Thread: 87 Grand Marquis 2 door build

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Drove this thing as a daily driver for years at this point (kinda catching you up with whats up today). Installed dual exhaust had to fab up factory looking mouts as stockers were not avialable. Just used factory muffs and stock exhaust. Cats were removed later as they srtarted to burn out. Actually one of them the core cracked appart and clogged up one of my new mufflers witch had to be replaced.
The car would realy corner. Not a lot of power but was a bit suprizing. Corners many high end sports cars couldnt keep up. They could cath me on a straight. Remember kicking it turning left in a busy kind of a sharp Y ish intersection. Floored it looked in the rear vew mirror and there was a M5 behind me front wheels turned into the slide trying to control it sliding side ways to keep up. I was noting the nice brakes on his car.
Eventually I bent the IMSA approved rims hanging corners. Had to use a dial indicator to figure out what was wrong after three trips to check alignment and wheel ballance. I finaly at that point had some semi custom Weld Wheels made up. Issue solved. I picked the NASCAR looking ones.

Eventually installed equi lenght shorty headers and off road pipes into the stock mufflers. Rear shocks being a bit short issue was solved by installing double adjustable QA1 shocks. Purchased the coil over versions but no coil over coils at this point.


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Somewere along the line I installed a Canton road race pan. It was left over from the Boss 302 in the 84 mustang. I wouldnt fit in it because of the road race style headers.


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Here is the car think its the summer I had to rebuild the passenger front torq box.
Battery cept busting loose flipping the car around corners. Battery impailed itself on a bolt and would drain one cell dry. Guess were the eletolite went. Into the frame. Poored some baking soda water mix all round were the battery sat and into the frame before repair. Soda was bubbling up like mad. Noticed the top of the frame rail from the torq box towatd the rear about a foot felt like there was a crack. Couldnt see it only enough room to feel for it.

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