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Show your engine now !!!!!

Reply #150 –
Quote from: 50tbrd88;348629
It would be very cool to be able to shock people by saying you have NOS on a T-bird, lol.  For the money you can beat nitrous and the power gains it gives.  Bang for the buck for sure, but it my case I'm afraid there would quite literally be a "bang" involved.

 
beware there are a lot of hidden cost to do a NOS setup right.  By the time your done buying the kit, bottle warmer, gauges, remote bottle opener, and not to meantion filling the bottle after every 5-7 runs it gets expensive.  Money would be better spent toward a head/cam/intake combo than NOS in my opinion.  I've been there and blew about $1000 on that  and after about a year I sold it all
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Reply #151 –
The Sport has surprised many without it.
'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..

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Reply #152 –
If I punch the 88 from a stop it will go sideways. It gets pretty squirrely sliding around till it grabs. I still think it needs more power in the form of TW heads or a Kenne Bell blower:burnout:.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

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Reply #153 –
From a dead stop,first and second gear are just tire spin and the rear of the car sliding back and forth. I need stickier tires. I would love to get a supercharger one day.....we'll see what happens this year.

I'll post a new pic of the engine as soon as I can swap the valve covers over to a new set.
'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..

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Reply #154 –
It's still a work in progress.

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Reply #155 –
this is when i rebuilt the stock 5.0 about 6 yrs ago. not much has changed apperance wise besides a set of longtubes and a lot of dust


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Reply #156 –
THOSE are the pair of valve covers I want (next to Trick Flows).
'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..

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Reply #157 –
Quote from: thunderjet302;348715
If I punch the 88 from a stop it will go sideways. It gets pretty squirrely sliding around till it grabs. I still think it needs more power in the form of TW heads or a Kenne Bell blower:burnout:.

Why you say that, you want to spin in circles? I can probably burn my tires off ,it just sits there smoking.
Old Grey Cat to this.88 Cat, 5.0 HO, CW mounts, mass air, CI custom cam, afr165's, Tmoss worked cobra intake, BBK shorty's,off road h pipe, magnaflow ex. T-5,spec stage 2 clutch, 8.8 373 TC trac loc, che ajustables with bullits on the rear. 11" brakes up front. +

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Reply #158 –
Quote from: flylear45;348741
It's still a work in progress.

 
hmm nice idea distributorless ignition BUT!

i'm not saying you did'nt know this i just figured i would remind you be for you fire up that motor with out the factory distributor.. ;)

you better get an distributorless ignition gear and shaft adapter or a modified factory distributor to run the oil pump. or it wont run for long ;)


Nick
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there's only about a half a dozen man made objects that are herd by the human ear below 40Hz,a pipe organ,thunder,the space shuttle lifting off,a jet airplane taking off or landing,a large canon,an atomic bomb ignited in your back yard and the heat wave afterward oh wait you would be dead so you would'nt hear it scratch that!,and maybe beating your hear against a wall less then 40 times a second..rap music is'nt one of them!thats 40-60Hz@100+db the moving air is under 40Hz

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Reply #159 –
Quote from: 87thunderbirdBlackJack;348744
this is when i rebuilt the stock 5.0 about 6 yrs ago. not much has changed apperance wise besides a set of longtubes and a lot of dust
thats a sick color scheme
--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

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Reply #160 –
Quote from: sarjxxx;348789
thats a sick color scheme

 
yeah FU ford blue! lol

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Reply #161 –
Ok I will play.
When I first got the car: 1988 Thunderbird




after a stock 302 swap and T5




and finally said hell with it and swapped in a 5.0L HO




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Reply #162 –
and here was my '88 XR-7

basically stock at this point:



After converting the 306 (yes 306, .030" over 302) to HO specs. with ported E7's, E 303 and polished cobra intake. and much more....





and after I swapped in long tube headers and painted the polished intake....  it was a bugger trying to keep it shiny


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Reply #163 –
alright its getting crowded in here. How about a little variety with a current pic:

This is what's know as a 3.8L v6. Yes, a V6. Not 4, or even 8 cylinders, but right in the middle with 6. Some of you guys might have only heard about this mythical engine, but believe me, it does exist. I have proof.:p

--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

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Reply #164 –
I can vaguely remember back to the V-6 years.
'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..