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Procharged Marauder
Its all about the build and having fun while doing it! ! 😎
04 twin turbo Marauder custom made by myself 😁
3800stall freddy Brown 4stbe trans 31 spline rear
601rwhp 592rwtq @19psi
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Here is where I am at for now. The Lower control arms I used are 1/8" thick so that made for a good weld. I am going to due the next one then start boxing in the ends with 1/8 flat bar.
03MM 300A Build date 06/03/02 Production #446Tilogy S/C Kit#4 387RWHP 364RWTQ, Addco front and rear sway bars,Factory Spoiler,Auto,Auto Meter Gauges ,Boost,Air/Fuel,Trans. Temp. Oil and Volt. All are real working gauges now.Badgeless Grill,J Mod
Metco D/S Loop,Boxed Lower Rear Control Arms
New Made Upper Rear Control Arms
Boxed Watts Link,Ford Finned Rear End Cover
Colex Caps: Oil,Water,Enter Cooler,Power Steering,Master Cylinder and Windshield Washer
Daniels Coil Covers and Buttons,Nitto 255/45 front
Widen Rear Wheels with 295/45 Nitto's,Zack's Big Brakes, Rear Drilled a slotted rotors,TCE Braided brake lines,Pro Guard Skid Plate,Summit trans pan, New Exhaust.K&N Cold Air Intake,JLT Catch Can,fastblackmerc door seal plates, pedal covers and Mustang dead pedal.
Chris Stewart
Do you think the ends even need boxed? All the stress is pushing on the lower arms.
I'm also going to do this soon. Going to narrow up the arms so the center stamped area touch and do some plug welds down the inside.
Chris Stewart
03 Marauder
Paxton 2200
20" wheels
637.21rwhp
538.59rwtq
04 DTR Son's car
4.10, K&N CAI, Jeff tune
Headers, underdrive pulley
297.26 rwhp
312rwtq
06 F-150 Supercrew Lariat 4x4
305/55 20's
Senior Member
I know the ends may not need to be boxed but I think they would look better. Now remember these are 1/8" thick. I got some others that that were only about 16gage much thinner.
03MM 300A Build date 06/03/02 Production #446Tilogy S/C Kit#4 387RWHP 364RWTQ, Addco front and rear sway bars,Factory Spoiler,Auto,Auto Meter Gauges ,Boost,Air/Fuel,Trans. Temp. Oil and Volt. All are real working gauges now.Badgeless Grill,J Mod
Metco D/S Loop,Boxed Lower Rear Control Arms
New Made Upper Rear Control Arms
Boxed Watts Link,Ford Finned Rear End Cover
Colex Caps: Oil,Water,Enter Cooler,Power Steering,Master Cylinder and Windshield Washer
Daniels Coil Covers and Buttons,Nitto 255/45 front
Widen Rear Wheels with 295/45 Nitto's,Zack's Big Brakes, Rear Drilled a slotted rotors,TCE Braided brake lines,Pro Guard Skid Plate,Summit trans pan, New Exhaust.K&N Cold Air Intake,JLT Catch Can,fastblackmerc door seal plates, pedal covers and Mustang dead pedal.
Junior Member
Kuddos on your project your going to love them. No more tail wag.
I have changed out the rear upper & lower control arms a few times. I have used stock & Z&M. They all appear as though one of the bushings is set about 10 to12 degrees off 90. Is that the case ?
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2003 marauder black 28,000 miles all stock. Garage Queen.
2004 marauder red daily driver.
Everything Marauder, LEDs & HI
Looking good Bob!
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I boxed my lowers but my car is an Aero and is a triangulated 4-link.
I boxed them in completely, pics are terrible though I had a crappy cell phone lol. Uppers are double adjustable with spherical bushings on the frame side. They will handle 1000RWHP even though they will never see that much power LMAO!
They stiffened things up quite a bit and were cheaper than paying(even though I'm pretty sure no one makes an off the shelf lower control arm for the Aeros, at least one that I am willing to pay for) for already made ones.
Ex Panther Owner
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Looks great, and you'll still have the cush rubber bushings. Which can be a good thing, depending on your preference and what you do with the car.
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2004 Silver Birch Marauder 130K miles
Wilwood Aero6 F, NMDP R brakes, Penske 7500DA shocks, Hypercoil 600lbs F and Grand Marquis R air springs, Addco tubular sway bars, Metco control & Watts, 31 sp axles, Stainless Works cat-back exhaust, Lidio tune, American Racing AR883 9.3" 50mm F 10" 59mm R 20" wheels, Pirelli P-Zero 265/35-20, 275/40-20 tires
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Looks great. But grinding the welds takes a lot of the strength out of it. 1/8" thick I'm sure it's fine.
