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SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 check this out

October 09, 2007, 01:39:55 PM

Ok man I know your gana dig this as much as I did. I went to the Goodguys car show at the Texas motor speedway with my dad. As we where walking through the first section of cars I spotted something familiar, in something not so familiar. Any way this is what I saw. Motor is from a turbo cougar, stock running 10psi. I told him a few things to do to get more hp out of it. Heck, I knew more about his setup than he did!

SLEEPER T-BIRD 87 check this out

Reply #1 – October 09, 2007, 01:57:15 PM

That's BAMF'd!

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Reply #2 – October 09, 2007, 02:35:35 PM

Thats Awesome!!!

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Reply #3 – October 09, 2007, 02:39:30 PM

Hell, he'd been better off keeping the thing EFI.

What an over-complicated mess.

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Reply #4 – October 09, 2007, 03:03:25 PM

there's an old yellow t bucket here in kansas city that's got a 2.3 turbo. i've got pictures on my laptop at home. i'll post them when i get off. the motor is bone stock and it's nowhere near as pretty as that one, but still cool as hell.

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Reply #5 – October 09, 2007, 03:20:07 PM

ya chuck, the guy does'nt know what he's doing. Hell he's still got the A4ld! I asked him how much boost he was running, and all he could say was "I dono?"

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Reply #6 – October 09, 2007, 03:41:21 PM

I can appreciate that a lot of work went into that car, but I don't like it. Don't like the paint scheme, don't like the nose cone, don't like the windshield (looks like it doesn't even belong on that car, almost like he borrowed it from a buddy to make the car legal or something) and don't really like that engine setup. The intake manifold looks cool, but it'd look a helluva lot better with a throttle body hung on the end of it and a set of fuel injector bungs at the ports. Everything between the exhaust manifold and intake manifold (IE Turbo and Carb) looks tacked on, and in the case of the carb sitting way out where it could take out a mailbox if the driver weren't paying attention, it doesn't look tacked on very well.

I'm all for doing things differently, but it's at least gotta look good. That car, in my eyes, does not look good.

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Reply #7 – October 09, 2007, 04:15:52 PM

Quote from: Chuck W;181667

Hell, he'd been better off keeping the thing EFI.

What an over-complicated mess.

I was thinking the same thing.
Neat as all hell though

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Reply #8 – October 09, 2007, 04:17:30 PM

If the guy has no-clue someone probably did it for him. I like it w/the carb up in the air like that its Roddy.

Is this page given anyone else a problem I freezes up now and then only this page. 2nd X I’m here

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Reply #9 – October 09, 2007, 05:33:44 PM

I like the Esslinger wide belt setup, using a stock belt...

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Reply #10 – October 09, 2007, 07:01:17 PM

draw-through carb setups look like shiznit

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Reply #11 – October 09, 2007, 07:46:45 PM

Just my opinion looks too throwed together and no attention to detail.
Giant wart covering steering box is worse distraction than the box itself would be.
Brake lines, those giant loops are just flappin in the wind. Could have been run along frame rail and along axle tube.
All those vacuum lines are way to long get rid of those loops.
The throttle cable needs something different, and neaten up those plugs wires. Agreed the windshield just aint right cut the height down about half. something about those headlights are way to big for that size car. Try something different for turn signals get them off the headlights. I have always liked the track roadsters this just doesn't do it for me. I like the general idea used but the guy just didn't put enough thought in to the style and details.

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Reply #12 – October 09, 2007, 09:05:32 PM

i like it

im fixing to get ready to order me a body i think

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Reply #13 – October 09, 2007, 09:08:46 PM

I'm basically in agreement with what the others said... Shiny but sort of cobbled together... If the intake had of been lower without the sewer coupling, it would look much better...

Did anyone notice the automatic dipstick??? Third pix...

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Reply #14 – October 09, 2007, 09:45:47 PM

Anybody who would build a custom rod with a turbo 4-banger and keep an A4LD behind it has some issues. I think it's hilarious how he kept the stock oil separator setup (albeit with added chrome and paint).

I admire the detail work and creativity. I don't admire the mechanical design.

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If the intake had of been lower without the sewer coupling, it would look much better...

That's actually the throttle body coupler from the stock charge tube setup. He used a lot of the original parts, it would seem.