My 1987 Two Door Crown Victoria AKA THE BROWN BLOB

[P72Ford]

Fastenal, or a similar hardware storehouse would have the bolts you need.

[87gtVIC]

Awesome! There is one relatively close to me. Pops says the local Travers should have them in 7 inch length according to their catalog, if not that is where I will head out to next.

[FatNasty]

If you don't find the bolts you need, find someone who has dropped an explorer motor in. The bolts that hold the throttle body elbow onto the original motor are long enough to use as an intake bolt when you're using a spacer. Thats what I used, never had to go bolt shopping

[87gtVIC]

Pops found a set for me!

[87gtVIC]

YAY New parts thanks to SF10

Some of the new parts and little nothings I picked up at the yards this past SF. I am very happy to find what I have found and thanks to all of those who helped. And Nick...don't poop on my parade.









Above you see a bunch of stuff like.....a black dome light that I pulled out of a cougar! (I also pulled a blue one for John and a Gray one for Thain), some chassis supports, some radiator hold downs (just in case I throw in a three core radiator), Mark VII trunk muncher covers, an ash tray, a bunch of oil fill caps, a mint p.side corner lamp lens, under dash courtesy light sockets, d.side lower fender support, and just a lot of other little things that put a smile on my face.

Thanks to Pete for the plastic muncher cover. Gonna paint one my interior color and leave one black and see which one I like.

Thanks to John for pulling an ash tray, eec test covers, and some fancy doohickeys that make the windows once touch.

Thanks to every body and Nick especially for carrying the groups goodie basket.

[MrMarquis]

Get the damn thing painted! It's one helluva car now, but it's like watching a movie in black and white...the imagination can only do so much.

[87gtVIC]

The paint progress on this car is painfully slow. I want it painted just as bad as everyone else! To tell you guys the truth, I actually look back at the car when I first got it and wish I have never touched anything because this waiting game is killing me as well as you guys.

[87gtVIC]

Painted Valve Covers, HO Intake, HO Nameplate and Chassis Supports

Today I painted the chassis supports, HO upper intake, HO Valve covers, HO nameplate, trunk muncher covers etc..

Autozone had no gloss black so I settled for low gloss black paint. It looks damn nice...sorta like a flat or matte black finish. And I painted the intake aluminum...i used all high heat paint, hoping that things will last.

Chassis Supports

Before...just how I pulled them off of a town car..nice and dry...oil free.



Just some rust on them



One stripped down..I am not worried about all the little pits of rust...It is under the car and no matter what I do it will eventually come back.



Both striped down...accompanied with the paint i will be using. Rusty Metal primer and some low gloss black engine paint



Primed



Painted



Trunk Muncher Covers

I painted one black and one my interior color....gonna test and see which one I like better. They came out decent.

The one to be painted tan



The one to be painted black



Tan one primed with the flex primer...I did sand down the rough spots..though it looks like I could have done a lot more....oh well....



Black one primed with flex primer



Tan one painted tan



Black one painted black



Valve covers and HO nameplate

Painted the valve covers and HO nameplate low gloss black. Came out great!

The valve covers with High Heat engine paint; primer and low gloss black



The name plate..this may get clear coated if I decide to sand down the raised letters to bare aluminum...



All primed...I did two light coats





And painted





HO Intake

I painted this in aluminum color. I really like it!

The intake waiting to be painted



Primed



And painted



Now all I am waiting for is my EGR gasket and TB gasket so I can remove those off of my car and repaint the EGR spacer low gloss black and paint the TB Aluminum.

[Brown_Muscle]

lookin good! I still have to paint my chassis supports as you call them haha...what exactly is that you used to take the rust off?

[85crownHPP]

Looks like he used a whiz wheel with a 'cookie' on it (a surface prep pad). You can see it in the 1st pic.

[CheeseSteakJim]

Looking great David. We'll make a painter out of you yet!

[87gtVIC]

lookin good! I still have to paint my chassis supports as you call them haha...what exactly is that you used to take the rust off?

Thanks!
.....

Looks like he used a whiz wheel with a 'cookie' on it (a surface prep pad). You can see it in the 1st pic.

Yep..A real aggressive one to knock everything down quickly, then a wire wheel, then a less aggressive pad to get out all of the sanding scratches left by those green cookies. I could have then went over everything with the naval jelly I have to really clean her up but this was sufficient enough for me. It was hot out and I was sweating a lot. Whats done is done.

Looking great David. We'll make a painter out of you yet!

Thanks Nick. I do try my best..most of the time.

[87gtVIC]

Painted some more hardware as well as some tiny trim pieces. Used trim black for the little screws and plastic pieces and for the self tapping bolts I used rusty metal primer and Aluminum engine paint and for the grade 8 bolts I used engine primer and low gloss black engine paint (they will be used to fasten the upper intake to the lower intake). I also got around installing my black dome light as well as an EEC TEST cover. I also made up a harness for the one touch up/down function....my little cordless drill died so I will put that job on hold because I hate manually taking the arm rest bolts out of the door.....

Little bits waiting to be painted:



Bolts waiting to be painted:



Bolts primed:



Little bits painted:



Bolts painted their respective colors:





The old map light:



New and old compared (they are both in mint condition):



New black dome light installed:



I love it!!



EEC TEST plugs just floating around:





Where I plan to install the cover:



Installed:





And my one touch up/down harness (all I have left is to mach it up in the car and trim wires as needed):

[87gtVIC]

Muncher Cover Install

Went ahead and installed the black muncher cover instead of the tan one just because it looked a bit strange...I can always change my mind if I want to switch them around. The cover fits pretty good, only oddity is right where the two screws screw in up top...the LSC trunk must be higher and flatter because I have these two odd humps sticking up from the cover..other than that it sure beats having a plain old motor being shown in the trunk.

You can see the weird humps/ears sticking up in all of the photos....

[87gtVIC]

Teaser Pics