General Mayhem has been my nick since I was in the Navy. I'll explain that one to you all some other time. Real name is Martin, though my friends insist on calling me Martin. I live in Columbus, OH. and looking for the local T-bird/Cougar club. I know there's one here, I just can't find them.
Just bought my 3rd Fox chassis a few weeks ago, first V8 I've had in one. Bought a Red Turbo Coupe new in '83, was destroyed 3 months later when and idiot eating a Big Mac and getting diretions on his car phone Swerved from an on ramp to the left hand lane and plowwed into my right rear quarter. That spun me through the median where I hit an overpass abuttment sideways right behind the drivers side door. Ripped the car in half.:mad:
Had a couple other cars before getting a black '86 XR-7 turbo. Had 168k mi on it when the turbo blew a seal. Left a two mile cloud of the thickest smoke I ever saw come out of a street car getting to the next exit. I intended to replace the turbo but ran into some hard times and the cat had to go. I almost cried when they towed it away.
So, no sh|t, there I am, driving out west Broad looking for a Durango (don't ask me why) and as I drive past this buy-here-pay-here lot, I see the nose of this Cougar sticking out. Snow white with a GST ground effects package on it. Made a hard left (sorry lady) and bought it on the spot.
5.0 EFI that sounds like it's had some internal mods, nice growl to the exhaust, but the engine looks stock. Body and interior both in excellent shape except for the dash bezels that were hacked up to install a DVD player. (Motorized screen in the front, two more displays in the head rests) The DVD player and screens are departing soon as I'm not about to watch movies while I'm driving and I don't often have passengers. Putting a Sony CD/MP3 player in its place and some Mustang GT seats.
Next spring it will start its serious transformation. 12" disks with dual piston calipers all the way around, 5 lug conversion, 17" ASA mesh wheels and 245x40x17s on the front, 285x40x17s rear. The 'goddamhokeyslushbox' will come out and a 5speed manual will replace it. HO cam and heads (if that's not what's on it now) and a Mallory ignition system, along with some other tweaks.
Hopefully I can repaint it by next winter. The ground effects will come off and be prepped and painted seperately and a new hood and trunk lid with a different spoiler will go on. still trying to decide whether to do the window trim in euro black or body color but I'm leaning toward black.
I'll keep you updated as I go.
Welcome aboard. Nice XR7 :D
When checking out the domain in your email address I found a website dedicated to a very nice 12-sec Grand Prix. That your car too? If so, very nice :headbang:
Actually that's my friends car. It's officially the quickest street legal front drive four door in the country. His boss owns the quickest front drive car in the country. They work at Intense Racing Products making high performance parts for Pontiac V6s. Poor dumb s... Pontiacs? Gimme a break. And front drive at that. I keep telling them to get real cars but they won't listen.
nice XR7
the electronics in it look freakin stoneage:pbb:
gotta fix that lol
can ya snag a pic of the 5-0?
welcome aboard
Most of us here attend the Catjam show in Youngstown, OH. If that is the club your talking about.
May be. I had a friend who was in a T-bird club based in Columbus a few years ago but I haven't heard from him in a few years. He had invited me to join several years ago when I was living in Findlay and I never got the details from him.
BTW: Nice ride. I'm looking for a similar visual effect from mine, but Ill be keeping a low hood, possibly a TC hood, and she'll be BRIGHT monochrome red. :D
Alot of us are from the central ohio area. I'm from Lancaster. It's good to have you around.
nice....sweet car, rarely do you find them these days like that.
Aother Ohio Guy, Sweet. great lookin car
Ha, who installed those electronics?
"Man, this monitor won't fit...get me the angle ginder!"
Yeah, that's what I said.
No biggie. I'll get new bezels from a junk yard (and maybe some Mustang GT seats) and it'll be good as new.
Actually I think he used a chainsaw.
Here's a pic with the monitor up. Has a high coolness factor but not something I need and it's just a big bullseye screaming, "BUST A WINDOW AND RIP ME OFF!!"
OOps. Forgot the pic.
Looks like you have a nice project car. I like it!
Welcome to the forums.
I've never understood the fascination with TVs in cars. To me, it makes as much sense as custom wheels larger than 18" on a passenger car. It's all flash.
:iagree:
I'd like to have a small touch screen monitor controlling a computer so I could have all my MP3's in the car, but now that stereos are finally coming out with USB ports in em I wouldn't even have a use for that. I had been holding off building a car computer until I could get a solid-state storage solution (including the OS) so I wouldn't have to expose a hard drive to extreme vibration, hot & cold, but now it's moot (or it will be on my next stereo upgrade). Of course I'd have to open the stereo and make a USB extension cord so I could mount the socket in the glove box so it wouldn't be hanging out of the dash, but once it's done it'll be great - Plug a thumb drive into the hidden USB port and voila :shakeass:
I've never been able to understand the fascination with nav systems either. The few times I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am would never justify the cost.
I have a laptop with a GPS unit and Mappoint 2006. Trust me, it's been well worth the cost of the GPS and software.
The DVD has a jack (RCA) to plug video into it and the lappy has video out, so I
could plug it into the DVD, but I'd be looking at a smaller screen.
