1995 Ford Thunderbird, the twins!

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Thunder95

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Well, I picked up a new car finally. Seriously this is a God sent car, been praying for it for a while now! What she is...




1995 Ford Thunderbird LX
4.6L SOHC V8
Vibrant (Performance) White Clearcoat
Medium Graphite Interior
All options besides:
Leather (I have seats anyway)
Keyless (It has an aftermarket alarm/keyless system)
Spoiler (=ghey)
T/L (Damn, but adding soon)
She's got the moon roof, auto lamps, traction control... everything down to a T of what the old bird has. Only difference in stock form was a 3.08 in the old car to a 3.27 in the new.

Mods:
JET chip
4.10's
Wheels/tires
Aftermarket alarm
Intake work
Flowmaster catback & tips
Eibach boings
Sound system
Shaved trunk lock
97 Clear corners

15.8 by previous owner.

Here's the kicker though... 33,000 original miles when i picked her up.
"NICE"
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Found her in Omaha off Craigslist, original owner papmered her... garaged and not winter driven since '97. This baby is like brand new on the inside. 1 little tear in the headliner, covered by the visors. Very nice car. I'll be using it as a DD for a while, and hopefully she'll have a garage soon.

My plans for the car:
95 SC Gfx
97 Hood (possibly custom/scooped) and headlights
GTS Solar wing
18x8 Fondmetals w/nitto summer tires
17x7.5 Miglias w/nitto winter tires
13"/11.65" Cobra brakes
3.27-3.55 TL
Remove chip
Trans cooler
Redo exhaust, dual center out MK8 tips
Work interior, using most of the old stuff, adding carbon fiber & brushed aluminum accents. Refurb the tweedies, have covers dry cleaned and convert rear seat to rear fold down. Also adding heated seats. Custom handbrake/cupholder console. Switching over the old sound system and finishing it off (w/ navi). MK8 visors w/ homelink. Blue LED's light conversion throughout, guage cluster mods TBD. Then, just ENJOY. (Turbo/vortech later)

Now, the BIG question... good old rusty. My goal is to get a welder, and a grinder, and just go to town on the rust. Strip her down, see if it's worth fixing. If so, then it's a FULL restomod. New YZ paint, chrome/suede/custom interior, 04 Cobra powerplant, hubswap... etc. Hopefully this will be done by the end of 09. Doing a lot of the work myself, maybe all? If she isn't worth it... then sell or pick n' pull.

Longest post ever. Thank you for your time.

-Joel
 
2TonCat said:
Amen :) The bracing that WE use to stop the wheelhop becomes a lot less significant at say 550hp. Lol.
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Can you say fully locking diffy? Custom braces if needed after that? Hell, I don't even know what trans I am going to use yet, guess I shouldn't trash talk too much. I have a while to figure it out though.

sinhumane said:
i'll race you in the spec-v :)
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What does this mean?

-Joel
 
Lol, Went and looked back at some old e-mails....

This is a type-o I found lol....
I will be running the 3.3 pulley. I'm not sure exactly how much PIS that will put out, but it should be somewhere near 11
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Also, its .020" over, balanced, and blueprinted. Did not know that either.
 
Lol, Ok, To be fair, I knew it at one point... I just forgot :rolleyes:

Pleasant suprise though. Would definately do business with Jim again. You should call him for your motor ;)
 
2TonCat said:
Lol, Ok, To be fair, I knew it at one point... I just forgot :rolleyes:

Pleasant suprise though. Would definately do business with Jim again. You should call him for your motor ;)
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If I go whipple I intend to. Kinda hard to justify spending that much more on him though, when I can get an 04 Cobra motor, already forged and assembled for $6-$7k including eaton. Usually with mods too, like porting, pullies, etc. It's be that much from him or more for just the long block. Oh the wonders of the dohc.:rolleyes:

-Joel
 
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