i hope for heavens sake this isnt one of us......geesh.....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XZio-lyRM94&search=muddin (http://"http://youtube.com/watch?v=XZio-lyRM94&search=muddin")
thats pretty dam loud for being so far away, its ashame its so dark and you cant see much lol
Can't say that it was me, but I've done it before. one tire fire rear-end sucks in the mud. Good thing I've got buddies with 4x4's.
Is that thing a 4X4? I couldn't tell cause it's so dark.
That poor T-Bird.:shakehead
So you guys would look down on me of I built a rally Cougar? AWD and all?
No, that would be using a Cougar for a specific purpose. Nothing wrong there.
This guy is just being an ass.
K good :p. It's one of my more ambitious, long term projects. Just wanted to make sure so I don't post a video like that of a test run and get showered with a lack of support and a rather sour responce. Besides...he's havin some fun...if I had a beater Coug/Bird and a flat mud field I'd prolly do it too. What if the doors were falling off, the undercarriage is shot, there are holes in the floor? Or it doesn't have a title? Would it be so wrong to do that then? Cuz if I posted a video of what I do to my sundance here and it got back to the Allpar forum...they'd prolly have the same reaction. Yet they don't know that it whacked a deer and is no longer road worthy.
Eh...I understand why ranting about this is neccessary...but I think there are more important things...such as the ization of TC's....honestly for the money paid to get that good of a TC...a 3.8 Bird or a Sport could be had...the front end swapped, the suspension stiffened and the rear converted to Trac-Lok. All for the torque of a V8....I'm tryin to find another 88 TC but it seems they are all getting c00ched up for killer deals by V8 enthusiasts who...well swap swap swap. That's just my stance...an opinion from a 2.3 guy....I love V8's as well...but I'd first buy a 5.0 and make it my own than take someone's TC and...."waken it up".
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honestly...i couldnt car less what the guy does too his car. it could be a toilet of a car or it could be a low mileage or custom car like erics....any one of you could take a flame thrower to your cars and i couldnt care less. its your car. makes no differance too me. i might think your either just a little bit "slow" or a complete idiot though....
granted if it was a shiznitbox ready for the bone yard id likely do the same thing, as any car deserves a good beat run before it gets put down.
My brother is getting rid of his jeep soon and i keep telling him we need to go off roading in this POS before you sell it/ trade it in.....But alas he wont
Ive taken my 3.8L offroading before, more like a joke. My friend had an S10 that he thought was an uber offroad truck, and i gave him shiznit saying "man, my thunderbird could hang in this shiznit", he didnt believe me, so the red bird saw a little bit of offroading
Probably why it needs tie rod ends
I've had ever car I've ever owned off-roading, sometimes even intentionally :D
Even the white T-Bird had an off-road type excursion when I was looking to buy land and was driving a dirt road (the Volvo was engineless at the time, so I was winter-driving the 'Bird) - the warm weather here this year has been hell on the roads, and this one was particularly soft - about halfway up a hill all forward motion ceased and the car promply dug itself to the axles in mud. I ended up backing down the hill in mud so deep it was sing the floor, spinning one rear wheel the whole way down (and thoroughly covering the car in mud), but I got out and didn't need a tow truck :D I did need to hit a car wash tho :hick:
Most likely that was an old member named Dare
heh, I won't even begin to say what my Thunderbirds have been in/through...
Suffice it to say, between 3 farms totalling over 470 some acres, they've been thoroughly off-roaded!
The '89 has carried at different times two engines and a transmission in the trunk, also had about 100 pounds of large rocks one time, for about a 200 mile trip, that was fun!
But I ain't never carried a lawnmower ON the trunk lid before...
In the trunk is a different story :giggle:
After all, isn't that why we put on off-road exhaust? :hick: :D
I trashed my first car, an '86 POS 3.8 tbird. We ramped it, when the tires blew we put sand in the engine and small rocks down the intake. Then in the end we broke out all the windows and lit it on fire. Right now it's under ground. I hated that car.
I totally agree! :mad:
The idiot even stood on the top after all of that!
With the first 3.8 i have in the cougar, i jumped at least 4 times ( me and my friends believed we were the dukes of hazard, i had 17 at the time), done extensive offroading and never got stuck, my car was recently painted but i didnt care....and six months later, a blown head gasket...and before installing the actual 3.8 , i did something similar like the video (without mud) in a stadium......
sounds like what the kids that i sold my old 86 t/c to did to mine:nono: sad too it was a real nice car.
I couldn't see myself doing that to a t/c. 3.8's don't deserve to live!
Nah. If it were, we'd see a thread. "I was cruising down the road, minding my own business, when this giant ball of mud popped up out of the road and hit me head on.":giggle:
Then kill the motor, not the car.
Well, sometimes you need a somewhat economical daily driver that won't cost too much when it comes to insurance.
The car was rusted out beyond salvage, inside was trashed and was just a trashed car.
I guess insurance might be cheaper for 3.8's, but a 2.3 will get better milage and IMO be more reliable.
XR-7's insurance is cheap...my 84 is about the same as my girlfriend's 88 TC as well. My 87 XR-7 was a little more because of the V8 I guess.
More reliable only IF you spend more time taking care of it. N/A engines have a way with being forgiving as far as forgetting stuff like fluids. 2.3T's however, let the oil get too low...the turbo might fry or the car won't start (previous experience), let the coolant get too low, chances are the head will warp and headgaskets will pop as fast as you can put them in, let the gas get too low, the turbo will suck whatever is left and laugh once it runs dry. :giggle:
2.3T's are more a PITA than a reliable means of transportation. Don't get me wrong, all cars need to be mantained. But the fact is, you don't HAVE to change the oil every 3,000 miles with an N/A. You don't HAVE to make sure the car doesn't overheat...even once....and so on. I love 2.3T's but sometimes I wish I wouldn't have gotten into turbos for the simple fact of high maintenance or many hours of fixing things....very expensive things.
I was referring more to the blanket statement "3.8's don't deserve to live!". Not yours in particular.
hmmm...i have a 88 5.0 parts car...i say when i get my new bird that car is going off-roading...i will get pics and maybe a video ...fluckit...im going right now .........
J/k
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