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I think if I had one of those cars again, I would look around for the full intrumentation dash they had as an option. I've seen a few of those lately, and they still look great to me.
Is that going to be a Starsky & Hutch clone?, the new wheels look perfect for that.
When I did the cat delete on my CV I looked under every CV,GM and TC I could find in the JY, figuring somebody had already done that. And sure enough in about two weeks I found a CV with the cats gone. It took me about 15 minutes to get the exhaust pipes off and that was that, no more cats unless I wanted them back on.Last edited by mcninetyone; 01-02-2011, 11:48 PM.
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looks sweet!
i used to just hollow those converters out
1986 lincoln towncar signature series. 5.0 HO with thumper performance ported e7 heads, 1.7 roller rockers, warm air intake, 65mm throttle body, 1/2" intake spacer, ported intakes, 3.73 rear with trac lock, 98-02 front brake conversion, 92-97 rear disc conversion, 1" rear swaybar, 1 3/16" front swaybar, 16" wheels and tires, loud ass stereo system, badass cb, best time to date 15.94 at 87 mph. lots of mods in the works 221.8 rwhp 278 rwt
2006 Lincoln Town Car Signature. Stock for now
1989 Ford F-250 4x4 much much more to come, sefi converted so far.
1986 Toyota pickup with LSC wheels and 225/60/16 tires.
2008 Hyundai Elantra future Revcon toad
1987 TriBurner and 1986 Alaska stokers keeping me warm. (and some pesky oil heat)
please be patient, rebuilding an empire!
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Originally posted by mcninetyone View PostI think if I had one of those cars again, I would look around for the full intrumentation dash they had as an option. I've seen a few of those lately, and they still look great to me.
Is that going to be a Starsky & Hutch clone?, the new wheels look perfect for that.
When I did the cat delete on my CV I looked under every CV,GM and TC I could find in the JY, figuring somebody had already done that. And sure enough in about two weeks I found a CV with the cats gone. It took me about 15 minutes to get the exhaust pipes off and that was that, no more cats unless I wanted them back on.
Yes! STARSKY AND HUTCH!!! ... was wondering when somebody was going to ask that...
*****Not my car. I hope I can get it to look as nice as this one ... *****
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Hey now... Torino update for ya. I'm on hiatus from work right now so I've been going full speed ahead on the body work. This car is my first experience doing my own filler work on one of my cars.
I'm using evercoat everglass for filling over the welds and deep areas. Evercoat rage gold for general filler work and evercoat glaze for creamy finish work and minor dings.
I have taken off the bumpers, grille, trim etc to prepare it for the paint job. I want to paint inside the trunk, under the hood and the door jambs, the works...
I made a little warm- up video by the way, but it's not that great. I'll post it up soon. I should probably make another one...
In this picture- you can see I have already filled the roof section where the opera window was welded over. There's work being done to the panel by the trunk where this ugly fuck bump was... I hammer and dolly'd, heat shrunk with a torch and wet rag then when it was as good as I could get it, filler...
Picture of the opera window welded and all the vinyl top trim holes welded, before any filler.
Here's a couple pics of friends cars at my house. They decided to get into the act of doing there own body work too haha. That's a '79 spitfire and a very ricey honda prelude. My friend with the spitfire is really going for it, as you can see... There is lots of sanding dust going on... hope the neighbors don't complain...
Everybody's getting to work and nice progress is being made to the Torinos c pillar. There is the '85 LTD in the background!
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Originally posted by 1987cp View PostWhere do you live that there's no snow and you can do Bondo outside in the middle of February? You suck!
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Nice work man. I like the look of the car a lot.~David~
My 1987 Crown Victoria Coupe: The Brown Blob
My 2004 Mercedes Benz E320:The Benz
Originally posted by ootdega
My life is a long series of "nevermind" and "I guess not."
Originally posted by DerekTheGreat
But, that's just coming from me, this site's biggest pessimist. Best of luck
Originally posted by gadget73
my car starts and it has AC. Yours doesn't start and it has no AC. Seems obvious to me.
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Originally posted by ford man View PostLos Angeles. It was a nice 80 degrees today lol. It was raining for 10 days straight in december... I was hating it then. Before it was a little cool... around 60-65 so I was using a little hairdryer action to help out the bondo.
Don't get too aggressive with that hair dryer though, if you cause the outside of the bondo to cure too fast in relation to the stuff way down in there touching metal, things can shift and it can cause outgassing and adhesion issues down the road.
85 4 door 351 Civi Crown Victoria - Summer daily driver, sleeper in the making, and wildly inappropriate autocross machine
160KMs 600cfm holley, shorty headers, 2.5" catted exhaust, 255/295 tires, cop shocks, cop swaybars, underdrive pulley, 2.73L gears.
waiting for install: 3.27's, Poly bushings, boxed rear arms, 2500 stall converter, ported e7's, etc
06 Mazda 3 hatch 2.3L 5AT (winter beater that cost more than my summer car)
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Thanks guys.
Thanks johnunit for some sage advice. I think I should be ok... I was mostly using the hairdryer for warming up the panel before the bondo apply then I would kind of wave it around afterwards but not too close to the bondo or in one spot for any length of time. Hopefully the body work will be long lived.
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