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1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #180
Its supposed to be 50 on Tuesday.....

Car weather is coming....yeah...

Travis

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #181
It's getting warmer turbotrav, ts it time yet?
How fast is fast?

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #182
Finally will be above 50 this weekend....maybe some car time....

Trav

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #183
, it's still chilly up north? It's been in the 70's and 80's here for several weeks. I actually got my bird fired up for the first time since October and got to cruise it around last night.
You should be real close to starting it up, right?
TC#1- 2.5T- 10.14@134....9.76@138 with a 50shot
TC#2- Turbo BBF project
TC#3- parts car

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #184
Well Chris its finally warm here....but working on swapping the A4Ld on my 80k 87TC, so I can sell her....then the big cougar gets love.

Trav

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #185
Ok....so blue tbird is about done.  Replaced my eec power relay...then my PIMP didn't respond anymore.

Sent that back to manufacture.  Like in our modern times it needed a firmware update.  So now it's on its way back.

So maybe next week if I get lucky.

Travis

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #186
Go get em.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]:ford:87 Turbo Coupe through the floor sub frame connectors, 5.8 swap Ford racing heads Harland sharp 1.6 rockers BBK shorty swap headers 2 1/2 BBk X pipe magnaflow ler's. Megasquirt 2 with 36lbs injectors on hurricane intake with 4150 throttle body.Tremec TKO 600 Quicktime blowsheild spec stage 3 clutch. 3.73 gears and still not done


1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #188
So what ever happened to this build???
Brian R.
88 2.3t Ranger
83 TC  gt40p motor,Vortech,TFS1 cam,long tubes,MS PnP,T5,8.8,17x9 Cobra 17s

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #189
Sorry Guys

So after a few years im back...the cougar has been in storage.  With the battery and starter solenoid gone.  Just had lots of life getting into the way.  But i bought a new red top optima battery and starter solenoid.
I will be inventorying what is going on with the car.  Really haven't looked at it in 3 years....terrible I know.  I believe there is a new Pimp update, so I will probably do that.  The on3 performance 3.5" downpipe is just too big.
Makes packaging so terrible.  So probably need a new one of those.  Then the starter did not engage the engine when I went to start her in October 2015.  But I bought the start back in 2012, before I figured out the 157tooth verse 164tooth.  So I believe that is a problem also.  I just have to remove the tranny lines to get to the starter....grrh.

Well that is all for now.  I will be hanging on this site abit more.  I will go through my big thread here, as the links are mostly broken.  I will be fixing them.

Thanks,

Turbotrav

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #190
Good to see you back around. Few long term projects making some progress around here, must be something in the air.

1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #191
Right....went and inventoried the car....really needs a bath.
More to come.

Travis

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Reply #192
So....couple more years have went by.....

The XR7 is back to my garage....got a chance to wash her by hand....feels good.

I had my buddies 88TC in my garage for the last 5 years....but that is now gone.

Plus my garage was leaking....got a new roof.

Here is a couple of pictures...

https://imgur.com/a/37JYi8S


Re: 1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #193
Nice to see something other than the modern 'stuff'.
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Re: 1986 XR7 351 turbo swap....

Reply #194
Looks great
'88 'bird, 10.9:1 306 w/TFS top end, forged rods/pistons, T-5 swap & bunch of other stuff, 1-family owned, had it since ‘98, 5.0tbrd88 on Instagram and YouTube