Factory supercharged and ready to rip! The 1990 Thunderbird SC was ahead of its time!

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @brettallender8791
    @brettallender8791 4 месяца назад +3

    I had a 95 SC In the late 90s early 2000s. One of the nicest cars I’ve ever owned.

  • @JohnBelknap
    @JohnBelknap 6 месяцев назад +10

    A guy in high school had the Cougar with that motor. I remember we all thought it was so fast because it had a supercharger until another kid got a GMC Typhoon. During lunch break everyone would go to the industrial park that had nothing in it to drag race. The Typhoon took everybody down.

    • @wyattyeary8050
      @wyattyeary8050 5 месяцев назад +1

      I bet that was fun, whoever drove the gmc cudos to him I garuntee to this day he tells his friends and family about it haha

    • @JohnBelknap
      @JohnBelknap 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@wyattyeary8050 he traded it for a BMW M3 that another friend totaled then bought a Land Cruiser that he drove forever.

  • @michaelhurst5910
    @michaelhurst5910 6 месяцев назад +5

    So cool , I worked in the foundry where we cast the two inter cooler pipes and the nuts that were used on them.

  • @simbanugz2906
    @simbanugz2906 6 месяцев назад +5

    Years ago (2000-2002) I used a 4.2 block out of 2000 f150, The supercharger off of a Super coupe, comp cam ( .500/.500) In a 96 Mustang v6 with T5. I made 290 whp/375 wtq. Best time I ran was a 12.7 @ 107 on T5. Man I went through about 5-6 t5 transmissions in about 1 year before I switched to a 4r70w with a 2800 stall. Best I ever ran was 12.4 @110mph. Fast for the time I beat many 2v /5.0 /LT1.

    • @scarface9617
      @scarface9617 6 месяцев назад +3

      Back in the 80s, 90, 00.. 12.s was a nice # to see at the end of the track!

  • @ole5539
    @ole5539 6 месяцев назад +5

    These were nice cars as were the Turbo Coupes. Caleb, don't forget to include the Lincoln Mark VIII in your cool Fords...they are one of the finest of them all.

    • @mopargm9329
      @mopargm9329 Месяц назад

      Very much agreed Ford Motor Company along with GM and Mopar definitely used to be so awesome

    • @ole5539
      @ole5539 Месяц назад +1

      @@mopargm9329 Exactly. Past tense.

    • @mopargm9329
      @mopargm9329 Месяц назад +1

      @@ole5539 yea. Sadly everything today is planned obsolescence infused garbage. And the only thing you see on the road anymore is all these ugly ass imported shitboxes it really sucks. I'm glad I was born in 1989 at least I got to experience cool shit and its last era.

    • @ole5539
      @ole5539 Месяц назад +2

      @@mopargm9329 I was born in 1955, my first car was a 57 Bel Air. I could work on it blindfolded.

    • @mopargm9329
      @mopargm9329 Месяц назад +1

      @@ole5539 lucky you lived through all the cool stuff. That's how I am with gm W bodies. I can work on them in my sleep LOL

  • @DriftyBits
    @DriftyBits 6 месяцев назад +4

    Hell yeah some MN12 Love!!!!!! Been autocrossing my 95 4.6 2v. Quite impressive handling wise for this big body beauty

    • @T-bird_Johnny
      @T-bird_Johnny 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah I love 😍 the irs suspension of these birds, they're like the gran-pappy to the termi-cobras

    • @DriftyBits
      @DriftyBits 6 месяцев назад

      @@T-bird_Johnny facts!!!! I actually just used Cobra Rear Hubs to change my bolt pattern to 5x114.3 lol

  • @LeachimSagrav333
    @LeachimSagrav333 6 месяцев назад +2

    I had 2 1990 XR7's both black one manual the other auto. Wish I still had them both.

  • @MT-vg2yj
    @MT-vg2yj 5 месяцев назад +1

    I just sold my 35th SC. Mine had 48k miles and made just over 12psi of boost. I’d check yours for a boost leak

  • @2348royc
    @2348royc 6 месяцев назад +6

    Love me some Tbirds

  • @think1stproductions
    @think1stproductions 5 месяцев назад +1

    I agree. Loved the SC thunderbird

  • @claymcclanahan9191
    @claymcclanahan9191 6 месяцев назад +1

    I had a 90 SC with the 5 spd. I modified it some and it would run really well. But not many people know this but Mercury had a sister to the SC. The Mercury Cougar XR7 from 89 and 90 came with the exact motor and trans options. And I think they were offered in the same exact colors. Not 100% about this but pretty sure. But I think Caleb should get a Mercury Cougar XR7 from 89/90 and show it off. Not many made for sure.

