What are you planning on doing with the box frame?
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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) -
Probably will try to unload it to someone on Kijiji.Originally posted by johnunit View Post
Made some small progress in the last couple of days. Hacked up the 07' rad support and made some rough mounting plates for the 85' rad support. Gonna make them a bit nicer then weld it all together.
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Did some more work on the car today. Welded up the header panel so that's ready to be painted.
Also started tinkering with the dash. I am having trouble figuring out how to get the box steering shaft attached to the 03+ steering rack as they are completely different.
Plan B is whale dash swap... I made a mock up.
Nowhere near a direct bolt on. Good thing I had a donor car to play around with. top of the dash needed to be trimmed...heavily to clear the windshield. Bottom holes line up though pass side needs to be lowered an inch to sit even with the other side.
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You sure did find the right car to do this with. Mods could be much more brain numbing.
1981 Mercury Marquis Brougham 2-Door 302/ 5-speed -special blend (GMGT)
1987 Lincoln Mark VII 5-speed (Errand runner)
1989 Mercury Grand Marquis (Base Runner)
2007 Lincoln Town Car Signature Limited (Hustlyn)
2011 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (Down with O.P.P)Comment
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Shoot me a PM if you'd be willing to sell bits from it instead.Originally posted by Mr Bean View Post
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)Comment
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Made some more progress today. Test fitted the whale heater and ac box which bolts right in. Dash also fits surprisingly well and lines up with the heater box. Might have to make a half inch spacer though or bring the dash closer to the firewall. Had to trim the metal dash frame a little on the driver side but otherwise went right in. Looks like I trimmed too much at the top so might have to find another dash skin at the junkyard. when it's all finished for better look.
Firewall will need to be modded for the whale steering shaft bearing. I hacked off a donor piece from the parts car so I should be able to make something that works.Comment
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Moving along slowly but surely. Welded up the firewall today to fit a Whale steering shaft.
As it turns out Whale parking brake pedal bolts right onto the box like it was meant to be there. I also started prepping the frame by grinding away any rust. Still not sure what to use for coating. Been reading a lot of reviews on POR-15, Eastwood and Rust Bullet. Still not sure what I want to use but leaning towards POR-15.Comment
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Got a little more done today. I removed front suspension and started grinding all the rust off the frame. Sadly the 07' frame is not rust free like the 85' frame was. Plenty of surface rust to grind. I did both frame rails in front of the firewall.
After much reading I decided to give Miracle Paint a shot. It's suppose to be as good as POR-15 but without all the extra prep work. I ordered a quart last night so it should be here sometime next week hopefully.
Also, welded in a piece of 07' firewall with a correct steering shaft opening.
The 07' dash fits surprisingly well in there.
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Coming along nicely. Can't wait to see the finished product.1990 MGM: $50 E7 heads, HO cam, Holley SysteMAX lower intake, HO upper intake with an Explorer TB. LSC ECM. Lincoln logs into stock dual exhaust. K&N drop in air filter. Wide ratio AOD, 2400 converter with a 3.08 one tire fire out back. Car is less slow now. Then there's the '92 Beater. Dual 2.25" exhaust with shiny tips. Rumbles nice. Super slow. Burns oil too.Comment
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Wow Serge your kicking ass on this thing.2020 F250 - 7.3 4x4 CCSB STX 3.55's - BAKFlip MX4
2005 Grand Marquis GS - Marauder sway bars, Marauder exhaust, KYB's
2003 Marauder - Trilogy # 8, JLT, kooks, 2.5" exhaust, 4.10's/31 spline, widened rear's, metco's, addco's, ridetech's 415hp/381tq
1987 Colony Park - 03+ frame swap, blown Gen II Coyote, 6R80, ridetechs, stainless works, absolute money pit. WIPComment
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Once this project is road-worthy, will it be your summer toy or driven year-round?'79 Continental Town Car
'90 Crown Victoria LTD
'94 Crown VictoriaComment
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Been working on it almost every day after work for the last couple of weeks.Originally posted by pantera77 View Post
This definitely won't be driven year-round...unless I move South where there is no snow. This will be a summer toy.Originally posted by 79lincolnloverComment
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TOY!
I want to turn one of mine into a real toy... but I don't have the tools or funds right now to really do so. I'll just live vicariously through projects like this.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
rides: 93 Crown Vic LX (The Red Velvet Cake), 2000 Crown Vic base model (Sandy), 2003 Expedition (the vacation beast)
Originally posted by gadget73
... and it should all work like magic and unicorns and stuff.
Originally posted by dmccaig
Overhead, some poor bastards are flying in airplanes.Comment
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Wow! Awesome work man
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