.
Good time for those outside shots eh? Unless your hiding all new paint and don't want to post pics.
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User Rides / Subframes!!
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Drivetrain Tech / TC T5 vs. 5.0 T5 pros/cons
Found this pic on Turboford, and is what I'm wanting to eliminate. The previous owner of my car has shimmed the cable to pivot arm to allow further disengagement but the clutch let's out right off the floor and is annoying the heck out of me. Since I just got this car I peeped under it and noticed that funky setup..
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Drivetrain Tech / TC T5 vs. 5.0 T5 pros/cons
I have a 86 TC, 5spd. These cars have some sort of goofy clutch cable lever connector on the transmission. What is needed to convert these cars to a standard v8 style T5, adjustable cable, clutch fork setup?
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Engine Tech / blown again.....Fixed
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Engine Tech / 2.3 Stinger exhaust details needed please
Quote from: Tbird232ci;228430
From the side, you cannot see my exhaust at all. If you lay down, you can see about 1/4" of the cat and that's it. Hell, the only hint that the car has exhaust is that you can see the tailpipe through the rear wheel well.
As for sound clip, I don't have a camera that does sound myself, but I do think my girlfriends does.
Would it be a correct statement to say that your exhaust fabricator made the rear most section with the slight turn at the end rather than having the exhaust just exit straight out?
I like the way you ran the single 3" tailpipe. What ler is that (Hooker xxxx?) Is the car quiet?
Thanks for your response.
Quote from: 88turbo;228549
I have his number if you want I can try to find it in my email.
I guess I don't need it at this moment, I received an email from them, I might want to talk over the phone but email is fine at this point. Thanks. :)
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Engine Tech / 2.3 Stinger exhaust details needed please
I have yet to get a response from Stinger and can't find a contact number on the website to even get in touch with them. Little skeptical to just place an order online without feeling sure about what to purchase.
I'm registering over on turboford.org to see if I get a response there, hope I'm not nagging you guys just that I'm not finding the particulars yet. :D
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Engine Tech / I found Parts
I'll let the experts reply for specifics on the rest.
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User Rides / 1983 Thunderbird w/460
Makes ya think, those cast stroker cranks are so cheap though! Where's the turbo or the nitrous kit? :) Seriously speaking, where did you get that hood I'm diggin it and is it bolt on or pin on?
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Engine Tech / 2.3 Stinger exhaust details needed please
If you can contribute please do, else I put questions really simular to this in my email to them and will post the response upon recieving an email if I do.... .
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Engine Tech / I found Parts
Quote from: Superdavesds;228312
So still, what is the big difference in the 86 and 87. it rates 155 on the bird in 86 and 190 in 87. now excuse me for being a moron but that is 35 more ponies with a lesser turbo. I was under the impression that the rest of the motor was the same. In 86 the bird had 10 more hp than the cat but in 87 it had 40 more. Please explain?
Quote from: tc²;228347
The main difference other than the turbo was the top-mount intercooler. I'm not sure how much of an increase it gave the latemodel TC's, but it was definitely a good boost. There were other subtle things as well, like a slightly larger VAM. The motor is in fact the same, although in '87 Ford went to a slightly shorter upper intake for some reason?... I can't really think of any other differences at this time. Maybe someone will chime in...
Quote from: ipsd;228351
take a look at the boost settings for both 86 and 87-88. I bet you will see that the older cars were set lower that the newer inter cooled setup. The whole Idea is colder air means less chance of detonation. Witch in turn means you can run higher boost levels. Then you have a smaller turbo witch should help get into boost even quicker. I do believe they used the shorter intake to help hood clearence with the Air funnel. Then that calls for a notched V.C. even though I've used it with both short and tall intake.
Quote from: Chuck W;228394
On the boost issue, save for maybe the 85.5-86TC's (manual), the max boost on the non-IC TC's from the factory was 11#. The Merkur XR4's (also non-intercooled) also ran 15# boost on the manual cars from the factory as well.
Quote from: ipsd;228404
Yeah chuck set them straight. I knew I read that the newer proceesors were faster and I knew the IC cars ran higher boost. As for a 18 year old car running higher than factory boost setting, well it is 18years old and had plenty of time for a previous owner to play with it.
ipsd - Being the internet I'm not quite sure hot to interpret your comment in bold above or your last post about 18 year old car and shutting them down.
Chuck has obviously built quite the library of factual information, however he did state that "save for" the manual cars which tells me regardless of IC or non-IC that the 86 and older still made more than 11lbs - I don't know if that was ever a non proven issue with you or not. I believe the subject is auto cars here which I may have confused the thread with since mine is a manual (sorry). My car has not been monkeyed around with and is all stock (except the blown out factory ler) and if your comment was directed at any falsification toward me I assure you it's true info. It makes over 11lbs easy.
Thanks for the info Chuck W !
I guess a remaining question here might be: What was the difference rated between the older non IC Auto / Manual vs the newer IC units. I still see that as being unclear, were the manual pre 87 cars still rated that low? Jesus, I need to update processors and VAM. :)
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Engine Tech / I found Parts
Quote from: ipsd;228351
take a look at the boost settings for both 86 and 87-88. I bet you will see that the older cars were set lower that the newer inter cooled setup. The whole Idea is colder air means less chance of detonation. Witch in turn means you can run higher boost levels. Then you have a smaller turbo witch should help get into boost even quicker. I do believe they used the shorter intake to help hood clearence with the Air funnel. Then that calls for a notched V.C. even though I've used it with both short and tall intake.
Only trying to contribute to this thread, but I question the validity in this statement above.
I have a non intercooled 86 TC (5spd - so that might be the difference here) that I recently purchased and unless the guage is wrong it frequently pegs the 15lb marker on the factory dash display in cooler weather conditions (morning) . Definatly swings well pass 10lbs easy during the day probably 13-14lbs and the car is stone stock except for a blown out factory ler.
