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☖ Forums → Discussion Forum → Craigslist is taunting me. Again.
Craigslist is taunting me. Again.
2012-05-30, 11:43 AM #1
WHY!?

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/3037841294.html

Not the prettiest car ever...but they're viciously fast with a big turbo. And it's not incredibly expensive to make them fast either. And it's so cheap...I have my doubts that it needs a transmission, but if so I think you can get a T-56 for them. I haven't done nearly enough research yet though.

My driveway is already full! :(
woot!
2012-05-30, 11:49 AM #2
We can be 5.0 buddies. :D

Hell, as long as the engine works, $800 isn't too much to risk.
2012-05-30, 12:01 PM #3
Originally posted by Darth:
We can be 5.0 buddies. :D

Hell, as long as the engine works, $800 isn't too much to risk.


I already found a transmission for $250, too.

How cheap exactly is it to make fast? By fast I mean...I dunno, 400whp (without turbo/etc)? Thinking cam/headers to start..what's the route for tuning?
woot!
2012-05-30, 12:14 PM #4
Yeah, parts on that baby are going to be dirt cheap for the most part.

I'm kind of having the full driveway conundrum right now too. My uncle has a '67 Mustang hardtop that's in awesome condition that he's considering selling. It was a single owner car for a good 40 years or so before he got it, and it spent all that time in California. There's not a bit of rust on it as far as I know, and it's all pretty much factory except it was repainted once with the factory color. I'd buy it off him in a heartbeat, but I have nowhere to put it. :( What I might do is buy it off him and keep it at my parents' temporarily until I move to a place with a garage.
2012-05-30, 12:27 PM #5
I'm thinking about getting one of these myself. What the insurance like on one?
>>untie shoes
2012-05-30, 12:38 PM #6
Originally posted by JLee:
I already found a transmission for $250, too.

How cheap exactly is it to make fast? By fast I mean...I dunno, 400whp (without turbo/etc)? Thinking cam/headers to start..what's the route for tuning?


The exact route to take I'm not exactly sure on, as I don't really know all that much about Fox bodies and the old 5.0s outside of what little I've read. I would think that cams and headers would be a good place to start, but beyond that I really don't know.
2012-05-30, 12:59 PM #7
Insurance is about half of my CTS-V- roughly $130 for 6 months ($266 for the V).
woot!
2012-05-30, 1:03 PM #8
That's not bad at all.
>>untie shoes
2012-05-30, 5:23 PM #9
other than that it is ugly as sin.
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2012-05-30, 7:29 PM #10
Originally posted by JLee:
Insurance is about half of my CTS-V- roughly $130 for 6 months ($266 for the V).

You have a CTS-V? What year?
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2012-05-30, 9:13 PM #11
Originally posted by gbk:
You have a CTS-V? What year?

'04

[http://freshblacktop.com/pics/cars/driveway2.jpg]
woot!
2012-05-31, 10:22 AM #12
If you do get it, make sure you don't clean it up too much and make sure on the outside it still looks like a 20 year old car that has less power than most family sedans these days. The only identifying feature on the outside of a heavily-modded Fox body should be huge rear tires. :)

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