Fox T-Bird/Cougar Forums

Hello!
I've been lurking around here for years but never really posted my car.
Thought I can do it today when I got some pics of it.
Got it street legal today and it's fantastic!
Me and my father have been restoring it for a few years now, started out as a rusty wreck pretty much. Had been stolen once and so on.
Alot of thanks to my father for being the best father ever :bowdown:

But today it looks like this.
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/159087/159087-2809541.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/159087/159087-2809542.jpg)
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(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/159087/159087-2809544.jpg)
The armrests has been taken off for some repairs.
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/159087/159087-2809545.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/159087/159087-2809546.jpg)
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(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/159087/159087-2805430.jpg)

And videos ;)
Exhaust video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sID7V-7BJ2Y

Exhaust video, some of the engine bay and interior etc. And a little revving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ieZg80Ce21I

The engine has some goodies in it, Mustang H.O manifold, ported heads, cammed, followed by a mildly prepped AOD tranny, Mustang 8.8 rearend which we've made wider to fit the car (everyone shortens rearends, we do it the other way :D) with 3.55 gearing and ofcoursed it's got a real differential in it.
Shorty headers with 2½" home made exhaust, magnaflow cats and flowmaster lers. All stainless steel ofcourse.
Sitting on 16" American Racing wheels with Mickey Thompson tires in the rear.
It's actually painted in our garage which I shall mention. Lots of work before and after and it's simply great. You can't tell it's painted in a garage.

While I'm at it, I can show you my dads Thunderbird too. If you're intersted (ofcourse you are) :)

It's got a 347" in it, T56 transmission, 9" rearend with 4.10 gearing and a Detroit locker.
Don't know all facts about it but the car is a blast.
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/247957/247957-2332256.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/247957/247957-2332268.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/247957/247957-2332309.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/247957/247957-2339618.jpg)
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And we've also got some other stuffs like 3 Lincoln Mark Viii's, Mercury Grand Marquis, whippled '03 10th anni etc.
But the fox bodies are the cars I'm posting because it's simply great cars :)

Hope you like them! :)
More pics will come, have to get a photoshoot with both my dads T-bird and mine together. And also with our 3 Lincolns :)

wow, both are stunning cars.

are they very common over there?

Welcome aboard.  It looks like you and your Dad have some very nice rides!  Any more pics of the 60's model T-bird?

Great cars, both of them.  Thank you for posting them.

I imagine it is more difficult to piece them together over there.  Very nice work.

Very nice! I like them both!

look real nice man! both of them!

Awesome! With emphasis on the "awesome" part. lol

Pssst...lower your Bird a little...looks like mine did before I put '97 Mustang springs under it :P

I remember a picture or two of your car with a gran marquis a while back. Its good to see its still around.

Sweet Ride! Probably a nice change from all the opel's volvo's and saab's haha

There are a few but no, not very common. Fox Mustangs are more common though which isn't very hard to calculate why.
 


Cheers mate :)
Uhm, no I don't have any pics of it. It's not our, it's a friend of my dads car.
 


We have our ways of getting the things shipped over here. But yeah, it takes some time so every order must be quite large :)
 

 


Thanks to both of you :)
 


Cheers mate! Appriciate it!
And sorry, no. Wont lower it. I love the muscle car style with the car at original height. Looks neat with big tires on it :) Definetly my style. If you check my fathers car, he's gone a different route and the car is a pain in the ass to drive over speedbumps :)
 


That's pretty cool of you remembering that.
Yes the Marquis is still along and looks exactly the same as it's ever done :)
But it's abit in the shadow now with all of the Lincoln Mark Viii's :D
 


It sure is!
I'm so incredibly sick of seeing Saab's and Volvos :D See them everywhere! And they're not even close to being good looking either xD

Both cars are nice, although I am sort of partial to the 66 Bird in the one pic, is that yours also? I know a guy in Sweden that I have helped on many occassions get parts for his 74 Bird

Cheers mate! :)
It's not ours. I do like it, the best looking year during the 60's. Belongs to a friend of my father. The interior is faaar faaaar gone in that one. Been leaking water for decades + mice. But it's got a restored engine and transmission.
I like that car.
But it's a good example of what we call "export car" or "america restored". It's painted, barely. The windscreen wipers are also green, not a single trim has been taken off the car during the repaint, looks like they've only put one coat of color and they havn't even sanded it before painting.
It's terrible. But the car is rust free which is absolutley great!

so that's YOU with that 347 TBird! I commented on a couple of your youtube vids. Car hauls man, nice work. Loving it all the way from Canada

The videos are uploaded on my friends channel though.
I tried replying back to you when you had a few questions, didn't work and I totally forgot about it :D Sorry about that mate ;)
I can answer you now, even though you might have gotten a few questions answered. The purple one (my dads) is a sport coupe painted with a purple color that's actually from Mazda.
The red one (mine) is an LX.

The videos if others are interested (both are of my dads bird) with me behind the wheel both times.
[video=youtube;bdhTQf72j1k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhTQf72j1k[/video]
[video=youtube;xPiLQ5pwO-U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPiLQ5pwO-U[/video]

It's a bitch to get it rolling, especially when the wheel is turned abit. Detroit locker and cheramic clutch aint the best but hey, it's lovely! You really have to work the car to drive it, keeps you busy at all times :)

I can double post with a little video from today.
My father wanted me to take his T-bird for a spin (first of the season) so we just put a fresh battery in it and me and a mate went out with it abit :)
So here's the result after a small playtime. Rain and wet I know it's cheating but hey, that was the weather forecast for today ;)
Went a little easy on the girl, nothing special really :)
[video=youtube;o4bb4__92bk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4bb4__92bk&feature=player_embedded#![/video]

Whoa! Four lug Bullits! Very cool! I had looked for those!  Where did you get them?

They're not bullitts. They're actually American Racing. What model is unknown though. Never seen them on any other car than mine.

Double post and update with a fresh photo of the driveway!
We're running out of space! It's not the ammount of cars that's the problem, it's the space! We need a bigger driveway :D
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That's awsome, 2 of each!

Mark VIII's and Birds! Nice! I love the terminator rims on your Dad's car.

Yeah we recieved a Mark Viii fever this winter.
They're great cars! Love mine and dad loves his :)

Been abit busy with my Mark Viii lately, haven't even given my bird the weekly wash! :(
My Lincoln is my winter beater/daily driver so a decent sound system is required in my opinion.
The setup is: JL 12w7 powered by DLS Ultimate A6 amp and front system is DLS Nordica 6.2 powered by a DLS Ultimate A3 amp.
Here's how it turned out! :)
The headunit
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120813_193407.jpg)
Quite empty :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120815_181624.jpg)
Some wood for the box and also while building the box
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(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120816_190605.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120816_204722.jpg)
Test fitting of the subwoofer box and measurements of the amps
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(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120818_142433.jpg)
Building the amp rack
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(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120818_174003.jpg)
A Nissan is a great table when spraying things! Highly recommended ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120818_180422.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120818_185124.jpg)
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(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120819_142842.jpg)
JL 12w7 is a quite big subwoofer :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120819_161306.jpg)
And it's in!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120819_163633.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120819_163751.jpg)
Amp cover off
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120819_204428.jpg)
Doors
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20120826_103945.jpg)

Finished the Mark today so got the T-bird in the garage for some oil filling. Some oil has magically disappeared so I put some new back in. I think I need to keep an eye on the oil level from now on.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20120902_201246.jpg)
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Also found some older pictures of the baby ;)
I think this was the day I got her home, 5 years ago.
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Doesn't look too bad but oh boy she was rusty
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I think this was just a few months after, winter was coming. Also shows that I was a master with the camera! :hick:
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Left driver side fender was way too rusty so we found one that was less rusty
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/IMGP1009.jpg)
I have no idea what year
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Two years ago (I think)
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1½ year ago I believe
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First time we painted it. It failed, lack of good lights in the old paint booth and ran out of paint. Second try we painted it in our garage (have no pics of that unfortinetly).
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Me peeling the masking
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And how she was a few days ago
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Hmm... This was a long reply with lots of pictures... I don't think you guys mind that, if you do, that's too bad for you :D

Nice work on the sub. It looks like a monster.

Are those amber turn signals from VW Golf 2 too (http://"https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-q25zW0-JFck/UAnDGF-IqXI/AAAAAAAADQc/Wp8QXE6i-io/s640/P7200048.JPG")?:hick:

Oh my god they could be! :D
They're so deep in the trash they could possibly be! :D I have no amber turn signals on this car (apart from the original ones in the front).
You my fellow european friend have also felt the pain in the ass with the EU regulations about amber turn signals :)

I know, but nobody cares about it in the traffic. I have to wire for the inspection only.
The red one (which we have many years) had the euro modification (http://"http://www.abload.de/img/crw_0037bzd3.jpg"), but it was easy to repair (I just swapped the lights (http://"http://www.abload.de/img/crw_0038xtfg.jpg")). The silver one has the H4 lamps in the front (and they have white parking lights inside) and it has unfortunatelly cut holes for those turn signal lamps (http://"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kaZS3iXD488/T8IL3pbK8ZI/AAAAAAAADLg/I8gGPz2Nreo/s640/P1010179.JPG") in the rear PU bumper. Nobody cares, that they aren't visible in the direct sunlight, but they have to be there. So, I'm solving, how to fix that bumper and fill the hole with something and put the amber turn signals to the lenses. I've made a LED turn signals (http://"http://www.abload.de/img/img_0122nmce.jpg") I installed into those euro-damaged tail lamps and it looks good (http://"http://www.abload.de/img/img_00537ql5.jpg"). I can put a non-damaged lense on it and go pass the inspection.

Both my bumpers were cut. We repaired it with some special bondo for this type of plastic (will not crack).
I now don't have amber lights anywhere on this car (I need it in the rear and front fenders) and so far I've gotten no complaints. I'll never put that on the car, if I must I'll do some temporary wiring and attach some ugly amber turn signals with double sided tape and then remove it as fast as possible after the inspection.
The big white lights in the front is parking lights which I moved to the inner part of the headlights (the small triangle closest to the grill).
And  that turn signal was shagy! Cool solution! I like it! :) Good thing they only ruined a pair of lights instead of the whole bumper like on my car and your other T-bird.

Sometimes I wonder if people here in Sweden/Europe even understand my red turnsignals. I've asked a few non-car persons and none of them even knew it existed. Sometimes it feels so unessecary using the turn signal when people most likely doesn't even understand it :D

It's a bit different here. People often ask me, why my Scorpio has the amber turn signals, if it's made in US. It's a quite tricky to explain them, that it isn't made in states, but in Germany. It just has an american look.

This is probably due to the most american cars here have red turn signals and "somehow" pass the inspections. Older cars on historic plates don't even have to pass standard inspections. Most of them don't even have a rear fog lamp (which I find very useful in foggy spring and autumn mornings or a heavy rain).

That's weird when thinking of how it is in Sweden.
We have a huge interest of american cars (just google Power Big Meet where there's 12,000 american cars attending each year).
My car passed inspection with only red turn signals (although I must have amber). They didn't even check. But the rules in Sweden are abit... strange.
If you import a car from america, you will have tough exhaust regulations and you must have amber turn signals.
Although if you have owned the car in the US for 1 year and take it with you while moving to Sweden none of those regulations apply to your car o.O

But rear fog lights, are they really useful in Czech Republic? I have not seen a single car here in Sweden with rear fog lights apart from the newer cars which has it from factory.

Funny how different things can be! :D

Here's a russian friend I found on Power Meet this summer ;)
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/457149_10150984019981236_598487570_o.jpg)

Vasteras power big meet is very famous, I know about it. Do we know that russian guy? Is he registered here?

What do you meat with the word "appart"? New european cars have the rear fog lamp as a part of the tail light. American doesn't, so you have to add the fog lamp under the bumper, or put the red bulb to the left backup lamp or just rewire the tail lamps (it's standard for newer mustangs and camaros). There are tons of options, how to do it without damaging a car.

You should definetly come up here for Power Meet ;)
The Russian guy has his own site (http://www.tcco.ru) and he said he's coming back next year. Apperently he has already booked hotel for it.

I mean I've only seen newer european cars with rear fog lights in Sweden.

I'd love to visit Power meet, but it's too expensive for me now. Maybe in few years.

Fog lamps were mandatory in our country since 1995. Owners of older cars had to add an aditional rear fog lamp somewhere. So now all cars here have rear fog lamps (almost all).
And the most funny part is, that in our law is that you HAVE TO turn on the rear fog lamp in poor conditions, ... and you CAN add front fog lamps to rear fog lamps. That means, that you shouldn't be able to turn on the front fog lamps first. How funny, I don't know ANY car, which has a combined headlamp switch (pull  for fog lamps) where you turn on the rear fog lamp first. Even czech Škodas don't pass this law and they turn on front fog lamps first and rear second.
(http://img.auto.cz/moje.auto.cz/img/galleries/4f5354edc834a/4f5396ce93c12.jpg)

Let's move our discussion to skype, or PMs :)

I love weird laws! Every country has a few laws that doesn't make any sense at all :D

My friend and I was doing some photoshooting of my T-bird today!
Here's a pic from my cellphone. I'll upload good photos later when he's done with them :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20120907_163703.jpg)
Oh and I accidently did a burnout...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvtjFZ4Ur8&feature=youtu.be
Uhm.. three of them (actually four, that pic was taken before the last burnout which is the one in the video).
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20120907_174706.jpg)

I love my little birdie birdie :D

(http://www.freewebs.com/smankies/FWThumbnails/rofl.gif)

Here's 3 more :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXT1sFCodQY&list=UUDcQjqteZwP4Uf3qNSWH-SA&index=1&feature=plcp

So I had the car N/A for one summer and now it's time for boost.
Bought this of a guy at Corral.net (best guy I've ever dealt with by the way!).
It's a Procharger D1, brand new never used about 10 years old if I don't remember it wrong. Doesn't matter, gonna give me boost!
Now it's just the long wait of getting it to Sweden... :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/Procharger%20D1/DSC02097_zpsbb52f6d8.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/Procharger%20D1/DSC02096_zpsfbca1f3a.jpg)
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(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/Procharger%20D1/DSC02093_zpsad2f6963.jpg)

And I've also bought race seats and 4 point seatbelts. Pics of that is coming (going to pick them up on friday).
At the moment I'm tearing the interior apart for the upcoming changes of the car :)

A small update!
Got the seats in the car and seatbelts in place. Got some seat rails from a Volvo 240 and modified them to fit in the T-bird. Lots of work but it's in!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121021_183213.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121021_185444.jpg)
Also recieved a package from the US a few weeks ago containing these parts
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Aeromotive 13103 FPR, Autometer Boost gauge and fuel pressure, A/F monitor and SN95 Mustang gauge pod

Time to deal with the floorpans and get them painted! :)

And sorry about the py pics, cellphone pictures :(

Looking good, I have those same autometer gauges, love the metal looking face on them.