  • @stevezipoff9522
    @stevezipoff9522 6 месяцев назад

    I owned a 91 SC, red with a black Leather interior 5 speed stick and moon roof, I owned it from 91-96 and loved it. It was a very comfortable car and the only difference in feel between 60mph and 120 mph was how fast the scenery was going by. Drove it from California to Indiana when I got out of the Army. When I traded in I got a 94 Lincoln MK VIII. Same basic car much more HP!!

  • @finster7582
    @finster7582 6 месяцев назад

    LOVED MY SC w the 5 speed !! Bought mine new..ur car is slow !!! mine hit 12pounds stock ! AND car is soo good that i drove 120 mph in the rain thinkin i was driving 60
    .car was a beast and comfy ! WISH i still had it !!! 😃👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @finster7582
      @finster7582 6 месяцев назад

      Next few cars were Lincolns ! 1 mark 7 and 3 mark 8s !! all had go fast goodies in them..BUT ALWAYS BLEW HEADGASKETS !! EVERY SINGLE ONE !!!!

  • @GrandPitoVic
    @GrandPitoVic 6 месяцев назад

    They handled really well as long as the suspension was in good shape.

  • @T-bird_Johnny
    @T-bird_Johnny 6 месяцев назад +1

    I own a 93 Bill Elliot edition Thunderbird lx w/ the 5.0 ho v8 i have the rest of the goodies coming early next week to put on a set of sve heads and a 95 cobra intake ive got. Cant wait, car has 3:73 and cobra irs bilstein shocks out back. Im redoing all rear suspension bushings in poly & delrin before doing the heads cant wait to have my tbird back on the road.

    • @T-bird_Johnny
      @T-bird_Johnny 6 месяцев назад

      I will add this though, be prepared for what your getting into if you own an original 5.0 example of these, not all mustang stuff fits, they are a blend of foxbody, sn95/new-edge, and taurus parts-wise, I have aprox 20k in mine already and I haven't even touched cosmetics yet other than new headlights. They are definitely not as easy as far as ordering everything from a catalog like a fox and it helps if you do a lot of research( been reading about these since i first rode in one in high school circa '07), this is my second 93 5.0 bird, so I have lot of experience taking them apart that also helps. But you definitely have to want it they are a labor of love.

  • @davehanson1417
    @davehanson1417 6 месяцев назад

    The Super Coupes were a great car. They were a sport touring car, not a drag car. Handled really well, Fantastic ride, most comfortable seats I've ever ridden in. But remember, it was also a 4000 lb car. That car you were driving looks like it was down on power. Mine would annihilate the tires! From a roll, it was almost as fast as my smaller/lighter 87 Mustang GT. And when I put a smaller pulley on it, it was as fast as my GT. Fast for the day, not today...but a really great car!

  • @mtnbos
    @mtnbos 6 месяцев назад

    I enjoy your videography Caleb, just keeps getting better n better 👍🏻

  • @MrBoomer513
    @MrBoomer513 6 месяцев назад +1

    I'm telling you right now! If I ever get rich I need this fine gentleman to help my with my 96 lincoln LSC with a 4.6 DOHC cobra. Last year I got caught in a flood and it drank the water and hydrolocked.

  • @rainbowpcdash
    @rainbowpcdash 5 месяцев назад

    My best friend has the same as that car he just bought it and it's making 20 pounds of boost That's what it said when he was riding it on the road in front of very first time and following the speed limit

  • @GrandPitoVic
    @GrandPitoVic 6 месяцев назад

    Those were pretty fast when they were new. I had a 1991 T-Bird Lx Sport. Black on black with the 5.0 H.O.. Of coarse I put the Lx bumpers and trunk lid from a 93' Lx. I like the lights across the deck lid.

  • @tillman40
    @tillman40 6 месяцев назад

    1990 ford / merc lineup with the foxbody, the thunderbird, merc variant may have been their best period

  • @paulhudgins5120
    @paulhudgins5120 6 месяцев назад

    For sure a cool car, those cars rode great, yeah they do lack some punch under the hood,
    but like you said a good platform for a V8 swap with some giddy up. Went to high school
    with a guy that had a previous model T-bird with a V8 sounded good but was on the slow side.

  • @johnrice1382
    @johnrice1382 6 месяцев назад

    I will love to see the first gentle lightning.i have 95 gt I built from the ground up i did a 5 speed Swap and rear end out of 01 gt with 410 and Converted my Throttle body to the Fox body style.

