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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 88 Cougar Looking for New Home
Anybody interested in taking over my project? It started as an 88 cougar ls with the 3.8L and after the headgasket blew, I replaced the motor with a 3.8sc out of a 95 supercoupe. The car ran fine for a while, I lost 3rd gear in the stock transmission so replaced it with a rebuilt  transmission form a 5.0L LSC. The car then started acting up, surging and not running properly, so grabbed the entire wiring harness from a 94 supercoupe and the conversion started but as I wasn't doing it myself, not sure where it was left off. I don't remember the last date it fired up but when it did, it only started by bypassing the fuel pump. The car has been sitting for a very long time now in an asphalt driveway on 4 flats. I have a turbocoupe rear-end along with it that was never put in and I believe I have all new brakes for that rear end, still in boxes.

I don't have the time or knowledge to finish it myself and although I would love to have it finished, my funds would be better used elsewhere. The car followed around the mechanic from shop to shop but he never finished it and he went through many personal issues so left the area and we havent been in contact for years. My brother will be building a house on the land where it currently is stored so it needs to go. The car is located in Boston, MA.

Below is a picture of it in its glory and some pictures from last weekend. She could definitely use a good cleaning and some love but overall not bad for as long as she's been sitting. The house build is starting quicker than expected so she needs to go one way or another within the next week or so and I'd rather see her go to someone who will finish the build and enjoy it. 

I didn't know this site was still going and couldn't remember my credentials. Unfortunately it needs to go very soon and I may end up calling Kars for Kids.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / Gauging Interest
Hi guys, it's been a long time since I've been on this board.  I still have the 88 Cougar with the 95 Supercoupe engine but it's been sitting/not running for quite sometime now.  I purchased all of the wiring and the computer for the 95 SC but the wiring was never completed.  The cougar is sitting at my parents house and they want it gone.  I have many other vehicles at this point and don't have room for it at my house in its current state.  I was planning on trying to find someone to finish the wiring for me so that I could get it running again but also trying to weigh my other options.  I started this thread to guage interest of board members interested in purchasing it?  Or maybe offering up your services to rewire it (could work out a deal).

Thanks
Mark
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / TC Backing Plates
Does anybody have any backing plates for a tc rear in good condition? Or does anyone know where I can buy some new ones? I'm going to be putting the tc rear in my cougar soon and my backing plates are pretty much destroyed .
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Body/Appearance/Interior / What do you think?
I took a quick pic from both sides with all the wheels on. My mechanic still has it cuz it has one leaky injector that he will find this week at some point.
He found the draw, it was the alternator which was fairly new and put in a new fuel pump cuz the one that I had previously got was defective causing it to
have problems. He just put in the new alarm/auto start system and fog lights(not in the pic). I'm hoping to have her back this week and make the meet
with some tccoa people in the area on sunday. I'll get better pics later when I have the car but what do you guys think of it right now?
 
 

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Audio & Other Aftermarket Electronics / New System
Right now I have 2 10" MTX.

But I was looking to get a better louder system. I came across 2 of these:

They are 15" Xtant X. Also 2 boxes and an Xtant amp, which I found out later is 2 channel 140 watt, all for $700. I hooked up the amp with my current wires and bridged one sub to that amp but the amp obviously does not have enough power for those subs. I have other plans for that amp so it won't go to waste. One of my brothers friends was over one day and he has two 12" rockford fosgates in his truck, we disconnected them and hooked up one of my 15s and it sounded so much better. Then I came across this on ebay:

Its 1 channel 1000 watts. All this equipment has been sitting around for a while now but I will be be putting them in this summer hopefully. I will need to have the subs custom built into my trunk because the boxes won't fit side by side. Well the guy that put my new body kit on said that he could custom build them into the trunk. I saw his setup which he also custom built and it came out real nice. So my question is to you guys is, will I need to upgrade my alternator to run this setup? Thanks.
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Lounge / Got my wheels
After waiting forever, they finally came. They're goin on in the spring but just wanted to get opinions on them.



