“A ’91 Titanium Frost LX, 39,000-original-mile, bone-stock in immaculate
condition,” he says.
Sounds good, huh? Jim drove it a while, enjoying that famous 5.0 punch. But his
inner hot-rodder wouldn’t rest.
“I decided it was time to upgrade the suspension,” Jim says. He met Brad from
Brad’s Custom Auto who laid out a plan for the upgrade, and they weren’t messing
around. Jim went full-tilt and installed a Griggs GR-40 suspension with tubular
control arms, coilover shocks all around, and Maximum Motorsports adjustable
camber plates. The rearend got Ford Motorsport 3.27 gears, a torque arm, Panhard
bar, Griggs control arms, and antisway bar.
Now the chassis was state-of-the-art, and you know how that can get the snowball
rolling.
“Once the handling was upgraded, i t exposed just how bad the factory brakes
were, so a Cobra brake kit conversion was in order,” Jim says. “The four-lug pony
wheels were replaced with M179 Cobra R 17x9-inch wheels along with 255/40s on
the front and 275/40s on the rear.”
Next in line for a big upgrade was the engine, which got BBK equal-length shorty
headers, H-pipe, Flowmaster exhaust, GT40 intake, Accufab 70mm throttle body,
and a larger mass air meter. But that wasn’t good enough, so Jim upgraded the
upgrade with a ProCharger blower set for a bolt-busting 17 pounds of boost. Just
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