Some "Dime Rockets" for the 4TH!

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Robert Swartz

Billy,

Hinges on how little we can get the car for. Have to chuckle a little here, just never thought of a 4 door Lincoln as a "race car"! If we do this, correct me if my initial thinking is wrong. I figure the minimum I need to run the car, headers, I haven't researched this at all. Does anyone make headers for a Lincoln? Get a posi unit, if the car doesn't have one, or a mini-spool. A gear set, this has an 8.8, as suggested by Almack, a 4:88 or deeper gear, suggestions for a 4000 lb car? As mentioned, I have a set of wheels. Anyone in the Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio area got any old used fronts or slicks with some life left in them that you don't want to retire off of, LOL!That'd be enough for me to take it to the track.

OK, let's start from the top. Somewhere in this thread I thought that it was said that you can get the car for "next to nothing". Even scrap it has to be worth $400 or $500 bucks. Where can you get a car that runs (I'm Assuming that it runs) for less than that? My biggest concern would be getting the stock ECU to do what I need it to do. I'm pretty sure that it controls not only the engine but the AOD trans too. 8.8 stuff is all over the place if you look, that's not a problem. To start, just find some shorty Mustang headers and make them fit then put some kind of down pipe on them, it doesn't have to start out pretty. Make sure that the engine is sound and the car is safe and just take it out. Again, my biggest concerns are the ECU and the AOD.