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Nice Bird !!!!! I love the look of it with the single exhaust tip out back.Are you keeping that?What else is in store for the old car?

what a sleeper, I'm loving it! 

Are you planning on earning a return on that investment?

Sick and wrong! It's awesome lol.
Video when it get's fired up??

Might need some SFC's in there lol.

Also that C4 likes TINY behind that thing. You sure its gonna hold?

SFC = Subframe connector.

The cage in the car will help some however.

cool! now that engine is worth the time and money for the swap your doing!

Not enough that you got called in Chuck's thread on your narrow-mindedness, that now you've got to run your your trap in someone else's thread too?

Ass. :flip::flame:

Thanks! ....ehhh.. return?....  lol well, im kinda hoping that we keep the car itself ..and if we plan to build another engine... then I hope it'll go in this car.. since its virtually identical to a stang and uses almost all the same parts


I dont really want to think about selling the car any time soon.. we just started building it... but that's just me.. I kinda get attached to certain things lol

I wasn't talking about selling it.:burnout:

Crazy Don in Oceanside, NY did both the subframe connectors and the cage...  I don't remember what material was used for the connectors, but the cage was made with chromoly tubing ;)

I wasn't talking about selling it.:burnout:

Where in NY are you?  Gonna bring it to Captree when it's done?

Yeah no kiddin'.  He could absolutely rape people on the street with that car.  Its like a textbook "sleeper".  :evilgrin:

Nice work!  Looks like it was a beotch getting the steering shaft and headers to corporate with each other.  Heck it seems close with my 5.0 and shorty headers!!

I live in Nassau, captree is like..ehh 20/25 mins from me..

well, with using either 3.55/3.73 gears, we wont have to wind up that motor on the highways...and that it will be able to run on pump gas... .....i think we'll definitely be bringing it down!

But only when it's finished.. or at least when we get the new spindles and 8.8 rear installed, new wheels and paint job


..I cant wait to take on the ZR1 vette's on the way back home after Captree ..they won't know what hit em lol

Man I think it looks good black and with smaller diameter wheels (15" or 16").  It just has that kick ass look like maybe its stock but you just can't be sure.  Of course if it is loud as hell, then that might give it away.  :D This car makes me want to build a big motor 4-eye T-bird or Cougar badly...

cool! now that engine is worth the time and money for the swap your doing!

Believe it or not, the Jegs wheel is an improvement over the original  Weld design.

Dude, drop the attitude. The guy wants an engine that has good power (5Hp less than a 5.0 HO) and will improve the wieght bias of the car. Get over it :beatyoass:

Ohhh really!! Honestly I thought they just tried to mock up a 1-piece design of it, but I never thought of them being an improvement.


after seeing it in person, I ended up liking it better... Especially the fact that it's a 1- piece rim..... And $135 for a 10" rim lol

Someone explained it to me a while back.  It has to do with the way the wheel distributes the load from the weight of the car.

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Dipstick from SK Speed :D

Troy built my 427 Windsor too.                                                                                                                                                        (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c244/racerxmd/th_427onEngineStand.jpg) (http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c244/racerxmd/?action=view¤t=427onEngineStand.jpg)                                  (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c244/racerxmd/427ProjectX001-1.jpg)

Hey man whats up from a fellow Long Islander ! Hows the Bid coming ?

heyyy hheyyy hheyyy!! :mullet:



....i still havent taken pictures in a while! ive been busy searching for a full-time position....aint easy when u just finished college :\  ....


but anyway, its coming along! ...  we put in a summit direct-fit radiator, installed a Derale tranny cooler w/ fan...  we put a new dual fan setup from a ford contour which fits nicely.. should pull around 3500 cfm which is great for cooling!..


we put in the gauges, finished off the shifter...still need to put the tach in there but thats nothing...  we're getting pretty close... 


we just gotta wire up the ignition, the relays to the tranny fans, fuel pump and radiator fans...and then hook up the switches directly to the fuel pump/tranny fan/radiator fans... 


its getting reaally close to finally firing it up :D

Cool deal man , I cant wait to see the finished product Maybee in person . I might end up on Long Island in may or june . I'll let you know . A dual fan set up works good , thats what I am running with a Be Cool Radiator . I run right around 195 degrees in the middle of the summer .
Lets get that wiring set up and fire her up !!:burnout:

Cool deal man , I cant wait to see the finished product Maybee in person . I might end up on Long Island in may or june . I'll let you know . A dual fan set up works good , thats what I am running with a Be Cool Radiator . I run right around 195 degrees in the middle of the summer .
Lets get that wiring set up and fire her up !!:burnout:

What happened to your oil pan? It looks like mighty mouse tried to kick his way out.  I have dreams of building a big block car.

Hey Man whats up , I was on Long island for a quick 2 days and got over to the Bellmore train station friday night . There were some sick cars there but No Tbirds . Do you go there on friday nights ?

heyy! i didnt know if bellmore would be on this early, but i guess since its been getting warmer that people have been starting it..

nah, i havent gone, usually you dont see t-birds like ours there but sometimes a couple turbocoupes if any...  even though there are plenty of nasty and nastier cars...wait till they see mine lol

Hey man whats up ? Sounds good , When are you gonna get it over to Bellmore Train station ?

Hey buddy! Thanks!

Ohhh, I wish it'd be soon! But I dont know when for sure... we still need to do a little body work and painting... we still need to put in the 8.8 rear (we haven't even built it up yet)..


I'd say that if the body work and painting was done, then I guess we could bring it.... even though the car is not really finished (stock 4 lug wheels totally give that aspect away) lol

Very nice Job you did there.  My only concern is that the battery location is going to screw you up when you decide to put in a fuel cell.  I tried to use the stock tank and even welded in a rear sump but in the end nothing worked and I had to put in a cell.

I mounted my battery up on top using a plate under it to make it wide enough and they gave me more room on the floor.

TED

It's not the size I just had a problem with the pick-up in drag racing.  I don't know if the Turbo coupe is any different but I had to race with a full tank to keep it from running out of gas half way down the track.  The launch would uncover the pickup and half way down there was a terrible bog. 

Then to solve this I welded in a rear pick-up in the stock tank.  This took care of the bog but when I got down to the end of the track and turned it would slosh to one side and die.  So even then I had to run with a full tank to this from happening.

To solve this I put in a 10 gallon fuel cell and so far so good.  The problem here is that the trunk has to be sealed off with tin.

The faster you go the more problems are created and you are going to go plenty fast!  Just trying to give you my experience to maybe save you some problems down the road.  You will not not see the problems on the road but the track brings out the worst of the problems.

TED

On that Dynamic trans, what bell housing did you/they use?  I can't quite read the tag on it.  Nice work, too! 

EDIT: Nevermind, I read JW.