I would trade my Mark for this.

[Calabrio]

Better seats and a the 5-speed transmission...
if it were just easier to put those two things into the Mark VIII I'd be very happy.

 

[XLRVIII]

the solution for a front u joint did leave alot to be desired...haha

 

[XLRVIII]

Xr4Ti

care to take a stab at the acronynm?

 

[XLRVIII]

eXperimental Racing 4cylinder Turbo Iinjection

 

[Aquabrit]

I dunno what that whole 'XR...' means - probably just a fancy jumble of letters. In the Euro market we had various 'XR' models which were performance orientated regular Fords. (Ford Fiesta XR2 and XR2i, Ford Escort XR3 and XR3i and Ford Sierra XR4i and XR4x4 (although those had 2.8 Cologne V6 engines) Then we had even higher performance models with 'RS' (Rallye Sport?) in the jumble.

I've spent countless hours under various Ford Sierra's when i was a kid, but don't remember much about the subframes - I was usually left holding an exhaust or whatever while my dad disappeared to get something, only to forget and leave me there!!!

 

[chicken]

But it was a rattletrap. Everything inside rattled and squeaked all the time. It drove me nuts. The TC's were solid, quiet, and rattle free the whole time I had them. When I got rid of the '93 Bird and got my 70K mile '96 Mark VIII back in 2000, it was like a different world. No rattles. No squeaks. And faaaaast. I'm a happy camper. It's hard to believe the two cars were based on the same platform, for the most part.

that 93 bird musta had a hard life, they are just as solid as a mark

most of the people i talked to that had them said merkr...and got miffy when i corrected them

didja ever check out the 3 inch round tube rear subframe, it was neat stuff

neat little cars

i said mer-kour. my high school auto shop teacher had 2, needed one to keep the other running lol

I dunno what that whole 'XR...' means - probably just a fancy jumble of letters. In the Euro market we had various 'XR' models which were performance orientated regular Fords. (Ford Fiesta XR2 and XR2i, Ford Escort XR3 and XR3i and Ford Sierra XR4i and XR4x4 (although those had 2.8 Cologne V6 engines) Then we had even higher performance models with 'RS' (Rallye Sport?) in the jumble.

you need to make some progress so you can have the first Xr8iVIII YO