A taurus wagon? Really?

[JVC]

I totally want to ride in that rear seat and drop m&ms on your subwoofer and have them bounce into my mouth.

This is the most amazing thing I have ever heard ever.

As much as this car sucks 99.9% of the time is as much as this .1% is awesome.

[SDE30]

i gotta say i had my doubts, but this thing is looking good. good job so far!

[Spencer]

I totally want to ride in that rear seat and drop m&ms on your subwoofer and have them bounce into my mouth.

[Fuzzy Bunny]

Ok I was going to wait until I could post more pictures, buuut. I got the second strut top built and installed and started making space in the inner fender area for more low. I'm having something of an air leakage problem. I have checked all of my fittings and they seem air tight, so I'm a bit worried it may be an internal problem with the bag. This is my first time using a bag strut, How much if any leak down is normal? I've started work on the rear bags as well, however fords "don't f**k with me" engineering mentality is going to make that more difficult than anticipated. The spring is held with just the spring pressure and two little rubber biscuits. As soon as I air down the bag it has the potential to slip out of place if I mount it in the factory fashion. Any way I have some engineering to do. once I get the rears rapped up I'm going to pull the rear bumper for step pad, and marker light removal, as well as exaust notches. Also what are you bag folks using in the way of strut bearings? As soon as I have a non cellphone internet connection I'll post up some more pictures.

[exexpat]

I demand an update!

[cobrawannabe]

I miss those jumper seats so much. My family had a '95 and an '01, and the jumper was my favorite part of both. Tauruses were terrific cars with lots of quality engineering and thinking in them. The fact that you're doing what I have always wanted to do with one makes this thread one of my favorites on this forum.

[Fuzzy Bunny]

exexpat -Ya I think Ill pick up that much or better. The inner splash aprons hang really low in this car.

Chuckdee -What picture are you referring to?

Status Racing -And yes actually that was the first thing I did. If it doesn't have tunes I cant drive it. One of the problems I ran into with this car is, it has the digital climate control system which shares a control board with the radio. One of fords ways of saying F**k you to the aftermarket. The best I could do was an Ipod hook up, so thats what I did. The other problem plaguing station wagons is not having a trunk to "hide" electronics in. I didn't want to lose the practicality of the folding second row, and as little as I use it I didn't want to lose the third row sooooo. I did this.







I still have all of the functionality of a wagon, and a hidden sound system. The sub is a Rockford P3S which is the slim model, and only wants 1 cubic foot of air space so it worked out great.

Now today I spent a bunch of time figuring out a strut bearing long story short, I have 2 needle thrust bearings on order and made up some non-friction nylon washers to do the job. It will need more service than the factory sealed units but it will do the job.



Old strut to vs new strut top.





And random foto...

[StatusRacing]

Nice work! Any plans for an audio system upgrade? I did a system in a Taurus once... ***** every second of it lol

[Token Black Guy]

The thread has alot of win, I like!

[X5X]

Taurus on air? FUCK YES!

[gbaby2089]

Whoa. This is cool, I can't say I thought I'd ever say that about a Taurus wagon.

[Chuckdee]

sssssssssssshiiiiieeeet!!!

*EDIT: what the hell, the img isn't showing?

[exexpat]

Hot!

For a while the front bumper skin held my car up about 3/8". It may just lower a tad more with the fender clearancing and the other side lower.

[Thestu]

winning! Looks fresh!

[HooWybrow]

yessssssssssssss!