picking this up on sunday. 83 with the 12A completely stock. Can't wait, worse then a kid waiting on xmas.

 

Looks clean! Congrats!

 

thanks. Now I just have to keep the modding bug at bay for a bit

 

Very nice.

Is that a recent shot? Its so green and summer-like in AB.

 

I wish, just snowed like crazy a few days ago.
That pic was from last summer afaik. I haven't seen the car in person yet but was told it's been stored and hasn't seen winter. Here's hoping its a as good as it looks.

 

I thought we were gonna get a view of some Chickie ..(Harlet extraordinaire!)
..oh well..nice car...chuckle!
pump up the tire on the passenger side front.

 

Sorry to dissapoint. I call it that because that's what my wife labled my last car as i spent so many late nights with it in the garage. It was an 86 mustang i built a blow through twin Turbo system using nothing but junk yard parts to see if i could do it.

 

I sold the exact same color fb last year

 

Looks good. That interior is awesome in the second car. Congrats on the purchase!

 

So how was the first drive.....

 

Not until Sunday. I am trailering it back home though, drive will have to wait until I get new tires and all this road salt is cleaned up.

 

Any update since getting it home??

 

Yeah, it has the infamous dowel pin leak, and once I got it running I found it had massive vacuum leaks. The previous owner didn't fix the leaks and just messed with the carb settings until it would idle. I eliminated the rats nest which in turn got rid of the vacuum leak. Tuned the carb and it runs really well now. I tried some Stop Leak for the dowel pin and attempted to drill into the offending o-ring and inject gasket maker to stop the leak. It didn't work though, maybe I was off of the o-ring a little but I am not certain. It also seems like they dyed the dash to match the interior as I attempted to wipe it down to clean it up and the dye came off a bit and now my dash looks streaky.
The exhaust is leaking at the header as one of the bolts is snapped off too. So there is a few things it needs badly but the worst is the rebuild to fix the dowel leak. So now I don't know if I want to rebuild the 12A, or look for a TII engine trans to replace it with. I do know that it needs to have a power adder in it one way or another.

Went with a friend of mine to picknpull and found a Brullen exhaust grabbed that for 28.00 so wasn't a complete loss. BTW there is a 300zx there with the VG30ET in it complete if anyone is interested. I should have pulled it but didn't feel like it lol.

 

What was the Exhaust off

 

Was there an FB?

 

Sorry I should say a Brullen muffler. Sadly no rx's there, but just up the street there is a towing yard that has what looks like a targa sitting in it. I tried to go in but the yard was all locked up.

The 12A is a very unispiring engine lol. Went for a drive and took it all it had to hit 160.....downhill......with a tailwind.

 

Easier and cheaper to drop a v8 in then to do a TII swap

 

looks like I am either going to flip this car and look for a different one, or build a blow through on the 12a and see what happens. Prolly a lot easier then the last one I built.

 

Do your research. Not a cheap route

 

http://s101.photobucket.com/albums/m...eohmustang.mp4

My last project.

 

LOL is that a magnaflow exhaustake plenum?

That is awesome.

 

I built a fully operational TII swapped FB for under $2000. It would smoke the tires off in 3rd gear. Its a relatively easy swap, if you want details, PM me. I've done tons of 13B swaps into 12A FB's.

 

Yes, I wanted to see if I could build a functioning twin turbo and not buy any "kit" type parts. Of course I had a high flow fuel pump, a boost reference FPR and a BOV, and a wideband air/fuel meter. But the meat of it was whatever I had lying around. Ran it at 7lbs of boost untuned until the #8 ring caught and cracked the piston. If your interested here is the link to the build. Some pics are missing.
http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/the-turbo-'builds'-board/my-86-twin-turbo-build/

 

Nice yo,

 

very cool, I wish my SA was black!