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Id like to have one too, but they're scarce as unicorns and go for stupid money when they pop up. It would be period correct for my 83, but people want just too much money for them. There's also dozens of iPhone apps that will do the same or better these days for a couple bucks. I'd like to...

Man, I've got to stay off eBay! Was surfing around and ran across a couple billstein struts from an 03 cobra. Low mileage and clean (although seller could have just wiped them down). All done price to my door was just a few ticks over 300 bucks. Considering they go for just over 600 bucks CAD...

yup. A fox tilt column alone can go for a couple hundred or more, depending on where you look. Just the tilt column plastic pieces can command a good bit of coin. I still remember walking into a scrap yard and lines and lines of fox chassis sitting there for wrecking. They almost had to give...

Little experimenting today with the center console bulb outage panel and digital clock that came in the Capri console. I downloaded the 1985 wiring diagrams off the web and ferreted out the power and ground for the clock on the console wiring harness. Connected them to a 12v battery and the...

Aww, hate is such a strong word. Does it help any if I say the tilt lever is rusty and will need to be repainted? Might need to clean up the faded plastic too. ;)

Forgot to mention I grabbed the center console under the same 25 buck deal. It's blue but I couldn't pass up the chance to grab one, regardless of color. :)

Alrightly. I was working on making the SN95/fox hybrid steering shaft yesterday. To make a long story short, a couple bad choices resulted in a trashed fox shaft and a trashed SN95 shaft. :mad: The sn95 shaft I can get at pretty much any scrap yard, but the fox shaft is super hard to come by...

well. I was looking at my rockauto order in the cart today and the shipping prices started changing all on their own. Specifically, how many different places they had to be shipped from. Then one really nasty note showed up under one of the "shipping methods": courier may collect taxes, duties...

Well, got my rock auto cart loaded up. Just over a grand. Adjustable shocks and struts, brakes, stainless lines, bearings, ball joints, etc. When the time comes I just have to hit the buy button and it's on its way. Probably in a week or two. Pretty much everything I need to make it roadworthy...

Ordered up the caster/camber plates today: 120 bucks to my door. Yeah, they were bought off eBay and it said Australia, but we all know it's most likely Chinese in origin. I don't really care where it comes from. If I were going to switch to coil overs, it would not have been an option at...

Well, sure enough as soon as I hit "post reply" it started eating at me. I had to know if I could clear those front tires. So back out the garage I went. I grabbed a 35 mm dia piece of aluminum from my machining pile and had a little go at the fender. After 5 mins of "massaging": Pretty...

Didn't do much today. Took the mocked up pieces back apart. My strut is pretty much flat, pushes up and down by hand fairly easily. It still damps, but is cooked spaghetti level limp. The bolt holes are also too close together to fit the later SN95 spindle. Figuring I have nothing to loose if...

What the heck, here's a couple quick snaps: ​

Well, I "mostly" got the passenger side SN95 stuff installed. Or at least mocked up in place. The fox stuff really didn't want to leave where it had spent the last 33 years. It all went reasonably well (not easy, but reasonably) until those damned A-arm bolts. The nuts came off easy enough...

Well, the 8.8 is at least under the car and wheels are back on. I've done lots of axle changes before, but this one was a major biotch. All went well until I hit the drivers side upper control arm bolt on the axle. Impact, power bar and cherry tip were unable to budge that freakin' nut. I...

i cut the two fascias and lined them up where I wanted them. Trimmed as needed to get a good fit. I sanded the paint off with a rough grit to give it some "tooth" on the front and back of each piece. Then used the polyurethane adhesion promoter on both pieces IAW the directions. Put the two...

Been thinking about it and tomorrow morning I'm going to grab the grinder and chop off those quad shock brackets. I left them on there to "hedge my bets" that they would be useful for something, but once I go torque arm they're just dead weight and I have no intentions of installing quad shocks...

There it is: Painted, 3.73 open diff, aluminum cover. Tight quarters to work, but its coming along nicely. I didnt bother with setting the pinon or backlash since the open carrier isn't permanent. Its only there to allow me to install the axle under the car and move the car on and off a...

When I get something more than a pile of parts, there'll be pics. :)

Good day again today. Picked up the steel for the subframe connectors at "metals r us" in burnside. 35 bucks out the door. Then back over to kennys u pull in lantz. Grabbed two sn95 front lower control arms, a cruise control module and a washer bottle with pump. 69 bucks out the door...