GL or LX Body parts on a SHO

[89SZHO]

Im fairley new to the SHO community. If you could help me out that would be great. I was woundering if GL or Lx Parts would be compatable on the front end of an 89 SHO.

 

[93redATX]

Well, yes and no. First off, I assume you mean the front clip of the car. Anyway, body parts from any other Taurus will bolt on, although it obviously won't look like a SHO front end anymore. If you were to use an LX bumper, you do get cornering lights, but no openings for fog lights. Also, make sure you get parts off of an '89-'91 only, since these years had a slightly different headlight and grill configuration.

 

[jelloslug]

The hood is SHO specific (but is very similar to a Sable hood if the SHO hood was metal). The fenders would work and at the most you might need to drill a few holes for the body cladding. The front bumper is an odd setup (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but the outside cover is just a cover, and underneath is a standard Taurus bumper without the lower valance. The headlights, turnsignals, cornering lights, and grill are the same. The pieces between the headlights and the bumper are SHO specific. All of this info applys to 89-91 first gens.

 

[91 SHOplus]

89szho, Welcome to the forum. With exception to the hood, and front bumper cover all taurus SHO and GL/LX parts OF THE SAME YEARS are interchangeable.

The bracing of the hood is different to clear the intake, and the bumper cover has the lower valance w/fog lights.

With that said, the youngest SHO's (99) are now 4 years old. Almost every question that could be asked, has been. Unlike some other forums I know, we have a good search function, that actually works. A quick search will get you answers faster than waiting for us.

OTOH, and if you can't find it, please ask. That is why we all hang here anyway.

See you around. thumb

 

[93redATX]

jelloslug:
The hood is SHO specific (but is very similar to a Sable hood if the SHO hood was metal). The fenders would work and at the most you might need to drill a few holes for the body cladding. The front bumper is an odd setup (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but the outside cover is just a cover, and underneath is a standard Taurus bumper without the lower valance. The headlights, turnsignals, cornering lights, and grill are the same. The pieces between the headlights and the bumper are SHO specific. All of this info applys to 89-91 first gens.

When I was pulling apart the front end of my '90, I didn't find anything under the bumper cover that wasn't supposed to be there shrug . In any case, The front bumper is in fact just a plastic piece which covers a styrofoam impact absorber and the standard steel bumper. AFAIK, the structural portions of the bumper would be the same, since the general shape of the bumper is the same, with the only exception being the lower valance.

 

[Mike Kopstain]

jelloslug:
The hood is SHO specific (but is very similar to a Sable hood if the SHO hood was metal). The fenders would work and at the most you might need to drill a few holes for the body cladding. The front bumper is an odd setup (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but the outside cover is just a cover, and underneath is a standard Taurus bumper without the lower valance. The headlights, turnsignals, cornering lights, and grill are the same. The pieces between the headlights and the bumper are SHO specific. All of this info applys to 89-91 first gens.

That's actually just the rear bumper. It's just a urethane cover over the SLO bumper.

 

[jelloslug]

That's actually just the rear bumper. It's just a urethane cover over the SLO bumper.

Ahhh, I knew one of them was like that.

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