Turbo Tempo Project

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

Well after 16 years of racing on oval tracks from dirt to payvement I'm building a new type
of race car,

I'M building a 1987 Ford Tempos 2 door 5 speed for 1/8 and 1/4 mile tracks and I will do some road course track days too , the car is far from readdy I still have a ton of work to do to it . but after waiting so long to post some pics I will post them now , I hope you all love it .

here is the engine spects after I have done rebuilding it .

1988 Ford Thunderbird turbo coupe
2.3T stock block " to start with "
new rings
new bearing
new gaskets
and cleaning and paint .
a stage 1 head porting job
the cam will be a just over stock lift and duration like a stage 1
better injector and fuel pump 255lph
tweecer chip to program my stock tc ecu
I will be running 18 to 22psi of boost
my goal is 250hp to 260hp
I would love to run on the 1/4 mile at 12.99sec that would be my goal for the first year with the car.

Tranny all gears have been cryoed to take the added power of the turbo engine
final gears are 3.33 to 1 / I have a 3.73 to 1 set that I may drop in over the summer
if I don't like my times , and I have a phatom grip diff instaled in this tranny should help me out
of the gate.

the car with driver is 2400lbs so that is light but I need to do a bit more trimming on it
I would love to take 100 lbs or 200 lbs more off the car but that will only come after all the rest is done getting it running and on the track is more important at this time.

I have taken a ton of pics but I will post a few of them so I hope you like my project, its different
and should do good times on the track.

for road racing I will be using almost the same set up has for drag but different tires and the shock set up.
and lower boost.
















































THANK YOU JASON turboj74 You Rock

[Stinger]

I take it you already know Jason Franklin then...that's where I was going to point you as I read through the thread.

Overall it looks like a clean car and a fun project. Not sure it's the easy way to go 12's but to each his own!

I'd paint the intake "cone" in the passenger light black so it doesn't stick out as much.

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

wow great idea painting the air inlet ,

Yes I dod know Jason his a great guy and a GOD to me I got this rolling frame from him
its his old car and for me its like winning the lottery ,

I will build it a new 2.3T engine , and undercoat the floor and frame .

I will keep you all updated with upgrades and mods.
In the first year I will not be buing too many upgrades but in the 2nd I will need 400HP+
so you guys will be selling me a few parts so I'M starting to save my cash right away.

[Stinger]

Well there ya go! Sounds like a fun one, hopefully it will run like it did when Jason had it.

[bobbarker]

Looks like a ton of friggin work!!! Better you than me! Good luck with it man and I hope you hit the 12's with ease!

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

well I'm up for the hard work I got all winter to work on it , so time is on my side for once LOL.

[sleepinsol]

i always thought about popping a 2.3t into a miata bc its light and rwd. but ppl are already putting v8s in them. this looks fun. best of luck!

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

Yes but a 2.3L is alot lighter then a V8 and you can get very good power out of a 2.3T
most stock V8 don't go over 300hp most are in the 250hp rage in the 1970 most GM V8 had 165HP " 305"

so droping a 2.3T in a miata would be a cool project and Ford owns Mazda anyway

[craigb]

I'm confused. The 2.3 OHV uses the same bell housing bolt pattern as the 2.3 Lima?

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

Nov 16, 2009 22:54:48 GMT -5 craigb said:

I'm confused. The 2.3 OHV uses the same bell housing bolt pattern as the 2.3 Lima?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS and that makes this project posible!!!!

[craigb]

Wow, you learn something everyday...

[sleepinsol]

yes, you would save some weight and still make good power with a cheaply modded 2.3, but ppl are dropping lsx series chevy motors into miatas. flyinmiata.com has a complete drop in kit. i think ive even seen vids of ppl using the newwer lsx series motors that make well into the 300 hp range stock, and n/a. a bone stock ls1 miata on drag radials went 11.8 at a local track here in FL.

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

some updates for you all .

instal cluch and flywheel [ good to about 250hp ] will need to upgrade before i go to the track this is just to get it to run and tune it ', [ flywheel is a 1988 ford escort gt flywheel 12lbs but its modded to be even lighter]

instal the modded water pump howsing [ I will need to run a standalone 12V water pump]

instal tranny with posi diff [ TY Jason ] what a nice tranny.

cleaned it up a bit , took the big gunk off.

instal new timing belt was cheap and ezzy.

replace hose and clips that were damage or rotted or crack.

[FRANK/TurboTempo]

Well I work on it hard and I got it in the engine bay was not ezzy droping a RWD engine in a FWD car but its done, [ thanks to Jason F. ] it was ezzyer.
I got a few pics for you I hope it help you see that it does fit . Hope you like what you see, If you do well post a reply telling me you do and if you don't
well don't tell me LOL , ok has you can see I still have lots of work to do but my garage is all clean now and I got lots of place to work the car is on my lift just waiting to be worked on.

so here are the pics.