Post up pics of your wheels....

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Reply #45 – May 06, 2007, 04:40:26 PM

Since everyone's posting wheels:

Not sure of the brand of wheels, but they're the same kinda thing you'd find on an ASC McLaren car. Wrapped with 275.50.15's Drag radials. The sidewall baloons quite a bit.

Rims

Reply #46 – May 15, 2007, 09:44:25 PM

These were the best rims i could find for my Cougar.

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Reply #47 – July 07, 2007, 09:45:49 AM

those are sweet but are they for a fwd if so do they work good

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Reply #48 – July 13, 2007, 12:16:54 PM

Weld Racing Prostars 7X15 w/205-50-15 & 8X15 w/245-50-15 BFGs

Centerline (Forgot Style) 7X15 w/206-60-15 & 8X15 w/225-60-15 BFGs

Front View

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Reply #49 – July 13, 2007, 12:25:25 PM

Bloddy fornicatein hell man, thats amazing. Thats the best car porn I've seen in a LONG time. Espicialy on a black bird

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Reply #50 – July 13, 2007, 01:03:34 PM

Hey that looks nice.. And welcome to the forum.

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Reply #51 – July 13, 2007, 01:19:06 PM

Quote

You can never go wrong with Bullitts

When I finally have money again, that's what is going on SuperCat. Deep dish in the rear, w/DR's.

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Reply #52 – July 13, 2007, 01:42:02 PM

Oh, and here are some wheel pics to boot. Gotta love turbines!!! YES, I'm a pic w, and I LOOOOVVE my cats.
silver 86' turbo - only non V-8 car I own

Blue 86' ls & black 88' XR7

Wheels that came on the supercat when I bought originaly.

Then I had these 15"s put on, still a 4 lug car. You can the 84' cream colored one I once had in back

A pic at fastcats place after the conversion to 5 lug.

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Reply #53 – July 13, 2007, 01:47:57 PM

Victor, the rims you had on the burgundy car (Supercat) when you first got it...what are those? Still have them? I haven't seen those for awhile now...

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Reply #54 – July 13, 2007, 02:19:50 PM

American Racing Outlaws. I have a freind that has them on his fairmont
Here!!

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Reply #55 – July 14, 2007, 12:57:38 PM

My original rims are gone, they were in very rough shape and one was giving me safety issues. They saw allot of miles (160,000+). I still like that style quite allot. The best thing about the style is that you don't have to worry about the brake dust, as much anyway, which helps keep them a whole lot cleaner. Don't you just love cleaning rims :hick:
Thanks fila for the quick link

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Reply #56 – July 14, 2007, 01:11:03 PM

ATSmusic, those look to be some old pics. do you still have that car? and does it still look straight from the 80's?

i love it! those centerlines are PERFECT for that car. they look like wider, deeper 8holes(which are one of my favorite stock wheels).

welcome, and beautiful car!

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Reply #57 – July 14, 2007, 01:35:17 PM

the Outlaws on my car may be for sale if ya wanna go back to 4 lug, lol.

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Reply #58 – July 14, 2007, 03:23:11 PM

Thanks for the nice comment Gumby,

Yes those are old pic's and yes I do still have that car. Quite a history on the car. I bought it new in 86 with a 5.0 in it and did alot of alterations in the following 7 years. I added BBK equal length headers,mustang fuel rail and injectors,65MM throttle body just to pep it up. In 87-88 I went through the audio phase and had $7,000 worth of Alpine, JL and, Rockford equipment installed into it, won several crank it up shows and got over that in a few years so decided to begin with other idea's.

The car was so low to the ground that it would eat reflectors off the highway when changing lanes and this was done by building strut lowering mounts which raised the mounting point by 3" and converting it to Camaro front strut's which lowered the hub mount by 2" so I still had almost full travel in the suspension. I used some Oldsmobile shocks on the rear which were shorter than the Ford's.
Around 1990 I swapped out the rear end to a TC disk brake setup with 3.73 gears, changed the original 20:1 rack and pinion to a TC 15:1 so the thing would turn on a dime and stop on a penny.

Interior was changed to a TC set of leather buckets had tweed inserts installed, full console and the hardest part was swapping the digital dash module to a TC module. Took me a week or so with those wiring diagrams, digital had 2 large connectors 17/18 wires and the TC has 1 with 18 wires. Problem was the dash's were from 2 diff years and Ford changed the wire colors so I had to chase down what each wire did convert it to the dash I was using and eliminate wires. No idea how I pulled it off but every light bell and whistle worked, I did however burn up 1 dash as I had 1 issue, when I hit the dimmer switch 2 lights came on and the other 2 went off and this stumped me for days until I figured out that someone at the body shop flipped 1 headlight wire when they replaced a bulb. I flipped that 2 wire connector over and BAM light problem fixed.

In 91 someone came into my yard one night and went around my car with a screwdriver and wrote 'honky' on the hood so I had the car stripped door handles removed, all the holes filled, relocated the gas tank filler and had the nose piece molded in had it primered all over and drove it that way until I decided to swap the motor.

In 92 I yanked the engine, gutted the interior, tubbed the rear for a 77 Lincoln Versaille disk brake 9" which was the perfect size for the then new 12X15 Weld VR11's using 345-35-15 tires which tucked neatly under it, pulled a complete air bag front sub-frame from a MarkVII which directly bolted right up to my original framework, under the engine I cut a hole into the frame and installed a 2"X8" rubber boat trailer wheel into it on a bearinged shaft. This rolls across the road when I se something rather than eating away at my frame. Intentions are to use the rear bags as well but now days a 1000 companys make air suspensions when NONE were made in 92 when I began this bag idea. My intentions were to put a 514" big block into it and purchased everything I needed for the engine at that time except the shorty headers(no longer available), rod's and pistons all of which sits dusty(not rusty) on my shelves right now.

THEN in 93 I went through a messy divorce, re-married the wrong woman and went through absolute hell on earth for 7 years while my project sat on jack stands. I lost interest in it over the last 7 years and just recently decided it was time to get off my arse and build that dream car I always envisioned. Bought my son a 87 Turbo Coupe 3 years ago with 78,000 on it parked in the yard ever since and now that he's about to get his licence and upon pulling out the car to get it ready for him I decided it's too nice of a car to give to that 16 year old so kept it for myself which has brought me to these forums hunting horsepower tips and the decision to get the old Blackbird back on the road with a now decided 557" stroker in it. I've got several engines to choose from sitting in the shop so I'm still kinda debating the one to build, 351 2BL Cleveland, a 69 4BL 429, a 70 4BL 460.

As time goes along I'll be updating my progress here as well as getting tip's and idea's from you guy's. I barely scratched the surface of all thats been done to that car but said enough. :-)

Sorry for being so long winded on my first post but just wanted to tell the tale. This is an Awesome Forum you have here and I hope to become a regular as everyone seems to know what their talking about.

Mike E.

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Reply #59 – July 14, 2007, 03:48:43 PM

very cool! thanks for the history about your car. i like to see the cars like yours that were modded in the 80's early 90's and then stored. way better than retro themed cars built now.

we have another car with similar history on here. pics of it also show that its mods were done in the 80's rather than now. Red Spar is his name on here.

glad you found us and good luck gettin your car back on the road!