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turbot79 Offline
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#21
Cool thanks, also it is a kit for a Stang correct?
88 tc, hbc, t3t4, 3"throttle body,3" stinger exhaust, msd, 18psi, Tial 50mm bov, Esslinger adjustable round tooth timing kit, rods header on the way and many more to come
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Jeffmerkur Offline
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#22
Yes, Everything is for a Fox Mustang except for the the rear control arms and the camber plates which are made for our cars. I would check out Griggs also, they have a lot of stuff.
Jeffmerkur
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TurboE Offline
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#23
Sweet car. That thing will be mean.
-88 TC Black
5spd, Precision SC50 T3/T4, QH/SD Tune, Gillis, AFPR, 255FP, WB O2, K&N, Ported E6, 3" DP, ATR 2.5" Duals, 3:73 Rear, Konis, Eibachs, 18" Voxx Wheels, X Drilled Rotors.
-06 G35 Coupe Diamond Graphite
-97 Pathfinder
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Jeffmerkur Offline
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#24
Thanks everyone, for the compliments.

The car went wireless tonight. I also pulled the door panels and headliner so the car is completely stripped on the inside now. I still need to clean up the scrapped up tar paper. I took the harness out in one piece. I have another harness that came out of a buddy's 88 TC that he was scrapping because it had been wrecked. That's the harness I'm going to cut plugs off of because it was already hacked up buy the old owner. The one I pulled off tonight would be good for someone else that had a harness melt down.
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So, this is what I pulled out tonight. What a pain. And it weighs a ton, not really but it is heavy.
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This is what's going back in. A Painless switch panel, and a 12 Circuit street/strip harness. The other little harness is the complete engine harness out of a Merkur XR4Ti and a LA3 that has been repined to work with the XR harness. These came out of my old XR that got smashed by the tree. I'm going to use the XR harness and LA3 until I'm ready to go stand alone.
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I can't believe how complicated the stock harness is. I'm going to drop a good amount of wait just in wiring.
Jeffmerkur
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TurboE Offline
Posting Freak
#25
Since your doing alot to reduce weight. Are you changing any body panels? doors, hood, truck lid, etc. I just organized my garage and when moving stuff around forgot how heavy these tbird doors are. Any fiberglass/plastic racing parts? or whatever is available?
-88 TC Black
5spd, Precision SC50 T3/T4, QH/SD Tune, Gillis, AFPR, 255FP, WB O2, K&N, Ported E6, 3" DP, ATR 2.5" Duals, 3:73 Rear, Konis, Eibachs, 18" Voxx Wheels, X Drilled Rotors.
-06 G35 Coupe Diamond Graphite
-97 Pathfinder
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5.0TurboCoupe1988 Offline
Posting Freak
#26
nice progress. i think you're going to regret not having power steering in a road race car with fat tires.

i've raced circle track for years both with and without power steering. there's no comparison. manual steering will wear the driver out and make him late on steering corrections, especially late in the race when it really counts.
1988 TC 2.3/5-Speed, 148K
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Jeffmerkur Offline
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#27
I picked up a Fiberglass hood and rear deck lid.
The hood is nice but the deck lid is from Harry Glass. Its a race car pin on part. I'm going to add some fiberglass to it and glass in some mounts for the hinges. It might be more work than its worth. I looked for stock fiberglass fenders but couldn't find any. The doors are staying metal but I will be gutting them. My roll bar has side bars so it will still be safe.

I'm still not 100% sold on not having power steering either. If it sucks to drive I'll yank it and put the power back in. I'm hoping the car will be light enough that not having power steering or power brakes will still be fine. I'll let everyone know after my first trip to the track what I think.

My bumper bars showed up today. They need to be welded up but I took some pics of them kind of mocked up. They will hope fully keep the bumpers from getting crushed if I bump into a tire wall not too hard. They also give me a good place to mount my tow hooks. These are meant for Mustangs
so the front bumper bar doesn't have the right angle so I might add some bars to the front at the correct angle but I don't think its really needed.
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Jeffmerkur
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1988turbotbird Offline
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#28
Awesome progress, thats gonna be a wild ride for sure
88 TC/HX35/CAI/3" exhaust/Wilson MS2/Beanman header/Head Work/Laramee Cam/Gillis boost controller/3G alt/Walboro 255 fuel pump/BOV/CHE rear control arms/1" lowered/poly. bushings/Chuck W mounts/6 puck clutch/Pro 5.0 shifter/AEM wideband/Tuning MS..
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TurboE Offline
Posting Freak
#29
Cool, you could always dzus screw to piece of aluminum angle for the trunk hinges? for looks maybe bondo over the screws???
-88 TC Black
5spd, Precision SC50 T3/T4, QH/SD Tune, Gillis, AFPR, 255FP, WB O2, K&N, Ported E6, 3" DP, ATR 2.5" Duals, 3:73 Rear, Konis, Eibachs, 18" Voxx Wheels, X Drilled Rotors.
-06 G35 Coupe Diamond Graphite
-97 Pathfinder
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TCKen Offline
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#30
Question on your rear suspension.

It appears from the photos you are using MM adjustable-height lower control arms with springs in the stock locations. Have you looked at converting to coilover shocks?
Ken Humphrey

88TC, Black/Raven, T5 manual, 130 amp alternator, MSD ignition, 2 1/2" duals, trunk battery with disconnect, CHE rear control arms.
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