My '88 Sport Reply #15 – February 18, 2014, 11:31:33 AM I love the look! Im thinking about plastidipping my grill black to see how I like it on my 88. Btw, I'm one of the Instagram Thunderbird guys. Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #16 – February 19, 2014, 04:20:04 PM Quote from: GDawg148;429080I love the look! Im thinking about plastidipping my grill black to see how I like it on my 88. Btw, I'm one of the Instagram Thunderbird guys.Hey! Haha,Yeah, I dipped the grill and all the trim and I love it. Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #17 – February 19, 2014, 04:23:15 PM After a long evening of wrenching the 8.8 is in!A few notes:-The way the brakes are plumbed from the body is different than on the '92 Stang I got the rear end from. But luckily with some finesse I was able to use the brake lines from the 7.5 rear on the 8.8 which made the plumbing for the Bird's 10" sport brakes way easier.-The quad shock mounts on the 8.8 rear have a welded on nut that a bolt threads into while the 7.5 quad shock rear uses a regular nut with a carriage bolt and a retaining clip.All in all it was very successful! Pictures to follow! Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #20 – February 23, 2014, 01:11:54 PM I have a 8.8 in mine. I also started dipping my grill today. I'm thinking about doing my hood scoops as well. Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #21 – February 23, 2014, 01:14:51 PM Are the Eibach Sportline springs you have on your Bird from an sn95 mustang? Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #22 – February 23, 2014, 05:48:02 PM Saw that comment on Instagram. Yeah they are. I don't like the rear but the front fits perfectly. No rubbing anywhere I just think the rear is too low. Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #23 – February 23, 2014, 06:00:54 PM Where are those pics at? Also, glad you got the 8.8 in. I'm looking to replace mine with another TC piece with the disc brake pieces in tack. Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #24 – February 23, 2014, 08:06:03 PM Here's the best picture I've gotten so far with it. Haven't had too much time.As you can see, there is a noticeable difference in the rear width.I had thought about going with a SN95 rear end with 5-lug and disc brakes but I didn't feel like adding the proportioning valve and having to buy new wheels because I have 3 sets in 4x108It all worked out way cheaper this way and I'm very happy with the results.The 3.27s pull beautifully without over revving the engine and I am very happy to have my locker back. Glorious burnouts! Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #25 – February 23, 2014, 08:49:45 PM Get some wheel spacers and call it a day Slammed birds FTW !! Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #26 – February 23, 2014, 10:14:41 PM Pop in some Tbird/Cougar axles, the matching brake setup, and forget the spacers. (little more work, but also, a little safer. I just don't care for spacers...too much shiznit to break or come loose, especially with the chinese junk nowadays) Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #27 – February 23, 2014, 10:24:19 PM I've had my fair share of experience with spacers and never once had an issue. I am also opened up to some different possibilities for wheels this way as well.Also, what I read and heard from other people is that I couldn't run the other axles because it wouldn't allow the brakes to line up properly. Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #28 – February 23, 2014, 10:31:08 PM If you swap to the proper length Tbird/Cougar axles, it stands to reason that you can alsu use the Tbird/Cougar brakes as well, and negate that lining up issue Don't get me wrong, I'm not picking on you, I'm just suggesting that you CAN use the proper length axles AND the required brake parts to attain the correct width, rather easily, in fact. And, the best part of all, the axles that I mentioned are also still 4 lug. :)If I'd have known this a couple years ago, I would have saved a set or two of axles from my 7.5 '88 Bird I sped, for a future big drum, 4 lug car to run turbines on. Oh well...Btw, I posted some measurememnts in Vinnie's destruction thread, if you want to compare lengths of the axles and stuff.Edit; do you still have your 7.5 from your Sport? Swap your axles, ALL brake components into the Stang 8.8, and there's your big drum, 4 lug 8.8 rear, that's also the proper width. Quote Selected
My '88 Sport Reply #29 – February 23, 2014, 10:38:10 PM They don't just swap over though... I mean I had both the 7.5 and 8.8 out of the car and disassembled and when I swapped the 7.5 Tbird axles into the 8.8 rear they wouldn't allow for proper fitment of the brakes. They didn't allow the drums to sit as close to the backing plates as they were supposed to.Thats why I had to run the Mustang axles. Believe me, if I could've run the Bird axles I would have because I didn't want to replace the 2 bent studs on the Mustang ones. Quote Selected
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