well let me tell you the whole story...im 15..and i have an 88 tc 5 spd no options...i saved the car so its my project...this yea i got it running so good i decided to enter in to car shows...iv been to 2 so far this year. it is the first car show that i have ever entered a car in so im excited lol...but any way i had my friend and my brother and law with me...we were there and it was cool and i happend to park next to an svo...looked kinda cool side by side but there was this guy with the svo guy and he was in to import as is my friend...yea i know sucks but there were talking about there 2j4z..cv56644 something...idk ricer talk and he was talking to him and he has a supra that is so badly rusted its beoned repair in my opinion but he told this guy and he has a Toyota celica s...he said he wanted to race and i thought he was talking about the svo and i was like..ima have my hands full im not going to win this one and my friend looked at me and said no him and points at the the Toyota celica and i start laughing...and the guy was just siting there so i accepted and knew i was going to win...he has a N\A 4 cylinder with 3" exhaust and a chip. i dident think about it but i showed him what rear wheel drive is like and did a couple power slides note: (im not driving) and we line up the tc wiped up on him bad like if you looked at the race people wouldn't of known we were racing...i should him what fast is like, yea that bad...we decided we had some fun and started to head home...there was a 5.0 mustang that sounded pretty hoped up we did a little pull and beat him..he dident want to play after i left him..so we continued for a lil and there was a supercharged Cobalt SS he sounded like he had WORK done and we were at say 40 MPH and we were in third gear and we both nailed it as soon as we floored it we instantly pulled 3 maby 4 car links on him and we hit the gas at the same time, he did every thing right he came back up and we left him even worse the next time...he dident want to play anymore and realized the cobalt is a pretty quick car and we left him like he was standing still. the mustang was a challenge but still beat him....how fast is my car...i have a stinger 3" exhaust with 2 cherry bombs with 2 1\2 duals..and SVO boost controller. (boost verys from 17\18 pis every gear) K&N cold air kit witch is in the lower pass. front fender. stock inter cooler..new clutch with 550 miles on it. why was i so fast...what kind of quarter mile time should i be running..all of my opponents were fast besides the dumb toyota..??? how fast is
i just put a clutch in my 88 tc 5spd. got it back on the road and i currently have 147 break in miles on it. i just tackled an electrical problem with my no tack and speedo and some other stuff, turned out to be fuse 18 witch was a 10 amp witch i replaced with a 15 but i fixed that before i did my clutch job...and it worked and it was fine till i was doing something in the yard and i hit my switch for my head lights...car wasn't running just used the battery.. the first thing i noticed was there was a buzzing and i poped the hood and theirs a black box on the passengers side of the car just steady buzzing and vibrating slightly. how do i fix that..also my voltage regulator is bad i believe because if i start the car with just the engine running no radio lights ect the tack needle is fine. if i flip the lights switch the needle drops to 500 rpm or 0 rpm and the speedo side of the cluster inset lit up the ford green it should..its half dead lol. and if i hit the turn signal the speedo needle jumps to 15 mph each time it flashes and my high beam light goes on and its just a mess....my slave cylinder for the clutch went out today also so i have to fix that any tips or anything that might be able to fix this problem?? help!!
hey guys i dont know if this is were it sould be.. i just put a clutch in my 88 tc 5spd. got it back on the road and i currently have 147 break in miles on it. i just tackled an electrical problem with my no tack and speedo and some other stuff, turned out to be fuse 18 witch was a 10 amp witch i replaced with a 15 but i fixed that befor i did my clutch job...and it worked and it was fine till i was doing something in the yard and i hit my switch for my head lights...car wasn't running just used the battery.. the first thing i noticed was there was a buzzing and i poped the hood and theirs a black box on the passengers side of the car just steady buzzing and vibrating slightly. how do i fix that..also my voltage regulator is bad i belive because if i start the car with just the engine running no radio lights ect the tack needle is fine. if i flip the lights switch the needle drops to 500 rpm or 0 rpm and the speedo side of the cluster inset lit up the ford green it should..its half dead lol. and if i hit the turn signal the speedo needle jumps to 15 mph each time it flashes and my high beam light goes on and its just a mess....my slave cylinder for the clutch went out today also so i have to fix that any tips or anything that might be able to fix this problem?? help!!