They're quick pics, I'll try to get better ones later. Here are the adapators that I got with them but I thought they were going to drill 5 lug and have the adaptors from 4-5 lug but the wheels are drilled 4 lug and it seems like they are the right pattern. It seems the adaptors are drilled to the same pattern too which is weird, so it would be kind of pointless for me to have them so I'll probably return them but after I make sure I don't need them. The adaptors fit into the wheels and I took the adaptors and put them up to the cougar lug to lug and they matched up so I probably won't need them. This is what the adaptors look like. You put them on and secure them with the normal lug nuts and then put the wheels on them and secure the wheels with other lug nuts. I told some people I'd post the adaptors, they seem like they'd be really secure so if anyone is interested they do make 4-5 lug adaptors. Their site again is:
http://www.autogainesville.com/wheels/wheel_adapters.htm.


So what do you guys think?
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Installing Body Kits
What's the best way to have to it done?  What have other people done? 

I had my first kit put on at a regular body shop and they basically don't do custom work, only repairs, so it was their first kit and it came out good but it was the McK Plastics kit and you could tell that the front piece and the rear piece were three pieces, you could notice where they were pieced together and the whole kit was bolted on.  I went there because the body shop manager is a good friend of the family and they do good work, I had them put a whole new front end on the cougar when my brother almost totaled it, while I was away, driving it without my permission and you wouldn't even know just by looking at it.  They installed the kit, removed all rust and dents, and painted the whole car for 1500.  Now since I slipped on ice over the winter, hitting a curb and f*cking up that kit, I went out and bought a fiberglass kit from automotive and brought it back to the same shop where they are going to charge the same price.  I bought the fiberglass kit because it's 4 pieces instead of eight so that I won't have those lines in the kit where they were pieced together.  Anyway I had told them to urethane the kit on this time because I was told that urethane will hold it no problem but a half hour ago I get a call saying that the only way they will put it on is by bolting it. 

So I ask again what's the best way to have this done, should I look for another shop just to install them?  Should I have the bolts filed down to sit as one with the kit (the only problem there is it would be a  to remove, if necessary)?
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Aftermarket hoods
I'm getting ready to order the ground effects and put the cougar in the body shop but this is the last time I want it in the body shop so I want to do everything and I'm thinking about gettin a hood.  What's out there beside the cowl induction hood and the tc hood?  I really like the look of the ram air hood on the ws6 trans ams, does anyone know if anything similar is offered for these cars?  What do people reccommend getting?  Thanks.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / 5 lug conversion
My mother had her rims put back on her Tahoe today so I went with her and was lookin at rims for the cougar but aside from the cobra replicas, all the other wheels were pretty shiznitty.  So because I want something different, I'm not gonna go with the cobra replicas.  I was wonderin if ne one nos of some nice wheels with the 4 lug pattern.  I'm really considerin doin the 5-lug conversion and was wonderin if its hard, time consumin and/or costly?  Well mainly costly, if I had more time id try it myself but I got a ton of work I gotta do for school by the end of the month so I got my work cut out for me.  I'll probably bring it somewhere to have done.  I'd ask my mechanic but hes been really sick lately and hasnt been to work for a lil more than a week and plus he's already gonna take the car for new shocks, struts, gas tank, alignment and to put the turbo coupe rear in.  Thanks for any help.
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User Rides / bought a new whip
I picked up this beast yesterday.  its got a fairly new 350, fairly new tranny, and had $2500 worth of body work, not one spot of rust on it.

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Body/Appearance/Interior / mirrors
well since this happened not too long ago from slippin on ice and hittin a curb:



I'm gettin a new body kit and puttin it in the body shop sometime this month.  i wanna do everything to it this time, I'm gettin doors from crystal cuz mine are all rotted underneath so i was wonderin if ne one has an extra pair of chrome mirrors, i thought someone had said they did before but i could be wrong.  If no one has any, does ne one no of a place thatll rechrome them cheap? thanks.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / gas tank
well my fuel pump went a couple weeks back so i paid madd loot and got that replaced but once the tank was out i saw it was in bad shape but its in worse shape than i thought....i got a leak and its killin me financially...so i was told not to fill it up all the way and it shouldnt leak but it still does so i need a new tank if ne of u have one in good shape or can get one cheap lemme no. its for an 88 cougar ls. thanks
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Mirrors
When i bought my car it came with chrome mirrors. well since then the chrome has peeled off and they look like shiznit.  i was wonderin if ne one got them redone or know where i can get them redone and for how much? thanks