None.Have you had any clearance issues with the spring and the shock towers?
None.Have you had any clearance issues with the spring and the shock towers?
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I will have to take those spacers out then and see where what happens.
I got the 3mm spacers from Maximum Motorsports today. I think they were just what I needed. They brought the tire away from the spring, but not too much as I can still tuck the tire in the wheel well.
Attached are the pictures of the spacer, the new tire clearance and what the car currently looks like.
That looks pretty close to me. How long are your springs?
BTW - You can save a LOT of weight, per corner, by going to aluminum lugnuts [over those extremely heavy stock SVO ones].
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The springs are the 10" MM ones (300 lb), I do have new gorilla lug nuts for the car, just did not screw them on for the picture.
So the spring adjusters are all the way down (spring unloaded)??
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Yes, and I still have spacers between the C/C plates and the spring hat. I figured I would go with the "worst case" scenario when I measured for the wheel back spacing.Originally Posted by MikeFleming
Wow, those wheels look good!
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Thank you.
Meotchh - It's December....
Unclesam - your car is a beautiful thing! Thanks for all the pictures.
7B SL55
I installed the new FMIC today.
I ordered this universal intercooler kit from amazon, it came with pretty much everything you need to install it. This kit has 3" piping but you can get them in a smaller diameter if you are still using the stock SVO throttle body.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0044PSBN0...oding=UTF8&me=
I am surprised on how well this intercooler fits between the bumper cover and radiator, it is almost like it was designed for an SVO. I only had to trim the bumper cover a little (by each fog light) and remove the fog light bracket braces. The intercoolers overall measurements are 30.75" x 11.75" (top to bottom and from the outer edge of each pipe opening).
There are 4 threaded mounting bungs (2 on the top and 2 on the bottom) on the intercooler. To install it in the car, I drilled 2 holes in the fog light support bracket and placed 2 spacers (that came in the kit) between the I/C and the fog light bracket to align the I/C with both the upper and lower openings in the bumper cover. To support the top of the I/C I made 2 brackets from some flat bar aluminum (found at Home Depot or Lowes). I made them using a hand held torch to heat it up allowing me to bend the aluminum (with out cracking it), then I drilled a couple holes in them and secured those to the top of the I/C and the radiator support.
The I/C plumbing should clear everything behind the bumper cover now. I will need to move the fog lights forward about an inch, I think there is enough of the fog light bracket left so I can just drill a new mounting hole. If not, I will have to make a bracket on the top of the fog light opening and mount the fog light upside down.
I also have to rethink my front tow point now, as the I/C piping is going to be routed right where the bracket I made for the tow strap is located.
My goal is to make the I/C and I/C piping as clean as possible, so someone that is not familiar with SVO's thinks the car came with a FMIC from the factory.
Thank you kind sir
You've been really busy this season.
Some very nice progress.
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My goal is to bring the car to the Knotts show this spring, at this rate hopefully I can make it.
1986 SVO 1E (IRS'd and too much $$ spent making it turn and stop)
Looks good. I'm looking forward to seeing the plumbing to and from the IC.....
1979 Pace Car ~ 1982 GT T-Top
1986 1C SVO ~ 1986 GT vert
It will be coming from under the frame rails and turning up towards the turbo an intake.
I have a custom "homebrew" rotated upper.
1986 SVO 1E (IRS'd and too much $$ spent making it turn and stop)
You have a nice looking project here fun to see the fast progress and results lots of cars are going to the black wheels now but your's looks really nice you make me want to spend $$$. Thanks for sharing
I was going to go with a bronze wheel but I changed my mind and went with the black ones because of all the black accents on the car.
1986 SVO 1E (IRS'd and too much $$ spent making it turn and stop)
Never saw an upper intake like that, what is it off of?
4.6 2V from a 99-04 Mustang.
1986 SVO 1E (IRS'd and too much $$ spent making it turn and stop)
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