Alrighty, hello everyone! uh..here is my T-Bird, hope you likes::birdsmily:
Have no idea how the board settings allowed you to upload those enormous pics.
Let's try these.
BTW, nice Birdie! And welcome to the board.
nice bird looks even better in the smaller pics!
yeah, thanks for changing the size...how do you do that? I more of a mech than a computer guru....as you can see. I guess I am a little rusty on the photo shrinking thing.
Nice looking car!! And atleast you can upload pictures, most people cry for days because they cant do it
I like the 2-tone paint on the grill, that's sharp!
VERY nice car!
sweet bird!!!
is that a stock tachometer?
4-eyes rule. Everyone will figure that out sooner or later.
On a personal note, makes me sad to see a TC turned V8, but I guess my car is the compensator for that...a V8 turned TC.
Welcome.
You guys would really hate to hear what happened to the old motor, oh I'll just tell you, junk yard. Still ran too... Thanks for all the compliments. I finished restoring the car the beginning of June. Now I am bored with nothing to do.
Yeah, stock tachometer, it is starting to jump alot so maybe something to do for me later.
Dude that thing is sick! What wheels does it have? What are the specs on the motor?
I love this recent surge of badass 4-eyes we are getting.
Welcome man! You guys should see it in real life! That thing is awesome!
Four eyes rule of course! Nice freaking car!
I used the Image Resizer tool from the Power Toys (http://"http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx") from Windows. It's pretty nifty. Just select the pic(s) you want to resize, right-click and select one of three sizes.
Four Eyes FTW!
Gorgeous 'Bird :birdsmily:
How hard is it to get a TC Cluster to work for a non TC Car anyway?
I have an 83-84 TC Cluster i picked up awhile ago. :hick:
It's not. You have to repin the connector a little and add at least one for the tach signal. My car was not a TC....
Welcome to the board :D
Beautiful looking Bird!! Love the color too!
Yes! 4eyes 4ever :D
Welcome aboard, sweet bird :D
Nice to see another sweet 4-eye around here. Cool!
Although I don't know if I could live without a console like that... ;)
Well, the boost gauge doesn't work, as I am sure you know, but back in 96 to get the tach to finally work I took it to an electrician to make up a circuit board to convert the tach to read a V8. I will take a picture of it to show you if it will help you at all. They always say never send a mechanic to do an electricians job. I didn't even attempt it.
THanks! Hopefully that huge picture thing wont happen again.:punchballs:
Can I get a writeup on this. After seeing it I really wana swap over to a TC guage pack now;)
Oh yeah... NICE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D
I kind of do also, lol.
I always did, Just thought it would be overly complicated. :hick:
As tempting as it would be to have something like that in my car, I'm OCD, so it would bug the heck outta me to have a random boost guage that doesn't work. At the very least I'd probably like pull the needle off and try to make a new guage face that doesn't have the boost markings on it. Lol. Honestly I'd probably just pay Eric to make me a cluster like his though ;) .
Well, the motor is out of a 90 Crown Vic, 302 ho, board .030 over with an overly mild cam in it. C-4 trans with a full manual-reverse valve body turns the ford 9" rear, with trac loc, strange axles.Also has sub-frame connectors. The car used to have a 460 in it, but when gas reached $1.25 or so I took it out for sake of saving money. Should have left it. The wheels are some old Cragars. I need to get them either rechromed, or replaced with something else. they are starting to peel and rust.
Yeah now if gas came down to $1.25 everyone would be driving around with 460's...or 502's.... or 572's... or bigger.
Of course I myself would have preferred to keep your TC a TC, especially being an early one. But lets not get into that. Its your car, and it looks good.
There is no boost "gauge" on the 83-84 clusters, just a light.
I'm still looking at the converting the tach to work for 6 and 8 cyl cars.
As far as the "write-up" goes to swap clusters...grab a manual and compare pin-outs....it's not rocket science.
Looks great. I like the shifter too. Looks kind of like an old school muscle car that way.
Yeah, I was kinda going for that but I would have kept the center console except it was really starting to fall apart all over so out she came. More simple now.:birdsmily: