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03 cobra IRS in a 93 Gt Pics

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89gtstalker

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I just completed putting an 03 Corbra IRS in my 93 GT. Just thought I would post up some pictures. Full cobra breaks, bilstein struts, MM caster/camber plates with Kenny Brown Lowering Springs. I upgraded the master cylinder and break distribution block as well.

Started like this:
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The IRS
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WAAAAY better...that looks amazing!!!!!1 good work!
 

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Oh...
 
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how involved is this swap? looks awesome.
 

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Nice clean car! Does the car have a lot of wheel hop like the 03-04's now? How much better does it handle? I bet it is great!
 

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Nice man good job.
 

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sweet man!! good luck with it! did you get a deal on the parts?
 

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This is something I would love to do to my car. Doesnt look too hard to do, is it that bad?
 

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Real nice ... let us know how it drives and the level of difficulty on the swap.
 
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It is a pretty easy swap.

What size rim are you using; backspace, offset etc?
 

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looky what I forgot about that was in my favorites!
http://www.mouthbreather.net/IRSSWAP.HTML
 
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I wouldnt call it easy. There is some modifications that you have to do. One of the third shock mount bolts lines up right in line with the IRS braket, the other doesnt. What most people do is drill across the frame rail right above the other hole and bolt it, like they show on that page linked above. Fortunately, my good friends at KR performance and restorations, who did the body and paint on my car, www.krperformanceandrestorations.com, custom modify the stock brackets to fit the fox body that are a direct bolt in. Check out there site under the IRS installation tab if you interested in doing this swap, its alot easier with the modified brackets.

Then you have to do something with the bottom frame rail brackets as well. You drill up through the rail and everyone has there own opinions on the correct way to mount these bolts. KR performance is creating a custom bracket to properly fix this issue as well, I cant show this peice yet, however.

The front mounts go to the stock mounting location. You have to modify the rear brake lines to go to each IRS soft line. You also have to change the master cylinder, and either modify the brake distribution block, or the way I did it was get a stock distribution block from a 94 or 95 non-ABS car and adapt it to work with the stock lines. This eliminates the need for an additional proportioning valve, but required re-flaring some of the lines. If you have a 99-01 IRS, the driveshaft bolts right up. If its and 03-04, then you have to change the rear flange.

You also have to remove all of the stock axle bumpers from underneith, and I still have to address the exhaust issue. It is a nice change, and drives a whole lot better
 
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Looks nice, I need to get off my butt and get my car going! I did the swap in my garage with average-guy tools, it wasn't hard.
 

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That looks sexy as hell! But I have no idea how you're going to tackle the exhaust issue, short of just going with dumps or side-exits of some kind...
 
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Darkwriter77 said:
That looks sexy as hell! But I have no idea how you're going to tackle the exhaust issue, short of just going with dumps or side-exits of some kind...
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You can use any Cobra cat-back, but it has to be modified. It needs to be shortened before the mufflers and the rearmost hangers need to be reworked a little.
 
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I just picked up a 03/04 cobra IRS a couple weeks ago without the brackets. Thanks for the link I just sent your friends an email. If I understand correctly your brackets are not the same ones pictured on the website?
Kevin
 
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Well I just got a quote from them... 150 and a 100 dollar core charge...
Kevin
 

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Looks good. I'm trying to strike a deal on an 01 IRS. Hope to have everything done in the next month.

Are those 17 x 8 or 17 x 9? What backspace? What year spindles up front?
 
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I'm just curious why you guys would want and IRS in a Fox, unless your main intent is road racing?

About every guy I know with a Cobra with an IRS hates the dang thing and is getting rid of it in favor of a live axle. They just suck for straight-line performance, they wheel hop and the whole thing just "hunkers" down and won't hook for jack if you have any kind of horespower.

I guess I can understand if you have mildly modded Fox, 300-400rwhp, cause the IRS would probably do OK in straigtline with that hp plus it would handle like a dream. But you start getting into the 450rwhp range your going to hate the thing unless you poor $1500+ into it for the MM bushing kit and all kinds of other stuff.
 

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i also do not understand the effort of reward ration on this one, i mean the cool factor is ther but you can get almost the same conering preformance with a panhard bar tourqe arm setup with out scarficing the stright line prefomance, and without the expense trying to keep the irs together with any big hp numbers
 
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