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[TheRedBeardedFury]

Cant wait to see how this turns out!

 

[kryptto]

yo @Jordan_R great video. I am in line for you selling the Volkswwgon, let me know when you are bored of it

 

[DadMobile]

I watched the video, I love the idea!

 

[Jordan_R]

Making slow work lol. Funny to say this is going to be one of the easiest parts. Next stage get everything out of the car so it can run on a pallet.

 

[Zpak]

That’s a lot of transmission to shove under there. Fortunately, you have the perfect shape patch panel.

 

[Jordan_R]

That’s a lot of transmission to shove under there. Fortunately, you have the perfect shape patch panel.

That's exactly my thought. I can literally take the floor pan out of the donor car

 

[Angrymongoose]

I did hear right that youre going for just rwd right? Is that because fitting it as awd would be a ton more work?

 

[Jordan_R]

I did hear right that youre going for just rwd right? Is that because fitting it as awd would be a ton more work?

Awd will be maintained!

 

[DadMobile]

Awd will be maintained!

This is going to be an awesome build!

 

[DadMobile]

hey - nice garage btw!

 

[Jordan_R]

hey - nice garage btw!

Thanks, slowly making it in the world I suppose.

 

[DadMobile]

Thanks, slowly making it in the world I suppose.

That’s how us plebs do it!

 

[Jordan_R]

Working on feeding harnesses through. Slightly lost my mind today. Had to plug some stuff back in so I knew which plugs are the essential ones lol. Not bad progress for a couple 4 hour sessions so far.

Removing all the harnesses from the car to plug everything in on a pallet and make it a running engine before the fabrication for the taurus starts so I know I've got the proper set up.

Unfortunately the dash has to come out to feed back the harness through the dash. Well I'm not sure it has to but I'm willing to bet this is the easiest route. Kind of neat to see the stripped accessories in these police vehicles. Plugs that just have dummy fittings in them to keep them sealed and what not.

 

[DadMobile]

The engine bay and frame look pretty clean considering it was wrecked and all.

 

[Jordan_R]

Sometimes you're on the engine looking at the car and sometimes you're in the car looking at the engine. Don't mind the purple wheels. I figure I'm going to have about twenty hours of looking before a real plan is thought out. This won't be a solo project by any means.

 

[Angrymongoose]

Know anyone with a scanner and a 3d printer? Could print a plastic version to mockup mounts etc without having to move the real one over and over.

 

[Jordan_R]

Know anyone with a scanner and a 3d printer? Could print a plastic version to mockup mounts etc without having to move the real one over and over.

Plan is to use the entire subframe out of the explorer. Solves so many things with replacement parts, alignment and what not. Cut some stuff out the way and build around the existing subframe. Take time, do it right and think about servicability!

 

[Jordan_R]

Comfort is the enemy of progress.

Going into this project I was completely ready to scrap the entire car. This taurus has always been a project of testing my mechanical ability. I didn't really care that the car was never as good as other platforms. I had done what I wanted to the car. It ran well, had it quirks but honestly it was not enjoyable to drive. Mostly because of gremlins that started to rear their head from some of the bandaid additions to make some things manageable in the single turbo from how hard I was pushing the car. Go figure when you take a factory boosted car, take away the computers ability to manage boost and try to make it work above what a lot of the sensors are capable of reading you have issues lol.

I bought an f150 that was basically cheat codes to being fast. Ran low 10s on the street without effort. This killed the taurus to me. The truck is a blast but I found myself wanting to work on it even when nothing was needing to be done.

I'm kind of a busy body guy. I can't stay idle for long or watch TV for more than an hour at a time. I guess I found my outlet in wanting to make this swap happen. I'm going in with ideas on how to make this happen and just doing it. The entire explorer I paid almost nothing for it in the grand scheme of what it had to offer.

Any who, rambling now, I'm excited to take my abilities to the next step. Goal is it to get it running and drive happily and then after that I'll get some goodies for it. This platform going into it is pretty dang slick with people running bottom 10s gutted with bolt ons. It's going to be potent, it's going to be simple and it's going to be reliable.

 

[Zpak]

Comfort is the enemy of progress.

Going into this project I was completely ready to scrap the entire car. This taurus has always been a project of testing my mechanical ability. I didn't really care that the car was never as good as other platforms. I had done what I wanted to the car. It ran well, had it quirks but honestly it was not enjoyable to drive. Mostly because of gremlins that started to rear their head from some of the bandaid additions to make some things manageable in the single turbo from how hard I was pushing the car. Go figure when you take a factory boosted car, take away the computers ability to manage boost and try to make it work above what a lot of the sensors are capable of reading you have issues lol.

I bought an f150 that was basically cheat codes to being fast. Ran low 10s on the street without effort. This killed the taurus to me. The truck is a blast but I found myself wanting to work on it even when nothing was needing to be done.

I'm kind of a busy body guy. I can't stay idle for long or watch TV for more than an hour at a time. I guess I found my outlet in wanting to make this swap happen. I'm going in with ideas on how to make this happen and just doing it. The entire explorer I paid almost nothing for it in the grand scheme of what it had to offer.

Any who, rambling now, I'm excited to take my abilities to the next step. Goal is it to get it running and drive happily and then after that I'll get some goodies for it. This platform going into it is pretty dang slick with people running bottom 10s gutted with bolt ons. It's going to be potent, it's going to be simple and it's going to be reliable.

Get it, you’re performing my dream swap I’ve wanted to see happen since like 2021 when I realized the ST’s were RWD first.

 

[2K16SHO]

Comfort is the enemy of progress.

Going into this project I was completely ready to scrap the entire car. This taurus has always been a project of testing my mechanical ability. I didn't really care that the car was never as good as other platforms. I had done what I wanted to the car. It ran well, had it quirks but honestly it was not enjoyable to drive. Mostly because of gremlins that started to rear their head from some of the bandaid additions to make some things manageable in the single turbo from how hard I was pushing the car. Go figure when you take a factory boosted car, take away the computers ability to manage boost and try to make it work above what a lot of the sensors are capable of reading you have issues lol.

I bought an f150 that was basically cheat codes to being fast. Ran low 10s on the street without effort. This killed the taurus to me. The truck is a blast but I found myself wanting to work on it even when nothing was needing to be done.

I'm kind of a busy body guy. I can't stay idle for long or watch TV for more than an hour at a time. I guess I found my outlet in wanting to make this swap happen. I'm going in with ideas on how to make this happen and just doing it. The entire explorer I paid almost nothing for it in the grand scheme of what it had to offer.

Any who, rambling now, I'm excited to take my abilities to the next step. Goal is it to get it running and drive happily and then after that I'll get some goodies for it. This platform going into it is pretty dang slick with people running bottom 10s gutted with bolt ons. It's going to be potent, it's going to be simple and it's going to be reliable.

You're creating a prototype of a car Ford should build!