Yeah those gauges are shagy :)
Continued on the car today.

First off I put some etching primer on the places where I have removed rust
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When I painted the first layer of black. Decided to just use a paint brush because noone will ever see it and it's too much trouble protecting both my car and my dads cobra from paint dust if I'd spray it. Much easier to just brush it :)
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And then we got snow!
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Some progress from today then! :)

My dad doesn't want rear monted battery anymore in his Terminator so I went ahead and stole the battery box from him.
On it's way out! s who put it in the car did it when the gastank wasn't installed in the car and the gas tank is in the car right now. Do I need to say more? It was a pain the ass to just remove it!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121026_195043.jpg)
Then I made some mounting brackets for it
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121026_213251.jpg)
Some wiring
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121027_145050.jpg)
Box is in place!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121027_214708.jpg)
Lid on! Steeda is shagy ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121027_215925.jpg)
The finished Volvo 240 seat brackets, fits in the T-bird perfectly ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121027_230123.jpg)
But wait... There's no battery!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121027_230133.jpg)
Anyone knows what this is for?
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121027_230056.jpg)
Overview picture of the garage. Place is a mess with two disassembled cars :hick:
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121027_230156.jpg)

Small picture update
Seats are in and everything around them are finished.
Going to start installing the boost gauge, fuel pressure gauge and A/F ratio monitor as soon as I can and then I'll just sit around waiting for the supercharger to arrive which it should in maybe 2 weeks. So excited! :D
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121030_190453.jpg)
First time I've ever sat in a car with 4 point seat harness and , you're stuck in the seat! Gotta get used to that from now on. Original seat belts are in the car because otherwise it wont pass swedish tech inspection and they're illegal to use on the streets (like I care? ;) )

The sound deadening on the floor pans are removed and it all weighed in at 8.5kg and I first thought the floormat was extremely heavy and considered not installing it again but the car looks so ghetto without it even with freshly painted floor.
So my friend ripped all of the sound deadening material off the floormat and all of it weighed in at 10.5kg. TEN POINT FIVE KILOGRAMS!!! Never would've guessed that, the total weight of the floormat is now around 3-4kg. It's far less than the battery cable running from the trunk to the engine bay.
Also the original seats weighed in at 33kg each, sport seats are 10kg each with tracks and each 4 point harness is maybe 2kg so total I've ripped out maybe 60kg from just some useless isolation and shiznitty seats that were falling apart :)

What are you going to do with the stuff you ripped away?

I put the seats in storage, pretty good to keep even when they're in pretty sad shape.
All of the isolation and such was thrown away

And what about the console? :rolleyes:

The console will ofcourse be put back in the car, it's just not there in the picture :D

Time for an update then! :)
Seat tracks in the car, turned out nice imo
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121105_163918.jpg)
Used original seatbelt holes and put the anchor for the 4 point harness in them
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121105_164235.jpg)
Locked with a locking pin
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121105_165152.jpg)
Mounting the A-pillar back on with gauges on it
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121105_204121.jpg)
Looks good! :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121105_213926.jpg)
Drew the boost gauge pipe, cables for the A/F Monitor and cables to the fuel pressure sensor through the clutch hole
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121106_220418.jpg)
Connected the boost gauge to the vacuum tree
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121106_202345.jpg)
And then also a packade found it's way home! :)
What could this be?
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121107_195910.jpg)
Only one thing, the supercharger!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_155756.jpg)
Also my father got some goodies like these heads for his Termintor
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_153255.jpg)
And some oil
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_153342.jpg)
Anyways, some pics from today when I mounted the A/F monitor
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_184003.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_185224.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_191610.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_193052.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_193103.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121108_200320.jpg)

And also bought some Estonian inspirational drink from my brother ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121102_231313.jpg)

Ahh Viru Valge, that is for breakfast correct? Haha last time I had some was when I was visiting relatives in Lithuania. Very nice build, what supercharger are you going with?

Haha for breakfast, lunch and dinner ;) Can probably be shiznitface drunk on that stuff for severl days in a row xD It's aProcharger D1 :)

A few more pics of what's happened to the car :)

Took a while to figure out how the brackets went on
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121109_113240.jpg)
And then after that I started assembling the interior again
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121109_131120.jpg)
Some home made brackets for the original seat belts (must be mounted to pass tech inspection)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121109_132144.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121109_132332.jpg)
Mounted
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121109_133247.jpg)
Started disassembling the front end of the car
My grill is in a quite sad shape :( I'm trying to find a place that can re-chrome plastic. Seems like no company does it (found one, but they're a large company who hardly does private jobs and if they do it's bloody expensive)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121115_105913.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121115_105922.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121115_105936.jpg)
Lights and grill off
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121115_110017.jpg)
Found this little guy hiding behind the headlight. He was real crispy, yum yum
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121115_112221.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121116_203001.jpg)
P/S and battery is gone, quite empty. Not for long!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121116_203015.jpg)
Brackets on
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121116_203800.jpg)
Procharger pulley is a bit bigger than the original one :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121116_204645.jpg)
Procharger in place :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121116_213107.jpg)
And then my father reminded me that we bought Holley SysteMAX II intake for the car so off with the old Mustang H.O intake
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_171203.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_171420.jpg)
Meanwhile I swapped the original FPR to the Aeromotive 13103 FPR
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_193803.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_194457.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_204926.jpg)
Difference between Mustang H.O and Holley SysteMAX II :) So shiny the Holley is
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_205517.jpg)
Ahum... It WAS shiny ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_220849.jpg)
Much better
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_000515.jpg)
Edelbrock 70mm throttle body
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121117_205947.jpg)
One of the intake bolts. It was stuck and just wouldn't come out of it's hole
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_143853.jpg)
Bought some 3" tubing
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_143922.jpg)
Zip tied the intercooler in place
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_153102.jpg)
Fabricated some brackets. Not for show but it could be worse
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_162438.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_165942.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_173339.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121118_173350.jpg)

All for now! Been working on the tubing and that takes a while. Not difficult at all, just tricky and requires lots of thinking :)

Hey, nice install on the IC!  Lots of good work there.  I've responded to one of your posts at Corral.  Can't help on your search of a P/S relocation kit though...

If your interested in my D1 install, take a look at my thread: A few upgrades 8/30/2012.  I have A/C.  The difference in where the head unit mounts is DRAMATICALLY closer to the engine with the renegade bracket. 

Keep the info coming as you make progress.

Thanks! As you can see on the last two pictures I've grinded the IC supports so that they atleast look decent :)
Yeah, I recognized you over att Corral. I ended up ordering a VMP 3" housing with a HPX slot style MAF. Hopefully it does it's job.
Didn't know you had a D1 in yours, taking a look right now ;) Yeah, I've noticed that too, imo the renegade bracket looks a lot better with the head unit closer to the engine but it's a lot more work to get it working (for example having P/S).
I sure will keep updating :)

Recieved a package from VMPTuning.com today :)
I successfully ordered something from America! Wooh!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121121_172920.jpg)

Congrats on getting it there! 

I am very spoiled on the easy access to parts here.  You are dealing with a completley different set of logistics.

The slot style MAF will likely eliminate the issues with air turbulence from an elbow just before the MAF (which can cause dramatic surging at idle).  I went with a 3" Pro Tube, clocking the sensor to a postion where the air is clear.  It was a trick I learned when I first installed the P600B.

It aint that bad getting parts over to Sweden. Mainly because my father has so many contacts in America (we used to live in Texas where I was born).
Also have a set of EV1-EV6 connectors on my way because I'm stealing the injectors from my dads Terminator ;)

I'm going to put the MAF in the fenderwell where it wont be seen. Not the best location yes I know, would be better right before the elbow in to the throttle body but it looks way cleaner if you cannot see the MAF. The engine bay is messy as it is on these cars with wires and vacuum tubes going everywhere :)

:laughing:

BTW, doed FedEx has the same stupid rules in Sweden, that if your package exceeds duty free value and you have more than 5 items in the list, you have to pay an extra charge for every single next item?

Actually I don't know. Only used UPS when I've ordered from America which has so far been trouble free.
Didn't even have to pay toll for the VMP MAF which was kinda suprising :D Last time I got around the toll was when I ordered a $300 engine for my RC car (everything with a value of over $80 you import from a non-EU country has to be taxed 25%).
Saved some money right there because they probably missed my box because it was so small :)

Don't you shop on Rockauto.com? They send to Europe only through FedEx :(

Some update pics for you guys :)
Saw that I didn't have any gaskets between upper and lower intake so I decided to make one
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_160142.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_161533.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_162240.jpg)
But I noticed it was too thin. Would definetly work in an N/A motor but I belive that with a supercharger it's gonna get blown to pieces.
So I did order a new gasket from Holley a few weeks ago.
And today I found this in the box for the Holley intake
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121219_205638.jpg)
A tip guys, before buying all sort of stuff, check what's in the box from the manuefacturer ;)

Continued fixing the upper intake. turned out well imo
Before
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_163048.jpg)
During
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_182421.jpg)
After
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_191950.jpg)
The MAF in the fenderwell
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_175746.jpg)
Also found this in the car. It's from when the car was bone stock. I belive that with an SC and other stuff it will be a tad faster than almost 17 seconds. Not sure but it's just a theory ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121124_193132.jpg)
The crankcase ventilation filter was really dirty and I know that a new one is like a dollar or so. But I'm not patient enough to wait for that thing to arrive.
So I gave it a bath.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121217_175000.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121217_175034.jpg)
Tadaa!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121217_180919.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121217_181119.jpg)
Mocking up the gaskets for my first intake install. Kind of nervous ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121219_192954.jpg)
Always handy with a book! I found that they said all of the torque specs in Nm and that ft/lbs was in brackets :D Should be reverse in my opinion because it's an american car!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121219_193422.jpg)
Intake is on!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121219_202431.jpg)
EV1 to EV6 connectors for the 39# injectors from my dads Cobra
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121219_203547.jpg)
And the boss came in to the garage to check if we're working as we should and he also spent the time chewing on various stuff
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121219_210522.jpg)

Nice progress.  The intake looks good in black! 

Gotta love how cats let you live in their house...

I love my Holley intake

Yeah it's pretty cool that the cat lets me use both his house to sleep in AND let me use his garage! :)

Quite a lot has happened to the car since I last updated here.
Time to post pics ;)

