Mr. B's House of Hoopties

[roguetoaster]

I see, quite the hooptie.

[MrBurgundy]

Finally cleaned the car up a bit and installed the BMW rack that the PO generously dropped off for me along with the missing rear head rests.
Been driving the car around and it's been great so far. Just needs a few things, like interior bits, seat twist, stereo pixels and other e39 things

Still a steal, very happy with my active three car garage (Ranger, E30, E39)

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

[MrBurgundy]

Maybe this thread will just be a collection of all the cars..

New to me 1 owner 525i 5spd DD

102k on the clock, runs great. Just a few interior bits need to be replaced.

The drivers seat has the classic e39 seat twist, which isn't too hard to fix.

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

[roguetoaster]

Exactly.

[MrBurgundy]

Oh, Ford and their silly beam "suspension."

When I hit a bump / /----\ \

Coming out of the bump \ \----/ /

then

[roguetoaster]

Oh, Ford and their silly beam "suspension."

[MrBurgundy]

Took the truck up to the mountains this past weekend. It's no 4x4 but it got us up some icy hills, surprisingly.

You can really tell why 4x4 is king in those situations.

On our way down back we decided to hit some trails at the base of the mountain. The truck did great in the sand, even in the powdery sections.

I wanted to see how the truck would do going up a pretty steep incline on a mildly muddy track, so I turn off the main trail to go for it.

BOOM massive dip.

The front left spring slipped out............................

I limped it back to the main road.. Thankfully made it... Had to uber to autozone to get a floor jack and roadside fixed it and made it back with no other issues lol.

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

truck def needs a wash today

[MrBurgundy]

damn, I have no idea they were that expensive

Yeah used engines are crazy expensive rn.. It's like that across the board.. except 5 cyl VW motors, those are like 200 bucks lol

[2mAn]

damn, I have no idea they were that expensive

[MrBurgundy]

Can you get an ecoboost cheap? The 4cylinder turbo is a good motor

Those are expensive af, its about 2k off the cummins.

LKQ is pushing ecoboosts for about 4.5k-5k

[2mAn]

Can you get an ecoboost cheap? The 4cylinder turbo is a good motor

[MrBurgundy]

I've driven one with an 88 T-bird swap, and it was meh. Not at all what I hoped for having driven a 2.3 NA Ranger for some years.

Sadly the turbo Limas are neither reliable (arguably never were) or cheap these days, and it would be a lot like putting a stock M50 in an E30 today.

Yeah, I hear you.. I was actually looking at engines this afternoon and was looking at engines north of 2k lol

We'll see what I end up doing..

This would be cool too, but it's EXPENSIVE

https://www.cummins.com/engines/repower

[roguetoaster]

A healthy 2.3t will put down 170/250, which is plenty for this truck

I've driven one with an 88 T-bird swap, and it was meh. Not at all what I hoped for having driven a 2.3 NA Ranger for some years.

Sadly the turbo Limas are neither reliable (arguably never were) or cheap these days, and it would be a lot like putting a stock M50 in an E30 today.

[wazzu70]

I kind of want to put a turbo 2.3 in a lowered BroncoII to make a Ford version of the Typhoon too…

although there are better engine options the 2.3 is pretty solid, cheap, drops in, and is period correct.

what else could you want??

[MrBurgundy]

I like this thread. I want one of these Rangers to drop a turbo coupe engine in it so I was glad it was mentioned.

not to late to do it!!!

Honestly, been leaning a little more towards that recently, since it will still be a practical daily.... The 302 is going to be a gas guzzler, so the SVO engine is really appealing to me..

A healthy 2.3t will put down 170/250, which is plenty for this truck