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My 85 TBird

Reply #30
Very nice

I have a buddy that has done this swap on his 4 eye mustang and another buddy with a notch

Lots of work

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Reply #31
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STANG8U
Very nice

I have a buddy that has done this swap on his 4 eye mustang and another buddy with a notch

Lots of work


Thanks, It is proving to be a lot of work, but knew it would be. Hope your buddies thought it was all worth it.

Was also able to get some subframe connectors bent up and installed. Based them off of the Global West versions, they may be a bit shorter because of moving my trans brackets rearward.







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Reply #33
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Yea it's a bitchin car drivin it a few times one time was at the track it broke lose in 3rd and I almost smacked the wall thank god I saved it

http://www.carcraft.com/featuredvehi...g/viewall.html


Good to hear. Cool write up on your buddies car, I remember seeing it when doing some research into the swap. I am however going to try to be satisfied with the 400 hp from the factory. For a while anyway.

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Reply #34
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i am however going to try to be satisfied with the 400 hp from the factory. For a while anyway.

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Reply #35
Yea a stock termi is nothin to shake a stick at lol

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Reply #36
Very nice build your doing, I think all the hard work your putting in will pay off, looks great.  How is the cluster coming?

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Reply #37
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Very nice build your doing, I think all the hard work your putting in will pay off, looks great. How is the cluster coming?



Thanks, I think so too. Not sure about the cluster. Talked to my buddy tonight and it didn't come up and I didn't ask. He's about 3 hours away and I have not seen it for a while, he has some good ideas, so I will leave it up to him. Don't need it for some time, can get it running using the mentor to watch the vitals.

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Reply #38
Couple pics my friend sent a while back. One is a possible layout for the guages and the other is a tbird emblem he milled for the turn signal indicators.
Also sent my dash pad off to Just Dashes. They said 6-8 week turn around.





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Reply #40
Nice

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Reply #41
Very cool!!

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Reply #42
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Also sent my dash pad off to Just Dashes. They said 6-8 week turn around.

 
What was the cost of the Just Dashes service?

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Reply #43
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What was the cost of the Just Dashes service?


They quoted me $750.00 over the phone. When they get the dash they said they will contact me with the actual price, but that it should be as quoted. It is much more than I want to pay,(I don't think I paid that much for the whole car back in 1994) but for what I am putting into the rest of the car I am not going to look at a dash cap, cover, or cracks. I will post some before and after photos when I get it back.

 
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Drewstang
Nice work so far, keep it up and get this thing done.


I have high hopes of driving it this summer. It comes down to funding and ambition. Back when I had all kinds of ambition, I didn't have the funding. Now that funds are not so hard to come up with, I have half the ambition, I am not sure where, or when I lost it, but if anybody runs across it let me know.

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Reply #44
very nice work!!  I really cant wait to see this finished ;)  and that bird emblem your buddy milled is amazing....