Borrowing the original injectors from my dads Terminator
Although they were a bit dirty, some cleaning will do it :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121221_191615.jpg)
Looks like new!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121221_192225.jpg)
Injectors and fuel rail with the Aeromotive FPR fitted
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121221_201232.jpg)
Swapping some stuff from old upper intake to the new upper intake
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121221_201420.jpg)
The bolts was abit rusty
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121221_205043.jpg)
That's better ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121221_205626.jpg)
And she's on
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121222_185234.jpg)
Installed the pressure sensor for the fuel pressure gauge
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121222_195102.jpg)
Test fitting some tubes
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20121222_211941.jpg)
Then it was time to take down the front end
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130109_182155_zps6760ca9a.jpg)
My fathers home made tool, works great!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130109_183929_zps4f11437c.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130109_203504_zpsc97b0829.jpg)
Me in the works
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130109_204649_zpsa4e7f044.jpg)
And both springs are off! I hate working with the springs of a car... That's scary! Note the secure wire :D We left the tool on there so it would be easier getting it back (HAH! It wasn't easy...) and my fathers Cobra was right next to it so if it decided to break free it would hopefully stay secure to the A-arm
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130109_210854_zps2d40eabf.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130109_212237_zpsbdee76d9.jpg)
Then we suspended the engine and unbolted the engine mounts
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130110_181117_zps4bcc1443.jpg)
Bolted to the heads
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130110_181124_zps6a52e95a.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130110_181421_zps5077896f.jpg)
Front end off! After LOTS of swearing about the 4 main bolts for it. Rusted to shiznit.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130110_212814_zps0c1b6c13.jpg)
Hehe, about time to change them ey?
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130110_213103_zpsd56514be.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_200332_zpse0d8338f.jpg)
Next to the same bolt but from my fathers Terminator. I ended up "stealing" these from him. Gonna order him 4 new ones
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_204309_zps587019fa.jpg)
Front end got kicked out of the garage for some pressure washing. In the middle of the winter. :D
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130111_182143_zps01c6fa7c.jpg)
Some stuff for the oil return line and also a 90 degrees elbow
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130111_152342_zps50d33e57.jpg)
Oil pan out and gone through the diesel wash
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130111_205957_zps5a4772f0.jpg)
Looks better than before!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130111_210003_zpse1519da3.jpg)
Welded on the mount for oil return line. Note the JB Weld ;) Was some contamination of some sort in the oil pan and it refused to get a good weld.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_121127_zpse61cd502.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_121133_zps56090d7d.jpg)
The inside
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_121152_zpsae553e44.jpg)
Back on the car after som paint. We didn't have any gloss black. All we have in the garage is matte black, my dad and I are obsessed by that stuff :D
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_151026_zpsdf8c5584.jpg)
Fixed some rust on the frame where the bolts for the K member sits. Was nothing left there! Scary I've actually driven with something that bad.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_203048_zpsfb683971.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_204724_zps1246d253.jpg)
Count the spiders! How many can you see? :D
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_204335_zps4e69a8e4.jpg)
Front end back up, time to work on getting the springs back
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130112_213905_zpsd4bbbade.jpg)
And they're on! After a whole shaging afternoon! Never ever NEVER doing that again. Doesn't matter how someone pays me, never. Next time I'm getting coil overs for the car. It's not worth the work, doesn't matter how poor you are, buy coilovers if you're doing this! It aint fun.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130113_190119_zpsb0e46b2f.jpg)
Lots of wood had to give it's "life" for getting it on. Just a fraction of what was all over the floor when we were done.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130113_180027_zpsed2f90b6.jpg)
Turned my attention to the intake of the supercharger. This hole needed to be cut.
It aint round, I know. But I did work on it a bit after the photo so it's better. Not perfect, but better.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_104029_zps100fda44.jpg)
It fits!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_104238_zpsd55352be.jpg)
Needed an air filter to try on if it fits inside the fender. So my father suggested I took his old air filter from his Cobra.
And it fit really well!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_104256_zpsc6064820.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_104310_zpsf9ba99f3.jpg)
And also he had to show off his new air filter for the cobra... :O
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130119_164515_zpsa329b1a1.jpg)
He also helped me TIG weld all of the pressure tubes. I've been practicing it abit and actually wanted to do it myself but I then understood it would take all winter for me to learn how to TIG weld decently. It aint easy.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130119_202111_zpsb6c80a1e.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_101543_zps5f42c099.jpg)
Grinded welds
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_101559_zpsf161b604.jpg)
Test fit
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_102034_zps71d5fbb0.jpg)
Doesn't look too bad does it? I'm pleased with this!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_102043_zpsf79f8d28.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_102107_zpsbc58e6b2.jpg)
And then some plastic pudding on it
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_131341_zps9cc88960.jpg)
Sanding
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_165509_zps4e9e0d94.jpg)
And primer
Tadaa! Totally seamless :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_165649_zpsa277aec5.jpg)
Then me and my mate fixed the vacuum hose for the blow off valve. Made a Y-split by the vacuum tree where my boost gauge is connected.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_103840_zps854763d3.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130120_104046_zps8cc72280.jpg)
The original hood-holding-thingy would fit over the intercooler so it was modified abit.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130121_181513_zpsa38aeb31.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130121_184025_zpsd4dc24cb.jpg)
Decent welds for being me (MIG welds)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130121_191503_zpsbc0b6332.jpg)
And then another bracket for it
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130121_203858_zps59413900.jpg)
Lastly I changed the background on the work computer. See it everyday, keeps the motivation up ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130124_133148_zps642cff5a.jpg)

Very cool love the pics

Great job!!

Cheers guys! I'm doing my best :)

Great work dude, and great burnout picture. That's how it should be...I love burnouts.

I maybe haven't posted the burnout pic here... Here it is then ;)
(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/460852_10151247322611236_580085437_o.jpg)
(http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/704546_517861211566034_1763797417_o.jpg)
And also me by the car
(http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/74695_518013074884181_1153613843_n.jpg)

Perfect photo story! Keep working, your bird looks awsome!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vd9og3GzRIE/TbnMfvzW52I/AAAAAAAAAB4/dmn2qGJidm8/s1600/Thumbs+Up+Smiley.png)

Cheers mate!
The photo story aint perfect, I forgot to take pictures of 90% of all the stuff we did. A friend of mine is helping me with the build. He wants to learn building cars and not just general maintenance which he's used to. He's extremely good, has lots of good ideas and such. It's really fun :) He's learning, I get help and I'm trying to get him to buy a Camaro which his family used to have a couple of years ago and if he does, I'll make him and help him build that one :D

Anyways I decided to set the mood abit on the work phone too while I'm at it :D Also set the same background for my private phone ^^ Can't wait until summer!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130125_215745.jpg)
Tomorrow skiing and sunday I'll be working on the car again :)

You have one huge advantage. You have a big garage next to your house, where you can work. I live in block of flats and having a garage in the second biggest city in our country is too expensive for me. I have my cars at my friend's service shop parking lot. I can work there, but only during working hours, which is a bit difficult for me.

Nice

A few things has happened since last time :)

Primer found it's way on the rebuilt hood-locking-thing I still don't know what to call it so I'm gonna call him Toby.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_130706.jpg)
Toby in another angle
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_130728.jpg)
Test fitted the tubes between the S/C and IC
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_133759.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_133915.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_133936.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_134705.jpg)
Toby on the car
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_190408.jpg)
The bracket holding Toby in place
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_190417.jpg)
Filling out the welds on the last piece of tubing
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_192616.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_202940.jpg)
Got the air filter and overflow tank. But ½Liter overflow tank was many sizes too small. So I ordered a 1½liter one instead, should arrive mid next week.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130130_163928.jpg)
And also went out shopping a few things such as washer fluid bottle, etching primer, some tubes for the washer fluid, an awesome horn and some other misc stuff
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_171556_zpsf4e48273.jpg)
I love this locking mechanism for the connector on the washer fluid bottle! Genius at work
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_200721_zps336ac742.jpg)
Then came the circuit diagram. And soon the car ended up in the lake.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_201306_zps8bd51e12.jpg)
But first we gotta grind some stuff! Just to make it look cool
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_220329_zps6389f24d.jpg)
And suddenly a bracker for the washer fluid bottle appears!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_221116_zps6c1526ba.jpg)
Not too bad ey?
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_221204_zps70ff7fa3.jpg)
Some primer
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_220701_zps8f34ea50.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_220735_zps28a1b303.jpg)
Had to get the pulley off from the procharger. This was the solution. Worked really well!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_125257_zps45b26606.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_131528_zps9f0e62c2.jpg)
Mounted the slot style MAF in the tube. shagy!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_134322_zps2ce5cf05.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_134401_zps6ad36.jpg)
My friend also set the fuel pressure on it.
A bit low
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_134853_zps5a3574cb.jpg)
That's better to begin with! Gonna do the final adjustments when the engine is running and such.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_141229_zps5675f3f8.jpg)
SC and IC just hanging around
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_150724_zps296bcd6c.jpg)
And all of a sudden it's primered!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201130_zps66e9b89e.jpg)
Looks like plastic :D
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201204_zps0fc5cbfd.jpg)
The garage got cleaned so the bird went out in the cold.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_163502_zpseb6a8898.jpg)
And we found this, only one person would be so cheap he only replaces one brake pad, my grandfather
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_194345_zps49326216.jpg)
Clean garage (in our opinion)! Everyone knows that a garage is a place to work on your cars, not to show them off ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201118_zps78bddf1d.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201413_zpsf9d90fe8.jpg)

And also, a video of the awesome horn :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgJOyLyXDg&feature=youtu.be

A few things has happened since last time :)

Primer found it's way on the rebuilt hood-locking-thing I still don't know what to call so I'm gonna call him Toby.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_130706.jpg)
Toby in another angle
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_130728.jpg)
Test fitted the tubes between the S/C and IC
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_133759.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_133915.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_133936.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130127_134705.jpg)
Toby on the car
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_190408.jpg)
The bracket holding Toby in place
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_190417.jpg)
Filling out the welds on the last piece of tubing
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_192616.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130129_202940.jpg)
Got the air filter and overflow tank. But ½Liter overflow tank was many sizes too small. So I ordered a 1½liter one instead, should arrive mid next week.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130130_163928.jpg)
And also went out shopping a few things such as washer fluid bottle, etching primer, some tubes for the washer fluid, an awesome horn and some other misc stuff
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_171556_zpsf4e48273.jpg)
I love this locking mechanism for the connector on the washer fluid bottle! Genius at work
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_200721_zps336ac742.jpg)
Then came the circuit diagram. And soon the car ended up in the lake.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_201306_zps8bd51e12.jpg)
But first we gotta grind some stuff! Just to make it look cool
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_220329_zps6389f24d.jpg)
And suddenly a bracker for the washer fluid bottle appears!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_221116_zps6c1526ba.jpg)
Not too bad ey?
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_221204_zps70ff7fa3.jpg)
Some primer
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_220701_zps8f34ea50.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130201_220735_zps28a1b303.jpg)
Had to get the pulley off from the procharger. This was the solution. Worked really well!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_125257_zps45b26606.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_131528_zps9f0e62c2.jpg)
Mounted the slot style MAF in the tube. shagy!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_134322_zps2ce5cf05.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_134401_zps6ad36.jpg)
My friend also set the fuel pressure on it.
A bit low
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_134853_zps5a3574cb.jpg)
That's better to begin with! Gonna do the final adjustments when the engine is running and such.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_141229_zps5675f3f8.jpg)
SC and IC just hanging around
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_150724_zps296bcd6c.jpg)
And all of a sudden it's primered!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201130_zps66e9b89e.jpg)
Looks like plastic :D
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201204_zps0fc5cbfd.jpg)
The garage got cleaned so the bird went out in the cold.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_163502_zpseb6a8898.jpg)
And we found this, only one person would be so cheap he only replaces one brake pad, my grandfather
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_194345_zps49326216.jpg)
Clean garage (in our opinion)! Everyone knows that a garage is a place to work on your cars, not to show them off ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201118_zps78bddf1d.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130202_201413_zpsf9d90fe8.jpg)

And also, a video of the awesome horn :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgJOyLyXDg&feature=youtu.be

Got the stuff painted today.
Beautiful weather, hot in the sun, rock hard frozen ground. Couldn't have been better weather!

All the stuff waiting for paint
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130203_105036_zpsaccec6cc.jpg)
Difficult for me to take photos of myself when painting, but it's a bit easier taking photos of my dad while he's spraying his stuff for the Cobra.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130203_120424_zps99be34e5.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130203_121207_zpsd0b7044c.jpg)
And all of a sudden it's all black!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130203_131549_zpsbb68663e.jpg)
Om nom nom
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130203_131606_zps36079463.jpg)
And the money shot
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130203_131639_zpsa4d1bdf8.jpg)

Let it harden for a couple of days and then it's time to put it together :)

Looks fantastic.  I am hoping to go to England or Poland to work after my year in Abu Dhabi, so maybe we can hook up.  I will be bringing my 88TC with me.

Really nice work! You have great attention to detail!

Keep us updated. :burnout:

Come to Sweden instead ;) The american car culture here is really big, you'd feel just like home ;)


Cheers mate! Doing my best :)
I will definetly keep you guys updated, assembling starts tomorrow probably and I'm hoping for start up some time very soon. Recieving my power steering relocation bracket from Procharger on Thursday, the last piece of the puzzle. Lets just hope it fits well!

Very cool

Sweet rides man!!! I like the widening of rear ends, makes a nicer stance

Not unless you happen to have 2 :evilgrin:   
1 to work on 'em and the other to "Show 'em off" ;)


BTW, Nice work your doing !!

Haha that would be cool having two garages ;) Or one really big!
Thanks guys :) I hope the paint has hardened by today so I can start putting it together

Got lots done today!
After having some alignment issues with the supercharger I had to grind around 0.8mm off from the brackets and now it's within 0.3mm which is a decent tolerance for me. We'll see if it's good enough ;)
That only took around 30 minutes and then we got to work with the fun, putting it back together!

Some pictures :)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_183220_zps76593e00.jpg)
IC mounted
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_192004_zps318c9260.jpg)
Intake tube
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_192040_zps65d140e5.jpg)
My friend working :) Good with a garage slave ;) He's been with me during the whole build
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_193331_zpsab3fa439.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_193342_zps930b7e5e.jpg)
MAF inside the fender
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_194051_zpsa0b09369.jpg)
Washer fluid bottle
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_194111_zps1ad91ca1.jpg)
The BOV
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_194149_zps571b863b.jpg)
Get some blood in her
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_210104_zpsb710889a.jpg)
What the finish product will look like. Waiting for some brackets for the P/S that relocates it to the passenger side. Should arrive on thursday and then we have to fix an overflow tank.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_211134_zpsdf108b2c.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_211208_zpsc3cd33b4.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130205_211755_zps798cec3a.jpg)

I don't think I'm dreaming that much when saying that it could be the first start up next week :) That is if the relocation brackets are correct.

Looks like it's all going together very nicely....and may the parts gods be with you. Here at the body shop we would call Toby the vertical hood lock support, even though on the fox bodies it doesn't do much but catch the secondary latch.

Very nice I like the blacked out look ........until it gets dirty lol

Great job! No flash, just all bussiness!

Cheers guys! :)
Yeah black looks really nice when clean but terrible dirty. Good thing this car is my summer car which is only driven in sunshine :) So I don't have to worry about that. Last year I litterly spent more time washing the car than actually driving it which is unusual to me :D

Nice job. It looks like it's going to be awesome when it's done. The best part is you're doing all of this far away from where the parts you're using are common. I now have no excuse for not being able to find parts for my Thunderbird.

