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1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #30 –
You should definetly come up here for Power Meet ;)
The Russian guy has his own site (http://www.tcco.ru) and he said he's coming back next year. Apperently he has already booked hotel for it.

I mean I've only seen newer european cars with rear fog lights in Sweden.

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #31 –
I'd love to visit Power meet, but it's too expensive for me now. Maybe in few years.

Fog lamps were mandatory in our country since 1995. Owners of older cars had to add an aditional rear fog lamp somewhere. So now all cars here have rear fog lamps (almost all).
And the most funny part is, that in our law is that you HAVE TO turn on the rear fog lamp in poor conditions, ... and you CAN add front fog lamps to rear fog lamps. That means, that you shouldn't be able to turn on the front fog lamps first. How funny, I don't know ANY car, which has a combined headlamp switch (pull  for fog lamps) where you turn on the rear fog lamp first. Even czech Škodas don't pass this law and they turn on front fog lamps first and rear second.


Let's move our discussion to skype, or PMs :)

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #32 –
I love weird laws! Every country has a few laws that doesn't make any sense at all :D

My friend and I was doing some photoshooting of my T-bird today!
Here's a pic from my cellphone. I'll upload good photos later when he's done with them :)

Oh and I accidently did a burnout...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvtjFZ4Ur8&feature=youtu.be
Uhm.. three of them (actually four, that pic was taken before the last burnout which is the one in the video).


I love my little birdie birdie :D

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #35 –
So I had the car N/A for one summer and now it's time for boost.
Bought this of a guy at Corral.net (best guy I've ever dealt with by the way!).
It's a Procharger D1, brand new never used about 10 years old if I don't remember it wrong. Doesn't matter, gonna give me boost!
Now it's just the long wait of getting it to Sweden... :)





And I've also bought race seats and 4 point seatbelts. Pics of that is coming (going to pick them up on friday).
At the moment I'm tearing the interior apart for the upcoming changes of the car :)

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #36 –
A small update!
Got the seats in the car and seatbelts in place. Got some seat rails from a Volvo 240 and modified them to fit in the T-bird. Lots of work but it's in!


Also recieved a package from the US a few weeks ago containing these parts

Aeromotive 13103 FPR, Autometer Boost gauge and fuel pressure, A/F monitor and SN95 Mustang gauge pod

Time to deal with the floorpans and get them painted! :)

And sorry about the py pics, cellphone pictures :(

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #37 –
Looking good, I have those same autometer gauges, love the metal looking face on them.
88 Turbocoupe: Coast High Performance 331 kit 28oz balance, Comp XE264HR14 cam, 58cc 185 afr heads, 1.7 roller rockers, Mass-Flo EFI (was POS to setup and their techline is a joke at best)
Full 1 5/8 primary equal length headers, 2 1/2 exhaust, Full manual reverse VB c4 and baked off clear coat "BECAUSE RACECAR"

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #38 –
Yeah those gauges are shagy :)
Continued on the car today.

First off I put some etching primer on the places where I have removed rust

When I painted the first layer of black. Decided to just use a paint brush because noone will ever see it and it's too much trouble protecting both my car and my dads cobra from paint dust if I'd spray it. Much easier to just brush it :)

And then we got snow!
 

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #39 –
Some progress from today then! :)

My dad doesn't want rear monted battery anymore in his Terminator so I went ahead and stole the battery box from him.
On it's way out! s who put it in the car did it when the gastank wasn't installed in the car and the gas tank is in the car right now. Do I need to say more? It was a pain the ass to just remove it!

Then I made some mounting brackets for it

Some wiring

Box is in place!

Lid on! Steeda is shagy ;)

The finished Volvo 240 seat brackets, fits in the T-bird perfectly ;)

But wait... There's no battery!

Anyone knows what this is for?

Overview picture of the garage. Place is a mess with two disassembled cars :hick:

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #40 –
Small picture update
Seats are in and everything around them are finished.
Going to start installing the boost gauge, fuel pressure gauge and A/F ratio monitor as soon as I can and then I'll just sit around waiting for the supercharger to arrive which it should in maybe 2 weeks. So excited! :D

First time I've ever sat in a car with 4 point seat harness and , you're stuck in the seat! Gotta get used to that from now on. Original seat belts are in the car because otherwise it wont pass swedish tech inspection and they're illegal to use on the streets (like I care? ;) )

The sound deadening on the floor pans are removed and it all weighed in at 8.5kg and I first thought the floormat was extremely heavy and considered not installing it again but the car looks so ghetto without it even with freshly painted floor.
So my friend ripped all of the sound deadening material off the floormat and all of it weighed in at 10.5kg. TEN POINT FIVE KILOGRAMS!!! Never would've guessed that, the total weight of the floormat is now around 3-4kg. It's far less than the battery cable running from the trunk to the engine bay.
Also the original seats weighed in at 33kg each, sport seats are 10kg each with tracks and each 4 point harness is maybe 2kg so total I've ripped out maybe 60kg from just some useless isolation and shiznitty seats that were falling apart :)

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #42 –
I put the seats in storage, pretty good to keep even when they're in pretty sad shape.
All of the isolation and such was thrown away

1988 Thunderbird from Sweden

Reply #44 –
The console will ofcourse be put back in the car, it's just not there in the picture :D