A Quest For The Closet Gang

[MustangGurl2695]

I know this thread will eventually be hyjacked, but I want to get a question answered before that happens.

I'm finally getting my ZX2 in the spring!
Anyways, on the door the code tag says "4t" for the axel. Dad and I have been trying to figure out if that means 4:11 for the gear ratio. I have asked this same question on www.feoa.net but no one has responded.

It's not a stang, but it's a Ford, and I figured I'd throw the question out to you guys.

And the hyjacking timing has begun: 0:00.01

 

[bnickel]

what year is it?

 

[MustangGurl2695]

It's a 1998 ZX2 with the Zeta engine, GT suspension, 5 speed manual.

 

[bnickel]

best i can tell there were only 2 axle ratios available for ZX2 a 3.85 and the 4.10 and according to everything i can find the sport suspension package came with the 4.10 ratio. i'm guessing the sport suspension package would be the GT suspension. therfore i think it's safe to say that your car has the 4.10 ratio axle. hope that helps.

 

[MustangGurl2695]

Dad says that sounds right. Thanks.

Amazing, an answer before hyjacking... That has to be a record.

 

[StangDreamin']

Afriend of mine had a ZX-2; taught Tink how to power-shift in it, because I wouldn't let her try it in the Generic Chevy Truck (I was trying to see if I could hit 200,000 before rebuilding the clutch a second time). He traded the ZX-2 off on a 6-cyl '05 Stang; now that car had an automa.......

Oh.

Bryan answered the question before I had a chance to even see the thread, let alone 'jack it!

Oh well, it's really never too late, soooooo ......
Hey Bryan, if that ZX-2 has the "GT Suspension"; does it mean it can be counted as a ZX-2/GT? Would it count if Kevin Marti mentions it in "Focus.... byt the numbers"? Or does that mean nothing because there wasn't a GT for that model year?

This could be important some day! Or not.
Oh, the heck with it! I'll just make a "Concept ZX-2G/T" and let the experts tell me it never was real........

 

[bnickel]

Afriend of mine had a ZX-2; taught Tink how to power-shift in it, because I wouldn't let her try it in the Generic Chevy Truck (I was trying to see if I could hit 200,000 before rebuilding the clutch a second time). He traded the ZX-2 off on a 6-cyl '05 Stang; now that car had an automa.......

Oh.

Bryan answered the question before I had a chance to even see the thread, let alone 'jack it!

Oh well, it's really never too late, soooooo ......
Hey Bryan, if that ZX-2 has the "GT Suspension"; does it mean it can be counted as a ZX-2/GT? Would it count if Kevin Marti mentions it in "Focus.... byt the numbers"? Or does that mean nothing because there wasn't a GT for that model year?

This could be important some day! Or not.
Oh, the heck with it! I'll just make a "Concept ZX-2G/T" and let the experts tell me it never was real........

hahahaha. you know what's really funny about this is that absoluetly no idea what teh hell we're talking about and i ain't tellin.

 

[CarFreakGT]

I'll just make a "Concept ZX-2G/T" and let the experts tell me it never was real........

Actually, it must be real. Took my son to Target the other day and saw a Hot Wheels car by a similar name:

"Ford Concept ZX-2G/T WTF LMFAO FWIW" I'm trying to decipher all those extra letters--figure they're some kind of code that make it very rare!

 

[StangDreamin']

hahahaha. you know what's really funny about this is that absoluetly no idea what teh hell we're talking about and i ain't tellin.

Me neither! I'm thinking, if I ever suddenly become independently wealthy (still workin' on that "Turn Horse Manure Into Platinum" deal) and can spend lotsa time and money on the '73; I'm going to have fun.
After the 392 stroker kit, fuel injection, front coilovers and IRS are installed, and the Ginger new/old leather-covered Fiero seats are installed; I'm gonna commision some "6.5C GT-E" badges and give a few people the heebie-jeebies!

I'll just coin (and Copyright, of course!) a new term: call it a "Retro-Concept"

Maybe even put in a sunroof, right in the middle of the vinyl half-top. That's what I'll do with my accessory switch!

 

[bnickel]

Me neither! I'm thinking, if I ever suddenly become independently wealthy (still workin' on that "Turn Horse Manure Into Platinum" deal) and can spend lotsa time and money on the '73; I'm going to have fun.
After the 392 stroker kit, fuel injection, front coilovers and IRS are installed, and the Ginger new/old leather-covered Fiero seats are installed; I'm gonna commision some "6.5C GT-E" badges and give a few people the heebie-jeebies!

I'll just coin (and Copyright, of course!) a new term: call it a "Retro-Concept"

Maybe even put in a sunroof, right in the middle of the vinyl half-top. That's what I'll do with my accessory switch!

actually i've decided to use the accessory switch as the passenger seat vi....uhhh..massager, yeah that's it massager

 

[65stanger]

Dad says that sounds right. Thanks.

Amazing, an answer before hyjacking... That has to be a record.

It didn't get 'jacked first only 'cause I wasn't around yesterday!

As for the accessory switches......I've got some push button momentaries (don't ask where I got them....) and I want to rig one up as a passenger side ejection seat!