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88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #30 –
Quote from: vinnietbird;293597
Wow,that's one naked interior.LOL.Good work so far.


At one point my interior was completely gutted. Now I have the dash, door panels and seats back in but I have to get new carpet, headliner and rear deck carpet. The rear quarter interior trim is still gutted as well.

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #31 –
Quote from: maandy;290345
one more


I am so fortunate to have no floor pan rust.

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #32 –
Great job so far. That color looks pretty sharp. Are you planning on keeping it the same when you repaint it?
1987 Turbo Coupe - Son's car
1987 Super Coupe - Son's project car
1934 Ford - My project car

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #33 –
Thank you all!
For 1Bad88tbird : the silencer has alraedy removed I was thinking about cold air intake kit when is time to put it back. Thanks anyway

For FLSTGI71 : Thanks but I´m not going to keep that original paint. I was thinking about black pearl. 

One of my biggest fears was that floor pan rust but I think sometimes there must be something good in it too.
Plan with car is to get the body rustfree & new paint what I´m right now thinking is going to be black pearl. When it´s time to paint then we will see.
Right now I´m removing that floor isolation witch is going to be replaced by sound isolation mats.

Driver door

Reply #34 –
I took out the wiring, locks, glass & seals but unfortunately I damaged door seal. Whats with metal holds & directs window glass. Same way rear window weatherstrip what was so full of cracks and dead.

Some work and ideas waiting to be done

Reply #35 –
Today I had a little time to too something again and I pulled the steering tilt out and blower motor with heater system and tomorrow should go to shop and buy the engine stand. Then hopefully get the engine quickly out then change some gaskets and sell with AOD, wiring & ECU + headers and some stuff. Then is time to look for engine.

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #36 –
Wow,you are really going all out on that car.Nice work,I hope you get it all back together.LOL.By the way,where is Estonia?
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #37 –
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By the way,where is Estonia?


I was thinking the same thing lol
FOXLESS!!

1994 Lincoln Mark VIII

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #38 –


Shiny Side Up!
Bill
"as if 'religion' were something God invented, and not His statement to us of certain quite unalterable facts about His own nature." -C.S. Lewis

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #39 –
Holy  !!!
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #40 –
For vinnietbird: :hick::rollin: "holy " haha still laughing. Ok if you look north Estonia there is city TALLINN it´s biggest city in Estonia & I live 10 miles/16 kilometers to south of Tallinn. And if anyone of you comes in Europe of course Germany is 1000 miles from here but come to visit Estonia and call me I can show you some nice places here with no tourist prices. Anyway you got to know where is Estonia and Finland.

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #41 –
Anyway if you all took a good laugh because my country is smaller then your states but little progress with my car.

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #42 –
Not laughing at the size of the country,it's the distance,and that there's actually Fox Birds left over there.They are getting hard to find here,I can't imagine trying to find parts over there.Have you found parts cars over there?Are you changing the exhaust on the car as well?
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #43 –
I was taking it as a joke , Jep we have birds in here the mn12 we have pretty much but fox birds: about 9 and few fox cougars too. Few months back & 10 miles from me I saw somebodys front yard a dark gray 87-88 t-bird. I wrote a letters to them cause nobodys where home but nobody has answered. If i get the new engine then ofcourse shorty headers and x pipe is going to be new.

88lx 5.0 t-bird Maandy´s restoration

Reply #44 –
Any chance you have to get parts over there,even if you don't need them,you should grab them.I'm starting to do that here.Parts are getting harder and harder to find by the week.I'm glad I found a lot of my Sport's parts a few years ago and just shelved them until I needed them.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..