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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 1987 Thunderbird + Extras For Sale MISSOURI
The actual car is in Jefferson City Mo.  Found a junkyard that will take the car and block it up at their yard so I can take off all suspension parts I want to keep.  I have all the other parts in Saint Charles, MO (zipcode 63301), and will bring the front suspension parts up there as well when they get pulled. 

I have almost a full black interior (including very nice black carpet) I bought off a guy here to put into the car but never installed.  I don't have a dash or headliner or seats, but have a black center console and lots of very nice trim pieces, door panels, etc that I will be putting up soon.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 1987 Thunderbird + Extras For Sale MISSOURI
Car is gone...will have following parts available soon:
    Tubular K-member (bought new for $250)
    Maximum Motorsports A-Arms (SN95 length - $350)
    Summit Racing Coil Overs (bought new for $100)
    Maximum Motorsports Caster/Camber Plates (bought new for $200)
    Power steering rack&pinion from Napa - spec'd for a 1993
    Cobra mustang (bought new for $150)
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / WTB:: misc ford stuff
Hello,
I am glad I ran across your post.  I have several of the parts you are looking for:

BBK ceramic coated long tube headers for 351w swap in a fox body.  They have been installed on my 87 bird with a 351w, but I have never fired the engine up and the project is dead.  I would like $300 for these.  This is the exact one and place I bought them from:

http://www.brothersperformance.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/1_739_144/products_id/790

I also have the X-pipe from them, would like $120:

http://www.brothersperformance.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/1688 

I have a Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake for 351w that has been drilled/welded for fuel injection (I bought this way - did not do the work).  It includes the 1/2" ID fuel injection rails.  I installed it on my 351w, but again I have never ran fuel through it and have never fired it up.  I paid $300, would like $225.  I do not have a upper intake at this time - had a design in mind that would have used basically a 4150 carb spacer welded to a mandrel bent 3.5" tube that would then connect to the throttle body & MAF, etc. 

Please let me know if you're interested.
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Drivetrain Tech / Tr-3650
The problem with the T-56 transmissions is that you just cannot bolt on a different bellhousing, the front plate of the transmission isn't like a T-5.  The Gm, ford, and viper front plates are all different and meant for a specific bellhousing. 

Mcleod makes a modular bellhousing system (expensive as shiznit) that will allow you to bolt up a gm t-56 to a ford engine. 

These T-56 are not simple, trust me.  The early GM T-56 that was in the LT-1 had a very shallow space for the pressure plate and clutch because they had a backwards design:  the clutch arm pulled the fingers of the pressure plate instead of every other transmission made by man to this day:  the fork presses against the fingers to release the clutch.  This means the input shaft of this particular t-56 is shorter (and is 26 spline).  The only way I found of making this work was to make an adapter plate and use the LT-1 bellhousing, because if you tried to use anyother bellhousing, the input shaft would never be close to the engine. 

A Ls-1 T-56 would work and also the viper t-56 would work.  Or you could just buy the Tremec T-56 that has been designed with a 5.0 bell:  http://www.ddperformance.com

Aaron
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Drivetrain Tech / AOD driveshaft with T-5
Ok, I found out why it wouldn't slip in...the tailshaft seal on my brand new t5 was ripped and the spring seal was digging in when i tried to insert the shaft.  New seal piece and it went right in.

By the way, a 2" PVC coupler works great for hammering in the tailpiece seal.
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Electrical Tech / Battery relocation, 3g alt wiring
Wondering if anyone has moved their battery to the back here and how they did it.  Kinda worried that if I just run the wiring under the car that it will grind the insulation off and start a fire or anything like that bad.  Anyone ever ran the wiring inside the car?  What kind of wire did you use...looking into using 1/0 weld wire. 

Also, if you did do this, how did you end up wiring the starter solenoid, altenator?

Thanks,
aaron
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Drivetrain Tech / AOD driveshaft with T-5
Howdy,
Ran into a problem today trying to install the driveshaft behind the t-5.  I decided to just reuse the aod driveshaft from the 87 bird, but the splined part will not go more than an inch into the transmission. 

Will this driveshaft not work at all?  Everyone I remembered talking about this swap said it will.  I noticed that there is a machine notch in the splines on the inside of the "yolk" on the driveshaft and was wondering if this notch should line up with anything in particular on the t-5 tailshaft.

Thanks,
Aaron
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Drivetrain Tech / Tr-3650
It might still be possible...with some sort of 1/2 inch thick adapter plate between the bellhousing and the engine that would have the bolt holes for the tranny and the small block pattern.

I made an adapter plate for a t-56 from a firebird to a 351w pretty easily but found out the real shoot was that gm had a backassackwards clutch design.  Pull instead of push.  The only solution was an expensive hydraulic throwout bearing from mcleod which would be a pita to replace when the seals blew and would have had to install hydraulic master for this as well.  :flip: GM