  • @cyclonekevin6199
    @cyclonekevin6199 6 месяцев назад

    Ford Eacort GT if u can find one, preferably the Mazda version. Great video

  • @MrCecilbag
    @MrCecilbag 6 месяцев назад

    I had one and liked it. I prefer my Mustangs but they are very comfy and had better room. I also had a turbo coupe t bird before that. A local guy to me has a time capsule Mercury Cougar version of this. I never knew they existed. His is a 5 speed and it looks like new. He said they made 312 of them

  • @DeShawn-gl8xs
    @DeShawn-gl8xs 6 месяцев назад +1

    What are thoughts on the 80’s-90’s Yamaha powered Taurus SHO 🤔

  • @jaysonescoe5799
    @jaysonescoe5799 6 месяцев назад

    Needs a manual. Like the S H O’s had. Mine was stupid fun to drive. 91 maroon, blk leather.

  • @bailey7361
    @bailey7361 6 месяцев назад

    My brother had one and it was fast for the time

  • @aarongray7364
    @aarongray7364 6 месяцев назад +1

    How about an XR4Ti?
    Escort GT?
    Cougar XR7?
    Love your content.

  • @jeffreychristianson9134
    @jeffreychristianson9134 6 месяцев назад

    At least the power seats should have been an option to buy in the Mustang for sure.

  • @bradkrekelberg8624
    @bradkrekelberg8624 6 месяцев назад

    I loved my '96. I'd really like to find a '94-95 SC with the better interior one day.

  • @davidmeyer6389
    @davidmeyer6389 6 месяцев назад

    Cool review! Thanks

  • @sapperstang
    @sapperstang 6 месяцев назад

    My first car was a 1989 Super Coupe. Wish I had kept that car.

  • @millz1012
    @millz1012 6 месяцев назад

    Pretty cool car for sure forgot all about them

  • @quistan2
    @quistan2 5 месяцев назад

    A channel dedicated to the Muscort, interesting.

  • @CollideFan1
    @CollideFan1 6 месяцев назад +2

    Manufacturers didn't do too much thinking back then. Turbos on four bangers and super chargers on v6s and do nothing for v8s. 🙄 I like the T-birds of the late 80s and 90s. Had a 94 with the 4.6. Good reliable motor. Really no performance parts at least back then. Thing i don't like about them and the same goes with GM muscle cars of that era is fake duel exhaust. The underside of the T-birds won't allow you to have true duels unless you want your pipes hanging close to the ground. Would like to get an SC. Saw one for sale a while back for 9-10k

  • @jimmyrwilkesjr5127
    @jimmyrwilkesjr5127 6 месяцев назад

    Caleb have a special ordered 93 lx with 5.0ho all doc that I am slowly working on maybe this summer I can send a vid or pic :there is a surprise in this car that definitely SET IT APART FROM THE REST MAN

  • @GrandPitoVic
    @GrandPitoVic 6 месяцев назад

    I just seen a 97' T-Bird with a 5.0 swap at a Cars and Coffee.

  • @scarface9617
    @scarface9617 6 месяцев назад +1

    The 5spd SC run much better than the auto’s.. just like in the GT’s!

  • @anthonycaruso2248
    @anthonycaruso2248 2 месяца назад

    I bought a 90 SC midnight blue 5-speed in HS in 95', and he missed so much cool stuff on what the SC had. I don't know what was wrong with the one he was driving but it was way faster than that brake torque BS he just did. Most of that smoke was coming from the brakes. I could dump the clutch and put 11s on the pavement. Things he didn't mention. Automatic seat belts, the lights on the sides would light up with the turn signal to light the curb. Auto headlights on/off and auto brights. Automatic rear view mirror that switched when headlights were behind me. Back then mirrors had a manual switch for glare from headlights at night, but the SC was auto. I didn't have the ride switch through, or that badge behind the front tire, and mine had full leather. Ford never put that 6 way power seat in Mustangs because it was from their luxury line. That power seat came from a Mark VIII and only made it into one Ford car, the SC. A neighbor on the street I grew up on came did a pully w/ tune and a 3:73 for me, but no exhaust. I had the fastest car in the parking lot, it was undefeated. That car would bury that PSI gauge at the top center. I don't know exactly how much boost it had but it was well over 15psi. And for the guy with the Typhoon, I easily took that SUV down, along with its sister Cyclone. It destroyed all Mustangs, Z28 IROC, and I even got the chance to race a Firehawk with that tear drop front end it had. The rich kid in school sold his C4 Vette after I walked him in the quarter mile for cash. We estimated it did about 12.5 to 13 second quarter mile. Which was fast at the time. I eventually almost blew the motor after 2 years because of the mods. Had to fix it and sell the car. I miss that car. I've owned a lot of sports cars but a SC is special because it's a sports car with luxury options. This guy missed so many things on that car that were special for that era, that no other cars had.

