Thread: 87 Grand Marquis 2 door build

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Front and sides


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Well after driving it around for a while it was time to remove the conti kit. Kinda cool but not my style. It was even hooked to the trunk pop button and would fall back when the trunk was opened.
Upon removal noticed the bumper was bent and a few extra holes so swapped the one off the blue car.


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Next move was to swap all the new suspension and brake parts from old blue to the new car now named "Creamy".

Looks like you came up with a much nicer car!!!! As for the duals, probably best to leave them on the truck!!!!!

How about flipping the headers and

Check room for a pair of T-BIRD turbos

The turbos are still on the back burner. One issue would be making new inner fender wells as the factory plastic ones would melt.
How about making a fiberglass hood with cowel induction scoop.

It's got potential; this bodystyle is growing on me. I'll bet the boneyard parts are cheap and plentiful, too.

Originally Posted by falconvan

It's got potential; this bodystyle is growing on me. I'll bet the boneyard parts are cheap and plentiful, too.

That depends. Tudors in this body style are amoung the lowest production cars Ford built. In 87 (the last year for 2 doors) 4900 Mercs and 5800 Crown Vics were built. Early years of this body style production numbers were a bout the same. 4 doors plenty were built. Lots of them were turned in for cash for clunkers or even more ended up demo derby cars. Being the last full framed car. Most things like chrome trim, window and door rubbers, doors, etc are now made out of unobtainium. Waggons are the next most difficult to find. Been looking for the front bumper for a 86 87 for 5 or so years now. The waggons these years had an aluminum bumper. Stock steel bumper is almost 80 lbs in steel. Shure would improve my track times on a road course or autocross.

The body style kinda grew on me too as well as driving the car.

Originally Posted by turbo2256b

made out of unobtainium.

That's a popular building material for many reproduction parts.....

Installed duals using 90ish Mustang eqi length headers and off road H pipe.

Had to make some hangers based on the stock single frame mounts as replacements for either side were not available. One for the tail pipe hanger one for the muffler hanger.

That's some very nice detail work on the engine!!!!! Makes a Blue Oval man proud!!!! Very well done!

Very cool! Most people don't expect to get their doors blown off by a Mercury Marquis!