My 1990 Notchback Build Thread

[oatburner99]

Well it's just in primer, but here's the first coat:


and I FINALLY found one of these...my god you'd think these things were made of gold or something:


and these new center caps were given to me by a good friend, cause she's just that cool!

[oatburner99]

Got some more done tonight:

BEFORE:


After:



Intake and plate:


Still not done yet...still have some work to do.

[oatburner99]

[mcgrady92gt]

Nice job on that intake, im glad you made the letters silver, it looks awesome that way.

[ericsvt]

that intake came out nice

[oatburner99]

thanks guys....all that lacks is to clear coat it....buying some parts today, and hopefully get the h/c/i done here shortly.

[86convt]

Great Work Bro!

[oatburner99]

Well these showed up today....the first of the parts wave landed on the home front

[oatburner99]

Got some more goodies today
Trick flow bushings should be here shortly....come on mail man LOL

[oatburner99]

Alright....all parts have arrived and are accounted for
H/C/I Swap goodies

BBK Ceramic 1 5/8 LongTubes with offroad h-pipe

New Control arms

[oatburner99]

In between getting all of the engine stuff started, and collecting parts, I've been looking for some control arms (mine are still the original 90 versions) and came across these on sale. Really wanted some Maximum Motorsports upper's and lower's but just couldn't swing it, especially after trying to get the H/C/I swap parts rounded up. So I figured mine are beyond "DONE" so I'll get replacements in there and later on down the road we'll step up...on to the pics:

What's in the box?


Greatness....that's what


Then the shennanigans began.....REALLY???WTF??? stupid quad shock:


Hooray for bushings:


Yum:




Lower in it's new home:


22 y/o control arm....BUH BYE:

Some bolt with that corrosion?

BUUUUUUUUHHHHH BYE!

Stock upper's that are SMOKED:



What a difference these made....it's amazing what little bushings will do for feel and handling....no more clunking. Car feels alot tighter, and the ride is a lot smoother. I had to beat some of those old bolts out (I'm sure you can see why) which I'm sure were causing the binding. All in all, well worth the money, even though they are cheapo's, they are better than the broken down 22 year old stock OEM control arms.

[oatburner99]

Worked on the Gt40's a little bit today as well. Prepping them for a trip to the hot tank for cleaning. Get them all purdy and ready for re-assembly with new springs and seals

[oatburner99]

Whelp, here's the before pictures. Just took a couple, they are at the machine shop, should get them back tomorrow








I'll post pics when I get the heads back

[oatburner99]

Back from the machine shop:





Shot some paint on them....don't want anymore rust lol:

[oatburner99]

Really happy how this is turning out. Need opinions, what color for the stock valve cover's?

[fox2boost]

I think the wrinkle black would be a cool contrast on the gloss intake. I've had good luck with the rattle can stuff.

Any porting plans for the heads and intake?

Subscribed.

[fox2boost]

So you can get an idea. I guess I'm partial to the gloss on wrinkle hahah

[oatburner99]

hahaha nice motor....

yeah black or chrome seem's to be the top opinion's. Haven't decided yet. Might port the heads and intake....not sure yet.

[fox2boost]

I just cleaned mine up very light on the porting.

[oatburner99]

Been looking around here and there for valve covers. I really didn't want to have to remove the baffles out of stock one's or beat on them like most people say they had to in order to clear 1.7 rr's. Had looked at a set of black chrome powder coated cover's, that looked really nice, but not sure about the clearance on the rockers. So a good friend of mine, thankfully had squirreled these away awhile ago, and was nice enough to let me give them a new home:

[oatburner99]

So after spending the weekend trolling through pick-n-pull's and wrench-a-parts up in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area, I thought I was going to end up going home empty handed. Now I dunno about you guys, but I've learned regardless if the car is absolutly DESTROYED, I still dig a little bit and see what's inside the car. If I look the car over, and find evidence of performance goodies than I really start digging. So at a certain yard I found two little fox bodies, both well.....destroyed:



The car on the left, had BBK header's (destroyed) and I noticed the lower intake gasket laying on the passenger side of the car, and looked like a trick-flow/holley systemax setup. So I started digging some more, and found in the trunk, UNDER the spare tire and jack, this little piece:







SO I about fall over, being I found this in the trunk...and both of these cars are PICKED over.....well what was pick-able...so I finish walking around and head back up to the counter, and the young girl at the cashier says "$16 dollars sir" Thank you very much, ends up it's a 76mm C&L with a 24# sample tube in it, so now I'm on the hunt for 24# injector's or a 19# sample tube....

