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Converter has arrived!





Im ready to get this party started! This is a 9.5" Dirty Dog( i guess he doesnt paint them all seafoam green). We discussed my combo, but we never put a "stall number" on paper, talked about 3k. My aod is being built by a guy here in Houston that has a great rep. He's an engineer by day, gearhead at night. Had the parts to do a nice build, so he figured he'd build it and make some cash to fund another project of his.

Also bought a 300m input shaft. Its lockup, so its still the tiny inner shaft, but it was cheap, and cant hurt.
87 Thunderbird LX
65mm tb, exploder intake, iron gt40 heads, 1.6 rr, a9l mass air swap, 9.5" Billet Dirty Dog TC, Built AOD, 4.10's, 31 spline TLoc, Superior Axles, full sn95 five lug swap.

Converter has arrived!

Reply #1 –
Pretty
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]:ford:87 Turbo Coupe through the floor sub frame connectors, 5.8 swap Ford racing heads Harland sharp 1.6 rockers BBK shorty swap headers 2 1/2 BBk X pipe magnaflow ler's. Megasquirt 2 with 36lbs injectors on hurricane intake with 4150 throttle body.Tremec TKO 600 Quicktime blowsheild spec stage 3 clutch. 3.73 gears and still not done

Converter has arrived!

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i will gladly pay the shipping to florida, if you don't like the color.LOL
1986 T-bird
347 stroker motor
185 AFR Heads
TrickFlow cam 224/232-542/563
Victor Jr. intake CNC ported
Quickfuel Holley 800 cfm
Hooker 1-3/4 long tubes
Custom built AOD
B&M 3000 stall
8.8 w/4.30 gears
UPR K-member,A-Arms,and coil-overs
UPR upper/lower control arms
Strange shocks/struts
26x10x15 M/T slicks
11.48@119.27
(coming soon Tremec 3550)
The Finished Product
http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/03grinnie/T-bird/

Converter has arrived!

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Quote from: 347Thunder;363370
i will gladly pay the shipping to florida, if you don't like the color.LOL

 
Cool, converter is free, $625 shipping, Ill fwd paypal info in a minute, kthxbye!

heh. I could care less, just expected to see it when I opened the box. Hey, one company uses purple so you know its one of theirs.
87 Thunderbird LX
65mm tb, exploder intake, iron gt40 heads, 1.6 rr, a9l mass air swap, 9.5" Billet Dirty Dog TC, Built AOD, 4.10's, 31 spline TLoc, Superior Axles, full sn95 five lug swap.

Converter has arrived!

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you did good always go for the gusto, I coochd out with the B&M 3000 that stalls at 2400.....Boo hoo!!!!
1986 T-bird
347 stroker motor
185 AFR Heads
TrickFlow cam 224/232-542/563
Victor Jr. intake CNC ported
Quickfuel Holley 800 cfm
Hooker 1-3/4 long tubes
Custom built AOD
B&M 3000 stall
8.8 w/4.30 gears
UPR K-member,A-Arms,and coil-overs
UPR upper/lower control arms
Strange shocks/struts
26x10x15 M/T slicks
11.48@119.27
(coming soon Tremec 3550)
The Finished Product
http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/03grinnie/T-bird/

Converter has arrived!

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Quote from: mtgmike;363374

heh. I could care less, just expected to see it when I opened the box. Hey, one company uses purple so you know its one of theirs.

 
You mean like the purple/pink Precision Industries converter I have? I've got one of their 9.5" billet 2800 non-lock-up converters in my car and I love it.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.
 

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Reply #6 –
Very nice!
Hope you can post up the results soon!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]88 t-bird: 5.0ho, gt40y, crane 2031, fms 1.7, paxton@5#, aod wide ratio, tci stall, performer rpm upper, 70mm bbk, pro m 60, 42#s, 3.73 7.5" posi, jba shorties, borla, upr x. 13.4 @ 104mph. cbaza, moates, tuned by decipha

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Drove the car in and dropped it off at my mechanics Monday, and just dropped off the converter, input shaft, trans, speedo gear, and rear main just now. I put the engine in by myself, and that was enough to let me sit this one out. I have a baby due in October, and this thing needs to be road ready by then, or it'll rot.

