rear end swap ?

November 14, 2006, 03:29:53 PM

i own a 88 sport with drum brakes. i bought a 8.8 out of a turbo coupe. what will i need to bolt it on. thanks

rear end swap ?

Reply #1 – November 14, 2006, 09:42:06 PM

It will bolt on using the factory upper/lower control arms, shocks, and springs. However, if you have it out, you may want to consider CHE tubular uppers/lowers depending on what you are going to do with it (it being the car). They (CHE's) are very nice pieces. Then it is just a matter of hooking it all back up. I can not really tell you how the brake lines are really supposed to go as I busted one during the swap in my 83TC and had to double flair it. I think there is some sort of junction back there the line will just bolt into. I also installed an Mustang SVO master cylinder on b/ of the addition of disks in the rear. I thin that a Crown Vic MC can be used as well. Use the search function and see the stickys at the top of this section for research use. It is not a hard swap. HTH

Frank M.

rear end swap ?

Reply #2 – November 15, 2006, 07:19:26 AM

http://www.coolcats.net/tech/advanced/tcaxle.html

plan on doing it to soon heres a relly good write-up thanks to ERICSCOOLCATS.