thank-you to this forum (SHO Wagon)

[whiteknight]

Thanks in part to all of the posts, and some of my local friends, I am about 90 percent done my latest project- something I've wanted to do since I read the Car and Driver article in the mid nineties.

Minor things to come such as SHO ground effects and bumpers will have to wait until I get my compressor and spray gun set up, but in the meantime;

Thanks to my friends, family and this community for years of experience and sharing of parts and knowledge.

Next up- ... well, you'll have to wait and see! (SLOSHO knows)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkcuV2WYKJk

Whiteknight: Keeping the SHO on the road since 2004!! (with a little help from my friends)

1994 SHO Wagon 3.2 MTX (my toy)
1995 SHO MTX (my baby)
1999 SHO slushbox, (of course) winter car

1995 SHO ATX (daughter's)
1995 SHO ATX (son's)

 

[frosho]

Nice work!

 

[lowc]

agreed great job cant wait to see it with the sho covers

 

[silkyjohnson]

That is beyond awesome !!!

 

[NP SHO]

Subscribing!

 

[digeronimo34]

Nice!!!

 

[Phoenix]

Nice job

 

[Bob Gervais]

Very nice work! Attention to detail is what makes a project. Great job on the video too.

 

[greengiant]

I wanna do that someday. is there any sho body work in the future?

 

[NP SHO]

I wanna do that someday. is there any sho body work in the future?

I know he said he was going to eventually do the ground effects and bumpers. I wonder if the door cladding will go on there too...

 

[whiteknight]

Yes- I have all the cladding from the green ATX, and I will graft the lower half of the rear bumper onto the upper half of the wagon bumper. I want it to look stock (except for the back end of course). I just won't put the grund effects on until I can paint them- probably this summer.

Man, I love the torque from the 3.2! Such a sleeper!

 

[frosho]

I wonder what that thing weighs compared to a regular ol' Gen 2 MTX.

 

[firebat45]

I wonder what that thing weighs compared to a regular ol' Gen 2 MTX.

I've read somewhere that the wagon is around 150 pounds more. I don't know how reliable that is, but it sounds reasonable.

 

[Bill Strobel]

Very nice. IIRC from the early conventions the reason Ford gave for not building the SHO Wagon was close clearance of the wheel and tire combo to the inner quarter panel lip. On some cars this would have needed to be hand massaged due to assy line tolerances and they could not do it on the assy line. I see in the video that indeed it looks like there is very close clearance between the tire and the inner quarter panel lip.

 

[firebat45]

Very nice. IIRC from the early conventions the reason Ford gave for not building the SHO Wagon was close clearance of the wheel and tire combo to the inner quarter panel lip. On some cars this would have needed to be hand massaged due to assy line tolerances and they could not do it on the assy line. I see in the video that indeed it looks like there is very close clearance between the tire and the inner quarter panel lip.

You're right, and the lip was actually touching the tire just slightly over bumps, on one side. A bit of fender rolling or lip trimming and it should be fine.

 

[whiteknight]

IIRC from the early conventions the reason Ford gave for not building the SHO Wagon was close clearance of the wheel and tire combo to the inner quarter panel lip.

They could have just changed the body style for the SHO wagons to have the rear fender wells of the taurus, and not the sable. Sable wheel wells were ugly anyhow, IMHO.

You're right, and the lip was actually touching the tire just slightly over bumps, on one side.

Minor fix, this was- 5 minutes of bending made it better, 5 minutes of cutting and its perfect. Not worth much of a mention as a deterrent (shame on ford) and would not stop me from doing another, nor should it stop anyone else from doing it with factory slicers for that SHO look.

 

[Bill Strobel]

They could have just changed the body style for the SHO wagons to have the rear fender wells of the taurus, and not the sable. Sable wheel wells were ugly anyhow, IMHO.




Minor fix, this was- 5 minutes of bending made it better, 5 minutes of cutting and its perfect. Not worth much of a mention as a deterrent (shame on ford) and would not stop me from doing another, nor should it stop anyone else from doing it with factory slicers for that SHO look.

Ford wanted to do the wagon but did not want to spend any extra money on tooling new quarter panels. Although it may have been a 5 minute fix Ford could not guarantee that a few would slip out unmodified and result in a cut sidewall at speed. Trust me they really wanted to do it, somebody high up wanted one, but it could not be done using the current parts and no money was available for new tooling.

 

[SHOCH]

I'll be watching this, cuz what you want to do, is what I want to do, to my wagon I bought from James. We were thinking it would be better to do the rear bumper first to get the exhaust in the right spot.
I'm still thinking of getting some vinyl woody panels made, Clark Griswald Christmas Vacation style. Mine's a chicago winter ride so we'll see.

 

[whiteknight]

Clark Griswald Christmas Vacation style

Priceless!

Now that would be a sleeper!

 

[RAYJAY]

guys here is thumper old site

http://www.klimesgroup.com/showagon/second.htm