LTDMan's '87 Mercury Grand Marquis LS (Big Red) *DUW*

[87gtVIC]

very nice. I like the mirror upgrade. Mine is sort of mildewing, maybe i should try on a new one. May i ask what vehicle did you grab it from? The interior looks great, and with the matching rear seats it will look fine to me.

[p71towny]

Man you treat em right! Since it was warm I painted my grille. I needs more munny.

[gabegt90]

looking good brandon mang I wish I havd townie seats in my car nice to see new high beams lol

[LTDMan83]

very nice. I like the mirror upgrade. Mine is sort of mildewing, maybe i should try on a new one. May i ask what vehicle did you grab it from? The interior looks great, and with the matching rear seats it will look fine to me.

Thanks Mang. I pulled that rearview mirror out of an early 90's Oldsmobile Cutless, but many GM products have that same mirror, Impala/Monte Carlo/Lumina etc. It is a direct bolt-on for the stock windshield mount, which makes it a very easy upgrade.

Man you treat em right! Since it was warm I painted my grille. I needs more munny.

Thanks Mang, I try.

looking good brandon mang I wish I havd townie seats in my car nice to see new high beams lol

Thanks Gabe. All the lights are new, but the High Beams are the shiniest internally for some reason, lol.

[87gtVIC]

Awesome. I must keep that mirror info in mind.

[LTDMan83]

Had the day off form work today, with only a half day of work in my Bodyshop as well, I was feeling pretty bored, so I decided to make a True Cold Air Intake for Big Red's HO. This is the result.



Cut a hole under where the filter will sit, to give a slight "Ram Air" effect at speed.



Installed. I still need to Box the filter in, as well as find a 90 TC fan shroud, and install an aftermarket washer tank. I will paint it at some point in the future as well.



Moving the MAF Sensor/Housing away from the Throttle Body made the engine run alot smoother, not sure why.




I took her out for a high speed run afterwards, and the butt dyno reports that there is some seat of the pants power increase, during Mid-High Throttle.


Next up, the HO will be getting some Ceramic Coated Shorty Headers, and O2 Relocation.

[87gtVIC]

neato!

[LTDMan83]

1st (short) Road Trip

Just wanted to say that I took Big Red for her first short Road Trip earlier today, a total of 75mi of City and Interstate driving. She made the trip flawlessly, not even one hiccup anywhere along the way.

The car is pretty much ready for DD duty as of right now, but I still wanna do a few more maintenance things, do the Slicktop Conversion, and paint her before I start DD'ing her. Man, I cannot wait though, this driving a small FWD car everyday shit is starting to get to me.

This car will definitely be living on for a very,very long time to come with me, Chris.

[87gtVIC]

Nice! Good to hear it passed the test.

[LTDMan83]

I was really glad it passed the test, as it built up my confidence in the cars reliability quite a bit.

I guess the VSS Signal is not that important to the Manual ECM, because it seems to not be having any effect on the engine or the cars driveability now, even after resetting the ECM many times. I still will swap to an auto ECM eventually, just so it has the exact ECM it needs. For now the car has plenty of power, and has a damn excellent throttle response, plenty of passing power to get past the slow people in traffic. It will fry the tires from a dead stop, and I left around a 150ft long burnout yesterday, on the road out in front of where I live. I'm pretty happy thus far, not sure I'm gonna be able to resist modifying it to go even faster though...


I'm working on a somewhat Custom mod for Big Red right now, and I will have more pics coming soon.

Stay Tuned.

[87gtVIC]

Custom mod? care to share?

[gabegt90]

nice brandon why did you relocate the soup can I like the cold air intake

[LTDMan83]

Custom mod? care to share?

Of Course! The update is coming soon, with full details and many pics. I have a Major update for the LTD Showcar Project's thread coming first though.

nice brandon why did you relocate the soup can I like the cold air intake

Thanks gabemang. The previous owner Chris, relocated the Soup Can because he thought that it uglyed up the engine bay quite a bit. Being that this car had the Full-Size 8in tall Soup Can, I definitely have to agree, and I am glad that he did so.

[packman]

Really nice work mang!!!! I like the CAI too. Have you figured out what to do with the coolant tank/washer fluid reservoir? I'm thinking of using some sort of canister for both and fudge the that washer fluid plug-in somehow.



Packman

[ÆJackacks]

the 90 tc fan shroud will have the rad reservoir built in and out of the way, Zach got a washer tank off a 93 Marquis to make room for the intake.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2532949/3

i also like the idea of using one unit for both, less clutter.