Some things about this car boggle my mind completely
S4 '88 GXL

s5 taillight cutouts
doors have speaker cutouts
transmission case is ribbed (for her pleasure) and has the taller 5th gear

the car is (or was until i started modifying it) unmolested no body mods or anything so what do i have a paritally s5 chassis or what?

just weird

 

i have the door speaker cutouts and ribbed tranny too on my 88 TII....hmmmm

 

i thought all tii trannies where ribbed though . . . oh wells, yeah the '88's really are a halfway car.

 

Most later production 88's are as you have Static. The different top gear happened in 87.5, the speaker cuts outs I have seen in cars as early as 8/87 production.

and all FC trannys have ribs... Don't know why anyone thinks they don't or that only Turbo ones do.

 

ive had 2 trannys that have had smooth bell-housings, and a few that have had ribbed ones...(na of coarse)

 

i just pulled an NA with no ribs and a TII that is ribbed. NA is 86 and TII is 88

 

okay, to make it more clear, all FC trannys have ribs.

The bell housing is not the tranny.

For ribs we are talking on the transmisson.

 

sorry i sould have been more clear, my 86 did not have a ribbed bellhousing (but it 91' transmission i put in does ^_^) and the '88 does

 

Probably Mazda just making use of all the leftover S4 stuff, body panels, taillights, etc.