THERE IS A SIGN OF LIFE!!!!!!!
Hey guys, I recently bought a 90 hatchback. I found out the thrust bearing on the crank was gone after I bought it and drove it for a while, long story short engine was deemed junk unless you had the time and money to take it apart piece by piece and clean it all etc and reassemble it all. I was pretty bummed out about it, but me, my old man and the Shop I have all my work done at talked for about two weeks. We all came to the conclusion the best thing to do was buy a *new* Coyote 5.0 motor out of a salvaged f150 with ~10k miles on it for the same price as what a 351 would have cost me. We then talked about switching the transmission from the race built c4 (car was a weekend warrior) to a brand new t56 6 speed magnum. I knew going into this buying the car was a risk but I said **** it and I guess in a way I am happy the engine turned out to be junk, now I will have one badass foxbody! The car has authentic speedline 17x7.5 saleen rims, to my understanding only 500 sets were ever made so I guess I will keep them haha. I am also lucky at the amount of people wanting to buy stuff from my totaled out sn95, on top of that a lot of local people are buying parts off the fox hopefully this weekend after all is torn out etc and ready to ship and blah blah blah I will have another 4 grand towards the coyote swap. I will ask the guys at the shop to email me or text me pics of it as they get parts in the car etc. They just got the hydroboost setup in today for my power steering and power brakes! I am really ****ing pumped up for this. I will post a few pics of it before I brought it in for the swap.
Hey guys, I recently bought a 90 hatchback. I found out the thrust bearing on the crank was gone after I bought it and drove it for a while, long story short engine was deemed junk unless you had the time and money to take it apart piece by piece and clean it all etc and reassemble it all. I was pretty bummed out about it, but me, my old man and the Shop I have all my work done at talked for about two weeks. We all came to the conclusion the best thing to do was buy a *new* Coyote 5.0 motor out of a salvaged f150 with ~10k miles on it for the same price as what a 351 would have cost me. We then talked about switching the transmission from the race built c4 (car was a weekend warrior) to a brand new t56 6 speed magnum. I knew going into this buying the car was a risk but I said **** it and I guess in a way I am happy the engine turned out to be junk, now I will have one badass foxbody! The car has authentic speedline 17x7.5 saleen rims, to my understanding only 500 sets were ever made so I guess I will keep them haha. I am also lucky at the amount of people wanting to buy stuff from my totaled out sn95, on top of that a lot of local people are buying parts off the fox hopefully this weekend after all is torn out etc and ready to ship and blah blah blah I will have another 4 grand towards the coyote swap. I will ask the guys at the shop to email me or text me pics of it as they get parts in the car etc. They just got the hydroboost setup in today for my power steering and power brakes! I am really ****ing pumped up for this. I will post a few pics of it before I brought it in for the swap.
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