Just curious what you're doing with your TurboCoupe? Mine is a time capsule but I am about to crawl out of my skin to install a 3.5 EcoBoost or an old school 5.0 w/ serious HP.No snow or ice for us. Been caught in rain a few times. Once going for install of my ppf & cermic coating. Detailer is top notch & appointments are difficult.
I generally avoid rain w/ 7 or 8 titled and insured vehicles.
I wrk from hm mostly in my shop anyhow.
Regardless of trying to avoid rain & worse weather. My goal is to wear this Turd boiler out before I take a dirt nap.
Who ever says in there last days.. If not sudden.
"Wish Id drove 1 of my favorite car
(like my 'Litt) much less, all these yrs. Now that im bout to die?"
Im hoping to wear this tradh barge out & it tosses its guts the day before I dont wake up again.
So with that said. Im gonna try to kerp it clean & drive the rims into the asphalt as much as I can.
It is hard when u hav several other turd boilers you really enjoy driving. They all have a unique quality about them so its tuff to get tons of miles on everything.
That said. My Litt is in my top 2 favorites for nearly any driving days that dont involve knowing precipitation is gonna be heavy or freezing.
I too dont really hav to wash it much. As every fuel stop includes a wipe down & before I go out I do a twice around it.
My other trash barges do not get that attention. So maybe it is my favorite vehicle & Im just afraid to say it out loud.
If that dam mt82-d4 had a plug in wiring harness solution. That be the 1 thing Id want to chg.
Go to a tremec..
vs the Gestapo Commie gearbox.
Anyone know if a new Mock 1 wiring harness
( as it uses the Litt mill)
will help perpetuate the installation of the Tremec in a Bullitt??
w/o butchering the harness??
The D-4 is ok if u drive like Jed Clampet drunk & Granny's mountain dew.
It just doesn't respond to aggression.
The Nazi row boat likes to be treated like some of the girlfriends u'v had..or ive had .
Those who tend to like the movements nice & slow, vs the approach of the manic--
"biting off shirt buttons" style of shifting.
On that 1 trip in rain early on in ownership to detailer to get color correction & film/cermic. My headlights got moisture inside the lenses. They dried out ok..
Anyone ever deal with that issue either?
Besides trans swap. I bought it to drive & leave reasonably stock. Not interested in headers yet, or other hotrodin or race tactics implemented into it.
We have those other types of cars in our junkyard arsenal of vehicles.
This for us was a drive it like we bought it car. Other than the junk azz D4. & clutch perhaps.
A 6 finger - 2/3 disc Long style, has always been my preference for short hits of less than 1400ft or so. Anyone who tjinks the 1320 is 1320 hasn't used a lateral Gmeter much.
We had tried carbon / carbon clutchs long ago. Way TO FINICKY to getting heat into it right. We installed qwik reading thermal-couples into our Titanium bellhousings, to try to get some repeatability & find utopia.
& it still rarely made a great hit on front half at that. Once in a while U found a bone as a blind dog might w/it.
As temp has to be sorta exact for each & every launch variant/situation that you ran into. Easier to dig a hole to China that accomplish that feat id say.
Way to much BS for no real gain.
Jus need a better trans w/a 1:1 - 5th gear at times. We'll survive w/o it thou.
Regards,
If I wasn't on such a cash burn doing stuff for my wife ( & myself)-Just curious what you're doing with your TurboCoupe? Mine is a time capsule but I am about to crawl out of my skin to install a 3.5 EcoBoost or an old school 5.0 w/ serious HP.
here's my 87 TC:If I wasn't on such a cash burn doing stuff for my wife ( & myself)-
ie: hm & property improvements.
I'd put it bk together, as its sitting atop 1 of my several chassis jig tables, & finish a 385 series midplate (already hav the front motorplate) & go Nostalgia Pro Stock Racing w/it.
It's a NHRA/IHRA stickered, 6.0 legal 25-1 car now. Steel roof & quarter car w/Carbon /Carbon front end/doors.
Bk then Hairy REFUSED to build us carbon rear bumpers & sometimes deck lids ( instead he did epoxy resin E-Glass) cuz he would say.. U guys put a buncha ballast in bk of these cars anyway. I'm not wasting my time & ur money doing rear bumpers/decklid in carbon.
Shows u how crazy motorsports technology chgs. Now we cannot get enuff weight iff the rear of these cars.
NHRA mandated a minimum rear weight after Gordie crashed at PHX yrs ago.
So unless I find a money man who wants to drive & put some skin in the game for a mill. I guess it's in climate controlled storage for now in my non client area of our facility.
If I thought I could get a real title for it w/o goingvto jail, I'd put a Gen2 block in it w/a Jeffco & drive it to the track & race it. Since its historical, I dont hav to hoop jump or get safety inspections or emissions.
