A buddy of mine sent me a link about a guy on FB had an 86 four-eyed coupe for sale locally. The guy claimed it was a former Florida highway patrol car, I was skeptical, but have a soft spot in my head for four-eyed cars, and I've always wanted a coupe, so set up a time to meet him. When he pulled up the car was smoking, had a dead miss, and just looked rough. He wanted my '05 Sport trac, but we were too far apart on value, and he didn't have any loot to kick in, so we went our separate ways. When I got home I started scheming, I wanted to rescue that car....my son had an '04 V6 mustang he was using as a driver until we got his capri done. So I made him a deal, if we traded the '04 for the FHP car, I'd build him an engine for his 94GT. He agreed, I called the FHP owner, and the next day I drove this turd home.
The first thing I did was pull all the trunk liners out because they were wet, then I temporarily sealed the holes from the antennas. RTV works better than masking tape...LOL!! Next I pulled the plugs and found the rear ones oil fouled, ended up pulling the Performer RPM intake, and found the oil baffle for the PCV wasn't installed. I threw on one of my old ported explorer intakes, and stuck a chip in the processor, along with 24# injectors, just because the stock 19s were most likely the originals from 193K miles, or is it 293K? It's been running good, I took it to the track and it made a few passes, best was 8.87@78 or thereabouts. Ran it on the dyno and it squeaked out a 234RWHP, and 290RWTQ. I've got it in the garage now doing a quick 5-lug swap, and putting longtubes on it.
Here's some track video, making a couple runs against Pirate Mike's super clean 86 LX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EBydvcugVs
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