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  1. Blue Thunder

    Height of wheel well opening over the tires, front and rear, and adding clearance for 17x9 wheels up front

    My car currently measures 25.75" rear wheel well to the ground, and 27" front wheel well to the ground. It's up in the nose from my shedding weight from the car, and the stiff king cobra coils I installed years ago. While inspecting the car's undercarriage yesterday, I noticed the steering...
  2. Blue Thunder

    Aluminum non-metric brake calipers for use on 11" granada rotors?

    With all the information floating around out there, it's difficult to simply find a decent piston sized caliper that is very lightweight, to use with an 11" Granada rotor. Brackets would be nice too, but I can fabricate them if necessary. I spotted a 1986 LTD caliper online, it appeared...
  3. Blue Thunder

    Starters suck. So does the aftermarket!

    Well, I had to get that off my chest. I'm REALLY tired of starter issues in my II. lol Back when I had the stock starter, never had issues, but when I built the stroker engine, and had to run a full size oil pan to clear the stud girdle, everything went to hell with the starter. The stock piece...
  4. Blue Thunder

    2 '71 mach I(I think?) 14" aluminum slots

    Decent shape, a pair of 14" 1971 Mach I(what I was told) aluminum slot mags. Make offer. sold
  5. Blue Thunder

    Two 13" slot mags

    Decent shape, not sure what they're worth, but I didnt want to scrap them because they're II parts. 2 13" aluminum slots, decent shape, make offer, I guess? I think the tires on them are fair, don't recall. EDIT: **SOLD**
  6. Blue Thunder

    Vid: 0-90mph, interior view.

    The digital camera was mounted sideways, and the car shakes it around pretty bad, and the lighting sucked, but hey, it's a car, not a modeling studio. Anyway, here's a speedometer view as my II runs up to 90mph. (I got on it too hard around 30mph, and the tires smoked off, thus you can see...
  7. Blue Thunder

    Another II vid

    First vid showing the 17" wheels and cowl hood on my II. (And one of the first where I'm not doing a deliberate smoke show) I went easy on the throttle and early shifted so the car mostly hooked. http://videos.streetfire.net/player.aspx?fileid=718F20E5-DAD7-4F55-A300-8931423F6287
  8. Blue Thunder

    I wonder what I should ask for my motor?

    I have something like $10,500, maybe a little more, in my motor, and I'm interested in selling it, but not sure what's reasonable to even ask for it. I was thinking of asking $6500 for it. That's complete turn-key 332" motor, minus the march pulleys, alternator/alt. bracket and demon carb. Even...
  9. Blue Thunder

    Another clean ebay II for sale

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4554839796&category=6236 Coupe. 24,000 miles. V8, garaged. Cool colors, inside and out. Freakin nice looking car.
  10. Blue Thunder

    Upper control arm mods (lots of pics)

    Control arm mods and new cowl scoop(pics) I finished fitting the 17" Cobra R wheels on my II this weekend. I ended up modifying the upper arms to increase steering travel, because the inside edge of the wheels would hit the lip on the upper control arms, and the car turned as about as tight as...
  11. Blue Thunder

    And on the seventh day..

    "And on the seventh day the lord did drive his Fairlane, and it came to pass that he popped the hood to gaze upon the 427 he had created, and he saw that it was good. And the serpent was upon the motor, for there were 8 venturis, and this too was good. So the Lord closed the hood and did...
  12. Blue Thunder

    Manual steering rack..

    So how many of you guys have ditched the power rack and gone "armstrong" manual steering in your II? I bought an $80 Pinto manual rack from NAPA, scrounged junkyards for a Pinto manual rag-joint, and installed them in my car. (Now I guess Flaming River offers the parts the easy way?)...
  13. Blue Thunder

    Strut rods..

    Those annoying rods that connect the lower control arms to the subframe, seriously reduce the header/exhaust pipe space. It's the bottleneck that prevents larger tube headers from passing down around the engine, like most other cars do. So I was checking out a 70s Thunderbird the other day, and...
  14. Blue Thunder

    I hate tires (burn out vids)

    So here's a couple vids of my MII with the 332" stroker motor turning up a bit over 8000 RPM. It will smoke the tires up to about 70mph when starting in 3rd gear(manual-valve-body c-4) if I hold the throttle to the floor. Rear tires are only 245/60R14s on factory Ford('71 mach?) 5-lug alum...
  15. Blue Thunder

    Custom taillights

    Does anyone know of a company that fabricates taillamp lens to custom specs?
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