BTW I have no idea how you guys are working outside in the cold on various car parts. When it starts snowing here I usually don't work on the cars, unless it's an emergency.

Yeah I thought that to

I would think the Internet is the only parts store

And it sucks waiting for parts lol

The problem is that I have to buy everything brand new. It's really difficult finding someone who wants to sell parts to Sweden. I was lucky with the guy I bought the Procharger from, he was a really helpful guy and great seller. But I don't expect to find a person like that again.
So unfortinetly I have to buy all of the stuff brand new, which sucks.
The shipping is expensive but it's worth it in the end ;)
But the shipping time depends. For example, I ordered some stuff on tuesday night (swedish time that is) from the US and picked it up on thursday morning. Sometimes it's even quicker buying from the US than from a company in Sweden.

Update! :)

I had to fill this hole for the recirculating BOV
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_183409_zps96428b07.jpg)
So I came up with this
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_183428_zpsee460c04.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_183735_zps0962d50c.jpg)
And loooots of epoxy
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_183437_zpsac619ab3.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_184813_zpsa4b1468b.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_184823_zps29d8592c.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_184817_zps6237d2c6.jpg)
I don't think this will leak...
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_185235_zps1323d17a.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130206_194845_zpsc5656a8c.jpg)
And I also recieved the last piece of the puzzle!
P/S relocation kit from Procharger
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_171240_zps7829df72.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_171425_zpsa9dd5ae4.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_182810_zpse2ab04a2.jpg)
A shagy idler pulley
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_183421_zps91a64256.jpg)
That doesn't fit with the underdrive pulley on the water pump
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_184109_zpse251ea1a.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_184126_zps0bd9c2e4.jpg)
So that got changed to the standard pulley.

The sway bar had to come loose. It was a really tight fit.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_191051_zpsf8a6c2f3.jpg)
And some grinding on the Procharger bracket and the sway-bar installation-thingy
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_210200_zpsa8c409bd.jpg)
Tadaa!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_205709_zps442c9c7c.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130207_210215_zps56c721c2.jpg)

Tomorrow it comes off again for some flat black paint :)

Why'd you have to plug that hole?? Clearance problems?

The hole in the intake pipe?
It's for if I would have a Bypass Valve which is basically a recirculating Blowoff valve. And that is used if you have a draw through MAF. If you have a draw through MAF it's always located infront of the supercharger and having a blow off vavle venting out in the air means that you're venting out already metered air = bad.
So what you're supposed to do is to recirculate that air into the intake pipe again.
But I don't like the idea of draw through MAF on a supercharged car like mine. Mainly because it's taking up waaaay too much space inside the fender = would never be able to fit an airfilter big enough in there. And also I would have to draw a pressure line all the way from the valve to the intake pipe = more work for the same thing basically.
So it's more convenient having a blow through MAF which is located after the BOV which means that the BOV lets out unmetered air which doesn't ruin anything at all. And it's more simple to make it fit because there's no need to recirculate the air back to the intake pipe.

Ahh, I see. Thanks for the explanation. :D

No worries mate :) Going home from work now. If everything goes really good, maybe there will be a start up on sunday ;) Going to get the brackets painted and such.

 snow. Can't do much. I wanted to paint all the brackets but I can't. We've been having snow storm here for the past several days and it's gonna keep on going.
Also bought a P/S pressur hose today which had wrong fittings, bought the wrong belt too and wrong return hose. I've also ordered the wrong overflow tank :P

You may have said it but what type of radiator fan are you using? Mechanical or electric? I'm still running a mechanical fan as it seems to cool really well. With the extra pulley length I'm guessing you have to run an electric fan.

Actually it fits well with the mechanical fan. Even the shroud too.
But today I noticed my fan is leaking, badly.
Was thinking of going electric fans later in the spring/summer but it seems like I need to go electric right now. Also going to order a new radiator soon.

I haven't updated in a while, mainly because there hasn't been much done.
But here's a few progress pics.

The Procharger P/S relocation bracket came very close to the mounting point for the sway bar so I decided to move the sway bar mounting holes inwards
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130208_203718_zps7d80cf78.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130208_205140_zps58633a4f.jpg)
And then the parts was prepared for paint
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130208_173828_zps2c883acd.jpg)
Shiny overflow tank doesn't stay shiny for long in my garage!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130208_192949_zps90297598.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130208_193944_zps5f045b71.jpg)
Tadaa!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130224_193554_zps63a5f57a.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130224_193615_zpsfb602639.jpg)
My father also got some of his Cobra stuff painted today
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130224_193536_zpsbbe39357.jpg)
Some bonus pics of his work. Ported heads for the Cobra, lots of work with 4 valve heads.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130221_182822_zpscfec571f.jpg)
The old man himself taking apart the engine bay
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130224_193641_zps379073d6.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130224_193651_zps9a86d2d3.jpg)
And he also bought a new toy for the garage, ultrasonic cleaner. Works great so far!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130224_193946_zpscb921fbb.jpg)

A small update.
Ordered a Moates Quarterhorse today for the car. Already have one in the car but that one refuses to let the laptop connect to it and therefor I drove all last summer without a real tune running the car pig rich with an A/F of around 12.5-13 at WOT.
Also have a P/S hose on the way home. For future references if anyone is googling and wondering, what you need when using Procharger P/S relocation bracket #AB003A-010 for 87-93 Fox Mustang is a P/S pressure hose for a car WITH A/C. Don't take my word on it fully yet, I'll recieve it in a week or two and will post if it's the correct item I ordered or not and if so I'll also post the part number. I bought a P/S pressure hose for Mustangs without A/C here in Sweden and it did not fit (it's all they could order home). It needs a sharper bend going in to the P/S pump.

Anyhow, a few pictures. Nothing fancy, shiznitty pics as always, for your amusp00get (or suffering, what ever fits best for you ;) ).
Bracket mounted
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130225_175507_zps18124de8.jpg)
The idler that comes with the kit
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130225_181704_zpsd7bbdb04.jpg)
My 0.5L tiny tiny overflow tank. I don't know why but it had 2 extra connections on it which looks retarded and I fixed it like this. I think this overflow tank will be replaced later with something better.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130225_181729_zps4561ba6b.jpg)
P/S in place
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130225_190632_zpsb3005531.jpg)
So is the alternator. I really need to clean the engine later on this car. Still have a layer of dust from all the primer that's been on the car during the paint prepping. Thick layer on it!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130225_191436_zps25461c6b.jpg)

And also browsed through the thread and realized I didn't post the pic of our driveway.
Ford Dealers Sweden? ;) Although the '03 Cobra is missing from the pic, it's in the garage unfortinetly. I'm quite proud of the collection of Fords me and my father has.
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/159087/159087-2849092.jpg)

Very nice as always

Are fords common  there?

I never would have thought there would be so many American Fords in sweden.

wish we had more

T-birds aren't as common as they used to be. Most of the fox T-birds has been sped away unfortinetly due to daily driving which causes the to rot in rust as we all know.
But american cars, yes. I can without doubt go so far saying that American cars are the most popular cars in Sweden. The whole american car culture is really big here which is a good thing. I mean, there's a reason why we have one of the biggest car meets in the world (biggest in Europe) with over 13-14 thousand american cars attending.
But I've noticed Chevrolet is more sought after here. Just looking at the prices between a Bronco and a Blazer and the Blazer is atleast 50% more.

That sucks but kinda cool ...... I love fox cars it must be nice to have somthing odd to your world

Any fox mustangs around you? That's my passion

The Fox Mustangs are around, but they arent that popular. It's more SN95 and especially S197 Mustangs. There's extreme ammounts of S197 Mustangs here in Sweden. Same with the Gen 5 Camaro, really popular.
Here you can check how many Mustangs there's out for sale to give you a fair idea of how much there could be in this small country ^^
http://www.blocket.se/hela_sverige?q=Mustang&cg=1020&w=3&st=s&ps=&pe=&mys=&mye=&ms=&me=&cxpf=&cxpt=&gb=&fu=&cxdw=&ca=9&is=1&l=0&md=th
Just type what ever car your after in the search field, easy navigate so even though it's in swedish I don't think it would be very difficult to search a brand of car :P

Fox stangs are blown up here


What your doing is cool I like this build

Cheers mate! I have some evil plans for it too. Whats holding me back the most is the tech inspection in Sweden. They don't like anything when it comes to performance. In the law you aren't even allowed to change airfilter to anything other than stock and they can start bitch about it. So we'll see what happens when I roll in with a supercharger on it... Maybe nicely place a bottle of whisky in the passenger seat for bribe ;)
Plans are that next winter I'll be putting a Freddy Brown AOD (his strongest, 1200hp rated) in the car and also building fuel system and then raising the boost.
And after that I will probably start building on a new motor with dart block. There's two options, 347 with the D1 or a 427w with an F1. I know for a fact that the 427w with F1 will be a bitch to pass inspection with every year so we'll see what I'll build. Time will tell, who knows maybe I'll go a stroked 460 with twin turbo :D I'll never make up my mind no matter what I do anyhow

Put some supercharged embelems off of a 90 super coupe on it they won't be able to the difference XD. Car is coming together very well bud, keep her going! I kindof wish the mustang I have was in better shape, I have a 460 that I built for my old truck sitting in the garage collecting dust lol

I would have never thought there would be so many Ford's over there! Looks like you guys are importing them at a fairly rapid rate. That's great! Someone has to save them, for the most part people here only want New Cars, or turn-key Classics which have already been restored by a resto shop. Not many normal people here are actually pulling them out of the weeds and bringing them back to life again. It's great to see an entire country with such a passion for old cars!

In Flames is one of the best bands ever btw...

Haha an emblem wouldn't change the papers on my car :P Papers says I still have those 165hp or what ever these cars have when stock :D

There's lots of people here in Sweden that's restoring old and new cars. It's nice being in a country with a passion like this for american cars :) Although moving to america would be even cooler... ^^
Here's an older driveway picture without the Lincolns or my T-bird. The green T-bird belongs to a friend of ours.
(http://www1.garaget.org/archive/123/122432/183155/183155-1840714.jpg)

Very Nice! You even got a whale Grand Marquis over there! Any Marauders around? Those are rare to see even over here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xyt9gUlrec
That is a good theme song when driving the Marquis :D I have not seen any Marauders here unfortinetly. There are a few Impala SS and such but no Marauders what I've seen yet.

is that a 64 or 65 bird?  I had a 65 Special landeau in high skool.

It's a 66.
I absolutley love the backseat in those. Some people say "this cars backseat is like a couch" well, a 60's T-birds backseat IS a couch! :D

I have to agree, Tim. My friend has '61 T-bird and it's awsome too! I will try to fint one photo. He uses the door handle (which is actually a long plate from the from to the back) as a mug holder and he goes to sit there and enjoy the atmophere of 60s.

Haha awesome!
Just came home from an awesome local gig. Might be music you guys like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrZrmPxhjyE
Extremely good live!

Anyways, ordered my Moates Quarterhorse this tuesday. And I picked it up today.
I even took the slow shipping but as you can read on the package, they sent it with the express mail :) Not complaining, awesome! Gonna put it in tomorrow.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130301_171243_zps59025211.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130301_171451_zps9106ac6e.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130301_171519_zps3c8a0f6a.jpg)

Sweet!

Here it is :)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img690/4493/p1020064z.jpg)

BTW, what's on your photo? I can't recognise it.

The photos I posted? It's the computer chip for the car. It's a Moates Quarterhorse.
Already have on of those in the car but it refused to make contact to the laptop so I bought a new one.

No rotary switch?

Got lots of work done in the garage today!
Started out with mounting the power steering pressure hose that arrived today from Rockauto. Easier said than done. But finally got it on!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-d2d4f970e9d73b9d55e89cf6449fd95e.jpg)
The other end mounted on the pump.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b823e1acf200c3c8e75b2f69462eee2b.jpg)
Next problem was that the fuel rails kept jumping up and almost completely come loose from the injectors.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b98f62948d3b0242df92e095d7a2764a.jpg)
So the intake was pulled off and some changed and adjustments was made and voila! Not a single problem even at 68psi (not going to run that, going for 40psi static).
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-320f67f9db9124ace452aec0ac022af6.jpg)
This little rubber mount-thingy for the kickdown on the throttle body caused more trouble than you'd imagine. The original broke last time I took the original intake off, and I decided to keep using it because the only spare we had was this one (which is/was too big). And today the original didn't want to be in the game anymore so I was forced using this one which is too big. After lots of time adjusting it's measurements I got it fitted. Puh!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-0a12cd29f8b2e9287c9b688419346485.jpg)
And the big belt went on ;)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-909641c0db01b2da79368b44c48bfd00.jpg)
Looks pretty  cool!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-5bf743b4a61ef2dfd30d75162cd470d8.jpg)
The tolerance between the belt tensioner for the SC and the OEM fan after some filing. Can you say tight?
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-590ba6c11014836811aba597168f50ff.jpg)
Fan on and various lubricants filled up.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-1a926b9b104ad2e5266ec3af015e47ad.jpg)

And then I went to bed.




























Just kidding :D
Ofcourse I went for a startup after all this work!
Barely fought at all with the startup. Note how fast it started on the second start up ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kCLgIJ0nyQ&feature=youtu.be
Sounds so amazing! And the exhaust notes at 2:25 is yummy!
Tomorrow I'm going to set the timing and do some more tuning.

Some bonus pics of my fathers work on his Cobra.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-8ffa3dcd4c6c1ef252f0408ef1d955da.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-fbd5e3ea4c641a16857ab327dc06dfc8.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-ef36dd3d952caeda7fcef3d8eaeb8ad0.jpg)

And the Moates stickers went on our racing-fridge :D
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-ea6390ff623b070b030c7c58fddff2b6.jpg)
Bonus pic of the tool box.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-43f95f28368890d445856b591950dc13.jpg)

Anyways, 2:30am, time to get some rest for tomorrow!

