Im ready to get this party started! This is a 9.5" Dirty Dog( i guess he doesnt paint them all seafoam green). We discussed my combo, but we never put a "stall number" on paper, talked about 3k. My aod is being built by a guy here in Houston that has a great rep. He's an engineer by day, gearhead at night. Had the parts to do a nice build, so he figured he'd build it and make some cash to fund another project of his.
Also bought a 300m input shaft. Its lockup, so its still the tiny inner shaft, but it was cheap, and cant hurt.
Title: Converter has arrived!
Post by: thewestie on July 13, 2011, 03:00:44 PM
Pretty
Title: Converter has arrived!
Post by: 347Thunder on July 13, 2011, 04:14:53 PM
i will gladly pay the shipping to florida, if you don't like the color.LOL
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Post by: mtgmike on July 13, 2011, 04:43:04 PM
Quote from: 347Thunder;363370
i will gladly pay the shipping to florida, if you don't like the color.LOL
Cool, converter is free, $625 shipping, Ill fwd paypal info in a minute, kthxbye!
heh. I could care less, just expected to see it when I opened the box. Hey, one company uses purple so you know its one of theirs.
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Post by: 347Thunder on July 13, 2011, 04:48:01 PM
you did good always go for the gusto, I coochd out with the B&M 3000 that stalls at 2400.....Boo hoo!!!!
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Post by: thunderjet302 on July 14, 2011, 04:43:40 PM
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heh. I could care less, just expected to see it when I opened the box. Hey, one company uses purple so you know its one of theirs.
You mean like the purple/pink Precision Industries converter I have? I've got one of their 9.5" billet 2800 non-lock-up converters in my car and I love it.
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Post by: t.birdsc on July 16, 2011, 09:47:06 AM
Very nice! Hope you can post up the results soon!
Title: Converter has arrived!
Post by: mtgmike on August 16, 2011, 02:23:52 PM
Drove the car in and dropped it off at my mechanics Monday, and just dropped off the converter, input shaft, trans, speedo gear, and rear main just now. I put the engine in by myself, and that was enough to let me sit this one out. I have a baby due in October, and this thing needs to be road ready by then, or it'll rot.
Picked up the speedo gear at Tommie Vaughn Ford during lunch just now. I actually worked there one summer in college, but that was a decade plus ago, so no one remembered me, not that I said anything. Tommie vaughn is a HUGE FMS dealer, and they carry almost anything you could/would want. Its nice having a place like that in town.
/cool story bro
Better update hopefully late this week.
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Post by: mtgmike on August 22, 2011, 03:49:22 PM
It might get done today. Im so excited. I got a trans temp gauge i want to put in the bottom section of the center console. I bought a couple small sheets of plexi at Lowes. Thinking fit the plexi to the console opening, paint the back side black, mount trans temp, oil pressure, and water temp there. Thinking extending the cig light/cell charger to inside the console storage.
The guy who did my trans tig'd in two 1/8" npt plugs in teh pan, one for the temp probe, one for a drain.
Title: Converter has arrived!
Post by: mtgmike on August 23, 2011, 08:44:11 PM
Barely got a chance to drive it around the block a few times before it was time to go home. Its my first stalled auto, its a little bizarre. Ive always had t5's and a 3550. Looking forward to driving it some more in the morning. The guy who built it put the temp probe in the right rear of the pan, kind of close to the x pipe, so I'll probably wrap the pipe to keep from heating up the probe indirectly.
If you havent read about it before, this is in a 87 bird. Almost everything was bought used, why, IDK, im cheap.
Mass air swap, a9l, 65mm exploder tb, exploder intake, iron gt40's, comp xe266hr, 9.5"converter, Neighbor's Aod, 3.55, Full sn95 brakes front and rear.
Barely got a chance to drive it around the block a few times before it was time to go home. Its my first stalled auto, its a little bizarre. Ive always had t5's and a 3550. Looking forward to driving it some more in the morning. The guy who built it put the temp probe in the right rear of the pan, kind of close to the x pipe, so I'll probably wrap the pipe to keep from heating up the probe indirectly.
If you havent read about it before, this is in a 87 bird. Almost everything was bought used, why, IDK, im cheap.
Mass air swap, a9l, 65mm exploder tb, exploder intake, iron gt40's, comp xe266hr, 9.5"converter, Neighbor's Aod, 3.55, Full sn95 brakes front and rear.