yurizx6r

Stop. Before you add hp to that car, take care of you suspension first. Hp is USELESS unless you can put it to the ground. 1st take into consideration.... what do I want to do with this car? Drag car? Turn car? Luxury car? Daily driver? Consider that first, then mod accordingly. No matter what, I would first start out with Maximum Motorsports full length subframe connectors (and MM anything for that matter), MM rear lower control arms to protect your torque boxes, and wider rear tires for no matter what application car you want. After that, go with whatever set up you want. The things that Ford screwed up the most on that car was suspension, brakes, crap head lights, and they didn't have a adequate supported subframe. Even for a DD, you should reinforce the subframe because even stock hp can bend and twist it.

rmodel65

get on car-part.com and find a ford aerostar driveshaft from an All wheel drive model its alum and a bolt in swap ive seen them for like 20$ on there before

tinman

When you are carb hunting and already have the cam/heads you are going to use Holley 650 will work great on the street....

mustangsrus

thx for the info. I plan on keeping this car a daily driver but want it to rip. im getting sub frame braces and plan on putting a roll cage in. was told it gives more strength.

mjr46

unless you plan to use that car for pure race and it is projected to run 11.499 and below you are wasting your money for a CAGE install

84CopperGT

The 8.8 wasn't around until 86. But, you can build a 7.5 to handle enough power to have a hell of a good time. Just upgrade the axles, Auburn or Detroit diff and quality gears and it's stronger than a stock 8.8 and lighter. I know a guy who put down almost 500 rwhp on a 7.5.


But put in some torque box reinforcement plates. Totally worth it.

bluebeastsrt

Agreed. A roll bar install is usually $1200 or more including the kit they weld in.

Torque boxes are fine but I wouldn't waste money on a 7.5 when an 8.8 can be had for a song at the junk yard or Craig's list. The diffs you mentioned are also a hell of allot more expensive the a 8.8 trac loc rebuild kit.

84CopperGT

Nobody mentioned the fact that the brake lines are different between the 7.5 and 8.8 are different and need to be swapped out.

mjr46

not totally necessary, I just did a 8.8 swap into an 84 for a guy and we just transfered over the lines and rear brakes right onto the 8.8, worked fine, didn't even crack a line open and he has dual pipe conversion