That is definitely what I would expect something rational to look like
Exactly! What is it everyone has been saying all along about the SHO's??? There was an existing platform that they threw the badge on. Well, OK! What is so wrong with that?
Of course Ford is not going to design and attempt to sell a brand new car just for us rednecks. But, when they do design something AWESOME and they're looking for a name, maybe somewhere in the back of their heads they'll remember what we did, and at least call it a Thunderbird. Look at the new SHOs...the new Mauraders...the new Camaros...the new Chargers! They had nothing to do with their classic counterparts, but the name still carried on the legacy to a really deserving car.
I would be proud to drive just about anything called a thunderbird, as long as it was done right. You can't expect another retro car, but maybe, just maybe, we could still do something to get the legacy to carry on.
And for all the time and effort that everyone has spent bashing the idea, one could have taken the 30 easy seconds to sign it 15 times already. I don't know what there is to lose.
The level of enthusiasm for the Mustang is way greater than it has ever been for Tbirds ..if you need an example take a look at how many Mustang internet forums there are as opposed to Tbird ones . Ford got a mountain of letters concerning the car that became the Probe. Ad much as it hurts to admit it The Mustang has more fans than the Bird , personally I like em both :D
yea dude we know ever since the mustang came out there has been tons of followers but lets stay on topic shall we, not to hate on mustangs but there are so many out there that it inset impressive any more, i like mustangs but to be honest the bird is a trip away from a mustang. witch makes it in a weird way better in my opinion. i like the stang but there every were. but t-birds did sell and why are you making the whole bring back the tbird thing back like its going to be hard to do and to south you friend they dont have to do it at THIS time. the perpous of signing that thing is get get the idea started and rolling and seeing were it goes ill search for the link for the SHO atical and post it for those who dont believe. see ya in a bit.
This is sean's brother in law. I did sign the TC petition. It would be nice to see it again. I've noticed the people on this forum are not very proactive or positive about bringing a car they love back. As a member of the sho community I can say that we were a big part of ford bringing back the sho. They even said so in a article, We did alot to make it happen but it worked. Since then we had ford save an all aluminum sho powered sable that was destined to be crushed from Canada. They took it back and even brought it to our convention in Michigan this year. It will be in there museum we will see to that. If you try hard enough and talk to the right people it will happen. edsel ford walked around the parking lot the convention and looked at the new and older SHO's...ford does care
im trying to get the tc back whats so hard to understand and i know ford wont do any thing that wont make them money. but the thing is there is a good chance a tc will sell, in 1987 to 88 (remember 2 years) out sold the SHO in every generation. the car will make money, ppl are buying fun cars again, think about the new camaro, ppl are buying and using the 6 speed manual trans, so i dont understand were all of the problems are coming from. and the Taurus was out for a few mouths be for the SHO model was available.
bringing a tc back means 2 door not 4 door, when i say bring back the turbo coupe i mean 2 door, there is no reason for a 4 door, thats completely off topic, they arnt going to think about a 4 door Thunderbird from the 60's. we are talking about late 80's. i said it once and ill say it again, ford will listen if you want it back we just need to make a big deal about it and show them we are interested, the same with the SHO guys, it took two years of wanting something before it happened. we have to push for it, not come up with excuses, its eather you want it or you dont. i cant do this alone...so if we are going to make big and be one of the biggest car enthusiasts out there or we can point fingers and not try, the SHO guys are the biggest out there, my bro in law is one SHO forum and there is always 50 ppl on at a time. they take care and like there cars, they live about there cars, they also have there SHO back...cant we strive for Fox Forums, NATO...ect. to be like that...so that maby we can have our turbo coupe back. come on guys...lets do something and make fox body's known