Its friggin lite. She prolly come in under 2000lbs even w/the aluminum Jeffco ( vs magnesium lenco cases) & a Browell aluminum bell housing w/liner, which I hav 1 still I thk. Sold my last Titanium can & regret it. They are to heavy. But for hanging a heavy tranny on they do not give u the grief an aluminum can possibly can over time.
W/gen 2- 308" sleeved eng I'd run the instant green stuff w/no time slip.
I prefer to be crew chief vs driver 99% of the time, cuz I am better at the car setup & always had access to many great drivers who could tape the boxes the parts come in... together..& get the car A to B better than myself.
And vice versa. As most every team I ever left as crew chief lacked the W's fir more than 1 yr after my leaving the program. I hav 1 undefeated Pro Street yr on my resume. Had a great driver who actually listened for once. Those guys are better than a great driver who wont listen.
My drivers hate my lil horn outside but luv the 60's & 330's I produced.
That chits gettin to be the past now anyhow. But yeah. If I were King for a day?
A 499" -Boss 429 w/Tom Robert's LOS ( line of site intake port) heads that won more IHRA mountain mtr championships than I could count.
If I'm footing the bill on the Thunder chicken. Something like my 'Litt eng. platform w/bryant billet crank & no idea yet what induction. Got screw blowers lined up like cord wood.. hut only 1 has a Holley EFsi 24 injection setup on it. All are Drazy's screws.
Whipple could never outrun a Stormin Norman supercharger for any championship w/o 150" more displacement...& still only won divisional titles like Chuck & Tom did using a 600" plus Whipple ..
U guys prolly never seen a front loader Whipple before?
The rotors are solid. Stormin Norman's were hollow magnesium at 1st till they all blew apart at 24,000rpm rotor speed. So he laminated them like stacking Ritz crackers w/peanutbutter between ea plate. ( heat activated glue actually)
An so the 475" Drazy spun up much qwiker than the Whipple ever could.
The laminated plates are ~.100" & look like snowflakes u made in 2nd grade from paper. Phluckin Norm was beyond GENIUS. He designed EVERYTHING INCLUDING the hardest part. The rotor screw helix.
Whipple just went to Sweden & had Sullair build all his & shipped um state side. Norm was shipping 1st gen rotors to England cuz nobody had a Holroyd machine stateside that wasn't a Mil Spec GOVERNMENT contract machine till he bought 2.
Hell. Norm even made all the patterned for the magnesium molds. Well. Jerry made them on manual mill but Norm did all that crazy shrink call's & the drafts on the castings.
If U ever wanted to know how dumb u were. U just had 1 conversations w/Norm Drazy about anything supercharger related. Like drinking from a firehose trying to grasp his flippin intellect during explanatory anything.
I once made mistake of asking him why METHANOL VS ETHANOL.
10 min later he still drawing the 2 molecular bond models & explains why METHANOL is the only way to go & the corn juice is anatomically trash.
MAN I miss that smart phluckin guy.
If ue couldn't giv u sn answer on a blower problem. Doubtful anyone could. He built for fun a roots blower for Top Fuel. Within 2 months. If U didn't hav his Roots on Ur NHRA Fuel car. U were even in the bottom half of the field. & he was jus rockin around cuz he got bored when he took on a roots. As a lifetime screw guy from aviation industry 20 yrs before retirement & built the 1st competition screw blowers in 80s.
Man..that's an idiotic rant. Scratch that pcs of chit post off the map..
I'm going to bed. Gotta be up in 3 hrs for a run to Oklahoma on a 7hr rnd'er. I don't hav to drive 1st,
thk Gawd..
Send me a pic of ur T Bird. I'd like to see it.
I really wish I could relate to most of u guys here..
but I cant.. But I'm stuck in a hot tub time machine from days gone by.
I'd say thou.. U youngin's need us ole bastards..
so we can die off 1 day..
& leave our money & possessions to the next 2 generation below us...
& u guys can just blow thru what we worked 4000 hrs a yr for @ 30+yrs,
to accumulate...
& U all are Not afraid to spend it all like we weren't... cuz we thk it may run out on us before we die... LMAO
So u gotta tolerate us ole cantankerous Phlucks. Till we die anyway.
Hey. This is good bedtime story. Put u to sleep fast..
Send a Pic.. T-bird.. thx
Thx for the pic. A nice way to bring a smile to an ole man's face!here's my 87 TC:
its really too nice of a time capsule to make into a 1/4 mile beast.
I like sleepers, so this would be so much fun to squeeze a fuel injected 335 stroker into.
Also very true. I don't mind washing, its the polishing and keeping the already Ford supplied Flawed paint as decent as possible.Rain doesn't hurt my car. I drive it. I wash it. Its a car.