Picked this up last saturday. Its an 86 cougar xr7 with a 2.3T and auto trans. Needed a turbo and needed put back together. Runs decent at this point, but it needs a good going through in other places. Interior is kinda lousy(red of course) but I can rob most of the interior out of the bird we got the same day which is faded black. I will probably give it a cheap/quickie paint job. Its got some rust spots that will need addressed, but its not too bad overall, except for the compression fittings I found on brake lines and a leaking compression fitting for the trans cooler lines.
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Hey....red interiors are cool : )
That should be a nice project. Ill try to find an issue but a guy in Hot Rod magazine had the same engine just in a stang, and managed to pull bumper sing (Literaly) wheel stands past the 60 foot mark. And he drives it to work everyday. He said his secret was basicly a big turbo and one hell of a bottom end. Sweeet engines. Best of luck!
ewwww, red interior....
Thats right, RED INTERIOR! Every time im in it, its exactly like scarface sitting in his RED INTERIOR mansion. True story, scarfaces mansion was built off the t birds interior....no lie SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FREIND!!!! ;)
Are you gona keep it auto? Nice turbo with an auto transbrake makes one bad ;)
If the interior was any color but red, I would only have to change the seats, but red just does not belong in a car. As for the trans, I guess I will have to drive it a while to decide. I'd have to find another t5 somewhere if I was going to change it. Being a C3 trans, these arent good for much of anything
if you can find 3 more, they make excellent legs for a glass table ;)
nice find and i agree, red does NOT belong in an interior
At this point, I have almost the entire interior out. Getting rid of the red interior for the raven/black-gray out of the tbird we picked up with this car. That tbird is rusty though. I will have to find some paint to match the gray of the other interior since a couple plastic peices will not interchange since mercury forgot to finish the roof, lol. One thing I have noticed working on this, and in some for sale adds, since starting on this car is that stuff says ford on the interior sill plates and such instead of mercury. It does suck having to pull the dash to change the carpet so it will get a new heater core while I'm at it.
When the c3 gives up the ghost, it will most likely be replaced by a t5
Exactly!!!!!!!! :D
Nice find!
I actually bought both of bhazards cars. The interior out of the red one in the banner is going in this since its pretty rusty but the interior isnt bad.
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The dash is just laying in there now and no wiring is hooked up anymore, and the carpet is now out(battery on camera died) and that carpet is just rediculously heavy. I did find the build sheet under the rear seat taped to the quarter panel. I also realized I probably should have torn the other car apart first to get the carpet out, lol. Oh well, I had to practice on one right? I found a duplicolor vinyl and fabric paint that matches almost exactly to the raven interior and it turns out to be flat black. The charcoal gray wasnt even close. I also got all the headliner fabric off the cardboard backer(why arent sunroof cars cardboard too?) and the red fabric off the rear deck fiberglass stuff. I already ordered an amp for the stereo, now I just have to find some good speakers to handle 75w rms x4 for the highs(jl audio 300/4 to match the 1000/1 I already have for subs in my SC that will be getting sold-16mpg is irritating me)
Anybody know how good the summit racing paints are? They seem pretty cheap so I don't know if they will last. I don't want a fortune in painting this thing.
Doooouuuuuchhhee!!!!
At least its getting fixed up. Cant say so much for the bird... rip
I should be the one calling you a douche after finding all your half assed repairs and mods! Why'd you have to cut the black carpet down the middle so you could take the sound deadener off. AND I sure as heck hope you weren't the one who put compression fittings in the brake lines!
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LOL compression fittings?
So in the six years I owned the car I never once looked at the brake lines I guess....hahahaha
they are on the cougar.
Oh, well that wasnt me, we actually got that car from someone on here like a year ago. I dont even remember what his name was on here.
I don't even know what a compression fitting is..sounds like they're not something to trust on a brake line tho, lol.
Off to google now...and i can't recall who had that Cougar either....was it blackNredCougar, or someone like that? Seems his name was Rick?
Edit: holy shiznit...someone put THOSE on a brake line!!??? :beatyoass:
yep. There were two of them on the brake line going to the rear, so at least they weren't on the front. And amazingly, the parking brakes almost work right, at least till I put the rear end in out of the tc. Also the compression fitting on one of the tranny cooler lines leaks too. Going to have to change part of that line at least because there is no room between it, and the nut holding the line to the transmission port, lol. I'll have some pics tonight of my progress on this thing though.
Guy must have been a plumber. Total WTF on that situation.
they sell them at autozone.. lol they're for re-re's, temporary fixes or low pressure lines
Now that I know what they are called...we have those on a lot of our air lines at my work....always blowing off, or breaking. Nothing quite like getting whipped by a small air hose because the POS fitting blew the hose out....but, they are easy to fix lol.
lol.
Anyways - freshly cleaned and painted turbocoupe seats, and I even took the one base off the festiva base bhazard put it on and got it all working right again!
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Dash is pretty much back in, but the windshield wipers don't work on anything but high, so I have some issues already. Starting to get the center console back together too.
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New gray headliner to replace the red.
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Tinted the rear windows while I had everything out - 20%
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Freshly painted interior stuff
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As for the exterior, I havent made up my mind between Solid black, or a Black pearl using the summit single stage paints. They are the same price. Thoughts?
What paints are you using? and for the seats too? Would like to change my interior to black instead of dirty tan. The black with grey looks really good though.
Wow, that is looking very nice! More pics as you progress please.
