Minitubbed 87 LX Build Thread

[Racsirx]

Are you going to run this at the track or just street use also why do you want to use an on3 kit on something so nice?

 

[slow90coupe]

Are you going to run this at the track or just street use also why do you want to use an on3 kit on something so nice?

It's going to be a street car. And I'm on a serious budget with this car so a nice turbo kit is out of the question. Budget limit for the whole car is $10,000

 

[Racsirx]

It's going to be a street car. And I'm on a serious budget with this car so a nice turbo kit is out of the question. Budget limit for the whole car is $10,000

Such a nice car, I would spend a little more on a better kit or make a kit or maybe just use the coldside from the on3 kit and upgrade the hotside and turbo.

 

[slow90coupe]

Such a nice car, I would spend a little more on a better kit or make a kit or maybe just use the coldside from the on3 kit and upgrade the hotside and turbo.

Nah the car isn't worth all of that hassle, it's just a foxbody that's gonna have a truck motor in it

 

[Racsirx]

Nah the car isn't worth all of that hassle, it's just a foxbody that's gonna have a truck motor in it

Lol, I would love to take that foxbody off your hands, if you don't like it, I have a few customers with Chevy motors in Mustangs and they live them, one stock 5.3 with a 150 shot running low tens and a LQ9 with a 76mm turbo running low 9s, I like anything that's fast as long as it stays together.

 

[slow90coupe]

The car could definitely be bought for the right price. I have no interest in the car right now so it's just going to sit for a while, at least until after Mustang Week.

 

[Racsirx]

The car could definitely be bought for the right price. I have no interest in the car right now so it's just going to sit for a while, at least until after Mustang Week.

Let me know on a price, but I don't need the Chevy motor, I have a spare R-block I could put in there

 

[slow90coupe]

Well, I wasn't looking to buy anything else for the car until after Mustang Week but... For $100, I got this. 5.3 truck motor with 80k miles.





I probably won't even touch this motor until the winter, but for the price I couldn't let it slip away. I don't have the funds to build the car right now, but hopefully after I sell about $4000 worth of parts I have laying around, I can get started on it again.

 

[g36 monkey]

freakin chevy motors so cheap lol

 

[Wichers123]

It's going to be a street car. And I'm on a serious budget with this car so a nice turbo kit is out of the question. Budget limit for the whole car is $10,000

Hey go look at cx racing they have some fox kits that are a damn good price and look hell of a lot better.

 

[alex302]

looking good....

 

[ElrodKTPQ_89]

I wish coyotes or terminators could be bought that cheap.

 

[slow90coupe]

I had a few minutes today, so I started tearing into the motor. Holy crap. It appears the oil has never been changed in this thing. Good thing I was going to take it apart and replace a few things anyways. I'm going to pull the heads in the morning and take some stuff with me to work to clean in the parts washer so I can actually see what I'm working with.

 

[g36 monkey]

Ah, the funk.

 

[slow90coupe]

Well I pulled the heads off the motor this morning. Surprisingly the block itself looks to be in really good shape. You can still see the hash marks in the cylinder walls.







The only strange thing I found. One pushrod was kinda ground down on one end. I'm guessing it had the infamous lifter tick that a lot of these engines have. Everything else looked great.



A few cleaned up bolts and pushrods



Then I took the heads, valve covers, and rockers to work and started cleaning on them every chance I got.

Here's one head that I started on



And finished valve covers and rockers. They cleaned up great and all look to be salvageable.



Then I pulled off the valley cover. Yeah there's a lot of sludge in there too. I'll probably strip the block this weekend and take the block to a machine shop to get it hot tanked and checked out.

 

[Musturd]

Damn that motor looked to be neglected .the cylinder walls look good though like you said . For that deal you can't go wrong .

 

[slow90coupe]

Today I got the front and rear trim painted and put on.





And I put the headlights in, and threw the front clip on for a quick mockup to see how it would look





I also started carpeting the minitubs



Then I tore into the motor some more.

The oil filter.. it was filled to the top with sludge.





And a quick mockup of the TF wheels... Yeah I think I'm going to HAVE to run these.

 

[g36 monkey]

That motor was disgusting! But GAWD that thing is gonna look sexual

 

[Z06killinsbf]

This is such a beautiful car, very nice work!

 

[alex302]

SO SICK!!!