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how hard is it to convert the fox body front ends?

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Old 06-01-2007, 06:05 AM
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[&:] dont laugh it was $200 course it looks better now.....





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Old 06-01-2007, 06:31 AM
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it looks better than mine that i paid 850 for and it looks like yours runs and is a V8 mine is a POS 4cylinder
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Old 06-01-2007, 09:02 AM
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Not bad for $200. Mine cost me $100.00.
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Old 06-01-2007, 10:16 AM
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keep your bumper one they you can do with a 4 eyes that you cant do with the 87-93 is ad a mach 1 chin spoiler and it looks bad *** too
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Old 06-01-2007, 06:53 PM
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well.. i don't like the look. besides my bumbers beat to hell anyways and i already have the front on that 88 just sittin on the car. i'm not plannin on selin the car anytime soon so i would rather drive something that i think looks good than a beat up car thats looks like an ugly peice, if you know what i mean. later after i'm through with body school i'm goingto paint it a nice blue color and get a 5 lug conversion and put some nice white 17 inch saleens on there. ugghh.... okay now i gotta go and change my pants.
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Old 06-01-2007, 07:15 PM
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honestly i have my 89 and i wouldnt mind a four eye, they took a while to grow on me but ill admit there much more bad *** looking then the aero style on the 87-93's, and i imagine tuning and working on a carbed 5.0 is much simplier then all the computers in the efi
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Old 06-01-2007, 07:29 PM
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well.. i don't like the look. besides my bumbers beat to hell anyways and i already have the front on that 88 just sittin on the car. i'm not plannin on selin the car anytime soon so i would rather drive something that i think looks good than a beat up car thats looks like an ugly peice, if you know what i mean. later after i'm through with body school i'm goingto paint it a nice blue color and get a 5 lug conversion and put some nice white 17 inch saleens on there. ugghh.... okay now i gotta go and change my pants.
lol! did you just splouge on yourself?! but seriously, they arent that hard to change as far as the bumper and lights themselves, but i bet the wirin for the lights are diff, but if you got that other car just sittin there you should have all the wirin you need. ok, there should be about six 11mm nuts on each side of the bumpers to fenders a bolts or two that connects the header panel to the radiator support and a couple of push in clips through the bottom of the bumper to the radiatior support. bumper and header panel should come out together. i think thats all
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Old 06-01-2007, 08:48 PM
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The hardest part is getting the fender skirts off. Cuz of the mud filled phillips screws. If all goes well it should take about an hour to change out. Plus another 30 to 45 minutes to remove the other one from the other car. Wiring will give you some trouble You have to splice in the connectors. 2 to 3 hour job tops.
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cHANGE IT
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Old 06-02-2007, 05:31 PM
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yeah its not carbed. it has throttle body injection or CFI. i'm not very mechanically inclined soi dont know for sure but when i look through mags and catalogs there is never anything for the cfi mustangs.
A 3 hour job doesn't bad. i'm sure it will go faster if i get a friend to help out. thanks for the advice. does the headlight panel going to switch right over or am i going to have to do any drilling?
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