I'm using Duplicolor Vinyl and Fabric paint. I got it at Oreillys and Meijer. The gray is just the factory raven centers. I painted them because they were badly faded to blue. The red that was in the car was all torn up leather.
I dont remember, but he was from Ada, OH. Down near Lima. Im not even sure if he did the work on it. But I'm guessing whoever clamped the vac line going to the wastegate to 'remedy' a boost leak (thus overspinning the turbo to death) probably also did the brake lines.
Over a week and no update? You s it?
nah, just fixing rust. Its alot worse inside than outside
BTW brad, your dads definition of rust free is obviously different than everybody elses, rofl.
I think this is why its rusty where it is
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All that water collected in the fiberglass sound deadener and just sat there. Did that on both sides.
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I replaced metal here too, but didn't take a pic of it.
Havent worked on this car for a while, and have had parts scattered around in the shop so I decided I have to get this car painted and put back together for the most part before I can tear into my autox car again. Heres the car with all the flaking clearcoat sanded off, but it has been getting smoothed out for the past week and slowly but surely, it will be painted soon I hope!
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Hell yeah!
Looking good
Got everything except the trunk lid ready for primer, just need to go over everything with 180grit before primer.
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Any ideas as to why it would rust out so bad here??
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Found a wing for a truck cap/tonneu cover. Not sure how I feel about it just yet though.
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Ready for primer!
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Got to love our paint department at work. Took me an hour to find enough stuff that I could put together to work even remotely good enough to primer a car. AMAZING
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Found this while I was looking for stuff. Nothing like leaving mixed paint in a touch up gun for who knows how long
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Car in primer. Tomorrow it will get high build primer.
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He'll yea
Nice
Looking real Good!!
Nice! It must be awesome to have access to a paint booth. Not sure if l like the spoiler yet, but once its all one color and mocked up it should easier to tell.
Nice Work! I'd ditch the wing personally.
That is a man-size paint booth btw, wish I had that much space to work in mine. Stuck in a little 14x20 here.
Well, finally ready for topcoat. Cars nice and straight finally. I cant wait! BTW, we have 2 paint booths at our shop, this is the smaller of the 2, but has better lighting. We paint propane delivery trucks and transports and those require a large paint booth to get them in, lol.
Looking good...
Travis
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Its not perfect, but it looks decent. Been a while since I sprayed a single stage paint, so theres 1 good run and a few small dry spots.
Looks great in the pics! Man, you are really making me fiend to get started on mine, lol. I'm going with Gloss Black as well.
Nice Work so far!
shagy for sure
going back together! BTW: still looking for a grille. May end up getting one off ebay
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Looking good! Can't go wrong with black.
Looking real good
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All that I have left is getting the grille painted and put on, fixing a brake line, and tranny cooler line, exhaust, front turn signals, foglights, and then plates and insurance. Getting excited! I will finally get to drive this thing on the road since I havent yet, lol
Thinking it needs my Draglites put on it though!
Draglites would look awesome
I love the interior
Looking very nice. I agree, the interior looks great.
Lookin' Very Sweet. :cool:
I have that same Raven interior in mine, except in Leather.
its the 4-eye version of jerry's car without all the metal replacement.
Ok, this car is going to be done 3 days later than I was hoping. Tomorrow I need to paint the side trim and put it on on sunday. I did finally get to drive it tonite, and its actually not that sluggish. Its definately not making a whole lot of power, but its not bad. 2nd goes to 75, dont remember where it gets out of first. It feels really weird not shifting while driving, lol. I do know now that if I fill the fuel tank all the way up, it starts pouring out the top, so something is wrong there, hoping just a dryrotted evap line. I do have a new tank if its something else.
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BTW: photobuckets new site sucks
Been awhile since I checked this out...man, that turned out nice. I wish I had a paint booth and the skills. And time. And patience. And money...and..and..
Great work...keep the pics and progress coming.
Very nice
I like the headlite covers
Got the false trunk floor finished, except for the carpet. That will wait until after I get my autox car ready for the season. I also got the side trim painted so that will get put on tomorrow.
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Nice set up
I had a fox mustang hatch with a full custom system
Gotta have a nice stereo in a street car
This has full boston accoustics pro series 6 1/2" components, 3 1/2" coaxle's in the dash powered off the head unit, 12 year old pioneer subs, Kenwood DVD, JL audio 1000.1 and 300.4 amps. Unfortunately I'm having trouble keeping the 1000.1 from shutting off. Havent figured out whats wrong with that yet, but I know its not voltage since I put on a 200A 1 wire alternator. I know I heard something rattle inside that amp when I picked it up, so I will take it apart when I take all this apart to carpet it.
Amps are finnikey I hate that
What's the dimensions on the sub enclosure....I'd like to make something for my 'Bird when I get to that point. I like how clean and tucked yours is...still getting access to the spare is a major plus, too.
Reminds me so much of my old black '86...looking great! Love that grille. ;)
Well, finally got the side trim on today after a whole bunch of time getting the paint dried. Don't know why it was such a problem, maybe it was too cold in the shop. Did take it on its first round trip to toledo, OH and back(90 miles) and no problems other than the front end alignment must be off(kinda wanders), and I think it needs a new power steering pump. Seems really stiff to turn. All my other cars turn pretty easy, this one is 2-3 times the effort.
ThunderbirdSport302, I will have to find my drawing I made to get the dimensions because I don't remember right off hand. I know the front of it is 60*, the angle of the back seat. I remember its 34 1/4" wide, 12" tall, but dont remember how deep
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I love the way it sits in there flush with the front edge of the trunk opening. Looks killer, and thanks for the pics!!