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Electrical Tech / glove box light?
How did this alleged glove-box light mount? I would be interested in seeing a picture of this. My 88 XR-7 does NOT have one.
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Lounge / Another day in the life ....
I would have tossed her keys up onto the roof of the service station, calmly told her the number for the police was 9 1 1, and waited for the law to arrive, hoping the place had a surveillence camera that recorded the whole deal.
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Lounge / Where did the epidemic start?
My wife wanted to buy a Mustang, but in 1987 she saw a TV commercial for a Cougar and decided she wanted one of them.  I got her to wait until the fall because I had read somewhere that the 88's would have duals (exhaust) on the V8s. In October we started visiting Ford and Mercury dealers, we drove a Turbo Coupe but I wanted a V8. So it came down to price shopping between a T-Bird Sport and an XR-7.  We knew we would have to order the car because the only interior color the cars on the lots had was that red.  As it turns out, the local Mercury dealer gave us the best price and on 10-19-1987 we ordered a black XR-7 with a smoke cloth interior. The car was built on 11-20-1987 and we took delivery on 12-14-1987.  The odometer read 5.  A couple of weeks ago I watched the odometer turn to 123456 but I didn't have the camera with me.  It needs to be repainted and I have most of the parts to convert the exhaust to true duals.  My 16 year old son is eyeing the car but now he's talking about a truck (whew!). I have to take some pictures of this car.
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User Rides / Snowflakes!
I agree with your treatment of the wheels, and the all-white car looks good with them.
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Engine Tech / Let's see it !
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I have not done the E7 heads / HO swap, so I would like to see the pictures of this deal.  I realize a search would reveal  near the same thing, but I say post it.
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Electrical Tech / HVAC compressor on with heat
Usually the compressor will run in all positions except "Off", "Vent" and "Heat" to prevent window fogging like kendoo130 said.  I believe there is a thermal switch to prevent the compresor from running below freezng temperatures.  Running in "Heat" would be a malfunction on a manual control, but I'm not that familiar with the ATC.
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Lounge / What did he say ?
Quote from: vinnietbird;275674
When I was with the police department,we used clips for our 9mm pistols.I think it all depends on where you live.Like up North they call distributors a "dizzy".That's a term you just don't here around this part of the country.It's a relative term.



Here in "Jersey" we use the term "clips" also when referring to a semi-automatic firearms's magazine. A magazine is what you read in the doctor's office waiting room.  Like Vinnietbird and Burt Renyolds said in Smokey in the Bandit, it depends on what part of the country you are standing in what a word or phrase means.  Like I always called the powerplant under the hood an "engine".  But racin' boys call them "motors". To me, motors run on electricity and engines run on gas or diesel. But we also called our police motorcycles "motors" or "wheels", but that is getting too far off-topic.