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Now this car will have about 500 whp because thats what the Capri is now with the turbo

NICE 88 BTW man, Ill have to read all that later on. Good work. How does she hook?

YOU,....you sir are the main reason I HAD to find this car! lol

I did a search for 88 TC on google and a few of your pics came up and I went nuts!! I will be painting my car the silver but will be putting Pro Stars on them only because thats what I currently have now. I had a friend Pete back in LI where I grew up and he had the same car and I LOVED that bad boy. All the colors look good but I love the silver the most.

Now this car will have about 500 whp because thats what the Capri is now with the turbo, Im just wondering if those control arms will work well with that kinda HP, Ill call them and ask I suppose.

Thanks and your car is awesome!!

Awesome Capri.

I've read on other forums that you can get an aluminum driveshaft from an Aerostar and have it shortened. I hope that helps, for what it's worth.

Careful - that is well into block splitting territory on the stock blocks...I personally wouldn't feel comfortable at WOT past 400rwhp over 5k rpm's without moving up to a A4/R302/BOSS/DART/World/Aluminum block. I'm paranoid like that :p

With the HO conversion and few mods I have it won't spin the 245/45/17's unless you get REALLY nasty with it.  The control arms work great...only complaint is that they do make the ride worse and seem to make more noises (pops, etc).:burnout:

I didnt know my car had such an impact...  now your making me want to make the wife drive the cougar so I can get it back to looking good

Nice capri, and nice powerplant..... hey its cool your keeping a turbo car a turbo!!!!!

Welcome to the forum and that's a Cool Capri !

Hello guys, I am a new member of this site. I currently have a 86 Capri with a worked 302 and 76mm Precision Turbo with A/A inter cooler, blow thru set up. The car also have a full tubular front end, etc.

I just bought (or I may say rescued!) a 88 Thunderbird TC with no motor and I want to swap everything from the Capri in the TC, but I have some questions before I start this. Sorry to bombard yall with them, but I need to learn this before I start my mission

1 - The rear control arms on the TC, are they longer than whats on a Mustang/ Capri ? Ive been told yes and no!

2 - Also will my K member bolt in? Ive been told yes but the K member needs to be cut and fab'd taller?

3 - I have a built C4 trans I want to put in it, so I assume I need a longer driveshaft, do they make a Alum driveshaft for the TCs?

That's about all I can think of now. Thanks guys and girls, looking forward to learning a thing or two from yall.:D

Welcome to the board.
Question,what's wrong with the capri and why do you want to tear into such a nice rare car?????
I love TC's as much if not more than the next guy(you can tell this by my ride) but i wouldn't want to ruin a nice a capri like that.

As for your questions
1: You will need the above che rear arms(the capri's can be used but they will bring the rear wheels almost 1" closer to the front of the rear fenderwell openings and they will handle 500hp with no issues(ask me i know lol).

2:Your k member will bolt in to the front holes of the frame but the rears will have to be elongated from what i understand.

3:I have heard of people using a c4 in these cars,not sure what they used for a driveshaft but an aluminum one will definetley be a custon piece as there is no direct fit one.

As for your TC, before you start construction take a look at the key fox body rot area's,torque boxes,fuel tank mounts,floors,rad support front frame rails,in fact have a look over daminc's project evolution thread to make sure your tc platform is ok.