Anyone remember the SCd 3.8 in the 87-88 tbirds?

HwyStar

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I saw these when i was 18 changing oil at a Jiffy Lube i worked at. I changed the oil in two different cars like this. One of them lived in base housing on Randolph AFB. I looked like a m90 mounted directly to a lower manifold, and it was factory. Done like GM did with their cars. Anyone else remember these?
 
I've seen pictures of some '88 Fox Chassis cars with the 3.8 SC in them, but never was a production model.

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id love to have one of the 87-88tc`s with a 3.8 blower motor i love that body style and have 2 turbocoupes in my garage now along with my 3 supercoupes
 
I saw these when i was 18 changing oil at a Jiffy Lube i worked at. I changed the oil in two different cars like this. One of them lived in base housing on Randolph AFB. I looked like a m90 mounted directly to a lower manifold, and it was factory. Done like GM did with their cars. Anyone else remember these?

What year would that have been? The reason I ask is that there weren't any M90s on the street before 1989. I think the M62 showed up in the GM cars in 1992 (Bonneville SSEi) and then the M90 showed up in 1996 in the Bonneville and 1997 in the Grand Prix.

I am trying to puzzle out if it could have been an aftermarket kit, or if it was pre-production work. I remember that Kenny Brown once made a kit to put an M90 on a Windstar engine. Looks like it used a 1994-1995 Thunderbird blower. But that was in the late 1990s.
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they were built as testers for the 3.8 sc engine while they wer efinishing up the mn12 chassis if i remember correct. its covered someplace on the site here or on tccoa,
 
At least I know Im not crazy, other people have seen them. I kind of figured it was something like that. Sort of like the TASCA Mark8 with the roots SC on it. I figured that was a pretester for the 03-04 Cobra,
 
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