1987cp's new '81 LTD 2-door

[86VickyLX]

Very nice MANG!!!

[1987cp]

Next time you're out here, I have something that will get you out of the 70's and 80's and at least into the 90's, unless you want to go retro. If you like semi-retro, I have found a tape under my Mark VIII's armrest for you. It's Madonna...

Oh, by the way, this evening I noticed what appear to be a pair of small two-way Alpines peeking through the dashpad. I don't think there are any rear speakers currently installed, though .... I also noticed that in fact the original front dash plate, presumably for a shaft-style radio, was indeed at some point hacked to fit a modern DIN head unit.

What sort of '90s equipment did you have in mind?

[torquelover]

One of the best-sounding head units (great D/A converter) around in the early 90's, The Denon DCT-950R, complete with the rarely found remote control for your back seat audio tweaking pleasure:

[1987cp]

D/A converter? Does that mean digital-to-analog or something?

[packman]

I like the new sig pic!!! Is your two door going to be the evil twin of Torquelover's P72? I don't know how much more wicked you get than that; though it is a two door, so I guess that should count for something.


Packman

[1987cp]

Thanks, Packmang! I wasn't sure what to do at first, given the images I've got, and then realized I could just set those two side-by-side and blur between them by hand. :p

Dunno about the POS's evil twin ... I'm still thinking of my old 351 core more for the wagon than the sedan ... probably don't totally need 400-plus lb-ft making the lighter car all squirrelly all the time. The sedan seems to say more high-winding-five-oh to me, so I'm thinking maybe I'll eventually take one of my shortblocks and add BHP heads and toss the E8 cam back in it with probably my Offy divided single-plane and see what it'll do. On DD it looks like an easy 400hp (419@6500 according to the sim), and I only need 350 with that car to make 10 lbs/hp.

[torquelover]

Nice sig pic. It would be cool if you flipped one around, but then you'd have a RHD Panther. I imagine the new Vic to be the POS's big brother, and not a twin, due to the year. Well, Michael, will it be evil or good? And you're spot on about the D/A converter(s). I'll dig it out next time you swing out here. I like the idea of a high-winding 302. I can see it now: All I hear is a wicked NASCAR style shriek...and then you fly by with a big grin on your face in the Vic. There are some used GT40s on eBay in Ohio...

[1987cp]

Nice sig pic. It would be cool if you flipped one around, but then you'd have a RHD Panther. I imagine the new Vic to be the POS's big brother, and not a twin, due to the year. Well, Michael, will it be evil or good? And you're spot on about the D/A converter(s). I'll dig it out next time you swing out here. I like the idea of a high-winding 302. I can see it now: All I hear is a wicked NASCAR style shriek...and then you fly by with a big grin on your face in the Vic. There are some used GT40s on eBay in Ohio...

Fun ideas!

Screw getting more GT40s, if I ever fix that one buggered spark plug hole, I'll just send Gerry my extra set of cores.

Speaking of heads, I must remember to Heli-coil one of my valvecover bolt holes that some joker hogged out at some point in these E7 heads' past.

Which reminds me, maybe I should think about swapping the 2.5" X-pipe exhaust onto the sedan and putting the wagon tails on the wagon ...... maybe I'd better not get too far ahead of myself, though, because I'm 98% sure there are some wussy rear gears that've gotta go byebye first.

[packman]

Hmmmmmm.........za veels are turning on this project. I like.


Packman

[1987cp]

2/22/08, 10:07pm: Just got back with the car via towtruck. Seems the ignition system crapped out on me 2 miles from the house after being driven probably 30-plus miles with no trouble. 56 bucks later, I'm thinking maybe I should spring for a AAA membership. :nonono:

Next step: install intercessory ignition system.

[Dave84]

that reminds me of my merc, first day i got the trip permit on it, it stalled going down one of the busy streets, and woldent start, so i ended up pushing it off to a side street poped the hood, and found that the power wire for the coil had burnd off, so i just stripped the end of the wire and jammed it into place and made it home alwrite, mind u i have forgotten all about this and still driving around with the wire jamed into place, and this has been since late summer when i got the car on the road, so mayby i should actualy fix that...lol
Anyhow cant wait to see this thing start transforming into a street machine, should be very cool..

[1987cp]

Yeah, be interesting to see if it's just some smoked wiring. Hard to tell in the dark, and I hadn't thought to bring a flashlight with me. I'd been smelling some things, but you tend to smell things on a 27-year-old engine that's been sitting with lots of gunk on it (and a couple of small cobwebs as well). I do have the wiring I made for my prototype Duraspark/HEI hybrid system, so I'll probably just hook that up temporarily and borrow my newer HEI module, just to make sure the thing will actually start.

[1987cp]

Well, I spent some time disconnecting vacuum hoses and the old electronic engine control wiring. Turns out there appeared to have been a couple of vacuum hoses just going off into space and sucking wind. Anyway, I have three or four nipples to cap off now, but I twisted the key and the car started, so apparently the old ignition module isn't actually fried.

[86VickyLX]

Well that will all be gone when you take that engine out of the vic right?

[1987cp]

You betcha! I'll probably get it an HEI module like on the other car; it's cheap and reasonably reliable. Unless maybe I can score a MSD or Crane box for really, really cheap ............