Getting Parts For My Pro-Touring '82 Cougar Sedan

[FoxGranadaChuck]

I am now beginning to collect parts for my '82 Cougar sedan. Within the next two weeks, I should receive the '90 Mustang 5.0 rack-and-pinion and the '95 Mustang FLCAs of which I won on eBay. I am contemplating bidding for a power brake booster from a '95 Mustang Cobra for the planned Baer braking system.
As soon as I get a good digital camera, I will download some pics of my beloved (?) machine.
I am building it to go 1) compete in Car Craft's Real Street Eliminator competition and 2) take it on the Hot Rod Power Tour.

[FoxGranadaChuck]

Some of you are probably asking as to why I would want the OE SN-95 Mustang contol arms and not go to a front coil-over conversion. There are several reasons for this. First is the PITA factor; converting an "oddball Fox body" to front and/or rear coil overs would be a REAL job! Also, being that the Cougar has a longer wheelbase than a Mustang, installing a torque-arm would be very difficult.
But the main reason for OE-type FLCAs is the bolt-on factor. I am wanting the Cougar to be as much a bolt-on proposition as is humanly possible!

[Q ship]

Car sounds fun, aren't the SN95 arms longer than the older fox arms (moves the wheel out)? Are you going with a manual trans? I saw an older Granada locally that someone had swapped a 5.0/T5 into, pretty cool little car. I'm not familiar with an '82 Cougar, we need pics. Variety is good.

[FoxGranadaChuck]

Car sounds fun, aren't the SN95 arms longer than the older fox arms (moves the wheel out)? Are you going with a manual trans? I saw an older Granada locally that someone had swapped a 5.0/T5 into, pretty cool little car. I'm not familiar with an '82 Cougar, we need pics. Variety is good.


Yes, the SN-95 FLCAs are about an inch and a half longer than the OE FLCAs, thus moving the tires/wheels further out. This is intentional to improve both the handling and ride quality of the car.
The '82 Cougar is Mercury's version of the Fox-body Ford Granada.
I will post pics just as soon as I can secure a good digital camera with software that is Macintosh compatible!

[FoxGranadaChuck]

I just won a power brake booster from a '95 Mustang Cobra this past Friday night. I sent payment for it Saturday morning. Accmulating parts for my PT Cougar sedan...................

I got this part because I am planning on going with Baer brakes front and rear. With Baer brakes, one needs a powerful booster to operate the power brakes. Therefore, I bought the '95 Cobra booster.

I am also bidding on an anti-roll bar from an '89 Mustang GT. I will know within the next few days as to whether or not I will win this item. Of course, I will keep you guys posted on these events.

[FoxGranadaChuck]

I just received my SN-95 Mustang front lower control arms today! I am stoked! While I have yet to finish disassembly work on the Cougar primarily because of issues surrounding my Dad, I am looking forward to not only finishing disassembly but starting the work to upgrading the Cougar to PT status!

Now, I am awaiting the '90 Mustang 5.0 rack-and-pinion and the '95 Mustang Cobra power brake booster..............................

[SatisTraction]

i have built several mustangs and may have some cheap advice for you. I would look for a 89 or lincoln LSC and steal the 4 wheel disk brakes from it. That is about a 4500 pound car that needed big brakes. the brakes on it are nearly as large as the cobra and they are 5 lug with 73mm front calipers. I then got a factory manual brake spacer and went with a 7/8" bore MC. i added a wilwood porportioning valve for the rear bias. the brakes work great.

[FoxGranadaChuck]

i have built several mustangs and may have some cheap advice for you. I would look for a 89 or lincoln LSC and steal the 4 wheel disk brakes from it. That is about a 4500 pound car that needed big brakes. the brakes on it are nearly as large as the cobra and they are 5 lug with 73mm front calipers. I then got a factory manual brake spacer and went with a 7/8" bore MC. i added a wilwood porportioning valve for the rear bias. the brakes work great.


The only problem with that scenario is that I am planning on installing SN-95 spindles as well as FLCAs. I don't think that regular Fox spindles fit the SN-95 control arms, and I wouldn't want to attempt such a conversion anyway.
The Cougar really isn't that heavy. In fact, it is a fairly lightweight car, considering its size and the fact that it has more sound deadener from the factory than the Zephyr (cousin Fox body).

[FoxGranadaChuck]

I just won a front anti-roll bar off of an '89 Mustang 5.0 from eBay! I will be paying for it in the next few days.
Slowly but surely, I am accumulating parts for my Cougar that will make it quite a canyon carver......................

[FoxGranadaChuck]

Now, I have won a new (NOS) part. It is a fuel tank sender unit for EFI, made for fuel-injected '83-86 Mustang GTs. This part will become crucial in converting the Cougar to Mustang-style EFI.

Now, all I will have to do is figure how to adapt this sending unit to the OE Cougar fuel tank. But that is a little down the road.

[FoxGranadaChuck]

Now, I have won a new (NOS) part. It is a fuel tank sender unit for EFI, made for fuel-injected '83-86 Mustang GTs. This part will become crucial in converting the Cougar to Mustang-style EFI.

Now, all I will have to do is figure how to adapt this sending unit to the OE Cougar fuel tank. But that is a little down the road.


I just received the aforementioned sending unit day before yesterday. Man, am I stoked!!!

[FoxGranadaChuck]

I will be receiving a Fairmont/Granada-spec center console here within the next few days. This way, I won't have to butcher a good '86 Mustang GT console to fit it into the Cougar. More specifically, I won't have to find a way to cover the e-brake slot in the Mustang console. Plus, the car from which this car comes is an OE automatic, whereas the '86 Mustang console comes from a stick-shift model.

[hechtrod]

Any pics of this coug'. My bro had an '87 turbocoupe tbird that would have been really cool to pro-t it. It ran 14.6's on street tires. He had about 300flyHP. It was cool. I'd like to see pics of your cougar man!

[FoxGranadaChuck]

Any pics of this coug'. My bro had an '87 turbocoupe tbird that would have been really cool to pro-t it. It ran 14.6's on street tires. He had about 300flyHP. It was cool. I'd like to see pics of your cougar man!

I will post pics of my Cougar just as soon as the storm concerning my Dad passes and I am able to get a Macintosh-compatible digital camera!!!