Turbo Mustang Thursday!

"The_higu" (higupon) 02/20/2014 at 22:08 • Filed to: None

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It's not super cold and/or snowing out (on my coast at least), so celebrate with one of the most desirable Fox platforms ever made, the SVO, with it's turbo'd and intercooled 2.3l I4

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > The_higu 02/20/2014 at 22:13

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sweet RWD Accord Coupe!

puddler > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 02/20/2014 at 22:23

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you were saying?

not turbo. :(

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > puddler 02/20/2014 at 22:24

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Another RWD Accord Coupe?

puddler > The_higu 02/20/2014 at 22:25

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close enough

red014 > puddler 02/20/2014 at 22:35

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Is that a TBird with a Yamahammer? I didn't know that was such a thing. Want now.
EDIT: Tiny mobile pic fail. That's a Fox body with TBird headlights. Not so much want anymore.

puddler > red014 02/20/2014 at 22:38

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that is a foxbody rocking a t-bird fascia and a yamaha. kinda in love.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > The_higu 02/20/2014 at 22:40

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Torque-thrust replicas are not the right wheel choice for a Fox mustang. Completely different styles and eras.

jovimon7 > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 02/20/2014 at 22:56

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I agree, as a former SVO owner, the factory wheels looked better on that car than those.

jovimon7 > puddler 02/20/2014 at 23:10

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From 1994.

puddler > jovimon7 02/20/2014 at 23:16

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once is a fluke, twice is a pattern. thats awesome.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > jovimon7 02/21/2014 at 01:17

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Factory discs are fine... I also like 96 SVT Cobra wheels with the charcoal shadows, SVT 10th Anniversary wheels, and some other SVT 5-spokes look good, too.

But Fox is a modern-ish, angular, 80's looking car, and 50's/60's era retro wheels just aren't the right choice.

They only look passable on the newer mustangs because the newer ones are retro, trying to re-live the 60's anyway.

jovimon7 > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 02/21/2014 at 10:02

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Because Bullit.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > jovimon7 02/21/2014 at 12:50

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They are '60s era wheels, so of course they look good on a 68 Mustang GT390.

And Torq-thrust replicas look passable on 2005-2014 Mustangs, because they are trying to look like 60's Mustangs.

Bullitt's '68 Mustang GT390 is awesome, but it is a different body style than a Fox mustang, especially the euro-look of the SVO-specific parts.

If I were making a Bullitt inspired Fox... I would probably go with an 86 Mustang GT fastback in an early-fox color: Jade Green, or otherwise re-painted with Dark Highland Green, (or even Emerald Green from the 7Up Fox Mustangs) with the hood blackout, smoked headlight covers, and black-center cast-mesh style wheels, or 80's era 5-spokes, (both wheel styles shown below) like a similar-vintage Saleen Mustang.

1986 was the last of the '4-eye' mustangs, before the 87-93 aero-nose plastic-headlight cars, but with the fuel-injected 302... Bullitt's Mustang was the last of the 65-66 and 67-68 cars before the style significantly changed for 1969... much like the 79-83 fox-bodies, and 84-86 slight face-lift, before the 87-93 aero-nose... and the fuel-injected 302 Mustang GT was the equivalent in 86 to what the GT390 was in '68. The highest-output normal-production option... but not a special-edition Shelby big-block car, so I probably wouldn't use an SVO, or a '93 SVT Cobra, or an original Fox-body Saleen... but rather a regular-production 5.0 GT 5-speed. For Bullitt accuracy, probably not a sunroof or t-top car, either.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > puddler 02/22/2014 at 13:57

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Schweet! I'm sure swapping that engine was a chore, but it was worth it. Too bad Ford was never brave enough. Always pandering to the pushrod crowd in that day.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > The_higu 02/22/2014 at 13:58

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Back in the 80s before it was called 'drifting' a sat in the back seat of one of these as it went around a clover leaf entirely sideways. All four parts of the clover.