  • @FireflyHill24
    @FireflyHill24 6 месяцев назад +1

    We have a 90 thunderbird SC with about 85,000 miles. We have a problem where if we drive it and shut it off. It won’t start until it’s completely cooled down. Then you have the automatic shoulder harness which is separate from the seat belt. Another car you almost never see is the ford EXP

    • @Scalihoo
      @Scalihoo 6 месяцев назад

      & The " Probe " my brother bought a new one first edition smaller one & I drove it a lot a good car manual shift black beauty

    • @Idcenoug-h
      @Idcenoug-h 5 месяцев назад

      It’s 100% your cam position sensor. I’ve owned a 93 sc for 15 years now.

  • @1SirCarlton
    @1SirCarlton 6 месяцев назад +1

    We have a 97 with only 39k miles for sale if you want something new to coyote swap! 👀

  • @joshthemediocre7824
    @joshthemediocre7824 6 месяцев назад

    So back in hs in the late 90s I had a 93 lx 5.0 mustang..in calypso green if anyone cares. I got embarrassed by a thunderbird sc and have been a fan ever since. I had the cougar xr7 w the 5.0 but it was a dog, always wanted a supercoupe.

  • @OakDM83
    @OakDM83 6 месяцев назад +1

    Price for these was Lincoln level, hence the seats being that good and not offered in a Mustang.

  • @tarzn_worx
    @tarzn_worx 6 месяцев назад

    The vacuum 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Cwn808
    @Cwn808 6 месяцев назад

    I made A twin turbo 3.8 sc 5spd

  • @ardennielsen3761
    @ardennielsen3761 6 месяцев назад +1

    The 94 year weighs about 6000 pounds with the V8, land yacht.

    • @Scalihoo
      @Scalihoo 6 месяцев назад +1

      lol, heavy but not that heavy, like between 3750 & 4000 lbs

    • @ardennielsen3761
      @ardennielsen3761 6 месяцев назад

      @@Scalihoo 2550 front 2450 rear add a 700 pound floater and a slip tank, 2550 front 3350 rear 5900 or +6000lb sitting in it. 325lbft is... big for a "small" block in a boat.

  • @krislinder7460
    @krislinder7460 6 месяцев назад +1

    something is wrong if it's only making 8 psi boost, suppose to be 12psi boost

  • @shawnadams590
    @shawnadams590 5 месяцев назад

    How can I get you guy to send to on my car

  • @duanepierson4375
    @duanepierson4375 6 месяцев назад

    To bad no one makes a “Blow Through Intercooler” like the 03-04 Cobras 4.3, for the 3.8.

  •  3 месяца назад

    My 90 SC auto, would kick down, and have 12 pounds of boost, by 4K rpm, and still pulling. Something wrong there.

  • @GrandPitoVic
    @GrandPitoVic 6 месяцев назад +2

    They also restricted it so it wouldn't run the Mustang. Lol.

    • @christopherandersen5950
      @christopherandersen5950 6 месяцев назад +1

      Thats because when the turbo coupe thunderbird came out it was faster then the 5.0 mustang.. and ford didn't want that..

    • @GrandPitoVic
      @GrandPitoVic 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@christopherandersen5950 Exactly!!!

  • @unknownvalor9755
    @unknownvalor9755 3 месяца назад

    Ford intentionally choked back the horse power in this car. Test cars were faster than the mustang and Ford was scared they just created their own version of the grand national. So they choked off the exhaust, the exhaust manifolds literally turn 90 degrees into the cat. Owners can get crazy horsepower with only exhaust mods.

  • @brettallender8791
    @brettallender8791 4 месяца назад

    My 95 SC was rated 230 HP 330 tq. With a full exhaust, custom ported intake, smaller, pulley, transgo shift kit and a few other things it ran low 14s back in the 90s with an automatic. I’m thinking there’s something wrong with this car in the video. It looks very weak compared to mine. L O L.

  • @RKARperformance
    @RKARperformance 5 месяцев назад

    That poor SC is tired. It should have smoked those tires off it. I've had a ton of these cars and even the autos destroy the tires easily at will
    This one was my last one \/
    ruclips.net/video/qSCCixcv6kk/видео.htmlsi=gOd6UtMk9iVyWJJM

  • @Stanggt8587
    @Stanggt8587 6 месяцев назад

    Next coyote swap? I miss my 1990 SC

    • @christopherandersen5950
      @christopherandersen5950 6 месяцев назад

      No way.. 4.2 stroker kit, pullies, longtubes and a set of gears.. and that thing is quick...😁

  • @blueridgekicks3962
    @blueridgekicks3962 5 месяцев назад

    Boy that thing is a gutless turd lol. But cool car

  • @brettallender8791
    @brettallender8791 4 месяца назад

    My 95 SC was rated 230 HP 330 tq. With a full exhaust, custom ported intake, smaller, pulley, transgo shift kit and a few other things it ran low 14s back in the 90s with an automatic. I’m thinking there’s something wrong with this car in the video. It looks very weak compared to mine. L O L.