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'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #15 –
The ten holes are in very,very nice shape,with the caps.They would be $250.00 shipped.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #16 –
Vin: How much for the console? Pics? Is it in "excellant" shape?
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Thanks,
Rick
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1988 T/C body with a 5.0 transplant. Motor has a Vortech V-2 supercharger, Edlebrock Performer RPM II intake, heads, FRPP F-303 cam, Comp Cams roller rockers, Power Pipe, LMAF, full Mac exhaust, lowered, Koni's, 5 lug conversion, Cobra wheels, 13" Cobra brakes, etc.
SOLD September 2020. Will miss this car after 19 years of building/driving/showing it off. Time for a new chapter in my life.
Dynoed 446 horse/409 torque at the wheels.
2003 Tenth Anniversary Cobra Convertible. 1 of 369 Torch Red made.
2021 Chevrolet 3500 dually, crew cab Duramax.

'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #17 –
I'll try to get a console pic for you.It's in pretty nice shape.The storage part needs a little cleaning,and the lid also needs a little help.I will try to get a pic,then we can work from there.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..
 

'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #18 –
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The TC shifter is different then the V-8 shifter.You need one from a V-8 car,along with the right shift cable and bracket.

The automatic 1983-86 turbo cars used a C3 trans with no overdrive. Their shift pattern was PRND21 - 6 detentes. That pattern will work on AOD (PRN(D)D1) and C5 (PRND21) cars, therefore the shifter itself could probably be used. The cable does seem to be different, though. I had a C3 shifter at one point and the cable looked to me like it could be adapted to fit onto an AOD shift lever. But I don't have any proof to back that up.

Anyway, it's the 1987-88 automatic TC floor shifters that you have to avoid for AOD/C5 cars...they have 7 detentes: PRN(D)D21.

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I'd like to change my car from a column shift to a floor shift, but I'm not sure of everything that's needed.

Ivygreen, see here for info:
AOD - http://www.coolcats.net/tech/advanced/floorshift_aod.html
C5 - http://www.coolcats.net/tech/advanced/floorshift_c5.html

The AOD instructions came from my experience in converting my own '86 over from column to floor shift. There's a PDF of the template you need to cut a hole in the floorpan. Not really that hard to do, just scary LOL.

Sorry for the hijack...now back to your regularly-scheduled thread...

'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #19 –
Geez, Eric, that's great.  You saved me an awful lot of guesswork.  Thank you.

'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #20 –
Actually E-Man the 83 84 TC's used a shifter with the same 6 detents but with no cable.  It had a rod attached directly to the bottom of the shift lever that went to the shift lever on the transmission.  In the 83-84 TC's the transmission shift lever pointed up like the column shift cars do.
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'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #21 –
Yeah, that's right Claude. I never had the opportunity to obtain 1983-84 TC shifter parts but I do recall them being rod-activated. The parts I had were 1985-86 TC with the cable attached. It seemed weird to me that Ford would engineer different brackets, cables, etc. for the different cars, rather than work from one standard shifter. It would make retrofitting parts now a lot easier. Then again, why would Ford think of us. :rolleyes:

'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #22 –
Quote from: EricCoolCats;220259
Yeah, that's right Claude. I never had the opportunity to obtain 1983-84 TC shifter parts but I do recall them being rod-activated. The parts I had were 1985-86 TC with the cable attached. It seemed weird to me that Ford would engineer different brackets, cables, etc. for the different cars, rather than work from one standard shifter. It would make retrofitting parts now a lot easier. Then again, why would Ford think of us. :rolleyes:


True.....very true.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #23 –
Vinnie, did you get a chance to check the taillight trim?
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'85 Turbo Coupe at my mercy....

Reply #25 –
I got both taillights.The metal trim looks to be good.The lenses are also in nice shape.PM me about the metal trim.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..