Picked up the speedo gear at Tommie Vaughn Ford during lunch just now. I actually worked there one summer in college, but that was a decade plus ago, so no one remembered me, not that I said anything. Tommie vaughn is a HUGE FMS dealer, and they carry almost anything you could/would want. Its nice having a place like that in town.

/cool story bro

Better update hopefully late this week.
87 Thunderbird LX
65mm tb, exploder intake, iron gt40 heads, 1.6 rr, a9l mass air swap, 9.5" Billet Dirty Dog TC, Built AOD, 4.10's, 31 spline TLoc, Superior Axles, full sn95 five lug swap.

Converter has arrived!

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It might get done today. Im so excited. I got a trans temp gauge i want to put in the bottom section of the center console. I bought a couple small sheets of plexi at Lowes. Thinking fit the plexi to the console opening, paint the back side black, mount trans temp, oil pressure, and water temp there. Thinking extending the cig light/cell charger to inside the console storage.

The guy who did my trans tig'd in two 1/8" npt plugs in teh pan, one for the temp probe, one for a drain.
87 Thunderbird LX
65mm tb, exploder intake, iron gt40 heads, 1.6 rr, a9l mass air swap, 9.5" Billet Dirty Dog TC, Built AOD, 4.10's, 31 spline TLoc, Superior Axles, full sn95 five lug swap.

Converter has arrived!

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Barely got a chance to drive it around the block a few times before it was time to go home. Its my first stalled auto, its a little bizarre. Ive always had t5's and a 3550.  Looking forward to driving it some more in the morning. The guy who built it put the temp probe in the right rear of the pan, kind of close to the x pipe, so I'll probably wrap the pipe to keep from heating up the probe indirectly.

If you havent read about it before, this is in a 87 bird. Almost everything was bought used, why, IDK, im cheap.

Mass air swap, a9l, 65mm exploder tb, exploder intake, iron gt40's, comp xe266hr, 9.5"converter, Neighbor's Aod, 3.55, Full sn95 brakes front and rear.

87 Thunderbird LX
65mm tb, exploder intake, iron gt40 heads, 1.6 rr, a9l mass air swap, 9.5" Billet Dirty Dog TC, Built AOD, 4.10's, 31 spline TLoc, Superior Axles, full sn95 five lug swap.

Converter has arrived!

Reply #10 –
Looking real nice. Should be a nice driving machine. Good job!

Converter has arrived!

Reply #11 –
High stall converters tend to feel a little weird untill you get the engine close to the converters stall speed.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

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Quote from: mtgmike;365910


Barely got a chance to drive it around the block a few times before it was time to go home. Its my first stalled auto, its a little bizarre. Ive always had t5's and a 3550.  Looking forward to driving it some more in the morning. The guy who built it put the temp probe in the right rear of the pan, kind of close to the x pipe, so I'll probably wrap the pipe to keep from heating up the probe indirectly.

If you havent read about it before, this is in a 87 bird. Almost everything was bought used, why, IDK, im cheap.

Mass air swap, a9l, 65mm exploder tb, exploder intake, iron gt40's, comp xe266hr, 9.5"converter, Neighbor's Aod, 3.55, Full sn95 brakes front and rear.



That's a real nice combo you have there and should put up some very solid numbers. Great selection of parts and a clean install.
  :burnout:
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]88 t-bird: 5.0ho, gt40y, crane 2031, fms 1.7, paxton@5#, aod wide ratio, tci stall, performer rpm upper, 70mm bbk, pro m 60, 42#s, 3.73 7.5" posi, jba shorties, borla, upr x. 13.4 @ 104mph. cbaza, moates, tuned by decipha