Happened across a old car while on a hunt for a good used clothes dryer.
In his garage beside the dryer was this 1978 Diamond Jubilee Edition Ford Thunderbird
"That's for sale to", he remarked. "Everything is original, I have all the manuals, has 100,031 original kms."
I was 21 when these cars came off the assembly line, was riding a 650 Yamaha, those cars were way out of my reach at the time, but I always loved them.
I also knew that the 400 engine (we called it a smog hog back in the day), had pretty poor performance for the fuel consumption because of the emission standards and the technology of that time.
After purchasing and driving the car for a month, I found a mechanic to remove the engine, then the engine went to a D & W Engine Specialties where it was reworked.
From the factory the engine had a compression of 7.3 after rework 10.5.
Put in a mild camshaft, Edlebrock intake manifold with a 4 bl Holley Carburaetor , a set of headers, and new ignition system.
From the factory the engine rated 166 hp, D & W estimate engine now produces 350 hp, sure feels like it. (not dyno tested that was another $1500.00 touch)
Car still rides like a dream, no squeaks rattles, I have a lot of fun surprising young wipper snappers with their rice rockets.
Unable to upload picture, keep getting "An unknown error occurred during the upload" picture size was only 120 kb
Have to copy and paste link into browser, sorry, don't know how else to do it.
4shared.com/photo/a6ijR8Uhei/car2.html
edit: link does work, hot dam.
In his garage beside the dryer was this 1978 Diamond Jubilee Edition Ford Thunderbird
"That's for sale to", he remarked. "Everything is original, I have all the manuals, has 100,031 original kms."
I was 21 when these cars came off the assembly line, was riding a 650 Yamaha, those cars were way out of my reach at the time, but I always loved them.
I also knew that the 400 engine (we called it a smog hog back in the day), had pretty poor performance for the fuel consumption because of the emission standards and the technology of that time.
After purchasing and driving the car for a month, I found a mechanic to remove the engine, then the engine went to a D & W Engine Specialties where it was reworked.
From the factory the engine had a compression of 7.3 after rework 10.5.
Put in a mild camshaft, Edlebrock intake manifold with a 4 bl Holley Carburaetor , a set of headers, and new ignition system.
From the factory the engine rated 166 hp, D & W estimate engine now produces 350 hp, sure feels like it. (not dyno tested that was another $1500.00 touch)
Car still rides like a dream, no squeaks rattles, I have a lot of fun surprising young wipper snappers with their rice rockets.
Unable to upload picture, keep getting "An unknown error occurred during the upload" picture size was only 120 kb
Have to copy and paste link into browser, sorry, don't know how else to do it.
4shared.com/photo/a6ijR8Uhei/car2.html
edit: link does work, hot dam.