A guy I race with was showing me his amps, subs neon and other trick junk, I told him if it doesn't make my car quicker, faster, stop shorter or corner harder, it ain't got any business on my car. I'm even considering removing the back seat an putting a carpet covered sheet of 1/4 particle board in its place.
Welcome.
Welcome nice ride the guys here are really good with all sorts of advice. There’s a lot of different specialty’s here.
So what’s the story behind your name General Mayhem? What did you do to earn it and how about some pics of the motor maybe we can tell you some mods that are done take a close up of the distributor.
Story goes like this: I was an air crew Photographer's Mate in the Navy and used to hang out in the squadron ready rooms when I wasn't on duty and played RISK with the pilots. I was never defeated in a fair game. (several pilots ganged up on me one night, only way they could beat me) One night the Air Wing Commander wanted to play, so we had 5 guys including me in the game. He couldn't get a handle on my strategy as I would attack at seemingly random spots on the board, take one country and end my turn. After about an hour of every one else having these long drawn out battles and me taking a quick easy country, he got a little miffed, jumped up and said, "This is just mayhem, you don't have any strategy, this is just absolute mayhem!"
The nickname stuck and a week later one of the squadron commanders tagged me with it for and official call sign. Call signs are not often given to enlisted personel so it was a big honor for me. A few months later the ships captain saw a set of photos that I took of a russian frigate on high rez film. I had blown one frame up more and more until you could read the label on a bottle of vodka sitting in a porthole in the superstructure. So he asks who took them them and some one told him, 'MAYHEM'. He says, "Would that be Ensign Mayhem or Commander Mayhem?" The reply was "No, just Mayhem in general." So that stuck too and I was General Mayhem from then on.
Several years later I was really into playing combat flight sims online. I got Fighter's Anthology and registered for an online account but MAYHEM was already taken. So I put a star on both ends, representing a BRIGADIER GENERAL's star. and there you have it.
Aren't you glad you asked? :D
That's cool man..neat as hell.
And welcome to the board.
Welcome to the nut house! :lol:
Nice Cat btw.
I've often considered that with my Cougars in the past, especially since I rarely have back-seat passengers.
The thing is, the back seat really isn't that heavy. In fact, the wood you use to replace it may negate the benefit. I think it would look cool, anyway. :)
Welcome. I see in your profile that you are into slot car racing. Cool, I used to be into it a lot but haven't really done any over the past few years.
Welcome
Might surprise you, that back seat prob'ly weighs 70 lbs. I figure I could use some 3/16" pegboard with cheap carpet and maybe have 15lbs. I figure it could also be a good place to mount some speakers. Also considering boxing the floor on either side of the hump. Extra storrage space.... Place to hide bodies... ;)
I'll get pics of the engine as soon as it stops raining for a while.:(
BTW: If anyone recognizes that DVD player or can track down what it is from the pic I'd appreciate knowing. I got no manual or anything for it. For that matter, I got no manual for the car. Anyone got an extra?
Risks, I like that game have you ever played Axis & Allies. Haven’t played ether one in years.
I love A&A. Got it for the computer a few years ago.Guys I've played with say they can't understand how I can play Russia and still win. (Germany dies screaming like a b|tch every time :D )
Got RISK for the puter too. but it cheats. BAD. I still win.
You must have the heaviest cougar/tbird rear seat ever...:pbb:
You're right about that - I've had my back seat out dozens of times, and if it weight 25 pounds I'd be surprised. There's nothing to it but foam and a wire frame.
Now a power front seat I could see weighing 75 pounds - that's why I decided against adding power seats to my car
Fronts are heavy for sure. :birdsmily:
Ohio guy! I'm in Columbus all the time for school. How far are you from DeVry? I've got an 88 V6 car that I've swaped a 5 speed into. We don't really have a club for foxes that I know about but a couple of us get together every now and then. Shoot the shiznit and turn wrench's.
Oh and I have a set of the butcher block trim pieces that have been cut on your car....
ARS DVM-9300
Here's someone who sells it:
http://www.discountave.net/dvars7witfmo.html
And here's who made it:
http://yiaoupan.en.alibaba.com/aboutus.html
blahblahblah... [COLOR="Red"]our company has our own brand name of "ARS".[/COLOR]
Ok, I admit, I've never taken the rear seat out of any of my foxes and weighed them, but I would think it would have to weigh more than 25 lbs. Hell my leather jacket weighs 10 and it doesn't have springs in it.
Much ass grassy ass. That will be a HUGE help. Maybe now I can figure out how to get the CDs to repeat. :D
There pretty light fo sho :pbb:
I've got the old red rear seat I swapped out of my car in my shed - I could find out exactly what they weigh tomorrow...
Please do. I'd be interested in knowing.
BTW that's both pieces. Seat AND back.
Welcome. I served some time in the Navy as well.
Nice cat. I think matching white window trim would look awesome. Years and years back, my plan was to have two identical 88 XR-7s opposite in color. One black and one white. The white one was to have all white trim to oppose the black trim on the black one. Instead, I ended up with two black 88 XR-7s named "Before" and "After."