My 87 LX

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Reply #300 – March 11, 2013, 02:30:50 PM

Gave her about a gallon of gas and a full charge a little while ago, pumped the gas once and she fired right up. sat and idled for a good 20 minutes, its good to hear the old girl run. aside from only one of my ponies holding air I swapped one atleast. One needs a new valve stem, and I need 2 new tires and 3 new valve stems and I should be good to go on the ponies.

Aside from that, no really big updates unfortunatly.

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Reply #301 – March 22, 2013, 03:05:02 PM

Small update, not a very significant one but still an update none the less. My buddy wanted his slicks and skinnies back, no biggy. This is what she's sporting for the time being. and also a start to another hood project that Im going to try out.

The hood came off my buddies new fox, its a train wreck on the underside but the scoop and most of the upper half is salvageable, the guy must have molded two fiberglass hoods together cause the under side is ugly. SVO style scoop plus a cowl for free and I have a junkish TC hood here that could use some sprucing up hopefully I get THIS one centered correctly, unlike the last one.

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Reply #302 – April 03, 2013, 02:10:04 PM

Cut out the good stuff. Its still up in the air

Whatcha think?

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Reply #303 – April 03, 2013, 04:12:02 PM

You should definetly get a shaker from a 03-04 Mach 1 and put on there! Talk about doing something really cool!
And also with the shaker beef up the hood abit, maybe using the one you mocked up now to make it "bigger". Just like they did on the 03-04 Mach 1. They beefed up the hood and also gave it the shaker which gave it a really aggressive look!

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Reply #304 – April 03, 2013, 06:02:10 PM

I got the hood that scoop came off of for free I'm pretty sure I'm going to stay with the short boss scoop I have I was just looking at all the options lol

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Reply #305 – April 03, 2013, 07:45:11 PM

is that hood section steel? or is it fiberglass?

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Reply #306 – April 04, 2013, 12:45:29 AM

Glass

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Reply #307 – April 04, 2013, 01:15:31 AM

Yeah, the short boss scoop looks better. But I definetly think you should consider a Mach 1 shaker

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Reply #308 – April 04, 2013, 09:41:55 AM

I like it. A little short but it's workable. I might just have make a short detour to check that out

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Reply #309 – April 04, 2013, 04:54:48 PM

I think Im going to stick with the short boss, If you want it come get it buddy! might need it to keep that 4.6 of yours happy under the hood

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Reply #310 – April 16, 2013, 10:14:49 PM

Trim that bad boy up a bit on the sides to give it an easy edge to glass it on with, and it should be a pretty easy project. Flip it, cut out the framework and the skin where the new piece is and form the framework to fit the new and should be ready to roll.

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Reply #311 – April 16, 2013, 10:29:05 PM

If you add a hood scoop you should make it functional. Then it has a purpose

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Reply #312 – April 17, 2013, 03:48:12 AM

Nate, I got to looking at it sitting on the car, its not really fitting with the look I'm going for. 1badbird is going to make a trip this way to check my bird out one of these weekends and I'm going to sneak it into his truck while he's not looking XD. It would be easy enough to do but it doesn't go with the "streamline-nostalgia" look I'm going for. Plus it will give is DOHC 4.6 a little more breathing room.

And Lou, my car isn't done yet give me some time, lol. Body work is the I'm broke and need somthing to tinker with portion of the progress with the old girl. Hopefully this summer I will be able to roll her out as a calico and just rock it. Need to get a little bit of drive time under her belt before I go making her all pretty. Don't want to bring out a good looking car with over 7k invested and not be able to get out of its own way

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Reply #313 – April 19, 2013, 10:08:27 AM

Quote from: 87thunderbirdBlackJack;413412

1badbird is going to make a trip this way to check my bird out one of these weekends and I'm going to sneak it into his truck while he's not looking :D. It would be easy enough to do but it doesn't go with the "streamline-nostalgia" look I'm going for. Plus it will give is DOHC 4.6 a little more breathing room.

LOL!! I'll be driving my boss's Taurus

but it'll fit in the trunk :hick:

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Reply #314 – April 19, 2013, 12:29:39 PM

Quote from: 87thunderbirdBlackJack;413412

And Lou, my car isn't done yet give me some time, lol. Body work is the I'm broke and need somthing to tinker with portion of the progress with the old girl. Hopefully this summer I will be able to roll her out as a calico and just rock it. Need to get a little bit of drive time under her belt before I go making her all pretty. Don't want to bring out a good looking car with over 7k invested and not be able to get out of its own way

I hear ya. I just think it would be cool to have functioning ram air :).