I finally signed up here! Here's a bit of a story on my car, "el filoso" which in Spanish translates to "sharp". Anyway, this car lived at a friends shop forgotten by its own r 10 years. it was deteriorating bad. car has 103k. aod is probably toast. white leather waa . one day i check it out, and some dumba$$ slapped a 2 barrel carb and intake on the old 302 tbi. it didn't run at all. just a mess of wires and vacuum lines. i asked my friend, "what's with the tbird"? Dudes says, "you can have it once i see it running ". Well, i swapped in a performer carb and intake ong with a HEI summit distributor. It runs EXCELLENT . interior is bad. body is bad. rust on doors.... lots of love is what the filoso needs. I'm dealing with the aod tv cable/brackets dilemma as of now. luck hit me and i bought a 84 cougar ls with 93k on it. from second
owner! Car has a 3.8 which i intentionally tried to blow up, but it held together for 25 miles and a bad head gasket was all it needed. I bought it for $200.
i will try to toss some pics here for you guys. i will have plenty to ask and wonder about.
for now, good luck with everyone's projects, and lets see progress pics!!
Awesome! I like you, but I would like you more if you posted pics. :)
Anyway, it's hard not to like all of you on this board. You all have excellent taste in vehicles.
Welcome to the forum. First, I gotta give you props for having one of these cars. They take a special person to own and build one. ANYONE can do a Mustang, these take time, work, and patience, and in the end, it stands out as something different, and it's not ANOTHER Mustang. Can't wait to see the pics.
Can't post pics?? I'm using photobucket as fiile host. what should i do??? I get " problem creating temporary file"
Thanks for the proper props!
I use photobucket to post up my pics I usually copy http:// link after loading them on photobucket and then paste the Album on here friend. :poke:
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag454/noev678/CAM00982_zpskuhh5mei.jpg
Link works up there, i can't upload (?). Ill just add links for now to kill your curiosity .
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag454/noev678/CAM00975_zpshuwaieag.jpg
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag454/noev678/CAM00976_zpsnsxfwrfe.jpg
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag454/noev678/CAM00981_zpsc9ozwyn6.jpg
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag454/noev678/CAM00980_zpspgxgufz6.jpg
Starting tomorrow Saturday, i will be on the Filoso. The cougar is destined to the junkyard, its already sold for the same $200. I'm going to use its 93k mile sruts, brake booster/m cylinder, interior, doors,feinders, and gas pedail cable/ trans kickdown. also, the cougar has a healthy 3spd which is going into the filoso.
anything else i should keep?? I do feel a small amount of guilt ruining a perfect cougar, but i dislike its styling .
cheers!!
If the cougar is still in good shape there's a lot of stuff you could part out and sell on here. Lots of other members who do like it's styling ;)
Also good luck on your FILA project. Not a whole bunch of those running around these days...
I respect others and their cars, just personal tastes:)
Ill be posting stuff on the classifieds for the Cougar lovers...
cheers
...shots of the filoso.
Interior pic of it. lookin good!
And a picture after the first scrub down in 11 years.
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag454/noev678/CAM00985_zpsqtthb0ol.jpg
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag454/noev678/CAM00987_zpsdwum8gou.jpg