A guy from Missouri on RPS stoped by my house tonight so i could take a ride in his truck. I knew had the turbo just didnt get a chance at the Sept 20th meet to ride in it

Turbo came out of a 86 Thunderbird

Little truck is faaaaaaaassssssssstttttttt

 

sweet little 2.3 setup

 

he needs a holset!!! i has one he can purchase :) gotta love the sound of a turbo

 

I like the color!
I also like the clear corners, where Do I finds ones like those?
Nvm, found those exact ones on ebay. They are now on my to-do list.

 

sneaky

 

thats a great sleeper, i like it, we need a vid tho.

 

You got it ill get one when he comes back through town.

I wasn't even expecting him so my camera was not fully charged. I was limited on pictures also

 

sweet, has he run it in a 1/4 mile yet?

 

That thing needs a inter-cooler. Awesome though. Turbos FTW

 

that little thing is a hell of a sleeper!

it just looks like another old ranger lol

 

Not to my knowledge. When he took me out in it we went about 1/2 mile he was up to 80 in no time. That truck only reads 85, but I would say we were going faster than that.

The 1986 Thunderbird didn't come with a inter cooler setup. He is working on getting his heater hooked back up before it gets to cold

 

Sweet, looks like a fun truck!

 

Thanks for digging my ride, you guys!!!


I haven't taken it to a track because I haven't pushed it hard yet because the motor went through a COMPLETE rebuild with cylinder hone, block check, head leveled, and valve seats installed (good thing too, all exhaust seats were cracked and one was cracked all the way to the water jacket.) I want to make sure all the rings and bearings are plenty broken in before I start tearing ashpalt up on the track. I don't even know where a good track is to take it to.

I also plan on getting a performance clutch. When I took STL for a ride, I noticed that the clutch had slipped a bit right after each shift and I also found out that my motor mounts are nearly wore out. I'm getting all three of those ordered in soon.

I picked up a heater box from my parents house. I couldn't find a non-a/c box, so I'm going to take an a/c equipped box and cut and reform it.


I'll get an intercooler after a while. This thing ****s and gets well enough now. I need to save up some money because this so far has cost me just over $1400 and I'm kinda broke from it all (not broke as f*ck, but now I have to pay off the credit card)


Mykhael (with the hippie parents ;-), you may have thought it was fast, but I was only lightly rolling the throttle. I can't wait until I've tweaked it some more for boost, clutch, and limited slip!!!

Oh, and I'll send him a few more pics this week so he can have better ones posted up for this thread.

 

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t=MOV03843.flv

Video for those guys addicted to turbo ****. Hahaha!!

Guy taking the vid is a friend from RPS. I'm more often on TheRangerStation than any other forum.

 

Anyone else on this site have a turbo'd ranger?

I'm usually never on here.

 

i have one its a 1989 ranger with a similar set up. i have a 2.3L swap out of an 84 svo mustang. and im currently setting it up with a slightly bigger snail then the one pictured above. these things are the best sleepers ever. fun in the snow too.

 

Crap, if you could ever get that truck running...it would be a freaking fast pile of crapola.

 

heck even with it siting in my rat hole of a garage its still faster and cooler than yours lol

 

ouch.....

 

if he intercooled it that little truck would fly even more. Sweet ride i just dont like how its a hot air