Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #90 – November 03, 2010, 11:04:37 PM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^:spit::rollin: Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #91 – November 04, 2010, 05:27:11 AM Quote from: sarjxxx;340445I hear you man. my whole set's gonna run me just over $500, +$100 for the vac/boost and AFR.And the gauges aren't until after the ~$300-700 worth of transmission work I'm about to do, which is only after the ~$200 worth of interior parts I have yet to pay for. All of this is on ~$20/wk budget. At least you can do some work to your car...I can't touch mine without my apt complex mangers going "YOU'RE VIOLATING THE TERMS OF YOUR LEASE!!!"Plus, I wanna yank the entire drivetrain anyways...and i'd like to start with a crate motor-then boost it. So I pretty much have to wait a year and a half graduate, take a 5th year, take the CPA exam, land a job, find a house, THEN my work can begin. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #92 – November 04, 2010, 06:41:31 AM Quote from: RunninWild;340491At least you can do some work to your car...I can't touch mine without my apt complex mangers going "YOU'RE VIOLATING THE TERMS OF YOUR LEASE!!!"Plus, I wanna yank the entire drivetrain anyways...and i'd like to start with a crate motor-then boost it. So I pretty much have to wait a year and a half graduate, take a 5th year, take the CPA exam, land a job, find a house, THEN my work can begin.Rent one of those big storage units for a month and swap the drivetrain. Around here they have huge ones with garage doors on both ends,and concrete floors. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #93 – November 04, 2010, 09:05:19 AM Yeah I'm not really allowed to work on mine either. When I signed my lease it was under the terms too- No working on cars in driveway -But I asked them about it and they said well its not that big of a deal they just don't want anyone tearing out motors/trannys and leaving them sitting around in the yard and stuff.But I'm going to anyway:burnout: Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #94 – November 04, 2010, 09:38:24 AM Nice progress. Too bad about the dent in the side, straight car before that. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #95 – November 04, 2010, 10:09:26 AM Oh I know. I was sooo pissed at the time.Thanks Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #96 – November 04, 2010, 10:15:21 AM Quote from: vinnietbird;340497Rent one of those big storage units for a month and swap the drivetrain. Around here they have huge ones with garage doors on both ends,and concrete floors.I second vinnie's idea. I helped a friend do exactly this. It was like running our own garage for a month. Freaking awesome to have all that room. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #97 – November 04, 2010, 04:47:44 PM Finished [thread=29792]this[/thread] today. I like it. A lot. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #98 – November 04, 2010, 05:48:49 PM Figured I'd add this on here, so the rest of you can see the light modification I made to the car.Inner markers are DRL's with ignition on and blink with turn signals:cool:Light Modded cougarThe weird clicking at the start is me trying to start the car but the battery was too dead. I had to use jumper cables just to get the lights on.It blinks about 4 times for each side with all parking lights on (middle setting on switch), and about 4 times for each side with just ignition on and all lights off. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #99 – November 07, 2010, 08:56:00 AM Wow you've defenately been busy! Great job on the wiring and the new switch panel looks so much better than all those toggles. It's nice that you can tackel the bigger jobs as well, I had my heater core replaced last fall but I had it done at a garage. I can do some stuff but sometimes I'm afraid to get over my head, plus I pretty much have the car where I want it so I'm afraid to screw it up. Luckilly I have a buddy I work with, (actually he's my supervisor), that is willing to help me out with it. We changed the rear coils 3 times this summer, I finnally got a set of factory ones from a Cougar in the jy and it looks alot better sitting level again. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #100 – November 07, 2010, 11:04:01 AM Quote from: sarjxxx;340572Figured I'd add this on here, so the rest of you can see the light modification I made to the car.Looking awesome, dude, looking awesome.Maybe you could add this to the front - http://www.tccoa.com/articles/exterior/altlights.html Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #101 – November 07, 2010, 03:58:14 PM Quote from: 1Bad88tbird;340821Wow you've defenately been busy! Great job on the wiring and the new switch panel looks so much better than all those toggles. It's nice that you can tackel the bigger jobs as well, I had my heater core replaced last fall but I had it done at a garage. I can do some stuff but sometimes I'm afraid to get over my head, plus I pretty much have the car where I want it so I'm afraid to screw it up. Luckilly I have a buddy I work with, (actually he's my supervisor), that is willing to help me out with it. We changed the rear coils 3 times this summer, I finnally got a set of factory ones from a Cougar in the jy and it looks alot better sitting level again.Yeah, I actually had that heater core since last year. I wanted to put it in then but the fact that it was winter at the time and I hate working on my car in the cold and the fact that I was still DD'ing at the time held me back. Its hard to take on the big projects when you're on a limited time schedule, such as one afternoon for the car you drive everyday. Now that the cougar is just siting in the driveway, it makes it much easier to tackle the big projects since I have the time to complete them the right way. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #102 – November 10, 2010, 03:47:38 PM Quote from: Scott D;340839Looking awesome, dude, looking awesome.Maybe you could add this to the front - http://www.tccoa.com/articles/exterior/altlights.htmlHmm... Thats pretty cool. I might do that to the 96. I'm gonna put sequencer in the front of the cat though, so that won't be happening to it. Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #103 – November 10, 2010, 03:52:10 PM Well I'm gonna get a transmission sometime soon. A friend who collects SC's...I mentioned him before...has a used SC 5 speed and clutch in his garage he'll sell me for $150. Thats the way to go. A top of the line T5 is only rated for 350 lbs/tq but an m5r2 is rated for 550 lbs. Now were gettin somewhere. I think that'll hold up to a turbo setup eh? Quote Selected
Project Black Panther: 1988 3.8L Cougar LS Reply #104 – November 10, 2010, 04:02:28 PM An M5R2 trans from an SC will put your shifter about where the glovebox is in a console fox cat. Just FYI. Quote Selected
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