Great you've got it running!  Beat me to posting a video! 

6 rib belt leaves room for the fan...

Can hear the surge at idle.  You may find "clocking" the MAF (or rotating it in small increments to get the sensor in "clean" air) will clean that up.

Congrats on getting it running!  Your comment in my thread about a procharger sounding "like pure shag", is about right!

Oh yes, now it's your turn to get yours running so I can hear that one ;)
The OEM fan will be changed to electric fans later on.
Yeah, the idle was rough which sounds good though but it's gonna be fixed with tuning and some adjustments. This was the first and second start ups with a basic tune.

Cheers mate! It was really loud inside the garage. Probably abit quieter outside but it's still freaking loud! I like it! The cops in Sweden won't like it though. You're not allowed to legally change ANYTHING on a car, not even tire widths.

Weren't much to do today. Try to tune it but I don't have the correct MAF values and the place I bought it at keeps BSing me and wont send me the correct values for the MAF they're selling.
So all I can do is wait and see if they soon will send me the  values.

Non T-bird update.
Bought some new subwoofers yesterday. Also got a box with it. I just put it in my car for some testing, going to build a new box in april/may or so.
What is it? It's four DD 1508's. Small s that has plenty of punch. Feels like someone is punching you in the face when the drum hits.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-1d062bf3e3b4f2b1af9701c86697c34d.jpg)
Ghetto install! Look at the pieces of wood underneath it ;)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-41820930ef8ab6127d59de7db44939c3.jpg)

And a video of them in work. They're only getting 300w a piece from my DLS A6 amp. Gonna keep that amp for a while because I'm lacking funds for this project, but in the future a Mosconi could most likely be the one to replace it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KZ-jtoQtZuU

A small T-bird update.
Me and my father has been trying to tune the car for the last couple of days but at the moment we have a problem. The AFR is perfect in open loop. As soon as the car goes in to closed loop it leans out. Really weird.

Anyways, here she is outside the garage
(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/295690_10151438891421236_886235993_n.jpg)
And a picture of me tuning it, trying to get it to work
(http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/72481_10151453911386236_1181663157_n.jpg)

I also got a flat tire on my Lincoln :P But the snow is melting away so I'm running her on summer tires now. A month too early, good thing it's been a quite warm winter :)
(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/886191_10151440914346236_474674789_o.jpg)

Not much of an update but it's something!

The front broke off in the corner a few years ago and we glued it back together and it worked over the summer but when I removed the front clip it broke off again. So me and my dad took some fiberglass bondo to put it back together. Seems to work, really steady now!

Before sanding
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-8fcfcce118502a90e3de182234c13ecd.jpg)
After around 5 minutes of work
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f58992f68247c670d7d1264982e0e6bf.jpg)
With this little  :)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f50de5cf6556a988210374206878e17a.jpg)
Some masking
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-792e0550e9fa2db62501ce8effe8e999.jpg)
And some paint
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-e3b8da4ef131de84f2e9fa6b4546c3fe.jpg)
Good enough for something that's never gonna be seen anyways
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-d0dc7f2b82b78c00d0a93c8de9c901d1.jpg)
Washed the engine bay and remembered I have this sticker on it :D Quite a while ago since I last dragraced it. That was when I was 15 :)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-af3195f3db341d5d541ee689ff92cdf2.jpg)

I have to work outside because my dad has temporarly (or permanently? ;) ) kicked me out of the garage because he's gonna paint the engine bay and underside of the doors (bady painted under the doors from the factory).
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-369864dcb6b44720855b7ece7618821d.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b769ec5690aa0935a2d03c27dbc9ddc9.jpg)
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(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-2c11e292660622f5f4e789f72de07403.jpg)

Also our little device for turning our garage into a paint booth. The one in the ceiling is the filtered intake and the thing on the floor is for drawing it out. All of the work benches and so on is covered by all the plastic you see hanging around on the walls.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-6df7c31d908af2e04c5b4921d4be655f.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-a9cd9ce32b04d798e4ea2139d1278124.jpg)
The thing that sucks the air out
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Does it work? Well my T-bird is painted in that garage with those stuff so you be the judge :)

You guys have a nice set up!

Cheers mate! It does the job ;)

What happened yesterday:

I recieved these!
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Mmm, Siemens Deka 60lb
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And the intake went off!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-57d11ce16cbaf4f24f55ba277322a6fc.jpg)

Today I installed the injectors, put the intake back on and with some fix in the tune for the new injectors, guess what?
IT WORKS! With some work on the tune, it actually idles well, goes abit on the fat side when I give it some gas but that's no worries.
I even took it for a test drive! Nothing fancy, it just works!
Hangs on the throttle abit and I think the MAF table is wrong.
Other than that, some few tweaks to it and it's actually driveable!
I'm in a good mood now :)

Another small update then.
Did some more tuning this saturday and got her running well! Still got some adjustments to do with the MAF table but overall, she's drivable.
But I can't rev her/go into boost. I thought I set the timing at a safe level but apperently I have way too much timing on her so she starts detonating. So that has to be fixed.
Other than that, she works! I can drive it! I also blew the power pipe off once... At only 7psi...
But it's boring not going in to boost ;) Gonna do some more tuning on her soon so maybe I can start having fun with her.
But I did test her in boost a few times, only got as most around 7 psi boost and holy hell she pulls hard! Can't wait till I can go WOT on her! The AOD will spit it's guts all over the place!
Also my mechanical fan was in poor shape as I think I've mentioned here. Started leaking fluid so I went out to the winter storage and stole my fathers fan out of his T-bird. So now the car doesn't overheat anymore :)
Woke his car up and after stealing the fan I put her back to sleep again :P
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That's it for now! And on tuesday there's a big car cruise outside town and I will definetly bring the T-bird there! Pics will come ;)

EDIT:

I thought I'd set the plug gap just to see if I could get rid of the problems.
My friend had set the plug gap to 0.028 earlier but I noticed that a few of the plugs were down to 0.018 (!!!)
So I set them all to 0.033, spotless! I didn't revv it like a madman, only to 4.5-5k RPM, nothing of what my ears could catch.
So the tuning can now continue! :)

And people, I suck at reading plugs (I'm from the wrong generation :D), how do these look? All of them looked like this
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Close up
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-144975b9d10c19d8badba2ea7a9361aa.jpg)

Good and bad news!

Good news: The WOT tune is getting better and better. It's pretty  close to perfect now! And it hauls ass!
Bad news. Well, I'll show you with pictures.

Hmm... Milk
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-bcd75fce9226e0353c407a8435ebf956.jpg)
A fine weather for investigation!
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I thought the Procharger idler pulley looked abit weak, and so it was. It has been flexing, hitting the waterpump pulley
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(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-0d982a2558307798b28c80b5c979afe4.jpg)
Valve cover off!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c53d30bfdfd7b9600ced30c2a6582f8c.jpg)
Yup, my car is officially a cow!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-eb83e7ee41fc0216b76d6260ed90d24e.jpg)
Well hello there beautiful ;)
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Now there's your problem!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-5c91cbc685d90161e926b3b888fc9e39.jpg)
Hall of shame underneath/next to dads Cobra
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And how she sits now :)
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Not bad day. I got to sleep half of the day, tune the car, break it and tear it apart! All in one day :)

A colleague brought this to work a few days ago.
1926 Bugatti Type 43 :D Badass!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-640be5907ecf50302ce9e5bca496aad1.jpg)

 headgaskets, looks like its well under control though!

Glad to see your enthusiasm wasn't dampened by the set back!

Headgaskets suck! Instead we should just bolt the heads directly to the block ;)
86T-bird: Not at all! Only took me about half an hour of laughing about it until I started tearing her down.
The only problem I have now is that on monday I'm traveling to Shanghai for work for 2 months, and half of the cars engine is in pieces :D
But my father found some headgaskets in the garage, Fel-Pro 8548PT2 to be exact. So I'm trying to find out if they're anything to have on a boosted application, if so I'm gonna have it back together and running on friday!
But I need a bigger supercharger pulley. 12psi at 4500rpm was way too much boost. And I already have a huge 3.75" on it! 86T-bird do you perhaps have a bigger sized pulley?

A 3.75" pulley is pretty small!  Particularly on a small engine with a modest intake & exhaust tract.  I have a new 4" if you are interested, but I'd suggest at least 4.25" to slow that thing down! 

As far as headgaskets go, it may make sense to use a piece which is not as sturdy as an MLS or other units which are boost friendly applications.  The headgasket will then act as a "fuse" to keep other, more serious damage from taking place. 

With a stock block (don't you have a stock S/O short block too?), you should be limiting boost to 8 PSI.  My P600B only put out 9 PSI and made between 475-485 to the wheel (closed & open exhuast).  That was enough to have chunks of block casting show up on the drain plugs, which resulted in the current project using an A4 block and forged rotating assembly as a base. 

Sorry to hear you'll be away from it for a couple months.  The tear downs always go really fast, but reassembly is a much slower process, particularly when there's a time gap. 

Hope you have good luck getting it back up running and sorted out!

PM if you're interested in the pulley, but even with a 4", you'll probably be limited to 5,000 RPM.

I have even smaller pulleys ;) Smallest one I have was either a 2.75" or 3" :D
But yeah, I agree with you. I think I need as big as a 4.25" pulley. Getting 12psi of boost at only 4500rpm is way too much.
Hopefully it's back together before I go away but it's no biggie. This build has made me an expert at mounting the intake, supercharger and everything around it ;)
And being gone is great, then I can afford the Freddy Brown 1200hp AOD!

Ah you silly power adder people, blowing your head gaskets and blocks. I'll stick with my N/A set up that keeps its head gaskets in one piece ;).

Just kidding :). Are you going to upgrade to different heads since you've got the engine apart? Now would be a good time :).

But doesn't a blown headgasket my car into a race car? :D

Nah, no point of spending money on this engine. Saving money for a Freddy Brown 1200hp AOD, 35 splines rear axles and a heavy duty fuel system.
After that comes the fun stuff.
I'm planning on a 427w stroker with F1 Procharger. Oh boy swedish authorities will HATE my car. Here in Sweden, doing any modifications on your car at all is illegal. Even aftermarket air filters :)

Didn't get much done today though. Having a really bad cough. Everytime I stand up it's like I've been smoking for 57 years of my 21 year life. So only one cure for it! Whiskey! ;)

  You'll need that Freddy Brown 1200HP AOD! 

So how do they know if an American car has been modified?

Oh yes the 1200hp FB AOD will be put to the test later on!

With a supercharger they know ;) Otherwise they don't unless you're stupid and tell them at the tech inspection.
They can complain about anything, it isn't even legal to have tires of different width other than what's in the papers (and my papers says my car has 185's :P). But noone really cares about that.
But superchargers is something they don't like. I wanted to go turbo but it's more hassle unbolting that for tech inspection every year so supercharger was the easier route.

In Europe they have hardcore inspections, the whole car has to be gone over, my grandparents live in Lithuania and my uncle lives in Norway and they have yearly inspections I think. My grandpa's mitsubishi colt had a crack in one of the foglights and they would not let him register the car until I found a Mitsubishi Mirage over here in the states and shipped a good foglight over to him.

Yep FirstBird, that's correct with inspection every year.
It's pretty annoying seeing people modify cars with 1200hp and we're having trouble if we only slap on a turbo or supercharger :P

Your country has some hard core inspections. That makes what you're doing all the more impressive :).

It's normal in Europe. We have inspection every 2 years and they control everything. And a lot of technicians hate american cars, so they kick you out even before you roll into the hall. Sometimes it's a bit tricky to find a good inspection station, where they let you pass.

Even as loose as our pre-96 old car inspections are here, our 96+ inspections are still pretty hardcore and a lot of our inspection techs around here will always give euro cars the hardest time of all, especially Porche's and BMW's. If you are on your P&Q's though, they can't stop you from passing, even as much as they want to, lol! Like trinom said, sometimes it's a matter of finding the right inspection station where they will let you slide. I have a buddy who owns a shop that does state inspections, so I usually take all my newer rides there, since he will push them through for me with the least amount of resistance possible.

Another update here then!

I have not worked on my car since the last update because I'm currently in China, working. Been here since 7th of May and going home on 26th of June (finally :D)
But I've ordered one thing!
A few days ago my father (who is back home in Sweden) recieved the package I ordered from Houseofboost, 4.38" pulley and also a belt for it. Great place to buy your supercharger stuff from, I highly recommend it ;)
And also I've worked on what I'm going to order for the car.
Have anyone tried VFNFiberglass? Because I'm going to order their 5" Cowl Hood if they're good.