[fox2boost]

Originally Posted by oatburner99

So after spending the weekend trolling through pick-n-pull's and wrench-a-parts up in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area, I thought I was going to end up going home empty handed. Now I dunno about you guys, but I've learned regardless if the car is absolutly DESTROYED, I still dig a little bit and see what's inside the car. If I look the car over, and find evidence of performance goodies than I really start digging. So at a certain yard I found two little fox bodies, both well.....destroyed:



The car on the left, had BBK header's (destroyed) and I noticed the lower intake gasket laying on the passenger side of the car, and looked like a trick-flow/holley systemax setup. So I started digging some more, and found in the trunk, UNDER the spare tire and jack, this little piece:







SO I about fall over, being I found this in the trunk...and both of these cars are PICKED over.....well what was pick-able...so I finish walking around and head back up to the counter, and the young girl at the cashier says "$16 dollars sir" Thank you very much, ends up it's a 76mm C&L with a 24# sample tube in it, so now I'm on the hunt for 24# injector's or a 19# sample tube....

I have some 24's kicking around name your price.

[oatburner99]

Snapped a pic, just cause...be nice to get the LX bumper back on...


and cleaned this up a little bit (my god it was nasty)
BEFORE:

AFTER



I dunno what happened to this MAF, looks like someone took a cutoff wheel to it, gouges and some hefty nicks on the ends...smoothed
them out. So now looking for a 19 lb sample tube.

[925GT]

Good looking Notch.

[oatburner99]

Thanks guys

[oatburner99]

FINALLY fixed the one thing that all fox owner's hate. The POS ashtray. Mine has been broken since I got it. Such a simple fix, but you forget about it
until you get in the car and hear the damn ashtray door rattle. Drive me bat #### crazy. Anyway, got the ashtray fix it kit:

The design for this door is the biggest POS.....I just removed mine all together


Reinforcement tab:



fFINALLY!


Ashtray has seen better days:




Looks much MO betta:

[Sk33t3r]

Nice coupe, I guess I need to fix my ashtray as well.

[oatburner99]

H/C/I install is this weekend. Hopefully no issues, and no problems

[fox2boost]

Nice. What heads can and intake?

[oatburner99]

Well started it today, here's the pictures:

The goods:


New bumpstick:

About to go under the knife:

Building the heads up:



Let the games begin:








147,000 mile timing chain:



Engine mount....think it needs to be replace? LOL New ones are installed :P




Bye bye stock stuff:

Out with the old bump stick:





New bumpstick:

New Timing chain:


All cleaned up:




Gt-40's installed:






1.7 rr's installed:



Called it a night, we'll finish up tomorrow.

[oatburner99]

Started up again this morning (may not be in complete sequence):

Cobra valve cover's (clears 1.7 RR's)







Explorer Intake:







Long Tube install. Which sucked, steering shaft hits the aft tube, had to massage it quite a bit. Ended up being a 3 a.m task


Video coming shortly....finishing up last minute stuff

[fox2boost]

Looking good

[oatburner99]

Well a little over a week of driving the car, all I can see is HOLY F*&##^!!&)#*!.

Prior to doing this swap the car would fall on it's face at 5100 rpm (including on the dyno) and that was were the power stopped.
I'm sure some of you have thought to yourself "I wanna see how far I can push it" and then you have that moment of clarity,
and you feel the seat cushion becoming part of your backside. Well that happened to me yesterday. I ran it all the way to 7800 rpm
and the car kept pulling. I however got that "oh ####" feeling and got out of it. Then I noticed the black marks going through the intersection.

Am I happy with the outcome.....


OH YEAH

[oatburner99]

Wife took these pictures just prior to the CS tribute memorial "rev up"

[fox2boost]

Car looks awesome. What's the cs memorial tribute rev up though?