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10 Feb 2009, 6:35 am / Other

Well as you probably guessed from the title I may be getting another Fox.  It belongs to a friend of mine from the Navy right now, but he is fed up with all the little problems and constant upkeep cost.  Honestly I don't blame him, it is a '93 and it is in terrible shape, interior is shot and the exterior is rusted.  I replaced his tail lights for him once and you wouldn't believe how bad the rust is.

Anyway, this weekend he told me he is looking for a new car to replace it and once he does he will give the Fox to me!  Now, I already have plans for it.  The first step, swap it's entire engine and fuel system into Claes.  The 93 Fox has the Difigant fuel system wich is much better then the CIS-E that Claes currently has, and his engine doesn't have any major problems with it.  The biggest problem he has with the 93 is the transmission only has 3 gears working out of the 5 it has.  No problem since I have spare trannys lying around.  Other problems he has is with the electrical system.  Anyway, he is 47 or something so he finally decided to get a grown up car.  =p

So basically I am going to recover everything that is worth salvaging from this 93 fox...  I feel bad doing it, and saying it, but the body of the car has such horrible rust it is not worth trying to restore.  Poor fox...

BUT!  Don't count it out yet.  My friend gave me this crazy idea, since they are so cheap at junkyards and tend to still run okay... he suggested rigging up a Chevy small block V8 in it!  Just shove it in with a transmission and weld in a rear end!  Call me crazy but I think it would be fun to have that much unnecessary power in such a little thing.  Plus since the body is so far gone anyway... it would make a great car to go speeding through the woods around his cabin with.  Just throw a good strong piece of square tube on the front for a bumper and we got a tree basher!

 Let me know what you think about such crazy plans. Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated!!!






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