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Topics - ottoparts

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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Mechanical Fuel Pressure Gauge Cowl Mounting
I performed a search and did not find any threads or pictures to what I am after.

For reference, my car is an 86 "Elan". I'm so fancy LOL
I know the hood goes over our cowl areas, however has anyone installed a fuel pressure gauge on the cowl? If so, how did you do it and still be able to open the hood?
I'll take any pictures of both cowl and hood mounted gauges.


Thank you
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Engine Swapping / Tunnel Ram
I've performed a search and only came up with 2 threads with the reference to "tunnel Ram".
Has anyone put a tunnel ram on their car? If so, do you have pictures of how far through the hood the carbs stick?

Thank you
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User Rides / It happened.
Did some body work on the ol t-bird...

Slowly but surely it turned into a 1960 Falcon (factory) 2 dr wagon.
I was told it was a local racer from back in the 60's and 70's. The tags expired in 1976. The odometer show only 56876 mile on it. Amongst the old paint job you can make out the old name on the car "Sneaky Pete" and on the tail gate "Sheridan Shaker". Can make out some flames as well and the pit crews names are there too. Still has the cage in it to boot. I'm gonna try to do some more back ground on the car and see what I can find.

So that means that my 289/C4 combo I was planning on putting in the t-bird will now be going into this. I want to set this up as a gasser.

So now I have the t-bird up for sale.
Let me know your thoughts an opinions.
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Drivetrain Tech / Welding an 8.8
So I gutted out my 8.8 today and almost ready to weld my tubes.

Anyone here weld their tubes to the center section on an 8.8? How'd you do it? Wire feed or stick? What wire or rod did you use?

Sorry if this is beating a dead horse, I did do a search but I couldn't find the answer I was after.

Thanks.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Dumb question?
Did our cars ever come with manual window regulators or were they all power. I have yet to see any manual windows and I plan on pulling all of my power window stuff out (excess weight to slow me down)  :yuck: .
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Drivetrain Tech / Another score
I picked up a 31 spline trac loc out of an 97 Explorer today for $58.99. This will be going into the 8.8 I got for the bird.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Marker Lens
Not quite ready for them yet. But how hard is it going to be to find the marker lenses for the marker lights right next to the grill on my 88 t-bird?
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Suspension/Steering / Spindels
Is $50 bucks to much for spindles off of a 95 mustang? I have a line on some. The rotors and calipers are gone. So I would only be getting the spindles and dust shields.
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Misc Tech / Sub Frame Connectors
Does it matter if I build my sub frame connectors with the engine and tranny in or out of the car? Thanks.
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Suspension/Steering / Steering rack
I want to get rid of my power steering rack and goto a manual rack. I do not want to buy a high dollar flaming rivers unit. What other donor vehicles are out there that we can use a manual rack off of? Thanks.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Interior
I'm gutting out the interior in my 88 T-bird. Is the interior and gauge cluster worth anything? Or should I just throw it out. Thanks.
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User Rides / $200 Dollar Fun
So here is my some what recently acquired $200 dollars of fun. It's an 1988 with a 3.8 V6 with a bad automatic tranny (no fluid in it). I plan on gutting the car and racing it. I have a 289/C4 set up out of my 65 Mustang I plan on putting into it. Here are the first set of pic's.