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My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Sickly fast that is!
Now i know how hawks car must feel:D
Finally got all the mods and work done to the point where i can drive it,got a little more work to do but dam she scoots.
Put her sideways and laid about 20 feet of traction lock rubber in first,almost put her into the kurb(i'll have to watch that:evilgrin: ).
Seeing 10lbs of boost right now at 5500rpm with my vortech SQ-trim and she still wants to climb,but do to the limitations of the stock 5.0L block at this hp level i will keep it under 6k.
I'm goona surprise the hell out of some mustang and vet owners,muhhahahahaha!:flame:

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #1
Cool.  Glad to hear it's running.  I'm just getting mine moving again too...

Just keep it between the curbs :D
Long live the 4-eyes!  - '83 Tbird Turbo - '85 Marquis LTS - '86 LTD Wagon

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #2
Cool, you oughtta tell us what all you have done. Are you using the stock cougar/tbird block? Dont the 89 up mustangs have forged pistons?
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #3
It's an 87TC converted to 5.0L HO/AOD mass air.
Pro-m 80mm maf
Upr 4" power pipe
70mm bbk tb
Lightly ported cobra upper and lower
Edelbrock 60379 o-ringed aluminum heads,lightly ported
1.7 cobra roller rockers
Stock HO cam
Stock 91 HO shortblock
Ceramic coated shorty headers
Stock stang H-pipe
Modified Mac stang 2 1/2" exaust
Vortech SQ-Trim supercharger(10 lbs of boost)
2400 stall convertor
P/A valvebody
Walbro GSS340 high pressure 255lph fuel pump
Kirban adj fuel pressure regulator
42lb injectors
Msd TFI coil
Msd Pro billet distributor
Msd 6btm ignition
Ford motorsport wires
Andersonford pms standalone computer with handheld tuner
Innovate motorsport xd-16/lc-1 wideband o2
Autometer phantom boost gauge
Mac 8.8 diff Girdle
Factory 3.73 Trac-lock
Soon to be chuck's motor mounts and bobs subframes
(waitin for the mail)
Think that's about it,car is a monster for 3900lbs.
Can't wait to get it dyno tuned and get some real #s.
Right now it's gotta be puttin down over 400rwhp.
Like i keep sayin,i'll try to post some pics,i always get to busy,but i'll definetley try.

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #4
I hate hearing that another Turbo coupe got chopped for a 5.0 conversion. But atleast it sounds like one hell of a bad ass motor went in there. Keep up the work and WE NEED PICS!
84 Turbo coupe 2.3T Modded with 88 upper and lower intake, 88 injectors, E6 manifold, T3-4 AR.60 turbo, 31X12X3 FMIC, Homemade MBC , Greddy knock off BPV.
4 eyes see better than 2! 
Da Bird!

FreeBird

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #5
Way to go dominator....

Suspect it feels about like mine did with the 125hp shot, definatly one bad mofookie...

 

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #6
I need to start modifying my 5.0L:evilgrin:
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #7
Yea and it's still boosted,lol.
Just love seeing the factory boost gauge rise again(i have an aftermarket autometer as well,also much harder now to watch that gauge than when the 4 banger was in there and keep it straight)and not for the 5.0L.
I gotta get pics up soon,just haven't had time as of yet.
Have a few slight things to work out before i start driving it again but no she goes how a 3900lb car should.

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #8
I bought a new digital cam,so here are the pics,finally!

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #9
A few more of the wideband and pms.

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #10
Looks totaly frickin awsome. How long has it took to get it this far?

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #11
Quote from: 84 Fila
Looks totaly frickin awsome. How long has it taken to get it this far?

Thats a totally awsome setup Dominator!
One 88

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #12
It's Cougar SE to the rescue as the spelling and grammar police!:nono:  Like you've never made a spelling/grammar error before!  Get real

Nice Ride dominator.

My car is sick!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #13
Thanks guys,figured you would appreciate some pics.
Has been about 2 years of finding parts for good deals(ebay,corral)
And i've been a little lazy lol,can't count how many people who asked me where i lived cause i had all these parts in my closet, lol.
Took about a week straight to get everything in and running decent,got a few things still left(finish up my msd install,chuck's motor mounts and a valvebody change)May tackle them today.
Just driving my SC for now till i get the TC setup so i don't burn it down.
All the  that these blower companies feed you about "complete ready to run" setups,can't count how much money i spent on 42s,pms,wideband,regulator just to name a few,for reliability and do it yourself tuning.
Word of warning for anyone that want's to put a blower on there car:
1. reserch is KEY,can't believe how much i've learned that i did not know,spent hours on the corral,stangtuning,etc to understand the mechanics of forced induction.
2. Once you buy a used blower and think you got a deal,but really found out that an A-Trim is not what you wanted but an S-Trim is and have to sell it.
3. Don't think that your done spending just because you got a blower kit(thought i was till several thousand dollars later) all the extra parts you have to buy,as i mentioned above get costly.
4. Buying a blower to put on your 5.0L and mashing the gas to watch that factory boost gauge rise once again PRICELESS!!!