The specs on the transmission ;)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-9be4307325c2369cfd9104f0b89daf74.jpg)

Sweet! Never heard of VFNFiberglass, but after checking out their site, their Cowl Hood does look seriously Bad Ass on that Nerd Bird in the pic. I'd go for it. :)

Yeah their hood looks really good from that picture. Although I cannot go with the extended hood. I still need the windshiel wipers ;) Well need and need... According to swedish law I must have them but my car is never driven in rain.

looks good and will save a ton of weight ..............these hoods are stupid heavy

Did a small google search on VFNfiberglass and they seem legit. Great!
Yes will definetly save weight, and add some cool factor ;)

Here's a video of some driving!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIcP-XD6BU&feature=youtu.be
Only half throttle because I'd just blow the headgaskets to hell if I'd floor it. Which sucks because I know that if I would floor it, the thing would just rocket away like a madman on heroin! Which it did last time before it blew the headgasket.

sweet man I love that sound

Went to a weekly car meet today. One of the nicer ones during the summer.
Love the mix between american cars and european classics, tractors etc.
Today was well over 300 cars in that field!
Sorry for the bad pictures, forgot the phone with the good camera at home.
My T-bird there
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-37695e8e6610836c08a9635842f709b8.jpg)
Panorama view in bad quality
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-fba6a89b2f61f44187f84d30792e970e.jpg)
Awesome Panhard!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-8847fa3e332a083cce38b9ec6238dc30.jpg)
Panhard engine
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-1bf8dc278c1426590d13ef6343e07bee.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-17f2256dafc05a8b7ee14053b6d5013f.jpg)
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(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-e7a14aa9d3527f3c5897e527694a9fb1.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-9011721071fb418812adb1eeeb48f651.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-6aebd1e05927fee10240b09f84c11f8e.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-7b98d9fd4e9b8321b5b340cc35aface5.jpg)
A very cool sleeper minus the seats
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f9d3c1d7024ffcdea5dbe3b014a87f71.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f62072a9450f7d5de6c289b3a61c0e46.jpg)
Some more overview
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-ef09df06505bcaa74f05405f7e714e34.jpg)
An old Celica!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-655a8e7182631e3d6a6d7084acbfd60e.jpg)
Edsel Ranger
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-9c565f7100e3dda802acde6addde82cc.jpg)
Aston Martin DB7
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-e3325bd7f39e53d5a1a3a6c637c5fc05.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-44fbe153168a50f6654de384b851f234.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-02e54a6f675f35c0dc8df63c66b9b47f.jpg)
Some old race car
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-15242d91e7eceb66bcb1bf6366f87dc0.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-419ca7d52d6b105bc6840b32bfb36b82.jpg)
Peterbilts
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An INCREDIBLY nice Volvo F88! Fabulous! Every single part was just absolutley perfect!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-5529aeae01453e21d22b3accafbd7f88.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b6ba53c9b5cdaeb540bc8578664bd25f.jpg)

And lastly, if you know what this is I will give you a cookie!
Hint, it's a Swedish sportscar!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-5fbdfdb8fc856b22f4be014ef726df0a.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-df9afe0bd0c349bb167a26c5f45be79f.jpg)

That was a nice warmup for Power Big Meet that starts on wednesday. If you don't know what it is, it's one of the worlds biggest car meetings. In my town of 130k residents there's about 14 thousand american cars. Best weekend of the year ;)

nice pics looks like a cool show

It's a very nice show. Old Ferraris and such too. Fun seeing more cars than just american cars even though they're the best ;)

And the fun is over, engine is knocking.
I believe that the S/C belt was too tight and has sheared the front crank bearings. Only a theory though.

I was just about to place the order on the transmission and so on, now I need to buy a new engine instead! Oh well...
I'm looking at a 427w from Fordstrokers with a Dart SHP block. On top of that I'm thinking AFR 205 heads, Victor Jr intake and so on. Start off with the D1 on it and eventually get an F1R for it.
Aiming at 800RWHP when done. Which will take time though.

 
Not a surprise to have the SO engine give it up quick!  It served as a mock up to get everything in place.:D

A blown 427 and a D1 shouldn't have issues with 800 RWHP though a manual trans.  Automatics are a bit different, the converters play havoc on dyno readings.  It'll still make great power!  Just depends on what you hope to accomplish and the importance of dyno numbers.

The F1R has the ability to push way beyond 800 RWHP even with an automatic.

Consider a bigger head.  TW CNC 205 (~$2k), High Ports (225's ~$2,200) are options.  There are others, just depends on how much more you may be able to spend. 

The Victor Jr would be a restriction unless heavily ported.  There are other choices, but any option you choose will need some porting to keep up with the heads. 

The flat hood is going away with the 9.5" block, so picking a Trick Flow Box R (~$800) may be good starting point, or a modified Super Victor. 

Freezy74 on Corral has a great reputation on blower cams. 

Woody at Fordstrokers will offer options if you outline your goals.  If the end game is an F1R, build it for that, and you'll only build it once!

Kaase P-38 Heads would be real sweet on the stroker block :evilgrin:

http://www.jonkaaseracingengines.com/component/content/article/231-kaase-p-38-heads.html

At $2500 for complete set of heads, ready to bolt on which includes valve covers w/gaskets, that seems to be a good price :burnout:

86T-bird: Looking through the options maybe 225's might be better. I just don't want to overdimension everything and make less HP than what I would with smaller heads.
Which intake do you recommend then? As far as I've understood the Victor Jr is a very good flowing intake. Yes, factory hood is going away, gonna run a 5" cowl hood so I have space.

I'm thinking of buying a shortblock from Fordstrokers. It's either that or get it built in Sweden.

I've been doing some thinking and I'm gonna stick with the route of ordering my transmission, hood and stuff I wanted and meanwhile when I have time I'll tear down the engine and replace the bearings (not sure it is the bearings but I think so) and then just atleast keep the car drivable. Because if I'm gonna start building a new engine for it right now it's not going to be drivable for atleast 2 years.
So meanwhile I can drive the car, I'll build my 427 on the side.
Maybe the 427 build/order of parts will start in spring, but for now I'm going transmission :)

 
On the intake:  I'm very familiar with the 8.2" deck Vic Jr & Sr.  For the minimal increase in height, there is a massive difference in runner size and how much straighter the runners are to the intake ports.  The Jr, out of the box is matched to a Fel-Pro 1250 intake gasket.  The Sr, out of the box is matched to a 1262.  Flow numbers are significantly greater on the Sr. and runners flow more evenly.  I have never compared the 9.5" deck versions of these manifolds, so the difference may not be as dramatic, due to them being wider and taller.

On the heads:  Don't buy into the myth of too big of a head.  GM is putting 245CC heads on 6 liter truck motors that pull 5,000+lbs and make power everywhere.  It's poor cam selection which results in a poor performer and getting a custom cam is the way to ensure you get one that meets your needs.

I believe your plan to get the trans is prudent, as even a de-tuned version of your combination will tax any automatic which isn't stout. 

Hate to be a downer on what you may find on tear down, but I suspect there is more than rod bearings causing the noise!  Cast pistons & 14 PSI... 

Anyway, IMO it's not worth putting a dime in an SO engine (even if it is just bearings), nor is it worth putting in a stock 8.2" block with a better rotating assembly - with the blower combination you have.  Either option is a grenade and you've just experienced little it takes to light one off! 

Food for thought:  Since you intend on moving to a 9.5" block in the future; put in a basic 351 Windsor now.  It'll still have cast pistons, but if the boost is kept low and the tune safe, you won't spit the block with the power it can make. 

I've seen a stock Lightning short block (with hyper pistons) put 680 HP to the wheels.  Back in the early 2000's (when Lightning short blocks were new & cheap from Ford) Lido Iacobelli of Alternative Performance ran 9's with one consistently with ~20+ pounds of boost.

Being in Sweden, 351 Windsors may be in limited supply, much less a Lightning short block or long block.  But hey it's just a suggestion!

Hope you have good luck on getting a plan together.

Oh, cheers for the info on the Victor intakes! It's those I've had in my mind for this car but ofcourse I'm open for suggestions. With the 427 I don't want to cut corners, I want everything the best (within reasonable limits ofcourse) and a serious combination.
Yeah, ofcourse, maybe 225's are the better option then :)
Oh yes, current combo can rip the AOD apart so that is a must fix anyhow.

The engine I have does have forged pistons in it. It's not a fully original SO engine ;)
I can atleast check what's wrong in the engine, give it a try. Unfortinetly I'm always on limited time because I'm working in China most of the year now.
Yeah, putting a standard 351 in it could work but I feel it's money down the drain. Money that could've been spent on building the most badass engine I've ever had.

But I'm going to order the transmission and other misc parts which I know I want and then sit down and start putting up a list on what I actually want inside my engine. Not going to rush it.
And I want 800RWHP. Either if it's 801 or 815, doesn't matter. Aslong as I'm over 800 on the wheels through an auto I'm happy :D And I want to keep the boost down a bit. Maybe maximum like 14 psi? Is it doable?

Another video my friend apperently took of my car the day before shiznit went down :) I just absolutley love the Procharger sound! And now I know how much noise it actually makes on the outside, I like it!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=633440379999506&set=vb.100000006503345&type=3&theater

If 800 RWHP through an auto is the ultimate goal, the D1 is too small and you'll need more than 14 PSI.  An F1R or F2 will have plenty of pumping power to push the boost necessary.

There is no hiding the sound of Procharger!  People turn to look to see what's coming.

I know the D1 is too small. But I'm going to start out using the D1 and later go over to F1R

I've just placed an order and paid for a new transmission! 1200hp rated AOD from Freddy Brown Performance. Also with a 10" torque convertor.
And I'm going through the process of ordering a 5" Cowl Hood from VFNFiberglass too.
Then I'll need to order a few order parts and then start saving up for the engine and make up my mind on what I want on it! :)

Also found two brand new OEM grilles on Rockauto.com! There's 11 remaining, grab them while you can!

great looking cars,
I will bet you are the only one running the roads in a bird over there?

nice work

Thank you!
I'm not the only one. There's also my father and then a few more. Not many, maybe 20 on the road? I'm not sure.

So, tomorrow I'm going away to China for work for a few months so I did one last thing to the T-bird, took the SC belt off and wiggled on the crank pulley, it's loose.
I check the bolts, they're loose! I can screw them by hand!!!
Tighten them, start her up, no knocking! But I do believe the wobbling pulley has ruined the damper but that is an easy fix. It's shaking a lot at 900-1000RPM. Flawless any other RPMs.
So I started her up, drove her in to the garage and put a cover over her and now she's going to sit like that for a few months.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130728_212410_zps4cf8d88d.jpg) (http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20130728_212410_zps4cf8d88d.jpg.html)

I've also ordered a few things for her. I've ordered a shifter, Griffin radiator, two 10" SPAL electrical fans, QA1 front coil overs kit and some other stuff.
So now all I can do it wait for my items to arrive :)

Even though I hardly even drove the car this summer, I'm still happy that it wasn't any worse.
And I got some quality time with my Lincoln and the sound system in that one so I'm not bummed :)

Good thing I went through with the plan and still ordered the transmission and not started on a new engine. Now I'm going to save up some money and start checking in to the options for a 427 stroker.

Good night car!
You too Lincoln ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20130728_180525_zps29e7c836.jpg) (http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1995%20Lincoln%20Mark%20Viii/20130728_180525_zps29e7c836.jpg.html)
Unfortinetly there's not enough room for her in the garage :(

What kind of work do you do?

Drives for cranes for ABB :)

Looks green over there ....... Desert over here lol


Looking forward to the updates

It's summer time ;) We've had a summer of absolute great weather which is really unusual for being Sweden :) Well, some places down south had some floods but it has only rained twice these 4 weeks I've been at home.
Desert is awesome though, more awesome than this ;)

I've now just sent away payment to a guy for a pair for 94-95 Spindles and hubs for my 5-lug swap.
Now I need some brake rotors for the front, which ones do you suggest? Must fit under a 15" wheel.
I'm thinking these: http://www.latemodelrestoration.com/item/PSR-8126PSP/87-93-Mustang-50L-4-Lug-Slotted-Front-Brake-Rotors
Do I need anything else? Do my original calipers and mounting brackets work for this?

Also I've made up my mind about wheels. The choice will be Centerline Convo.
10" in the rear and around 6" in the front. Question is then, I want BIG tires. Thinking of 295/60, will they fit? My car is pretty (very) high off the ground to say the least, so in my opinion, they should definetly fit. What do you guys think? At the moment I have 255/60 and they look a tad tiny.
My friend made a quick photoshop of how it would look. Back to the 80's! Just look at the tire to fender gap on the rear! That needs to be fixed!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/1148223_709606039055442_1256225945_n.jpg?oh=ae65302ac7ee340eb25d328715e10bc6&oe=5207EDC6&__gda__=1376337298_d0165b8e2a0cae169d761cc177b1d525)

It gives it that American muscle car look I like it

Really does :) But I love the wheels I currently have on it, I think they fit really well on the T-bird. But I don't want to go the same wheels again when I go up to 5-lug. A change can always be nice :)

More goodies!
Just placed an order on an MSD 6AL-2 Ignition Box. Betting that one will be fun together with the transbrake :)
Also ordered an MSD Shift Light with 4 individual settings for each gear, Ford Racing spark plus wires in black and also Autolite 25 spark plugs.

It's been an expensive month! But now I'm happy, until tomorrow ;)
This bitch is really getting expensive now!
But I still have many upgrades to do until I'm atleast a little bit satisfied. Unfortinetly time isn't enough this winter so we'll see how 28-splines 4 bolt axles react to some transbrake fun. I don't think I'm going to use the transbrake very much until the rear end is upgraded. But I have to atleast test it a few times ;)

Sweet

And with a blower don't you want to run a colder plug?

I'm under the impression that the Autolite 25 is a colder plug.
Am I wrong on that part?

Stock heads right?

25 is a stock plug try 23's

Just recieved an email that my transmission is shipped! Unfortinetly I think it's too late for this container, I'm not sure but it has probably already left america. So then my transmission will probably arrive with the container at spring time.
Sucks but I have enough work on the car as it is with the parts anyways.

I've also got to arrange my last order for the Thunderbird, need an ignition coil and a few more parts. Thinking I should just go everything brand new when it comes to the ignition parts, except for the distributor. That one works fine.

Sucks you have to wait for parts like that

Yeah, with bigger parts it can be a pita to get it Sweden. Smaller parts always works out, just have to pay ridiculous prices on the shipping sometimes.

