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1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #240 –
oh so that's what your car looks like with a front end lol. You getting close to being able to bolt it up for good it looks like?
--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #241 –
I made some marks to hack out some of the fiberglass bumper support, and cut the stock metal front support to clear the intercooler.

The plan is to make a bracket that bolts to the trans cooler and use it to function as the center part of the nose brace. It'll tie into the bumper support and then back down to the lower radiator cowl.  I plan to cut out parts of the the lower bumper to get better air flow over the tranny cooler.

Hope to get it done tomorrow before my daughter's clarinet recital at U of Akron tomorrow night, maybe stop by Summit on the way home for a couple of fittings to make the hose routing work..

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #242 –
Quote from: flylear45;354625
Hope to get it done tomorrow before my daughter's clarinet recital at U of Akron tomorrow night, maybe stop by Summit on the way home for a couple of fittings to make the hose routing work..

Good luck... as I've stated before, things rarely go according to plan:(
--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #243 –
Quote from: sarjxxx;354620
oh so that's what your car looks like with a front end lol. You getting close to being able to bolt it up for good it looks like?

Getting closer. I have to get a final position on the tranny cooler to knock off the trans lines. Getting the nose on for a test fit was required to do that. It is cool to see it this way, even though it is only temporary. Once I have the cooler mounted it will be part of the sub-structure, so I can just slide the front cover back on over it all.

I am going to have hack up the front valence pretty bad to get a air filter on the turbo. I can't see any way around it. This car will never go back I'm afraid. I tried to keep the mods reversible, but the turbo is just too freakin' big.

I kinda wish I hadn't gone with this Holset, but what's done is done at this stage.

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #244 –
Quote from: sarjxxx;354626
Good luck... as I've stated before, things rarely go according to plan:(

Yea, every time I think I'm getting really close to just bolting it all together I come up against another challenge. It really is getting there, though.

I could just make it work, or I can make it work for years to come. I'm trying to make this thing stand up to some abuse for the long haul, and still be fun to drive every day.

If you go through the build threads on Turbomustangs, now the Turboforums, you'll see the difference in the two ways to do a build.

So far the turbo TR7 has been reliable, fast and fun for 3 years.  I expect the same from this car.

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #245 –
You say maybe stop by summit. Like walk in and buy stuff no mail and wait 3 days?
 That's gotta blow a harbor freight store out of the water.
 
Signed So Jealous
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]:ford:87 Turbo Coupe through the floor sub frame connectors, 5.8 swap Ford racing heads Harland sharp 1.6 rockers BBK shorty swap headers 2 1/2 BBk X pipe magnaflow ler's. Megasquirt 2 with 36lbs injectors on hurricane intake with 4150 throttle body.Tremec TKO 600 Quicktime blowsheild spec stage 3 clutch. 3.73 gears and still not done

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #246 –
Oh, BTW. I had a scare recently. The scratches you see in on the nose in the last picture? Those are from a SNOWPLOW!

I was away on a trip recently when it snowed like crazy. Our guy came over and cleaned our driveway. ( I am grateful for that.)

I went out to look at the nose for something after I came home, and IT WAS GONE!

I found it in a pile of snow beside the garage where he had pushed it along with the snow. LUCKILY it wasn't damaged too bad. Just a scratch. That is the only upper I have, so it would have been a major setback if it had been cracked.

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #247 –
Quote from: thewestie;354629
You say maybe stop by summit. Like walk in and buy stuff no mail and wait 3 days?
 That's gotta blow a harbor freight store out of the water.
 
Signed So Jealous

It takes a while when you go in unless you pre-order and skip the wait at the counter. It is a three step deal there. Order parts, pay for parts, pick up parts. Minimum of 30 minutes, closer to 45. By ordering on the phone I can be in and out in 20 minutes, no less than 15.

I gotta get my wife to agree to it, because I'm broke right now. Burned through my allowance early this month.

You know I'm still tempted to just get it all together and drive it ugly for a year. Paint it next year. Maybe even leave the old duct tape on the fenders for a true sleeper effect. Is that sick?

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #248 –
No I Did it didn't start my build till august was promised help and use of a lift from a bud and was two weeked to death. Kept promising two weeks we'll do both are cars and help each other next thing the summers almost over Aug 1 pulled turbo motor and two weeks later I was driving it. Two 13 hour a day in the sun on my back weeks. Just waned to hear it run. His car still a pile of parts in the corner. I got to drive mine for a couple of months. The first cruse night this 10 year old pointed at me as I was going in and loudly announced to me that's a junkyard car. Well when I pushed in the clutch and touched the rev limiter a 6G's It turned some heads Its back apart now but hopefully redo a few things and go for paint in April and with any luck burn a set of tires rite of it in the summer nationals.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]:ford:87 Turbo Coupe through the floor sub frame connectors, 5.8 swap Ford racing heads Harland sharp 1.6 rockers BBK shorty swap headers 2 1/2 BBk X pipe magnaflow ler's. Megasquirt 2 with 36lbs injectors on hurricane intake with 4150 throttle body.Tremec TKO 600 Quicktime blowsheild spec stage 3 clutch. 3.73 gears and still not done
 

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #249 –
Quote from: flylear45;354628
I could just make it work, or I can make it work for years to come. I'm trying to make this thing stand up to some abuse for the long haul, and still be fun to drive every day.
I understand exactly what you mean. When I was DD'ing my cougar everything I did to it was a "get it done asap" kinda job ya know cause I had to be able to drive it but now that it sits I can take my time and do it right. That was part of that big giant rewiring project I did a few months back. I had to go in and get rid of all the old py junk wiring I had put in in a hurry and on the cheap, then I went back and installed everything the right way, with the right parts. Makes things a whole lot easier when you take your time and do it right the first time.
--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #250 –
True. You ought to see my truck. It's got a bunch of on-the-fly repairs done to it. I really need to give it some attention this Summer. Like you say, when you need to use it, it's hard sometimes to do the job right and get to work the next day.

Liz's recital went well last night at Akron. She played 2 pieces solo, one classical and 1 contemporary, and a duet with a junior clarinet player. It was a really nice evening. A clarinet sounds so nice in a concert hall. She has been practicing 1-1/2 to 3 hours a day to get ready, and it showed in her performance.

She has dual majors, writing and music performance. She recently wrote another short story I really like about a very young terminal cancer patient, written from the perspective of her older sister. I think she has about 4 stories now that are publishable material.

OK, enough bragging on my daughter. Gotta go chop up my car some more.

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #251 –
That is great about your daughter's performance.  And good to see a proud papa bragging about her.  My daughter will be in college before I know it.  Thanks for sharing.

Jon

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #252 –
Quote from: The Shredder;354749
That is great about your daughter's performance.  And good to see a proud papa bragging about her.  My daughter will be in college before I know it.  Thanks for sharing.

Jon


Here's her and her mom.

X

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #253 –
Busy with work. I chopped up the bumper support to allow more airflow past the trans cooler and got the lower mount on it done. Ground off paint to get ready to weld on the intercooler mounts and fiddled with the silicone connections a bit more. I will also move the top of the rad 1/4" forward to get a bit more fan to engine clearance. Just need to trim the bumper cover for airflow, finish the top cooler mounts, tie in to the radiator support for strength, and plumb in the cooler now. Just about have this knocked out.

Hope the air filter isn't too big of a pain.

1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W

Reply #254 –
Browsing yesterday in hotel, found a possible air filter solution. I will probably have to hack the nose brace to the radiator support off in order to fit it, but I think the shortness of it will work.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-RU-2510/