OmiKRon

YES, 1000th post!

And to celebrate, I give you a poll!

HAHAHAHEHEHEHOHOHOHOHOHHEHEHE BUCHI!

Anyway,the poll is what do you think I should try to get for christmas, keeping in mind I might get nothing on the list, but its worth trying for 1 thing. :p

Some may say i'm nuts, but i voted for the CD player. Can't be rolling around in a nice ride without some tunes blastin through the windows.

besides, when you're lining up, the guy against you will droip his windows and crank his stereo to compete with you.

At which time you put yours up and kill the stereo, and the a/c, and blow him out of the water.

this is my experience, and i think it's your best choice. whatever comes your way, merry christmas!

LOL!! :wave:

Come on TV, get a lightweight Carbon Fiber CD player... save yourself some weight there! :D

But seriously, I voted for the CD player... but only so you don't gain any performance so I can beat you at the races:finger:

there ya go, DMC gives me justification.

:D

So DMC, wanna buy it for me :D

how could you be driving so long without a sound system? how do you deal with those early mornings, and when your with a bunch of boys. you can't blast yoru music just cruising around town. well i voted to the CD player obviously. but for a nice one that would make a difference over your stock system. i would suggest something more expensive then that. and it will also spruce up your interior alot. but as your adding the new head unit you also need to give them new speakers becaseu the stock 20watt speakers will blow when you put a 400watt unit to it.

:D I've got some new speekers and a massive sub box chillin in my room care of DMC12, he didnt need them so i'm gonna hook them up once I get an amp for the bass

Sprucing up the interior? Already doing so at a slow pace! ;) It was grey, i'm making it black with blue accents, also i'm going to replace my gauges in my dash from idiot gauges to probally phantom guages, or just some generic black guages.

Man, noone wants me faster :p

Originally posted by TerminalVelocity
:D I've got some new speekers and a massive sub box chillin in my room care of DMC12, he didnt need them so i'm gonna hook them up once I get an amp for the bass
I've got an amp from my dad that he said he would sell to you for $5 (because we don't know if it works). Its a 200W amp, bridgeable. I'll bring it by tonight:D

ASS KICKING!

wait....

KICK ASS! :D

OH OH I VOTED FOR GEARS!

i was going to vote for the CAM, cause who cares about music when you can hear the lopy idle? Thats much more pleasing to the ear.

Who needs a stereo? its just weight.

Nova aint gonna have nothing other than basic CD player and basic speakers.

Hell i may not put in a CD player. AM RADIO ONLY... FM is heavier...




:huh: stop looking at me like that...

:uhoh: ... they're trying to get in my head..... STOP IT!... wheres my tin foil hat...?

More HP more Torque! Intake :)

I voted for gears, you would not believe the difference they would make. Forget the intake, you already have the cobra intake which has decent low end ability, you already have the e303 cam? thats a decent cam that would complement steep gears. The shift kit and the springs are decent ideas as well.

hmmm, I also have a birthday commin up so whatever is in second place I might just have to get ;)

pshhhh.. i'll just get you a DVD or something... Smokey And the Bandit or something...


im broke.. i cant afford random car parts for your car... i have my own car to worry about! haha

haHA dvd from you is good, i'm talkin the whole "milk the family" christmas present

From friends its like $20 or less, ,hell, I want al to get me wiper blades :p

get Al engine mounts, and a Oil Filter, and 1 quart of Oil.

hahah.

damn! Expensive, he better buy me a procharger then :p

Gears and a shift kit. You really need both...

You've got too many goodies in that engine to be wasting them with a stock shift pattern...

well...i'd love to get both, but that may not be an option...then again, b-day and christmas :D If I can get shift points to 5grand and hard quick shifts, with 3.73 gears, that will really make me faster

Hey TV, all my previous race challenges are off every time you mod your car:D

My people will have to do a study to determine if we can enter the ring with you, and there's a bunch of red tape and procedures, yadda yadda, yadda;)

Well, if my recollection of the early 90s birds is right, you should have a A4LD tranny, and an 8.8 rear, right? Consider before you dig into the tranny, replacing it with something like an AOD-E, or one of those 5 speed autos.

