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Super Coupe Club of America > Members > Ed Nicholson
| | 1995 Ford Thunderbird SC - manual |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | Click on image to see larger version. |
| Owner: | Ed Nicholson of Caledon, Ontario, Canada
| | forums id: | fast Ed | | Membership Expires: | 2008-10-31 | Engine
Modifications: | Magnum Powers MP III supercharger and inlet plenum (thanks Charles!!)
custom lightweight quick-change blower pulley, 10% OD for street and strip, will be trying 5% size for open-track events
SuperCoupe Innovations 10% OD aluminium jackshaft pulley, for 20% total blower OD
MAC 3" cold air intake
C & L 76 mm MAF
Professional Products polished 75 mm thottle body
custom 3/4" raised blower top
SCT EEC chip with a separate program to run with the methanol injection, tuned by David Dalke (XR7 Dave), Super Coupes Unlimited
MSD 50 lb./hr. fuel injectors
custom front mount intercooler by Rich Thomson, modified installation by David Dalke
Snow Performance Boost Cooler methanol injection kit, with extra nozzle mounted in blower inlet plenum
ASP steel underdrive pulleys
Dayco steel tensioner pulleys
Magnum Powers tensioner springs
double core polished aluminium radiator by Mike Roberts (Mike38SC)
Motorcraft 8 mm spark plug wires and AGSF 22 C spark plugs
ported collectors on factory exhaust manifolds
2-1/2" exhaust downtubes with Magnaflow spun-metal core catalytic converters
Magnaflow dual inlet / single outlet stainless muffler used for resonator
custom-bent stainless 3" mid-section into two 2-1/2" Borla mufflers
255 Lph 'forced induction' Walbro in-tank fuel pump | Drivetrain
Modifications: | SPEC Stage 2 clutch, with McLeod aluminium flywheel, 11-inch diameter
3.55 ratio ring & pinion, 03 Cobra carbon traction-lock clutch packs | Suspension
Modifications: | Koni Sport shock absorbers
Eibach Pro-Kit 1.5" lowering springs
1989 SC 1.09" rear stabilizer bar
1999 Mustang Cobra 13" Brembo front rotors - dual piston PBR aluminium calipers / 11.65" rear rotors with relocated SC calipers, 1999 Cobra 5 on 4.5" bolt pattern hub conversion | Cosmetic
Modifications: | 1997 Thunderbird hood and headlight / corner light conversion
255-40ZR19 front, 275-35ZR19 rear, Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 tires, mounted on Motegi Racing Black Touge 19x9" and 19x10" wheels (+40 mm offset)
1989 SC tilting headrests, recovered to match the original 1995 opal grey interior | Audio
Modifications: | Kenwood AM/FM/CD player
Pioneer 5"x7" speakers in stock locations
Alpine amplifier mounted to rear package tray | | Best Time: | 13.902 at 101.020 MPH | Dyno
Numbers: | | horsepower: | 269.5 | at | 4759 RPM | | torque: | 338.6 | at | 3785 RPM |
| | Future Plans: | none -- car SOLD October 2008 | | SCCoA Member#: | 724 | | Other Club Affiliations: | Super Coupe Club of Ontario (past president)
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Events Attended: | Carlisle All-Ford Nationals 2002
Celebrity Choice as favourite SC by Bill Evanoff and Ron DiPaola of SCCoA
Carlisle All-Ford Nationals 2003
Carlisle All-Ford Nationals 2004
2nd Annual SC/XR7 Shootout, Norwalk Ohio, 2004
2nd place, Street Stock heads-up class
Carlisle All-Ford Nationals 2005
3rd Annual SC/XR7 Shootout, Noble Oklahoma, 2005
4th place, Street Stock heads-up class
Ohio / PA SCCoA mini-meet, Quaker Steak & Lube, Sharon PA, November 05
Carlisle All-Ford Nationals 2006
Ohio / PA SCCoA mini-meet, New Castle PA, July 2006
4th Annual SC/XR7 Shootout, Xenia Ohio, 2006
1st place, Street Stock heads-up class (finally!!)
Ohio / PA SCCoA karting at BeaveRun PA, April 2007
Carlisle All-Ford Nationals 2007
Ohio / PA SCCoA mini-meet, New Castle PA, July 2007
5th Annual SC/XR7 Shootout, Xenia Ohio, 2007
DNS, Super Stock heads-up class (clutch issue)
Ohio / PA SCCoA mini-meet, New Castle PA, July 2008
6th Annual SC/XR7 Shootout, Xenia Ohio, Sept 2008
as spectator and staging lane helper only | | Misc: | Using M/T E-T Streets, 26X11.50-17LT, on 9" wheels on the rear for the dragstrip.
Also used for open-track lapping and instructing ... not as quick around the track as my old 5.0 Mustang race car, but still entertaining. ;-) Flogged at Watkins Glen in New York (120 mph on the back straight !!), and Mosport Park (on the big track, and smaller Driver Development Track), Toronto Motorsports Park (Cayuga), Dunnville Autodrome, Shannonville Motorsport Park, and the brand new 3 mile long, 17 turn track near Ottawa, Calabogie Motorsports. Formerly on 255-50-16 Hoosier road-race radials mounted on Mark VIII wheels, and then on 275-40-17 Hoosier DOT road-race radials mounted to 2003 Cobra 17x9 wheels that have been machined to +30 offset, shown in action in pics #3 and 4 above.
Pic # 5 shows the car as it was from 1998 - 2001, with 255-45ZR17 tires on ROH ZR 17x8.5" wheels. This was with the Lincoln Mark VIII 11.6" front brake conversion, car was still daily driven year round at that time, with 225-60HR16 Bridgestone winter tires on the stock SC wheels from December to April.
A large part of the work performed on this car has been done by, or with the assistance of, the technicians at Fines Ford Lincoln Sales, the dealership where I look after the parts department ... located just outside Toronto. This car would be still be pretty much stock (or broken) if it wasn't for their help !!
A big thanks to Dave Dalke for his work in April 2007 on the car, including the FMIC and Snow methanol installation, along with the retune with 2 programs. The poor car has over 140,000 miles on it now, and has never had the valve covers off ... we'll see how it does against 19.5 psi. LOL
Thank you to Charles Warner from Magnum Powers, for providing an MP supercharger as a raffle prize at the SC Shootout for several years. I was lucky enought to win the MPIII at the 2006 Shootout, what a great deal for $40!!!
And of course, thanks to all of the SCCoO members who have provided their assistance with performing the modifications, and ideas for this car. We really have a great bunch of SC enthusiasts in Ontario, and all across Canada for that matter.
SCCoA site cover car, September 2002 (pic #1 above).
New dyno numbers with MPIII blower, April 2007: 273.9 rwhp at 4,800 rpm and 344.6 lbs./ft. torque on a Mustang dyno, with no cooldown beforehand.
May 5, 2007: FINALLY 13s!! -- 13.902 at 101.02 mph
October 2008 -- car SOLD to new owner in Edmonton Alberta. Thanks to all of the SCCoO and SCCoA members over the years for their help and ideas. For the forseeable future, I will be SC-less.
| | Last Updated: | 11/03/09 04:00 AM EST |
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