The lose bolts is just a Ford thing. I found all types of loose stuff while
prepping the Mustang for T2.
Dan Bettis
Predator Motorsport http://www.predatormotorsport.com
98 Mustang Cobra 90 T2 , Race Engineer, aka life support.
92 Z24 24 STU best et 15.27@86.8mph 6.85 0-60
84 Z28 24 CP best et 13.74@99.45mph Darn header broke, making a slow
comeback
140MHZ24@isoc.net
http://members.aol.com/a140mhz24/z24.html
http://members.aol.com/a140mhz24/z28.html
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Steckel <lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com>
To: <pethier@isd.net>
Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: More Street Modified News!
> A friend of mine was a mechanic at a Mercury dealership when Ford was
> importing that "Capri". He said that each car took almost eight hours to
> prep. Most of that time was spent tightening chassis bolts that were loose
> and inserting bolts into susupension mounting points that had been left
out
> during manufacture. One car had three bolts missing from the rear
subframe,
> the other one was loose.
>
> Those cars also had numerous drivability problems and the same steering
> shimmy that afflicted my brother's 72 European Capri. My friend was
> complaining to me that he had replaced everything and could not solve the
> shimmy. The customer was ballistic. I told him to put a set of urethane
> bushings on the steering rack and that would solve it, as it had done on
my
> brother's car. He couldn't do that under warranty, but did shim the
> bushings to within an inch of their lives. The shimmy went away. The
owner
> called Ford and touted my friend as the only mechanic in the United States
> who could actually fix that piece of doo doo.
>
> Shortly thereafter two engineers from Ford came to the dealership and
asked
> my friend how he had fixed the shimmy. They hadn't been able to figure it
> out either. (Obviously not autocrossers ) My friend asked for some sort of
> compensation from Ford for telling them the fix. The engineers said that
> wasn't possible. So, my friend told them that we was working on flat rate
> and that they were costing him money. He tossed them out of the shop. He
> never did tell them how to fix the problem.
>
> Larry Steckel
>
> >From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
> >Reply-To: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
> >To: "Larry Steckel" <lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com>, <NeonACR1@aol.com>
> >CC: <autox@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: Re: More Street Modified News!
> >Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:43:54 -0600
> >
> >From: Larry Steckel <lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com>
> >
> >
> > >Remember that there also was a front wheel drive version of the "CAPRI"
> >that
> > >was built in Austrialia.
> >
> >
> >The "flexible flyer". One autocrosser discovered that the factory
bolt-on
> >hardtop was worth the extra weight, just to put some semblance of
torsional
> >rigidity into the chassis.
> >
> >Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
> >1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Chev Suburban
> >LOON, MAC
> >pethier@isd.net http://www.visi.com/mac/
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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