Items (2):   USD 72.83
Shipping & handling:   USD 70.48

For two supercharger belts from Amazon.com.
You guys realise how much money there is just in shipping for the  parts for this turd? Haha.

Planning on getting home from China on February 19th, be home for a little over a week and then back again. See how that plan turns out though. Maybe I can get something done on the T-bird by then. Maybe not.

Get home and get us some updates on that bird lol

And yea it's a expensive hobby but that's crazy .

Haha yeah it's about time to get home soon. Almost 6 months straight in China now.

Wow that's a long time to be away from home! That sucks you pay almost the same for shipping as you do the parts. You need to make sure you get good deals o what you buy.

Yeah, quite a long time. But I need money for whatever I decide to do with it :)

Yesterday night I tried ordering some stuff.
I wanted ARP head studs, Fel-Pro headgaskets and S/C belts.
Amazon refused to ship the studs to Sweden, Summitracing refused to ship the belts to Sweden, Jegs had everything but not the belts and american muscle refused to even ship to Sweden.
Got fed up as hell but then my friend from US stepped in and I ordered it to his house and then he's going to send it to me which helps me a lot!

Decided to go headstuds on my car. Something I should've done long time ago but I had no time. And now I have even less time and going to put them in, lol.
Question is if I can do it with the heads on the car or if I have to take them off to do it...

I just made a huge discovery!

Did you put your Thunderbird inside a walled off patio?

Keepin her dry lol

Yup! It's the perfect location for winter storage!

Found the vibration issues i had this summer.
This is the harmonic balancer
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/1170674_828852520464126_851585272_n.jpg)
(https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1505527_828852570464121_108081916_n.jpg)

Also I finally got to look at all the stuff I ordered a long time ago!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1618685_10152152597131236_957875612_n.jpg)

The hood
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/1920172_828093677206677_2032594013_n.jpg)

SWEET parts stash!!!!

Another proof that she was alive.
Although no supercharger belt
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=752954298048113&set=vb.100000006503345&type=2&theater

Now Im just going to wake up a little bit more then walk out to the garage and continue on her :)

I have spent the past two days in the garage now.
I have mostly done the ignition system containing of the MSD ignition box and shift light.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_103648_zpsbc5f237a.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_103648_zpsbc5f237a.jpg.html")
Then I fabricated some brackets for it
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_123845_zpsc6fd85ce.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_123845_zpsc6fd85ce.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_144036_zps09b7f695.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_144036_zps09b7f695.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_144248_zpsf867306e.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_144248_zpsf867306e.jpg.html")
After a few hours of wiring etc it looks like this
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_170623_zps894afdd5.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_170623_zps894afdd5.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_150900_zps5d595199.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_150900_zps5d595199.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_150906_zpsbef5d98d.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_150906_zpsbef5d98d.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_150916_zps9fe04332.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_150916_zps9fe04332.jpg.html")
Also forgot about this part I recieved. Hub and spindle for 5-lug conversion
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_174106_zps859a6998.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140224_174106_zps859a6998.jpg.html")
Then I went on with the shiftlight.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_135744_zps4ef6f442.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_135744_zps4ef6f442.jpg.html")
I actually want it on the dash but I do not want to ruin a perfect dashboard so I put it on the column instead.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_143611_zps9eb53d7a.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_143611_zps9eb53d7a.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_144820_zpsc33e4a9c.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_144820_zpsc33e4a9c.jpg.html")
Have to disassemble a lot just for this. Good thing its an american car, easy job.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_150140_zps1173601e.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_150140_zps1173601e.jpg.html")
Tadaa
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_154246_zps352a175f.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_154246_zps352a175f.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_154330_zps4f55cdc4.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_154330_zps4f55cdc4.jpg.html")
I decided to put the new ignition leads on.
Old
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_183613_zps1f715a9c.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_183613_zps1f715a9c.jpg.html")
Both laid up for some fixing.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_183901_zpse589e475.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_183901_zpse589e475.jpg.html")
Aah, 10x better
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_192616_zps658a8e54.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_192616_zps658a8e54.jpg.html")
And I also mounted the new VFN hood!
My god, I'm in love!
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210239_zps0c278270.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210239_zps0c278270.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210255_zps770dd583.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210255_zps770dd583.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210305_zpsc157cf4f.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210305_zpsc157cf4f.jpg.html")
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210633_zpsf131c264.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210633_zpsf131c264.jpg.html")
Pretty big...
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210431_zps735af9e5.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210431_zps735af9e5.jpg.html")
Its gonna be interesting to drive with this bathtub in the way...
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210131_zps7ace08ad.jpg) (http://"http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/1988%20Ford%20Thunderbird/20140225_210131_zps7ace08ad.jpg.html")

Bad ass man very clean


And just watch out for small animals and children lol

Looking good :).

I really want one of those Holley Systemax intakes. I'm just lazy and I don't want to pull the GT40 intake. Plus those things aren't cheap ;).

Cheers mate.

The kids and animals have to move themselves ;)


A Systemax isn't very expensive.
You replace it in one evening ;) Takes me 5 minutes to rip off the upper intake (been practicing with shiznit breaking all the time :p )

Oh it's not hard to change. It's $600. Due to an upcoming wedding I can't blow $600 on an intake. Stupid wedding :hick:.

Blow the wedding off! "Sorry honey, I just really wanted a new intake for the car"

I love my holley

Sure that will go over well :rollin:

No update, just playing with something that is dead.
I really miss her, 6 more weeks...
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e363/CraxIgorE/IMG_2412_zps3fade7ae.jpg) (http://s43.photobucket.com/user/CraxIgorE/media/IMG_2412_zps3fade7ae.jpg.html)

Any plans on wheels of suspension ?

I have coil overs for front.
Wheel change will be when I go to 5-lug and most likely Champion wheels in a bigs n little setup.
Rear suspension really needs some fixing and the rear axle gonna get other gears (3.55 now) and new axles etc.

But before all that, Ill probably buy a new car. Been saving money for some time for a "new" car.

Would look killer on bigs and littles

Definetly!
But that will have to wait a little bit. Im almost never home anyways.

Does your fathers car have wheel spacers on the front?

Yes, had to because otherwise the rim wouldnt sit flush to the hub. The hubs diameter is too big maybe 2/3 in.
Fun story, took me a long time to notice that. I had been driving maybe 1 month with a gap of maybe 1-2cm between the rim and the hub but I never noticed because I had somehow, on both sides, got the wheel on perfectly straight anyways! Zero vibrations!

I like the air intake tube setup with the large element and shroud to help block off engine heat.  Nicely done.  I'm guessing this was a custom fabrication?  Never seen one like that for a foxbody car.

V8Demon: Yes, custom fabrication on that shroud.

I arrived in Sweden last Tursday night and been working so hard on the car I forgot to take pictures.
But took a few.
Started with drilling the hood
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-9e0b20a7f39739c9897b0e8d3fbe1f32.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c9a9a80838b885e4ab22990cf678be78.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b90ab46e2fe1330e4d1702ad499a1304.jpg)
Then the engine went apart to replace the woodruff key on the crank that got damaged at the same time as the harmonic balancer.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-de05cab8d2120681a94d1260074691aa.jpg)
At the same time I wanted to install my head studs I bought. They didnt fit! After a lot of swearing I realise that I have bought studs for 302 with 351 heads...
Fortinetly my fathet is a Tbird parts der so in the attic we found brand new ARP bolt for this engine, never used. Way better than whats in it (stock reused bolts...) so I threw them in.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-309a61b2e70cc29f6d23e7912af14bd6.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-ec0ce89a06e2a04aacc3c445cf15c49a.jpg)
Jump forward one day and it looks like this
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-1f597156ddede447c8af87b9b4103689.jpg)
Last thing before test drive!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-dc7600492798f1c9117827ba166a14bd.jpg)
Keep the plate on the underside in place with many screwdrivers!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-906047676be303e9f86efead72e0d47b.jpg)
End result! Changed the py screws that came in the kit with brown/black torx, much better!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-89e096a34bad61f5a2fbdb4034639044.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-42187999a20952cd9fd9bff2b1f4b50a.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-9dd1aa50fbd94b4859ef9db92caf309e.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-05da75bfdda0b7d3a0f01f9ed4a65fa3.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-584e719321f4206434fb252ba3d2b161.jpg)

Now shes getting a bath and waxed!

I never posted the video of it!
[video=youtube;7iBT0oYz884]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iBT0oYz884[/video]

Cool

That is one sweet bird.

Nice! I love the blower whine!

Cheers guys!
She sure is fun!
But now I got busy with work again and it may be so that I will leave China for Dubai later, anything can happen though. Miss the car though, finally when things started to really work well in the car.
But the transmission should arrive at any time! But that will have to wait a while...

Nice. Need some stickier tires ;)

Okay folks, I'm sorry for the delay of an update!
Been working my ass off for the last week or so on the car but today she drove once again!
What is it this time you might ask?
I'm glad you asked! New transmission!

But first, some videos from last week!
I got the car running well after some fix. Figured out the fuel pressure was low and regapped the plugs from .28 to .22 and then she ran well! Still a bit fat though, gonna sort that out.
Had to show a jag driver a burnout though
[video=youtube;iFcgAXDbRxA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFcgAXDbRxA[/video]

Also let my friend who has been helping me a lot on the car take it for a spin! He handled it's stubborness very well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfHQ5D4dXoQ&feature=youtu.be

