Daddywagon!

tyrellracing wrote:

OH one last thing.. Is there a weight difference between the wagon and the mustang? Any extra weight over the rear axle would be welcome in a fox body. From my experience. long rod engines just make more power with less friction and tend to live longer doing it. so its a win/win. You have a white Toyota Tacoma in one of your pictures. Is it yours? I have the same 4 door Tacoma in white but a year or two older. 
 

Good info! Thanks! Yes, the tacoma is mine. Good solid truck, and it was istrumental throughout the build so far. I have purchased so many things off of craigslist from as far away as 150+ miles out. The truck has taken me to all of those places to haul the engine, the irs, catback, wheels(multiple sets), and the list goes on and on. If you go to tacomaworld forums and search "daddywagon", heck, if you just google daddywagon you will find the wagon build thread in a few different forums. I used that truck to haul my air compressor and a mig welder as well. All off of craigslist. I really like my tacoma. Great truck. Proved itself in the 2009-10 snowstorm and again for this latest snowstorm. I live in the Philadelphia area, and we got hit pretty good.
2009

Getting rid of the daddywagon's original powertrain.

 

The supercharger was a p600. It also had an air to air intercooler. What happened was previous owner would tighten up the belt tension on a 12 rib pulley that stuck out 6 inches, maybe more, form the block. Eventually, the crank just gave up. While I still have the supercharger, I have amassed all the makings for a 351 windsor install that would use the stock eec-iv fuel injection. I have upper and lower intakes, 24lb. injectors with calibrated mass air sensor, a new flywheel with the correct balance, headers, 351 swap oil pan, 351 swap power steering/ac bracket, svo extender for wot / a/f  adjustment and a roller cam 351 motor out of an early ford lightning with gt40 heads with crane/ford 1.7 roller rockers. I also bought spacers to go between front subframe and chassis which combined with convertible motor mounts should allow a stock hoodline. Yeah. I have over thought and over researched this thing completely. Will the execution match the vision? Who knows? I just bought 17" crown vic steel police rims and center caps to add to the sleeper theme. 17's because of the cobra brakes. I will add the rest of my pics for you all to see.

And so it sits waiting for me to complete its transformation. There is quite a bit more to the Daddywagon. Hopefully this spring which is something I have been saying to myself the past two winters before this one.

And this.

Then this happened.

This mustang had a busted supercharged 5.0 engine, but it also had a 5 lug  cobra brake conversion at all 4 corners.

The picture above was when I bought the wagon for $500 off of a used car lot in 2010 I think. My wife says I bought it on her birthday, which I don't remember. She is not a fan of the wagon. Maybe if  I finish it, she will like it more.

I guess I need more than one post for pics to work. The project is a 1985 Ford LTD station wagon. The midsized one not the full size Ford wagon. I actually have it on several other forums. I call it my Daddywagon.