Well, I thought it was about time I start up a thread where I can post all my pics and stuff I have done to the car.

Firstly, I will start off with the car, she’s a September 1993 LTD Oregon V8 (don’t ask what the hell Oregon means, its on the rego’ description) Dressed in sexy Cardinal Red, with all the standard LTD goodies such as complete Grey leather , everything electric etc.



The stuff it’s got so far:

Exterior

-Lowered with Cobra super lows and Monroe gas struts. (NZ made crap, coming out soon)
-Full pro’ limo tint
-17x8 & 18x10" Boyd Codington “Junk Yard Dogs”
-AU V8 badges
-AU Tickford badges
-Personalized plates, LTDXTC
-Mudguards removed
-EF Mirrors

Interior

Custom black leather gear boot mounted in original LTD auto wood grain surround (cut out for manual shape)
EB GT Momo Cruise wheel
Ford Racing "Hurst style" shifter knob
Autometer Carbon Fibre Gauges (Oil press, oil temp, volts, Vac)
Autometer Ultra Lite wide band 02
Autometer Ultra Lite DPIC


Mechanical

302 V8
Moates 1/4 Horse
Trick Flow "Track Heat" intake manifolds
Trick Flow Twisted wedge 170 alloy heads
Trick Flow stage one cam
Trick Flow 1:6 roller rockers
Aeromotive FPR
Aeromotive billet fuel rails
Walbro 255 fuel pump
AU Tickford 70mm throttle body
EB/EL GT MAF
24lb AA302 fuel injectors
Tremec T5Z trans
Alloy driveshaft
T6 billet short shifter
Yella Terra Billet flywheel
HD Clutch
3.7 diff
4-1 Headers
Dual 2.5" exhaust
Magnapack mufflers
Magnaflow X pipe
Underdrives
EL Thermo fans
Crane Hi-6 ignition
Crane LX92 coil



Audio

Pioneer ipod head unit
IPod cable running under centre console and mounted in the console bin
Pioneer components mounted in original front spaces
Pioneer 6.5’s in rear
Sub/amp in boot








Cheers,
Mason

Last edited by XFWAGON on Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:03 am, edited 23 times in total.

About time you did a build thread.

But!!!!

Where are the pics???????? LOL

Come on, give us some eye candy!!!!

BenJ

As BenJ said......about bloody time
OK, let's tackle your first question. Get yourself some bluetack and play around with the position of your badges. That way you can shoot of a few pic's and put them up to be judged. Not sure where you're going with fitting cobra badges to an LTD, but hey, if it looks OK and you like it then it doesn't really matter what we all think eh! I personally will eventually be going the opposite way and completely debadging the Lane for a smoother look, not that there are many to remove
Looking forward to seeing some more pics, and following your progress.....c'mon, get cracking mate!
Cheers,
Mick

Haha, here come some First ones, i need to get out there and start using my cam! This is how i bought her 2 years ago, found it on the internet in the north island, place called napier, the guy who owned it just used her 4 times a year to tow his MX5 race car around (the mx5 had a 289 muzzy engine in it) It cost me $1200 to get it trucked down from up north, but hey, for an LTD, why not! and this is the ONLY one i have ever seen for sale in NZ, there has been the odd NA and NC's here and there, and plenty of DF/L's, but i have never spotted another DC V8 anywhere, be it on the road or on Trademe (NZ's version of eBay) but i am sure they are out there.

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Here she is with a a new set of feet.

prior to these pics she had a set of EF XR6 rims. and also was lowered at some stage before that by me.

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I love the wheels.

Keep up the good work on the thread.

BenJ

nice LTD , hehe just looks like that 1 i got in the back yard but straighter and more complete

What sort of parts you got left? Going cheap? I need some goodies....

Anyways, here are some pic's, she's up on stilts now, Auto is out, flywheel/clutch is all bolted up, just got to wait for the weather to clear and dad to bolt the box up. Then i can get started on the Explorer manifolds, exhaust etc. Also there is my new gear boot and steering wheel with matching knob. And yes before someone like Mick says it, YES My wing mirror IS falling off lol

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some more

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I asked this in another thread, but still confused, T5 only has the reverse sender plug plus the speedo sender, the Manual loom i have has 3 plugs, (speedo, reverse, neutral)

the plugs closest to the speedo plug on the loom are for reverse, correct? And how the hell do i connect the neutral wires up if there is no neutral sender!!

I just swapped my old AU V8 flywheel/used clutch + AU XR8 ECU (auto) for another DC LTD dash, the whole thing, loom, cluster, trip meter/clock, climate, abs ecu etc etc, Thats coming my way next week. I have also bought an DL LTD cluster that i am going to have re-coded with my current k's (as the DL has 406k on it!) Can i swap the V8 tach from my DC cluster into the back of the DL cluster? And what else will i need to make it work? I know i will have to make up some brackets etc. I wont need to connect the auto gear display as i'm manual, but what else do i need to play around with? I will have both looms at my disposal, DL dash, plus DC dash. Who was it that did this conversion??? link anyone?

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Re the auto gear display, you will need to cover it up with some black electrical tape, or similar.

That is what i have done.

BenJ

Ah ha, so it is you did it, i spent ages looking through your thread but couldn't find it. How did you wire it up? If i don't need the auto selector wired up, can i just plug it in?

What loom are you using?

The DL Cluster is not a plug and play at all with the NC/DC loom.

BenJ

DC loom, but i am getting the plugs plus about 30cm of loom with the DL cluster...

You will need to build a complete custom built adapter loom to make it work. Does you car have the digital dash originally?

Also, I may have missed this, but what ECU are you using. For the cluster to work, you will need to be running an EL type ECU, which will have the DATA line output to the cluster.

BenJ