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QDRHRSE

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I sold my LX a year ago and have been mostly working on my 2000 Lightning. I love the Lightning but it leaves me craving more speed. It's fast but inconsistent and costs a ton. I posted a month ago about missing my Fox body. As I am a man of means and action I went ahead and bought a supercharged coupe. It's fairly built. It's got a 306 with AFR heads, an S trim, a c4 with brake and some other stuff. I was set to start working on it but along came another car that had a DSS forged 347 with stage 3 foxlake ported Canfields, a matching Victor 5.0 intake and more happy stuff....I bought it cheap with very little miles on the drivetrain. The car is a roach but has almost 10k in receipts for the motor and bolt-ons alone. It even has a Tremec TKO in it. Anyway, tomorrow night myself and 2 friends are going to swap motors and exhausts between the two cars and we're going to install a fuel system, a K member and tubular suspension, spherical bushings, 4 wheel coilovers and put in a new wiring harness in the coupe. It's a lot of work to do at once. My friend is letting me use his shop which has unlimited air and 2 lifts. Do you guys think it can be done in 12-14 hours? I will take plenty of pictures.
 

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I failed miserably. Huge mess and 2 cars not running. I have the drivetrains out and the fuels system and suspensions done. What a nightmare. I will never try something so stupid again.
 

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QDRHRSE said:
I failed miserably. Huge mess and 2 cars not running. I have the drivetrains out and the fuels system and suspensions done. What a nightmare. I will never try something so stupid again.
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dont worry you will get there soon. just take your time and dont cut corners.
 

donsbad68

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I coulda called that one
 
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Overhaulin' can do it because they have 25 guys at their disposal, but hey, good effort. Learning experience anyways, right?
 
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For something like that you need about 10 guys that are pros at custom installations with each having their own part of the project.
You could probably get it done in a full week-end though with what you have. That's like 0700 to about 2300 hours a day.
 

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I had 4 guys, 3 for 18 hours. We worked non stop from 5pm on Saturday to 11am on Sunday. Everybody involved was fairly skilled. We just ran into too many problems. If I had installation instructions for some of the new stuff and a 24 hour auto parts store we could have almost finished. It was a heartbreaker.
 

tunedin302

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Why did you give yourself such little time?
 
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