Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan October 19, 2005, 07:43:11 PM Found something neat looking around on Pro-Touring.com...http://www.pro-touring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9154QuoteI am now beginning to collect parts for my '82 Cougar sedan. Within the next two weeks, I should receive the '90 Mustang 5.0 rack-and-pinion and the '95 Mustang FLCAs of which I won on eBay. I am contemplating bidding for a power brake booster from a '95 Mustang Cobra for the planned Baer braking system.As soon as I get a good digital camera, I will download some pics of my beloved (?) machine.I am building it to go 1) compete in Car Craft's Real Street Eliminator competition and 2) take it on the Hot Rod Power Tour.Not too long of a thread yet but to find an 82' Cougar at all is pretty impressive, let alone a track car. A few pics I grabbed from google to put things into perspective, looks much nice than a t-bird from 82'. Another neat page I found looking for pics; 80'-82' cougar registry.http://www.gmv-registry.com/generic16.html Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #1 – October 19, 2005, 08:56:07 PM I dunno why you'd wanna build those, I guess it would definitely be different Didn't some of those late 70's-early 80's Cougars and Thunderbirds come with 460's from the factory though? Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #2 – October 19, 2005, 08:59:12 PM I'd consider building one.. but I'd rather build a Fairmont or Zephyr. Not sure that I'd want to take a box-Cougar and strip it down to the F/Z weight.Hmmm.. 2,500 posts. I spend too much time here. :p Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #3 – October 19, 2005, 11:12:28 PM Quote from: Red_LXI dunno why you'd wanna build those, I guess it would definitely be different Didn't some of those late 70's-early 80's Cougars and Thunderbirds come with 460's from the factory though?Maybe the ones from the 70's did...but in '80 they became Fox-chassied cars, and got nothing bigger than a 302 from the factory. My 80 XR-7 (which shares the longer 108" w/b with the Tbird of that vintage while the rest do not) is going to get something similar.... Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #4 – October 19, 2005, 11:22:48 PM Wow,you don't see those anymore.....at all.Where did they all go? Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #5 – October 19, 2005, 11:30:12 PM So even the big boxy ones up to '82 were Fox chassis? I thought they weren't. Weird.I'm probably thinking of the older ones that still had leaf springs in the back, then. Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #6 – October 20, 2005, 03:21:24 AM They wern't really bigger in 82. Just squarer. Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #7 – October 20, 2005, 08:21:47 AM Quote from: CougarSEThey wern't really bigger in 82. Just squarer.Oh, they were bigger.....and extra 3-4" w/b bigger....and longer.....so yeah, bigger :hick: Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #8 – October 20, 2005, 08:50:12 AM QuoteOh, they were bigger.....and extra 3-4" w/b bigger....and longer.....so yeah, bigger See? Size DOES matter.....:D Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #9 – October 20, 2005, 09:02:54 AM QuoteWow,you don't see those anymore.....at all.Where did they all go?Far, Far away hopefully. I admire the idea of doing something different but are those cars ugly. Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #10 – October 20, 2005, 09:15:02 AM Quote from: Bird351I'd consider building one.. but I'd rather build a Fairmont or Zephyr. Not sure that I'd want to take a box-Cougar and strip it down to the F/Z weight.Hmmm.. 2,500 posts. I spend too much time here. :pWell the F/Z's are light (taco-shell-like even), but the boxy 'Birds/XR-7's really aren't that heavy if you avoid a plush disco-cruiser. They were about 3100-3200# IIRC ....even with the 302/auto. I'd have to check my info. They aren't heavier than an 87-88. Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #11 – October 20, 2005, 12:15:54 PM Looking at the thread, he's actually working on a non-XR-7 82 Cougar, which is on the F/Z platform, (105" w/b) instead of the 108" TBird/XR-7 one. So the car is basically a tarted up Fairmont really.Mine is the boat like what nitro posted pics of... Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #12 – October 20, 2005, 12:45:30 PM Quote from: 50tbrd88Far, Far away hopefully. I admire the idea of doing something different but are those cars ugly.I can just pic a little ole silver haired lady driving one of those! Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #13 – October 20, 2005, 01:34:20 PM Chuck,Are you saying that the non-XR7 '80/'82 2-dr Cougars have a shorter wheelbase than the XR7's? I thought the XR7 was just dolled up a little more. Or, the better question is, were all '80/'82 2-dr's called XR7's, and all other Cougars had 4 doors? Maybe you were talking about the 4-dr's. I apologize, I didn't look at the links. I actually like them, too. My parents had an '81 T-bird Town Landau, which was very dolled up and had the wimpy 255.Somebody asked about 460's in the late '70's Birds/Cougars. I believe '76 was the last year for a 460 in those cars. From there on, they got 302's, 351W's, 351C/M's, or 400's, all 2 bbl carbs. My '77 XR7 had the 351W. I remember wishing mine had the 400, even though I probably would have been no better off from what I've heard of them.Chuck's right, from '80 on, the biggest thing you could get in a Cougar was a 302, and even one year I think they substituted the smaller 255 for the 302's ('81 maybe, like the Bird I mentioned earlier).Fordman3 Quote Selected
Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan Reply #14 – October 20, 2005, 01:53:16 PM IIRC, in 1980 there was only the XR7 model, which was identical to the Thunderbrick, with the 108" wheelbase. Then in 1981, Ford rebadged the Fairmont (105" wheelbase) as the Cougar GS, in 2-door and 4-door versions, but they kept the XR7 as a separate model. Same for 1982, except for the addition of the station wagon, again on the Fairmont platform. So there was an XR7 in 1980, 1981 and 1982. There was a Fairmont-based car in 1981 and 1982 only.Odd doesn't even begin to explain what Ford did. Quote Selected
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