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Dennis Reinhart

12-28-2006, 10:08 PM

Here is what Steve and Edwin having been working on for the last two days, Tom brought us his 03 Cobra conversion installed in his 03 Marauder, he had a very tall list, to start with he wanted a 31 spline conversion, and so we ordered up an 8.8 HD truck carrier and a set of 31 spline axial’s. He also wanted his new set of 13” Willwood rotors and twin piston calipers installed in the rear, they also upgraded his older kinsler to the new Turbo blue filter. He also was concerned that his transmission was not right, so after a test drive we sat down and came up with a plan, and started on the car, we removed the old 28 spline carrier and axials which both were badly pitted Tom has a 03 A, they next removed the transmission, to be torn down and inspected, with the trans out they installed a rear cooling kit, the 03 Cobra has one cooling tube in the passenger head so we just had to install one on the drivers head.

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Years ago we found the best way to set up the Ford 8.8 rear end is to invest in the Rotuda tool, this takes all the guess work out of setting the 8.8 up, as shown in the picture, the pinion depth is determined by a shim that is place on the pinion gear, and the pinion bearing is pressed on top of it, with the Rotunda tool after installing new pinion bearing races you place the inner and outer pinion bearings on a threaded rod that has a stop located inside the housing then you bolt a tube in the carrier cavity and torque the caps you rotate this stop up behind the tube and insert the correct shim till it just drags, then this shim is place on the new pinion gear and the bearing is installed on top of that, Tom is now running 3:27 gear this car should have a un godly top end.

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Next we installed his Willwood 13” rear two piece rotors and dual piston calipers, they retain the emergency brake cable and they really look nice.

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Next we changed out the older kinsler filter with braided lines to the new Turbo Blue

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Upon inspection of the transmission it was found the ½ accumulator piston seal was badly torn, this slipping and the clutches were burnt so a Art car kit was installed with the force lube kit. To also upgraded to a higher stall PI converter, so Steve got it all together this afternoon, and the car is going on the Dyno in the morning, I will post some numbers then, here are some good pictures of the install JDM did this for Tom, and I really like the way they installed this motor, the fabricated the alternator brackets so as to allow the alternator to be turned back words, what this allows is to install the motor with out notching the frame.


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The car is a screamer, and its immaculate with only 20 K on the clock after doing all this Tom decided in invest in the Escort SRX with laser jamming, we enjoyed helping him with his dream and we enjoyed his company for the past three days.

MarauderTJA

12-29-2006, 07:50 AM

Looks really good Dennis.

fastblackmerc

12-29-2006, 07:53 AM

Really nice. I assume the battery has been moved to the trunk?

BAD MERC

12-29-2006, 10:25 AM

Wow, only a Marauder owner can appreciate what was moved and fabricated to accomplish such a transplant. Awesome job!

MarauderMark

12-29-2006, 10:31 AM

Yepperz Nice car Tom:up:

Dennis Reinhart

12-29-2006, 12:25 PM

Well we just finished up, the car had a 90 MM LM and it was close to pegging so we installed a SCT Big air 2800 and started from there the car made just under 400 RWHP with 432 RWT and it drives like a dream.

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/4/6/tomd.jpg

jdando

12-29-2006, 01:02 PM

444 ft-lb torque is a whole lotta torque.:banana:

I am a little confused with the dyno chart, I thought hp and torque had to cross at 5250 rpm?

jeremy

thePunisher

12-30-2006, 10:05 AM

Dennis Reinhart

12-30-2006, 10:11 AM

good job denis....im sure you know...but when you install the pinion depth tool, the gauge block is supposed to be pointing at the driver side upper bearing cap bolt hole. almost at a 45* angle. then slide the shims between to get your reading. maybe you set it up that way for the pic......?

That would make it very difficult for the members here to see how it works, and yes I am aware of the correct way to do this, and please do not think I am sarcastic, I am not, its just so easy to misinterpret writing on the net, thanks for the input and have a good New years.

thePunisher

12-30-2006, 10:30 AM

yeah i figured it was just for the pic.....happy holidays...

thePunisher

12-30-2006, 10:31 AM

dennis what does that rear brake kit cost? do any modifications have to be made to the axles/housing to accomodate them???

Dennis Reinhart

01-16-2007, 01:14 PM

dennis what does that rear brake kit cost? do any modifications have to be made to the axles/housing to accomodate them???

I think its around 1400.00 I can see if you would like a set

Dennis Reinhart

01-16-2007, 01:17 PM

RoyLPita

01-16-2007, 01:31 PM

Dennis,
How much is the alternator bracket?
http://web.iwebcenters.com/reinhartautomotive/images/session/00-00-1167367826-altmount1.jpg
Something like this should've offered from the start.

thePunisher

01-20-2007, 06:13 AM

I think its around 1400.00 I can see if you would like a set

do they bolt on or do you have to modify anything? housing etc??

martyo

01-20-2007, 07:18 AM

Tell him to put a gear in that b!tch so he doesn't get left at the lights!