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Yes 1/8 is fine. I made sure that I had a small gap and the edges where beveled. so that way I get a lot of weld in the gap.
03MM 300A Build date 06/03/02 Production #446Tilogy S/C Kit#4 387RWHP 364RWTQ, Addco front and rear sway bars,Factory Spoiler,Auto,Auto Meter Gauges ,Boost,Air/Fuel,Trans. Temp. Oil and Volt. All are real working gauges now.Badgeless Grill,J Mod
Metco D/S Loop,Boxed Lower Rear Control Arms
New Made Upper Rear Control Arms
Boxed Watts Link,Ford Finned Rear End Cover
Colex Caps: Oil,Water,Enter Cooler,Power Steering,Master Cylinder and Windshield Washer
Daniels Coil Covers and Buttons,Nitto 255/45 front
Widen Rear Wheels with 295/45 Nitto's,Zack's Big Brakes, Rear Drilled a slotted rotors,TCE Braided brake lines,Pro Guard Skid Plate,Summit trans pan, New Exhaust.K&N Cold Air Intake,JLT Catch Can,fastblackmerc door seal plates, pedal covers and Mustang dead pedal.
Senior Member
Here are the lowers. I think they turned out great.
03MM 300A Build date 06/03/02 Production #446Tilogy S/C Kit#4 387RWHP 364RWTQ, Addco front and rear sway bars,Factory Spoiler,Auto,Auto Meter Gauges ,Boost,Air/Fuel,Trans. Temp. Oil and Volt. All are real working gauges now.Badgeless Grill,J Mod
Metco D/S Loop,Boxed Lower Rear Control Arms
New Made Upper Rear Control Arms
Boxed Watts Link,Ford Finned Rear End Cover
Colex Caps: Oil,Water,Enter Cooler,Power Steering,Master Cylinder and Windshield Washer
Daniels Coil Covers and Buttons,Nitto 255/45 front
Widen Rear Wheels with 295/45 Nitto's,Zack's Big Brakes, Rear Drilled a slotted rotors,TCE Braided brake lines,Pro Guard Skid Plate,Summit trans pan, New Exhaust.K&N Cold Air Intake,JLT Catch Can,fastblackmerc door seal plates, pedal covers and Mustang dead pedal.
Member
very nice, anyone know where you can buy the Town car LIMO rear control arms?
Senior Member
great work Bob!
If this hadn't been done already, guys would be begging you to make more! Still, your work on your car is the BEST.
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2004 CV LX SPORT
ALL BLACK, 6 DISC, TUNED MZT (SOLD)
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Ummm...Don't you already own a set?Originally Posted by Bruce Wayne
Seems I recall Steve Babcock's review of the Marauder underpinnings related that it all came from the Lincoln TC limo. He said it often, and never changed his story.
The Marauder was a parts car, taking stuff off the shelf kept costs down. The early cars, like my 1st Marauder (drove it home 31May02) had a lot of non-specific engineering numbers on them until converted over to LM numbers. I once had a "book" of parts numbers by groups that traced the numbers back through Ford. I do, clearly, recall TC suspension, as well as many CVPI parts.
Bob Mathis has been around since those days, time for y'all to clean out the garage and re...re...Purpose?
Nice job Bob, sweet!
Y'all be safe.
Last edited by SergntMac; 02-28-2015 at 08:09 PM.
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I found some from a ford dealer for about $112.00 each new. That's to much for me. If I did that I would have just gotten Metco.
03MM 300A Build date 06/03/02 Production #446Tilogy S/C Kit#4 387RWHP 364RWTQ, Addco front and rear sway bars,Factory Spoiler,Auto,Auto Meter Gauges ,Boost,Air/Fuel,Trans. Temp. Oil and Volt. All are real working gauges now.Badgeless Grill,J Mod
Metco D/S Loop,Boxed Lower Rear Control Arms
New Made Upper Rear Control Arms
Boxed Watts Link,Ford Finned Rear End Cover
Colex Caps: Oil,Water,Enter Cooler,Power Steering,Master Cylinder and Windshield Washer
Daniels Coil Covers and Buttons,Nitto 255/45 front
Widen Rear Wheels with 295/45 Nitto's,Zack's Big Brakes, Rear Drilled a slotted rotors,TCE Braided brake lines,Pro Guard Skid Plate,Summit trans pan, New Exhaust.K&N Cold Air Intake,JLT Catch Can,fastblackmerc door seal plates, pedal covers and Mustang dead pedal.
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