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03 GT in True Blue. The car is a daily driver with occasional race duty. It has a full Maximum Motorsports suspension with all the top shelf goodies including torque-arm, panhard bar, tubular control arms, delrin and aluminum bushings, Bilstein shocks and struts, MM coil overs, Motegi Touge 18" hoops, and a host of other goodies.

I bought the car with the intent of racing it in the Silver State Classic Challenge and have been building it to compete in the 120 and 140 mph classes.

It handles better than a M3 and is powerful enough to get me into all the trouble I could ever want but, I want more.

UPDATE: The 5.4 is built. It's a 5.5L now and it's installed and running like a raped ape.

Mods: Extensive.

Some of the mods follow... not nearly a complete list. That'd take a while.

98 Cobra rear axle w/ 3.55 gears
98 Cobra rear brakes
Superior hardened axles
Baer Track-Kit 13" front brakes
EBC Yellow brake pads
Steeda Tri-Ax shifter & Pro5.0 handle & Custom knob
Autometer Phantom and C2 guages
Steeda CAI
Professional Products 75mm throttle body
Professional Products upper plenum
5/8" Billet fuel rails with braided lines.
Squarerootofone.com PCV oil/air separator
Hayden Oil cooler
Bullit gas door
Mach1 chin spoiler
2000 Cobra R' wing
Custom rear shock tower brace
Bassani Catted X pipe
Borla ProXS mufflers w/ dumps (no tail pipes)
Griggs 3" aluminum driveshaft

Maximum Motorports:
forward offset delrin bushed A-Arms
RLCA's w/ spherical bushings
Panhard bar
Std. duty Torque-arm
Front and Rear Coil-over w/ Hypercoil springs
Sport Valved Bilstein shocks
HD valved Bilstein struts
Caster Camber plates
4pt k-member brace

Seats & Interior:
Corbeau GT seats
RJS 5pt 3" harnesses
rear seat delete
E'tal copper parchment accents (think paper made from fibres of real copper metal. I know... it's the weirdest thing. I love it.)

Chassis:
Griggs subframe braces
Kirk racing 4pt. roll bar w/ harness bar.

The new 5.5L (335cid) is a 10.5:1 motor with a .020 overbore and forged rotating kit. Fox Lake ported heads, a Comp Cams XE270ah-13 cam set, comp .550 lift valve springs, dual friction kevlar clutch, HPS 4.6L Hardball'R intake riding on a set of customized Reichard Racing 4.6-5.4 intake adapter plates.

Here's some pictures to get you going.

Engine Build Details:
Install completed 11/07

01 Expedition 5.4L iron block bored .020 over
Probe SRS pistons -4.5cc dish w/ spirolocks
Perfect Circle file fit rings
3-D Forged 4340 H-beam rods
Reichard Racing Intake adapter plates
HiPerformance Solutions HardBall'R intake
ARP rod bolts
ARP main & head studs
SVT Focus fuel pump
Federal Mogul & Speed Pro H-series bearings
Apex dual Friction Kevlar clutch
Fidanza billet aluminum flywheel
30#/hr injectors
FRPP HD oil pump
Billet Fuel Rails

How about some more pictures. These are all more recent.
Car with 2000 R' Wing.

Custom Oil Air separator. Braided lines prevent collapse.

All my engine's internals.

Reichard Racing intake adapter plates.

HPS Hardball'R intake.

Roll bar install pic.

Front coil-overs. You can see the Baer track kit brakes.

A pic of my old IRS rear suspension. I was in getting tires that day. A frequent occurrance.

First pics of the 5.4 in the car with some fuel system upgrades done to it.

Last pic before the old wheels came off.

And now we have arrived at the promised land. New Motegi Touge Wheels in 18x9 and 18x10 wrap nicely around the Baer brakes. We've lost any chance of a sleeper look but that kinda went away with the install of the 5.5L. Exhaust and intake are both about to see major upgrades. Look for more info in the coming weeks.

New to the beastie is a custom made rear seat delete panel kit. I didn't think spending 120 bucks on a retail kit was anything but retarded so I made my own for 30 bucks and an hour of my time.