The gears are a must have!

the normal T-5 is a POS tranny, a built one is good, but way the hell too much work to fit onto my bird, and too much money

I'd love to get a AOD like the stangs, but thats gonna cost me several hundred more than i'll have for christmas and b-day combined :(

I have the 4R70W Transmiton, much like the AODE

The problem being it goes 1-D-OD-N-R-P So, I rev to 5grand in 1st, then it shifts at 4.3 in the other gears, if I could have the shift points changed *like at a dyno* this would help alot.

Oh, isn't the 4R70W a truck tranny? :confused:

I was talking about the 5 speed automatic tranny, I know it was used in the 97 aerostar...

since i know we've talked about it before...

gears.
they make a ton o difference....

screw the music... i've been rolling around with my new titanium exhaust, and no radio, just because i like the way it sounds... and it kinda drowns out the music anyways...
i had a decibel meter on it, and it hits 116db... kinda loud, but oh so sweet...


oh yeah, on topic... gears.

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Anyways, you've got a decent build going, without getting into anything crazy like blowers or raised compression. With a tranny shift kit, and gears, you'll be able to make the most of what you've done.

I really don't see the point in spending as much as you have on an engine if the gearing is set up for long distance cruising...

yep, they have used this wide ratio tranny on trucks

anyone think the 5.4 will bolt up? :D

Ha, the 5.4 is a weak engine! Use the 6.8 Triton!

Come on, 7 liters of OHC smallblock V10, how could you not! Think of the possibilities with 10:1 compression, good dual exhaust, a couple good cams and a full porting job? I think 400 hp is not unreasonable.

I've seen the swap done in a Mustang, and it weighs LESS than the 5.0

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1866441684

I'm not a post whore, this is valuable info! :rolleyes:

my shit I would love to have that in there

but for now I just ordered a shiftkit with some money I had, no clue why I bought it but hey, FUN! :D

Maby cuz I smoked that GTI :p

Did you read my post in Holley vs Edelbrock about the 400M? I could give you some pretty good formulas for that engine, and you could canabilize a few parts from your 5.0 HO if you went down that road.

You can usually get one from a junkyard, with a C6 attached for about $500. A rebuild kit with forged 8.3:1(I know, it's still too low) pistons from Summit costs $430. Lots of parts(including heads) are directly interchangeable from Cleveland motors! In fact, it's a 2 barrel 351C, with an extra 50 cubes, and really restrictive exhaust ports.

That would be a good engine to build as a spare, and I bet your manifolds and fuel injection stuff would fit, if you had an adapter fabbed up.

Or you could go the path of the man, and make your own intake manifol, out of tube aluminum and an aluminum box section!

With supercharging or turbocharging, this engine makes SICK power.

lol, but fails smog

whereas when I get my 69 or 70 mach 1....then we will see :D

Oh come on, who wants an anemic big block, when you can have a 7 liter Cleveland smallblock :D

For a lot less money too... Crazy power, monstrous torque, modern fuel injection, digitial ignition! Come on, what more could you want?

Did I mention it's a 7 liter Cleveland smallblock? Not hard to get 75hp/liter either, an easy 500hp!

hahaha, as I was saying, once I get the Mach 1

hell...it...should have a big enough bay for it :D

Oh yeah, the Thunderbird Turbocoupe has 3.73s with traction lok...

I'm giving serious thought to buying a turbocoupe, because I'll need a comfy car for cruising to Vancouver every weekend(250 mile round trip)

the turbo coupe has the 2.4 turbo'd, and yes they are damn confortable. They run mid to low 14's stock, pretty damn good if you ask me.

I thought it had the 2.3... I'm pretty sure it had the 2.3 (hehe, Pinto!)

Damn fine cars they be, but so is the Volvo :D

If you think getting smoked by a T-Bird is surprising, imagine when the ricer gets taken out by the Volvo... It'll be on the highway too, so they can't complain that "my car's all low end, it'd get killed on the highway!"