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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Thunderbird Sport info wanted
I had an '88 Sport several years ago.  They basically had the standard LX body, standard output 5.0, and then the Turbo Coupe style interior ... center console, floor shift, bucket seats, buttstuffog gauges.  But yeah ... if it has Turbo Coupe body parts, then they came from another vehicle.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / KMH Speedo & V8 Tach
Check this out:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Ford-Thunderbird-Turbo-Coupe-Speedometer-Metric-KMH-Cluster-Gauges-85-86-/391582230088?hash=item5b2c1ea648:g:Rn0AAOSw8w1X8qc4&vxp=mtr

I'm guessing what you are looking for is somewhat rare ... would probably need to get a KMH cluster and then find a separate V8 tach/cluster and swap the tach over.  It's not that hard once you have both out of their respective cars.

I had to do something similar.  Obtained a 140mph cluster out of a Turbo Coupe and then swapped a V8 tach into it.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Corbeau GTS II Seat Install
Getting the door interior back together after adding wiring for the courtesy lights (upgraded the door panels years ago but never had the actual lights), re-did my door speaker Dynamat, and ran new wiring for the speakers as well.  Pulled the stock leather wrapped (worn out) steering wheel ... to be replaced with an XR7 style one.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Corbeau GTS II Seat Install
One of my "while I'm at it" items is replacing my door locks and ignition switch in the car.  The car was broken into a long time ago and the person/people who broke into it punched out my passenger side lock to gain access to the car.  I replaced the lock cylinder with one out of a salvage yard, but they left me with one key for the driver's door and ignition, a different key for the passenger's door, and yet a different key for the trunk.  Just a little bit of an annoyance, but since I have the door panels off, I figured it was time to try to rectify the problem.  Did some research and found the OEM Ford kit (complete with keys) to replace these and get back to the way things used to be.  The pictures are not great, but the kit includes both door cylinders, the cylinder retainers (spring clips), ignition switch, two keys, and an ID tag for the keys.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Corbeau GTS II Seat Install
This is what happens when you decide to just keep going instead of simply installing your seats ... ha!  I've had a few "nagging" things that I have wanted to address since getting the car put back together over 10 years ago.  I've taken a little bit of the "while I'm at it" approach here ... so ... more stuff keeps coming off of the car instead of going on.  I think I'm turning a corner though ...
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / Looking for Charcoal sun visor with vanity mirror
Looking to see if anyone has a charcoal sun visor with vanity mirror.  I actually just need the vanity mirror, so it doesn't matter what side or what type of shape the sun visor itself is in.  I recently had my sun visors re-covered and they broke the plastic clip on the vanity lid hinge so I would like to replace it.  My style has the lid with fabric in the center of it and the adjustable "Hi-Low" lights.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Corbeau GTS II Seat Install
Well ... during reassembly, I made sure to work all of the rotating parts and hinges pretty good.  Some of those areas are pretty tight and there's no real good way to keep paint out of them when you are spray painting the top coat.  I added some oil and just worked the parts back and forth by hand until I was happy with how freely everything moved.  I then added some lithium grease to the the actual track beds and gears that control the different motions.  They run nice and smooth, no issues.  They definitely didn't get worse, but I'm not sure I can say that they run any better ... I think so much of that is a function of the actual electric motor.  The other "issue" I encountered (and could kick myself over now) is that I really don't have any use for the adapter brackets that are needed on the manual tracks.  The power tracks have more surface area to the inside of the stock mounting locations where they come into contact with the bottom of the seats, so I just needed to drill new holes directly in them to mount the seats.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Corbeau GTS II Seat Install
Finally ... some more small progress.  The past month has been a little rough as far as "spare" time goes, but I was able to get both seat tracks reassembled and tested this weekend.  Both successfully moved and operated correctly in all directions, so I was happy about that.  I also got the driver's side one mounted to the seat, but I have some additional interior stuff that I want to address in terms of stereo wiring, so it will still be a little while before I probably have them installed.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Corbeau GTS II Seat Install
I don't have the original OEM seats (w/ console) that were in the car.  I'm actually trying to sell the Mustang seats that you see in the earlier pictures as well as a set of blue Turbo Coupe seats that are the same basic seats ... just blue.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Corbeau GTS II Seat Install
Ha!  Yeah, it was a bit of a c getting them cleaned up, but I'm glad I did it in the end.  They cleaned up nicely.  I pulled a passenger side track out of a salvage yard car locally a few weeks ago, but the thing was pretty  beat up.  The mounting feet were really bad and I'm actually surprised the seat even moved when power was applied to it in order to be able to remove it from the car.  I ended up keeping the motor and gearbox assembly off of it and and pretty much junking the rest.  Found the guy parting out the Turbo Coupe and those tracks were a much better starting point.  My factory driver's side track was in way better shape than any of them, but the 87-88 tracks have a slightly different seat belt attachment bracket and I didn't feel like putting in mis-matched brackets (even though nobody would probably ever notice) so I just decided to use both and clean them up.