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As some of you may know I bought Ken Robinson's 88 turbocoupe stocker,I made it out to the track once before it closed for the season, it only went 14.80 @just a weak 88 mph! not very impressive but it has tons of potential,im changing a bunch of stuff over the winter and hopfully i can get it to run the R/S index of 13.95, so far I took the head off and had a stocker valve job done along with some new valve springs and retainers.,a new 3" down pipe and a header, I think it will a fun project for now im going try and run the index on the cheap and see what happens.
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Good Luck with the new ride, Fred! Looks like you're going to be having some fun this year!!
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Looks like fun, love the pic of the driveway and all the fords! LOL!
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Fred,
Running under the index shouldn't be much of a problem for a turbo car. What are you using for a transmission?
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T5 for now mark,but I had my eye on some of that 2.3 C4 stuff on your page !
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I started with a T 5 out of T/C (3.95 low), in the Mustang. First problem was the syncros wouldn't let me power shift it over 6 grand. So I bought a Harbor Freight Dremel copy and slick shifted 2,3,4. Then took 5th gear completely out of it. I had to make a shifter blocking plate so I couldn't go from 2nd to 5th. The 3rd gear slot was a little narrow and hard to find while pushing away from you. After that, I never had a shifting problem for the two years that I ran the stick shift.
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Mark the plan is to run the T5 til it breaks,thats when I buy an automatic setup,for now I just want to get it flowing a little better with the header and downpipe,it had a stock exhaust manifold and stock 2.5 downpipe,it also had some ignition issues when I got it where you could not turn up the boost over 12 psi, after a good tune up it cleared that up but it still lays down over 3500 rpm that's why I pulled the head and checked the springs and valve job, (springs were shot) 80lbs on the seat.
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A little update on the tbird,I ran it a couple of weeks ago it went a best of 13.73 @95.55 still not right but its getting there.
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Fred, good to see you getting the T-bird out!
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Congratulations on your progress!
Keep thrashing on it and you'll be rewarded. Have fun and good luck too. |
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