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So I've decided to can the 2.3 Turbo route and will soon be working my way towards a windsor powered xr. I haven't put that much into my xr, nothing that has cost too much and some of those mods will help me with the v8 swap anyways. Mods so far: 3inch exhaust (no cat) hooker aerochamber muffler 2.5...

Differential casing, ahaha BRYAN!

He's using a freshly rebuilt turbo coupe 5speed. IT was an automatic rear-end, it's being replaced with a standard rear-end for now. But the 8.8 IRS conversions are currently in the works.

I'm sure i'd say i'm still enjoy merkur ownership... i just wish i'd gotten off to a better start! I got royalled screwed when i bought mine, bought from an owner who knew squat about it, and when something went wrong with it, he patched it best he could and sold it, only good thing about my car was...

my outlets broke at the track, causing me to spill hot coolant while sitting in the staging lanes. I'm going to take my stock one, and get a metal one made from a rad shop. Not sure about cost yet, but i'll know soon.

What kind of fan setup are you guys using with those cossie radiators? I'm getting my in september (rad and IC from ssautochrome) and gotta source a fan setup before then. Let me know what you're using and how well it works.

contact galaxie1 on here, just check under the memberlist. He sells a conversion kit with a new crossmember, tranny mount, driveshaft adapter, and speedo cable which you won't need. So you save some for not needing that i guess. I'm using his kit and it's wonderful. Word of caution though, make sure...

the owners manual states that the low fuel light comes on when there's about 7 litres left in the tank, so about 2 gallons. usually i fill when that light comes on or around 400 or 450km on the trip meter, depends how hard i am on the car. Oh and another note about the fuel guage, be glad it works k...

Although i have no intentions of autocrossing, i've noticed my boost lagg near gone the day i got my 3inch exhaust install on the car. A header also helps with reducing the lagg. That's my 2cents about ridding of boost lagg. Plus it sounds great with the right muffler!

bank it, work 4 more solid chunks of overtime, till you have 2500 and get that esslinger head. Or get SDS.

So we gathered at bryans for a little code reading and intercooler gazing. I had my trusty video cam with me and we decided to get some group photo's with our cars, here's some footage of the meet, the camera pauses where pics where extracted for picture use. Happy viewing. Click here to download mo...

So i had a burntout brake light. So i bought a new bulb and cleaned up the contacts best i could. Now whenever i step on the brakes my signal lights come on, instead of the brake lights, plus my park lamps fail to light up as well. I've tried swapping the bulb units and reversing the connections. I ...

So a couple of merkurs ended up at the same house the other day, figured some pictures were due, sorry for the size. Downsizing involves effort. http://members.shaw.ca/vchipeur/XR4Ti/IMG_3208.JPG http://members.shaw.ca/vchipeur/XR4Ti/IMG_3209.JPG http://members.shaw.ca/vchipeur/XR4Ti/IMG_3211.JPG ht...

I'd personally like a 95-97 t-bird. You might be able to find a decent one for that price range. A few months before i looked at a 97 with 120 000km on it, it was selling for 8grand CDN. They ride very nice and are great highway cars, those 4.6 motors are pretty good power wise as well. Only drawbac...

Manual LHD steering rack, manual window regulators, manual side mirrors, LHD Black Sierra Sapphire dashboard (upper and lower), and steering colum pieces... Along with the rest of the stuff the other people want. Yer gonna need some massive suitcases!! :) Bring back a couple YB's while yer at it. :...