This is my 88 Thunderbird 5.0. I bought it about 5 years ago. Mods include: Supercharger with intercooler, upper intake plenum, fuel pressure regulator, equal length headers, flowmasters, manual steering rack conversion, battery relocated to trunk, heavy duty sway bars, tubular control arms, coil-over struts, camber kit, wide band o2 sensor, shift kit, 17"x9" cobra-R wheels, cross drilled brake rotors, class 2 trailer hitch, custom sound system, and still working!I drive this car to work every day and my girlfriend and I use it to tow our dirtbikes on the weekends. It has been a very reliable car. The supercharger is mounted to a home made bracket where the power steering pump used to be. The battery had to be moved to the trunk to make way for the charge pipe, which passes through the driver side fender before entering a large front mount intercooler. I'm starting to get bored with my current setup and have started purchasing parts to build a turbo 347 to try something different.
Hey what are all these extra parts for?
Lying ain't the only way to set your pants on fire.
Who does this to a car?
I made this gauge pod to hold my boost gauge and my wideband 02 digital readout.
I decided to use a Super Coupe steering wheel. The cruise control buttons are all hooked up and working.
These are my new camber plates. They are made by UPR. I didn't like the BBK camber plates I had before because they didn't offer enough adjustment.
AJE tubular control arms were used. The brake rotors are cross drilled and slotted from good old Napa. The coilovers are from AJE. All urethane bushings were used. The car handles awesome.
This a picture of the 70mm Pro Products throttle body and EGR spacer feeding the Comp Polymers intake. This intake saved 25 pounds off the front end. You can't see it but there is an Aeromotive fuel pressure regulator behind the throttle body.
Ah yes, the supercharger. Bought it used on Ebay. Made the brackets myself from some scrap aluminum I got from my friends workshop. Also bought all the 3" charge pipe on ebay.
Well my limited slip is in and what a difference
3.55 gears too. I can put the pedal down hard and not just sit there with the wheels spinning now!
Battery in trunk.
The Thunderbird and my friends DOHC Vtech B16 Civic in the parkinglot at our work.
On my way out to go Dirtbiking
New TCI transmission and B&M shifter coming soon!
