1987 LTD CV 2 Door

[P72Ford]

I never made one of these for this car, so I guess I'll make this a catch all for anything and everything related to my coupe.

1987 Ford LTD Crown Victoria 2 Door

**Original build thread:
http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthre...cle&highlight=

**My build:
http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthre...upe&highlight=

**Updates:
http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthre...upe&highlight=

*Background:
-I bought this car from GMGT (Tom; site founder) in November of 2010. I believe it was delivered to me on the 6th (I had it shipped up from Tom's, in Alabama). It was in poor running condition, with a half finished carb swap.
-The car was previously owned by Scottmang (lincolnmania), and the original build (engine, drivetrain, suspension, slicktop, etc) was done by Scott and Company at his Pennsylvania shop.
-I had visted Scott's shop numerous times during the build (for meets, etc), and had seen the car before. I believe it was SF09 that Tom took me for a ride in the car, when it wasn't even painted yet.
-In Feb/ March of 2010, we had a Quaker Steak and Lube meet (showed up in my newly purchased half ton Dodge), where I saw the coupe "finished", although plagued with EFI tuning/ drivability issues.
-The next time I saw it was when it was delivered to my brother's work, fresh off the car hauler, about 3 years ago.

After storing it for the first winter, I tore into the car in the spring of 2011. Pulled the engine and transmission, and prepared to complete the carb swap. I cleaned, detailed and painted the undercarriage, and engine bay. I made some performance upgrades to the fuel system (fully mechanical), and eliminated any trace of EFI. I added a performance valvebody and high stall converter, MSD distributor, mechanical secondary Holley carburetor, and prepared to regularly race the car at the track. I was shooting for a 13 second car, with Ford parts, in a streetable, sleeper configuration.

I became sidetracked with life (work, women, etc), and ended up buying a new 5.0 Mustang. The LTD was neglected, until I sold off the 5.0 and started putzing with it again. Thats where I'm at now. Future plans include a big block (385 series) swap, and a 5 speed.

Specs are as follows:

*Chassis*:
-ES poly body mounts
-ES control arm bushings throughout
-HD shocks
-900 in/lb F, 225 in/lb rear Tru- Coil springs
-Police sway bars
-Big brake swap
-Rear disks
-Late model P71 steering box
-Trunk mount battery

*Body*:
-'79 apperance package
-Slicktop conversion
-18x9, 18x10 Anthracite Bullits; 275 40 18 Nitto 555s, 305 45 18 NT05R DRs.

*Engine*:
-.020 over '97 302
-GT40P heads, minor bowl work
-Early SD HO cam, installed straight up, measured and degreed
-Edelbrock Performer RPM Air Gap Intake
-Holley 600 DP
-FRPP headers
-Mustang pipes, Impala tails, Flowmaster single chamber mufflers
-Electric fans

*Drivetrain*:
-AOD, rebuilt by Brian
-Stacked plate cooler, with AN lines
-Dirty Dog 3600 stall NLU converter
-Silverfox VB, with selectable OD
-B&M +3 qt pan (it hangs low)
-8.8, with 3.73s, and a fresh 8 cloutch trac lok

Its very neat, clean, and subtle. The interior is stock, with a small Autometer tach, trans temp, water temp, oil pressure and volts gauges. Theres an aftermarket head unit, but I removed the subs and amps. The underhood wiring has been stripped and organized; lightweight seatbelts have been added (no more shoulder belts), and sound deadening has been removed. The entire A/C system has been removed (evaporator core too). Lightweight police bucket seats, and no unecessary equipment is present.

Check linked threads for more pics.

[P72Ford]

Some build pictures.

[P72Ford]

Some of these are how the car looked when I got it.

[P72Ford]

More from when I first got it.

[P72Ford]

These are the two latest. And theres a video out there on Facebook if you're friends with me.

I'll have more pictures when I finish buffing/ detailing it.

Scott, thats your schoolbus yellow on the truck bed.

[miamibob]

Lots of detailed work and CLEAN!! What else is there to say??? ME LIKEY MUCHO!!! Bobby

[sly]

[P72Ford]

I've been given (2) 460 industrial engines (turbocharged, natural gas, from a 60kW industrial generator), special thanks to my Dad. He and I are harvesting them this afternoon.

One has 15 (not a typo) hours on it, the other has 1000.

The heads, intake, cam, etc are junk, but these have the more desirable rods. They both have clean bores, obviously.

I could hold a standard bore, and do a stroker crank, or even keep stock displacement and just get a decent set of heads, a cam, intake, and bigger carb, and get the build started.

I'll use one for the actual build (the low hour one), and the other I'll use to mock up motor mounts, etc.

Eventually I want to go with big displacement, but this may get my big block project started on a budget.

[packman]

Opportunity showed up to your doorstep. 557-632 BBF CV? Two of them at that. You may need to clear that Monte out of the garage and get an early Mustang or Falcon for the other BBF.


Packman

[P72Ford]

Opportunity showed up to your doorstep. 557-632 BBF CV? Two of them at that. You may need to clear that Monte out of the garage and get an early Mustang or Falcon for the other BBF.


Packman

Right now, my garage is empty. The Chevys have all been liquidated. I have my brother's '04 GT in there because my white car is at my Dad's shop (where his Mustang used to be).

And the Dodge goes in the garage too. Soon I'll have my '52 Dodge tractor puller at home, too, when I bring the CV back home.

Spring time I'm getting another toy. Either a new HD street bob, a '10-'12 GT500 in a subdued hue like white, grey, black, or blue, or an '08 Bullitt. We'll see. Already done the Mustang thing, but I miss having a hot, reliable street car. I don't miss the red CS specifically, but I miss that kind of a car. And the '15 Mustangs are gonna be hideous, so I'd like to get into a '10-'14, and I don't want just a plain GT, hence the GT500.

[P72Ford]

Both 460s are harvested. One is at home in my garage, in a crate, awaiting the build.

I had the car running great; then I started to have a fuel starvation issue. Cleaned out my trickflow filter, and all is well. The car is running quite well, though I want to throw a vacuum gauge on it and get the tune perfect. In the spring.

Its back home now, in the garage, with a cover over it, and the battery minder hooked up. Spring time will be registration, insurance, more tuning, and a paint correction.

[P72Crazy]

Very Very NICE!!

[P72Ford]

Blowing the dust off of this thread.

Balancing my house projects with this, and everything else I have going on has been taxing, but progress has been made.

Went to get the VIN verified (need to in order to register) on Saturday, and the car crapped out. Long story short, the fuel tank pick up I made failed. I have the parts on order to fix it, and she should be up and running the end of the week.

Can't wait to get it legal, and take it out and put some miles on it. I've had this car almost 4 years, and haven't hardly driven it (less than 30 miles all told).

I do have a set of TF 170s and an Anderson N41 cam for it, but I kind of just want to enjoy it a little before I pull the engine out again.

[87gtVIC]

Hey Nate Great to hear from ya. I'd say enjoy it for a bit and make the heads and cam a winter time thing to do.