DieselDan
Dedicated LVC Member
Hello everyone, I have been considering just putting everything about this car into one thread since I had some new stuff to update, but hated how everything was in different posts. So now I can be cool like Laser, sapp, and Jamie 
This is how the car looked when I first saw the car at Jamie's place like 4 years ago. The story as I understand it was that a customer brought it to Jamie to fix it up because he wanted to sell it. Matt, the guy that works in the shop with Jamie decided he wanted the car, but I think the car had snowflakes on it, and they threw 10 spokes on it. Matt decided to buy it for his wife to drive. Later after, the trans took a dump and only had 1st and 2nd gear. She, I guess figured that once a car breaks it won't be right again and she wanted a different car to drive. I think I was at Jamie's picking up som parts and Matt asked me if I might be interested in trading for the 94. I had my SHO at the time and he was interested in that, but his 'ol lady wasn't comfortable driving stick. I talked to my wife and asked her if she was interested in trading, she said lets go check it out. I found out later, my wife didn't really want the car, but she knew I did, so she agreed. We traded a really nice (imo) 97 Taurus with the 24v motor and the suspension was upgraded with SHO parts, the sucker would really handle. I can't find a picture of that car
We drove the car from Tampa to Orlando with only 1st and 2nd gear, that was fun, but I shortly after installed a trans that I bought from Jamie that was intended for my 97. It is J-modded now with updated springs and a new accumulator piston.
These are pictures after I got the car.
The car was actually my wife's driver for a long time, as I had my black 97, which is now TiltedHalo's car and my 95 Taurus SHO. The 94 got the 97s Octi wheels before I sold it. Both cars are gone now and my wife is driving an Explorer so I got to start DDing the mark about a year ago.
The car really didn't ever need anything done to it, except for a passenger side air bag which was replaced with an AAS bag, and a rear bag, which came from a JY car. Also I have replaced the ABS pump motor, mine went dead and would throw a code intermittently when the car would first hit 20mph. I put a JY pump in that looked worse than what I had, cleaned it up and stabbed it in. The pump leaked between the HCU and the pump so I had to swap parts between the 2 parts to get 1 good working pump and put it all back in again. (http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/showthread.php?t=61122)
I also took the car to the track and made the following times:
First Run
Reaction: .303
T1: 2.336
T2: 6.616
E.T.: 10.014
MPH: 73.147
Second Run
Reaction: .111
T1: 2.544
T2: 6.927
E.T.: 10.355
MPH: 72.532
Thats only with a j-mod.
Installed a Reinhart chip tuned for 3:73s. I have the gears, but they are not installed yet, looking for a diff. The shifting is a little late, but it doesn't really bother me. The car has definately picked up some power.
I installed a set of DDM tuning HIDs in 96LSC housings in the High/Low position. I don't have pictures of the install but here is the day look.
Thru the grille you can see the ballasts.
Car also got a front brake overhaul with new pads and sway bar links.
I had a lot of Interior business going on, and I'm not going to link all of that here, but you can search for it under my name. But the car went from saddle interior to black.
The most recent updates to the car is the new front bumper, grille, and chrome trim. This is the car the grille and bumper cover came from.
The front bumper was chipped up really bad, and had been repainted with a single stage paint before I bought it, so the chipping was worse than normal. The bumper cover was redone in base/clear and the license plate bracket holes were filled, and the indent for the Mark VIII emblem under the driver light was filled. That bumper was painted about 2 days before I moved to FL, so it got wrapped up in a comforter and I put it in my friends garage. Finally got a wild bug up my butt to install it.
Before:
During:
Rear --
After:
Thats my post for today, I will add more when I get to it!
This is how the car looked when I first saw the car at Jamie's place like 4 years ago. The story as I understand it was that a customer brought it to Jamie to fix it up because he wanted to sell it. Matt, the guy that works in the shop with Jamie decided he wanted the car, but I think the car had snowflakes on it, and they threw 10 spokes on it. Matt decided to buy it for his wife to drive. Later after, the trans took a dump and only had 1st and 2nd gear. She, I guess figured that once a car breaks it won't be right again and she wanted a different car to drive. I think I was at Jamie's picking up som parts and Matt asked me if I might be interested in trading for the 94. I had my SHO at the time and he was interested in that, but his 'ol lady wasn't comfortable driving stick. I talked to my wife and asked her if she was interested in trading, she said lets go check it out. I found out later, my wife didn't really want the car, but she knew I did, so she agreed. We traded a really nice (imo) 97 Taurus with the 24v motor and the suspension was upgraded with SHO parts, the sucker would really handle. I can't find a picture of that car
We drove the car from Tampa to Orlando with only 1st and 2nd gear, that was fun, but I shortly after installed a trans that I bought from Jamie that was intended for my 97. It is J-modded now with updated springs and a new accumulator piston.
These are pictures after I got the car.
The car was actually my wife's driver for a long time, as I had my black 97, which is now TiltedHalo's car and my 95 Taurus SHO. The 94 got the 97s Octi wheels before I sold it. Both cars are gone now and my wife is driving an Explorer so I got to start DDing the mark about a year ago.
The car really didn't ever need anything done to it, except for a passenger side air bag which was replaced with an AAS bag, and a rear bag, which came from a JY car. Also I have replaced the ABS pump motor, mine went dead and would throw a code intermittently when the car would first hit 20mph. I put a JY pump in that looked worse than what I had, cleaned it up and stabbed it in. The pump leaked between the HCU and the pump so I had to swap parts between the 2 parts to get 1 good working pump and put it all back in again. (http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/showthread.php?t=61122)
I also took the car to the track and made the following times:
First Run
Reaction: .303
T1: 2.336
T2: 6.616
E.T.: 10.014
MPH: 73.147
Second Run
Reaction: .111
T1: 2.544
T2: 6.927
E.T.: 10.355
MPH: 72.532
Thats only with a j-mod.
Installed a Reinhart chip tuned for 3:73s. I have the gears, but they are not installed yet, looking for a diff. The shifting is a little late, but it doesn't really bother me. The car has definately picked up some power.
I installed a set of DDM tuning HIDs in 96LSC housings in the High/Low position. I don't have pictures of the install but here is the day look.
Thru the grille you can see the ballasts.
Car also got a front brake overhaul with new pads and sway bar links.
I had a lot of Interior business going on, and I'm not going to link all of that here, but you can search for it under my name. But the car went from saddle interior to black.
The most recent updates to the car is the new front bumper, grille, and chrome trim. This is the car the grille and bumper cover came from.
The front bumper was chipped up really bad, and had been repainted with a single stage paint before I bought it, so the chipping was worse than normal. The bumper cover was redone in base/clear and the license plate bracket holes were filled, and the indent for the Mark VIII emblem under the driver light was filled. That bumper was painted about 2 days before I moved to FL, so it got wrapped up in a comforter and I put it in my friends garage. Finally got a wild bug up my butt to install it.
Before:
During:
Rear --
After:
Thats my post for today, I will add more when I get to it!
That is most definatly a Frist Gen I would be very proud to own. Cant wait to sse what seh morphs into.
