This was a car of firsts, it was my first car, the car I learned to drive stick in and the first car I would pull a part and (often try) and put back together. It isn't the prettiest but somewhere between sentimental value and its surprisingly decent shape its where we begin. This car started its life as a 2.3 na 4 cylinder, after the timing belt snapped, I got my hands on a 302 apparantly out of a 80's van. After some time got the car driving, kinda ugly but it worked until the t-5 gave up the ghost and turned some of its innards into soup. Thats where the car was until about a month ago. I hauled the car from my parents house and started gutting it. When I wasn't gutting it I was researching for what I could do with it. I found a low mileage '03 cobra IRS for 800 bucks on craigslist and a 1996 Ford explorer for another 800 (P/O said it was running bad which they could have solved if they traced the plug wires and saw cylinder 7 plug wire had exited it's boot). When I first put the 302 in the car I had amassed parts to put in the car but never got around to installing (seriously, thank you college!) and now I've started to resell for actual profit.
And thats a bunch of text so I'll keep it short. I've gutted the car, removed the tar on the floor and welded in 2" square tube (.125") from front to back, dropped the rear end and removed some unused brackets as well as patching a large hole in the trunk floor.
Things I intend to do:
~350 hp from the motor then add turbo(s) to hit 500
Super t10 transmission
Build K member to use explorer's SLA front suspension (It should work, I've made many measurements)
Now here are some pictures:
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