Did well as a beer delivery ride
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c33e2b163a6ebc2b8151cb95a87fcdf8.jpg)
Enough for a midsummer. For those who don't know what midsummer is, it's a celebration of the day when the sun is up the longest and we celebrate it by drinking. A lot.
Had a colleague over from Wisconsin to here, he loved it and thought it was crazy! That's the way we do it ;)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-7ecec08b6bbc3cb2e609b8140f0ee36e.jpg)
Use appropiate headwear
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c1354524799c03f6b4de21f515076857.jpg)
And the solution to these god forsaken grill coal bags where you just pull the string and it will magically open. That's the theory.
In reality you're standing there trying to pry it open with your hands, screaming and cursing and when you finally do get it open the coal will fly everywhere with you standing there screaming, kicking the bbq grill and all of your neighbours standing around you watching while you're raging, throwing the grill over the house roof and later covering it in gasoline and lights it on fire.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-219935ea8af423b2afeb77cd58a6572e.jpg)
Day after, hungover and determined to get started!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-2814fc1b3a49b4451fffc34934e9032f.jpg)
Accompanied by fathers Terminator
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-974f80e0ab15291c73e809e9eadbbd32.jpg)
The boss is checking on his workers down at the disassembly floor.
He's not even close to being satisfied.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-73196a94ca4bfdd94b4586f789c8ef78.jpg)
This junk actually looks like a car again!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-6cb5b099a549287516dfd75a20306200.jpg)
After about 6 hours of work, 3 of them figuring out what tools to use, it's finally down!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-daea5fc776eaa65086392c33340dce0e.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-a69164a389a58ba1e65e9d9d7a113495.jpg)
Best solution of shipping a transmission. End of discussion!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-dab6ac5368ccc3f6ed370455eadf7b76.jpg)
My Freddy Brown 4STB! Finally you're here!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-aa5fc8b3fe0d9c59a7f0c2f4f4057dc2.jpg)
I did make quite a mess... The motorcycle lift is the best thing my father ever bought, after the lift the Cobra is standing on.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-a2b22d22bd063c053af2db3b678f508b.jpg)
Cut the original lower right rubber mount for the radiator a bit to fit the new rad.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-e4deb33751d7f6ca5fc39c1a66ab222c.jpg)
The new Griffin 1-26272-x radiator
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-90111bc087a5a25c1b8ac9817c642e1f.jpg)
I shouldn't have heat problems...
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-8de233943d9e5ebe52e27c0d53a6cbd0.jpg)
Realised I cut the rubber mount on the wrong side so had to cut the otherside again! And pry the mount a little bit to fit the radiator.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-cc1c9627a96603de583ba963a119b0c5.jpg)
I can't believe the radiator fit with little to none modifications.... I'm astonished!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-3253c569fad91915e9c7a312ed117dd9.jpg)
Out with the original shifter!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-232ad7680321da186c579373dc028309.jpg)
New shifter mount in the making!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-de6384d7a35523bfbf67d5cc33c10005.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-8467d791517dce342c10e54bef1bd5b3.jpg)
Measure once and drill twice! The way it's done
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-cab7fb458c19f3bb9616fde8f46a6765.jpg)
Perfect drawing!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-9eb9cce1cfd7e3d40d75496b326be1ba.jpg)
Bent and drilled shifter mount
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-669bbb380827545dc76235cd112535b7.jpg)
Even half-ass serious!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-4913b4178f138dfba781943f33e7935f.jpg)
Still got good company!
Dad's just admiring his work I believe.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-93d60b5f48e69ee82eb2448825c41c38.jpg)
B&M transcooler mounted
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c58b3d8f52d0a33b8b24a2e2caca6.jpg)
Shifter mount primered
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-6acead7ff0d4482492ac485397f5848c.jpg)
Since SPAL who is suppose to be the best fan makers on the market, doesn't even sent fan mounting kit with their fans, I had to track down fan mounts. Luckily, the closest car shop had it!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-ec659205cb19fad1b59488c2d063ac7c.jpg)
Original transcooler lines
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-d9e6ec2cbb4559e0aed394cdd35ff486.jpg)
Snip snip!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-fc70e251c96b341678388aff49344cbc.jpg)
Oil lines mounted
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-aae322969870fbcb0cc240386962fb75.jpg)
Shifter mount is finished! Not bad for a stupid guy like me
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-8a132118f9e28a3981e528c2699a5d75.jpg)
Radiator mounted with fans and everything. I've got plenty of space now! 12-rib next!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f811b2393202bb0629adafc935f87109.jpg)
Relay pack from Freddy Brown installed and wired up! Makes me able to use both overdrive and transbrake on the same button. 1st gear in I have transbrake, 2nd nothing and third I have O/D on/off.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-a077b8462371823b8256418187b4a62e.jpg)
Relay for the fans
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f6a928155929c759e4c48ae2b7dd1149.jpg)
The best connectors ever! And very easy to use, water proof, cheap and OEM like!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-cfed467f6d5483db7561a1733519aafb.jpg)
Simply strip it, put on the silicone boot
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-34dcf7fed4e9c9e383eda7048fca326c.jpg)
Put the connector pin on and crimp it
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-ce46d2c41302b153dd216afb09655b96.jpg)
On both
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-66c8a8a0f7948c2a4f5748bcb5b65858.jpg)
Put it in the connector socket, jam the rubber boot in the holes to make it water proof
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c24d1d22a6fb2b3e9935a6cbd9c59edd.jpg)
And this is the male connector ready to go! In just a few minutes you have an OEM like connector.  I love these
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-aae6dda1f5780fa860ffa89411cdf1aa.jpg)
Got sick of constantly adding thing after thing to the plus (+) connector in the engine bay, so I made this "universal" one instead.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f91835447b2e59b27b5522ff156ab33f.jpg)
The none used ones are isolated
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-e6db7076978fed5531823eea83dedd05.jpg)
And one for the minus aswell
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-f605858c538fbaf9a66aeecbce66928e.jpg)
Father is filling the Terminator with oil in a quite unusual way. Pressure through the waterpump, even had pressure before the first rotation of the engine
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-aac38cdc55a69f5d4273ea91178e8dae.jpg)
I had to remake the bracket for the shifter cable, holes were too narrow for AOD (shifter is for a C4/C6)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-9ff268fd1ef957eacc73238b8713062f.jpg)
Cut it and extend it, weld it. I'm a decent welder at 2am, piss drunk. Not bad!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-00bc96d4198b7fe806e6a5b3dd8e4014.jpg)
Both sides extended and grinded down
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b6d147ea7a5ca4f2b65c588fc3972eae.jpg)
Painted, not bad for being me
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-6d6be80ab99e6ffea7a872eedc23be30.jpg)
Cable mounted
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-e2045e91e4534602a3015b2954cf0c63.jpg)
Shifter mounted
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-1a8de019442ccce01d9b548f6e88001d.jpg)
Time to fill with trans fluid!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-cc59daa6e56d3b7d3750635434887e04.jpg)
But then she started g water out from the waterpump. Waterpump is gone.
So I'm moving over to the interior while waiting for new one.
Time to actually mount the water temp gauge for once! And so, the project "Clean up inside of car" was started! I had the computer on the floor, temporary cables EVERYWHERE, gauges hanging in their cables etc. Time to make shiznit permanent and serious!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-46e3fb93e3b56909de2685ca740a4ad9.jpg)
Fits!.... Almost...
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-47f0c900617f5e8dcc7b1e93849466a8.jpg)
Hole for connector
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-41e1cba4d22984794ffdadf6a561a0fb.jpg)
Not bad! Didn't want to cut it too much ruining it.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-3045f8dcb70d6123642867a38ea3626a.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-cd1c1142ee4250ee7da473b796bded83.jpg)
My dad had nothing to do on his Terminator and was sick and tired of my computer laying on the floor with wires everywhere. Time to tuck it in it's real place!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-3fec72001a059c5afd1e1437d60f02f9.jpg)
Problem is... It's not black
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-6a118658ec0542ff099e0b531c46e0f2.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-56206a030981eceff03934c35e5dd0a2.jpg)
Aaah. Much better, balance to the universe is now restored.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c24c19634eaa06e84420cfe047b4c3ac.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b2365b252613dce9b4fc73c1c7ee1055.jpg)
Time to focus on the center console!
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-d948448f84936b106a15b11aa3cf7cb2.jpg)
Doesn't really fit...
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-2f7a32f358fc9bf7eb6d08ef6827be2a.jpg)
I'm sad to cut such pristine plastic... But nothing else to find around here... So the best has to do :(
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-faae262d9ab7235f591acfb78d73c8c0.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-c209dae6ea07c37173cca4e56c9b109c.jpg)
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-4bf120ffdfc09523aa72fe2c1bd57ba1.jpg)
Big hole will be filled later, haven't figured out how I want it.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-70e8d1a5c6ddbdf40cee309ab3a36976.jpg)
Switches installed. Needs to be labeled though. Left one is for the electric fans, at the moment it's on/off but later it will be auto/on. Right one is my safety switch for the transbrake so even if I accidently hit the transbrake button on the shifter in 1st while moving, it wont engage.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-2e697b37c457b4427a47507413b2712a.jpg)
Jumping forward to today, the new waterpump arrived.
(http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/images/123/122432/122432-b2369771f6ac9494efddc7a25abd1d31.jpg)

After it was painted black, I mounted it and poured in water. G DOWN!
Take it off, realise the gasket they sent me was wrong exposing a huge gaping hole (!!!).
We had the correct one in the basp00get, put it on and it's waterproof!
So I filled it with trans fluid, took her for a spin. Wow it feels strange with 4000rpm stall speed converter.
Didn't try any WOT but at 3/4 and 5000rpm, wow she pulls! And the shifts are so smooth, and so fast. It's not cracking your spine anymore!

More pics will come tomorrow! Gonna wash it and get some pictures with the real camera!

Until then, here's a video of my fathers Cobra startup.
[video=youtube;31S_BjRWf2E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31S_BjRWf2E[/video]

Wow man bitchin

Very nice, both cars. Like the approved headwear, although you should be two fisting it with a helmet like that.

Like this?
(https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/1506499_10152170760041236_571823968_n.jpg)

GoPro goes in tomorrow for some shifting action!

Close. Two fisting around my parts means a beer in each hand, which helps explain such behavior as your approved headwear or jumping around the dance floor like a wounded deer. If someone is giving you that what the hell look, you just hold up both beers. No further explanation needed.  :hick:

Oh!
Then I must improve! ;)

On other news!
120 miles later.... Lets just say, its fun!
(https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10497291_10152454688716236_5172787781077778492_o.j  pg)
[video=youtube;upViepfumis]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upViepfumis[/video]

nice!

Wow, just found this thread. What an awesome car, extremely clean and nice setup. Love your father's Terminator too.

Cheers to both of you!
I have an update with pictures to make but I'm in Dubai working a lot so there's no time for that unfortinetly.
But until then, here's two more burnout videos, both of the same one.
[video=youtube;OF0IUCh3YzU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF0IUCh3YzU[/video]

[video=youtube;_ppP_aXqXk8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ppP_aXqXk8[/video]

Nothing has happened since last time.
My Tbird is stored away in a barn, I've been in Dubai.

But I took my dads Tbird for a spin yesterday
[video=youtube;qRlr_6Basuc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRlr_6Basuc[/video]

Well, I haven't posted here in a long time.

I've been working in South Korea since beginning November last year. I've been really busy with work, had to stay 6 months straight in Korea, then go home for 2 weeks and then back again.
In the midst of all chaotic work here in Korea, I managed to get a girlfriend back in Sweden (kinda funny when written like that).
Last time I was in Sweden (3 weeks in June-July) I did get some work done on the car. But now another interest is taking most of my time (collecting watches). And the fact that I'm working abroad 300+ days/year.

But hey! Something did get done in the 3 weeks home in Sweden! So what did I do?
Well, after all the burnouts on last years Power Big Meet I had a clunk in the rear end. I was so sure it was bushings I didn't even care to look at it.
And why just change bushings on control arms thin as maple leafs?

So I bought these.
CHE Uppers
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11825183_10153393521796236_1726222532547013853_n.jpg?oh=0be4f98e6aa9f1e511aea8c0c06fde14&oe=563F554B&__gda__=1448793096_9d6ba26cc4172f709676fbe54ecbecb2)
Maximum Motorsports lowers (Thunderbird length)
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11220123_10153393521836236_5196275309535760325_n.jpg?oh=2189f596b7f806ee6dae8d0d4b9ae198&oe=565993BF)
So I brought the car out of the storage and got to work on it!
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11145069_10153393521856236_3957111922305577502_n.jpg?oh=8dd85b19d17bf294ba11c24b4b0b38be&oe=563FD263)
Told my dad that I would do this shiznit in the driveway, no need to occupy the garage for this simple job!
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11796442_10153393522066236_6504103718387798025_n.jpg?oh=4afedafc80a448ef5cd3810162f21b8b&oe=564E6782)
So what was the clunking? Very surprised I found this...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11846646_10153393521956236_5920171541798462884_n.jpg?oh=aa671afbab56ba354bb28ec30feacf0a&oe=564437A9&__gda__=1447117855_7e8126aea2bd2164b6123e6505eb15e3)
Well, f*ck it. I already bought all the parts! No way I'm turning back!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11836800_10153393522181236_3142458960315774979_n.jpg?oh=ad62f23e030ce59271dcd8ffe29be0d4&oe=56416B1D&__gda__=1447563691_96a80d2fad84437337e511d52d40f654)
While I was at it I also bought Maximum Motorsports adjustable sway bar (for Fox Mustang)
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11057365_10153393522326236_655480220252225909_n.jpg?oh=16d4a87a83d0558204acbea4e33e6c71&oe=565387FD)
Ofcourse it wasn't going to fit. So cutting on the brackets and instead of bolting them on, I hired my father to weld it for me. Rock solid! Mounted them +-0.5mm difference between drivers side and passenger side. As perfect as I could get it.
After this picture they were fully seam welded in place.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11813258_10153393522666236_586756269338491117_n.jpg?oh=2ab5e627b744f09f8302f6c842370804&oe=563C6276&__gda__=1447276084_053b5d1292ec79770995782e7f1636cb)
Fully welded and painted
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11781677_10153393522701236_6579450477489775152_n.jpg?oh=f8383be7cb3929e463049ba2cad1dda0&oe=56470D6B&__gda__=1448055517_b2f61f87d8f11725ac99d18cc586a27f)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11822778_10153393522816236_4336981268594030543_n.jpg?oh=5d8c344f21fb442d326b1c2f294de2f9&oe=563764AA&__gda__=1448192745_499e3fe21ca0fa7565fee099c11ca98b)
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11062108_10153393522871236_7989001121434230533_n.jpg?oh=f5eb0bddfb7191543ab735d8b1b4504c&oe=564F2537)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11811409_10153393522971236_6904210002908336679_n.jpg?oh=66df8cfb7d6e71ec0d58879ebada5b05&oe=5638E0DA&__gda__=1447410211_075492b2f96174be5f2e9997d93d2300)
CHE uppers in place
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11811498_10153393523036236_8361041216599641996_n.jpg?oh=d4bd6271ad54f6f696eb000a1dd0084e&oe=565686C8)
Had to put new tires on
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11825974_10153393522461236_93874388419312570_n.jpg?oh=1dbd8882d0bfaf94b0124e6f7249cc88&oe=56517BA0)
All in place!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/20596_10153393523066236_8410686883772141843_n.jpg?oh=c0e1cb3a53fd5f59be204ff3718496dc&oe=564636CC&__gda__=1448064851_3dc00f6c91fbb9d1d6f107f22736223e)

Back on the ground. Ride height is definetly higher in the rear with these control arms.
I would suggest a lowering spring and use the adjustment on the control arms to get desired ride height. I will get lowering springs and put them on same time as the coil overs go on the front (when ever that's going to happen....
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11822456_10153393523186236_509106008843484941_n.jpg?oh=6d54bdac3a000571473e8d9897177816&oe=56453D17)
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11800334_10153393523236236_3974691655518754705_n.jpg?oh=c4116279658aad29f6e7f487697fb7af&oe=5641B26D)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11813243_10153393523286236_8619725531213145379_n.jpg?oh=c698f02f7bba4de56922112a673dbd0f&oe=56371AE2&__gda__=1446460321_b4b22c728b2acd36088022fc296ff131)
Interior as of now.
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11822542_10153393523316236_5059623065155599396_n.jpg?oh=7b75e5e546e04f7b7486bd2859bdf270&oe=5638BCFD)
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11800020_10153393523361236_7307489312805127788_n.jpg?oh=7cba3cf91619a68d2fa5da1c892f1d4b&oe=565261F3)

Together with my dads '03 Cobra.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11781846_10153393523411236_9120330520281704217_n.jpg?oh=ae12d14e045ca15d3b4e7c2b8f778d9c&oe=56475552&__gda__=1447437329_7c104e2f329280c82ead140cf06076f1)


And that's it! Wait for more pictures next year when I can work on her again!
 that's depressing to write...

Good chit !!

......Do you and your dad go to Stockholm for the uh....you know...yearly competition? ;)  Maybe just to watch as those are ridiculous machines, but it sounds like a LOT of fun from what I've seen and read.

Great work!!! Keep it up. I look forward to the updates.

Looking great! Hopefully your employment situation will allow you more free time to work on your Thunderbird in the future.

Thank you! :)


Not that any of our cars would ever have a chance against them ;)
There's lots of videos of those races that can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/KungkimmoOne/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=1

I've never seen it in person though. Honestly, I've lived 1 hour away from Stockholm for 22 years and I've only been there 4 times...


Thank you! Will be a long time until next update though.


You do what you gotta do.
I have a great oppurtunity to make money, so I'm taking it. The T-bird will be here forever :)

Yeah I found KungKimmo Media on FB. Absolutely epic-looking stuff.