My '86 T-Bird

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My '86 T-Bird

February 06, 2005, 10:52:29 PM

This is my '86 Base T-Bird, it has a stock 5.0L with some minor bolt ons. That includes a homemade cool air intake, MSD Coil and Heddman Headers w/ Flowmaster lers. The Tranmission is an AOD 4-speed out of a '89 Mustang, it also has a PA Valve Body. It also has an 8.8 limited slip axle with 2.73 gears, which is rare I think on a 9" rear drum car, thats how I bought it. I has currenty 155,000 miles on it and still runs pretty strong. Not the best paint job but its Bright Blue w/ the black strip on the hood, when I first got the car it looked like that except it was primered and it kinda grew on me. I plan on doing some more stuff to the car. I am sorting the suspension right now but I will eventually drop a Explorer 5.0L V8 in the car for the HO conversion. Get a built AOD for the car and do some other thing to it. Here are some pictures of what it looks like.

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Reply #1 – February 06, 2005, 11:35:34 PM

i kinda like that paint scheme. what type of suspension work do you plan on doing to it???

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Reply #2 – February 07, 2005, 12:06:51 AM

Car looks really good, you might wanna drop that metal intake pipe as it might defeat the purpose of the cold air intak. Try some plastic drainage pipe, as it will keep the intake charge cooler & denser. :)

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Reply #3 – February 07, 2005, 03:18:08 AM

love the black on blue, and what you did to the hood/grill

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Reply #4 – February 07, 2005, 05:04:50 AM

I like the guages in the ash tray....

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Reply #5 – February 07, 2005, 09:21:53 PM

Quote from: darkthunder

i kinda like that paint scheme. what type of suspension work do you plan on doing to it???

Just Spring and Caster/Camber Plates right now, but I plan on installing some Koni adjustable shocks ad tighting up the suspension with poly bushings and new ball joints and tie rods. I will eventually install rear control arms too. It turns really well, I installed a quick ratio steering rack in the car and that helped the turn in alot.
but that mostly what I am going to do with the suspension.

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Reply #6 – February 26, 2005, 07:13:44 AM

Here are some pics of cone navigation :D after the mods

I have more but I was afraid it would take up to much space!

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Reply #7 – February 26, 2005, 03:30:34 PM

Are those pony rims without the center caps?

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Reply #8 – February 26, 2005, 07:17:42 PM

Yeah! when you run a autocross they want you to remove anything in and out of the car that isn't bolted down! Thous the missing centercaps!

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Reply #9 – February 27, 2005, 01:55:10 AM

Thats a sweet t-bird please load up some more pictures thanks.

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Reply #10 – February 27, 2005, 06:04:02 PM

XD that's really cool. i like the black pony wheels. how much did the suspension mods help?

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Reply #11 – March 04, 2005, 12:05:17 AM

Helped a good bit, before the car going into a corner the nose would almost hit the ground and one of the rear wheels would come off the ground. But I still need some other stuff, stiffer shocks, bigger sway bars and race tires.

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Reply #12 – March 14, 2005, 07:09:49 PM

More pics with Louisiana's famous Lake Pontchatrain in the backround :D

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Reply #13 – March 14, 2005, 07:45:39 PM

that car looks VERY good, i really like the pics on the course

what springs did you end up going with?

also...paint those wheels weights black

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Reply #14 – March 14, 2005, 09:29:48 PM

that is one sweet Bird!! i love the stance!! :D

Frank M.