76 Ford Courier

[76fordcourier]

Thought I'd start a thread on my decade plus project I'm jumping back into since I just ordered a Pimpx. This was my first real project with limited experience so I've learned a lot along the way and looking forward to learning from this forum more into the tuning side of things. 

1976 Ford Courier
Fully Bagged
2.3t from 88 thunderbird
T5 WC - S10 tail housing
Chip flip manifold kit
Gutted/rotated/shortened upper intake
FMI
T3/T4 turbo


Day I picked it up and drove it back form around St Louis area. Mostly stock, had cut coils and flipped axle.




After a year of replacing floor pans and adding in new suspension





Swapping 2.3t




Here is a link to more images of the build so far. I will keep adding as the build progresses.

76 Ford Courier Image Library

[Stinger]

Looks like a fun project. Is that TC in the back the donor? Looks like it was pretty nice too?

[76fordcourier]

I've only driven the truck for around a year or so on the stock setup before I started the build but really itching to get the 2.3t setup so I can scoot her around again. I have the 2.3t setup running but surges at idle and wants to die out. If you throttle too fast it will bog down so want to get in running good before I take her back to the streets. The thunderbird had some rust and bad hail damage on every panel so I ended up parting out a bunch of stuff to help fund my project. Trying to get more photos uploaded but need to figure out how to host the images.

[Stinger]

Yeah, it can sometimes be a battle to get these old electronics to work properly, especially since some parts are no longer available new or reman.