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I finally gave up on rebuilding my '92 LX that got rearended last December. It just needs too much bodywork, panel replacing, etc., to make it worth doing on what is in essence a base four-cylinder car. So as my new project, the poor LX is being replaced with this. :) 1986 Comp Prep Mustang SVO...

Picked it up yesterday, yay! Before: During: Now: Badass stance: :D Definitely needs some grinding and bondo work, but it's actually even better than it was before the wreck. At some point before I owned the car, it had been hit, and the front end...

The quoted post is copied/pasted from a recent "what do you drive" thread on Glocktalk. This is what it looks like after a maroon S10 4x4 rear-ended me as I was stopping for a yellow light this afternoon. I got shoved all the way into the middle of the intersection, and watched dazedly as...

Hey y'all, it's been a while since I've been on SN. School and work and the car and way too many other boards, etc. Anyway, I finally got my car turboswapped. Went from this: To this: ...over Thanksgiving break plus a couple days. Nothing went catastropically wrong, and once I get...

Who's goin'? I'll be there with probably 6 or 7 local guys, 4 or 5 of whom are also on TF. Planning on leaving Thursday afternoon and probably coming home sometime Sunday. I believe we're staying in Caseyville. Anyone else? Brian

Well, I lost my job on Monday (apparently I'm uninsurable due to two speeding tickets, and I drove cars all day for my job, so they had to let me go), so now I have tons of free time, even with still being in school. I've done more to the new motor in the last two days than in the previous six...

I bought this today to serve as a beater/parts hauler/spare car/winter car/whatever. Got it from a guy who used to work at my work. Best part is, I paid $150 for it. :D 2.8 V6, 4x4, 5-spd, 3" suspension lift, lights and crap, etc. Brian

Went to the machine shop today and picked up: 1) freshly rebuilt 2.3T head, non-cracked, RR cam installed 2) 0.010" overground crankshaft 3) 0.030" overbore TRW forged flattop pistons on stock rods All this to go into/onto my freshly tanked and honed 0.030" over 2.3T block, which is...

Hit up the JY yesterday and found a wrecked '87-'89 GT with a FMS 160 mph cluster in it. Yanked it for cheap. I'd love to put it into my '92, but it's an airbag car and the GT wasn't. I've read that the cluster can be modded, but never paid attention before (wasn't relevant before) and searching...

In the latest issue of 5.0 and Super Fords, they upgraded the brakes all around on their project yellow notch using the Stainless Steel Brake Corp. kit. Seems to be mostly similar to SN95 parts. However, they didn't mention what axles they used in the rear. Using the North Racecar caliper...

My buddy has a 2.3T motor he's gonna give me for cheap, but it will need an extra hole drilled to accomodate the box-style lower intake. The gasket that's stuck on the head has a hole and tab for the hole, but the head just doesn't have it. When I get the head freshened, can they make a hole...

Talked to my dad tonight, he approved the turbo swap! :D:D:D:D:D:D I was at the JY today, snagged a Turbocoupe IC, and there are two turbo cars there. One's a Capri Turbo RS with what looks to my uneducated eye like a rather clean TC motor; didn't check miles. The other is a bit of an...

Lately my car has been making weird noises when I shift, especially at high rpms, and cruise at low speeds. Past 3500 rpms, it'll make this loud rubbing sound when I clutch in and out. Also, when I'm moving at a slow speed in gear, like in a parking lot, a different rubbing sound happens, like...

My clutch makes odd noises. :p When it's the clutch, it'll sound like it's rubbing or creaking when I clutch in and out quickly at higher RPM's. Sounds almost like not enough grease on/around the TOB. Other times it just sounds like something's rubbing at slow speeds and especially on...

I'm considering swapping an '85-'86 GT nose onto my car one of these days...my stock LX bumper is sandblasted and gouged all to hell and I love the look of that year and style front. Plus, so many idiots have aero-nosed their four-eyes that it's about time someone did the opposite. ;) Has...

Speedtrap cops are mother****ing pigs. That is all. :mad: Ash

Fedex knocked on my door a moment ago. :D Got them from a guy on TF for a good price, and they only have 20k miles....everything I've ever heard about them is fantastic, so I think I'll be happy when they go on. Once I get all the little miscellaneous brake parts gathered, it'll be these...

Found this while I was poking around on eBay just now, it's a MAF adapter and filter for a '90-up Ranger. Is the MAF on those 2.3's the same as our '91-'93's? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7914582088&category=38634 Ash

Had my subframe connectors welded in the other day, and disconnected the battery while they were being done, but now my tach shoots up to 3500 on startup and goes to about 4000 when actually moving. Now I know that a half tach reading is a bad DIS module, but what could this be? :shrug: Ash

I need to replace my HLA's soon, but I'm not sure if I want to pull the valve cover by removing the TB from the upper or the upper from the lower. What's the usual way of doing this? Ash