Telco
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How do folks, new member. Just bought a 2003 Lincoln LS yesterday. Has the V8, is blue with a grey interior.
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Telco
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Will do. I have to dig my camera out from wherever it's hiding. In the meantime, it looks like this one. The paint on mine looks brand new except for one spot about the size of two quarters side by side that the previous owner scraped on something. No dents. The interior is flawless. 97K miles. Something that was surprising, the tail light lenses look brand new, no hazing at all, and the headlights have a very light hazing on them.
Telco
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Thanks. The wife and I are liking it a lot. We bought it due to the wife has severe back problems from an auto accident and my Silverado was just killing her back to ride in.
Telco
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A little background on myself. This LS is the first FoMoCo product I've owned since 1995. The only other one I've had is a 1993 Cougar, which I had to sell to get my debt ratio down to buy a house. I miss the Cougar, and was actually looking for a 1994-1997 model when this LS appeared. I'm primarily a GM man, and only bought the LS due to an auto accident my wife had that's left her with a bad back and unable to ride in my 2000 Silverado.
I am very mechanically inclined, and have performed engine swaps to include changing engine types. My first conversion was installing a 350 into a 79 Chevy halfton that had an inline 6. The same truck also had a TH350, a 700R4 and a TH400 transmission in its life. I had an S10 pickup that was going to get an LSx conversion before some beeotch decided to pull out in front of me at a 2 way stop where she had the stop sign and I didn't. On that truck I'd installed electric fans and Caddilac CTS seats. My current truck started life as a Z71 with a 5.3L and a 4L60E transmission, and now sports a 4.8L and a 4L80E that will smoke the old setup like it was a 6 cylinder. And, I was building it as a high MPG truck too.
I do have some tuning experience using EFI Live, so I'm hoping to find a like product to work on the LS so I can improve how it operates. Later on, much as this may disgust the purists, I will probably look at replacing the 3.9L with a Chevy 6.2L LS engine and possibly a C5+ Corvette 6 speed auto transaxle . This won't be for a year or three though, if I do. The main reason I would select a Chevy LS engine is I'm very comfortable with them and can likely integrate the Ford electronics with it. Don't ask how yet, won't be working that out unless I decide to do it.
Anyway, I like to help others improve their rides and will offer advice to help an owner achieve their goal. Sometimes I may not agree with what someone is doing, but will still try to lend a hand. I am very opinionated though, so if I'm helping someone I'll also add in why I think it's a bad idea and will present alternatives even as I offer assistance. At this time I know almost nothing about Lincoln LS cars or Ford architecture, but I'm a fast study and have an affinity for automotive tech. I also have a knack for it, because when I'm working on a car I can almost throw parts in the general vicinity and they'll install themselves. While my direct experience won't apply to an LS, and really I don't intend to do much to this as long as my wife needs it for transportation, a lot of it will apply to anything with wheels. I hope to be a net addition to this board. Thanks for reading. Did I mention I also like to type?
I am very mechanically inclined, and have performed engine swaps to include changing engine types. My first conversion was installing a 350 into a 79 Chevy halfton that had an inline 6. The same truck also had a TH350, a 700R4 and a TH400 transmission in its life. I had an S10 pickup that was going to get an LSx conversion before some beeotch decided to pull out in front of me at a 2 way stop where she had the stop sign and I didn't. On that truck I'd installed electric fans and Caddilac CTS seats. My current truck started life as a Z71 with a 5.3L and a 4L60E transmission, and now sports a 4.8L and a 4L80E that will smoke the old setup like it was a 6 cylinder. And, I was building it as a high MPG truck too.
I do have some tuning experience using EFI Live, so I'm hoping to find a like product to work on the LS so I can improve how it operates. Later on, much as this may disgust the purists, I will probably look at replacing the 3.9L with a Chevy 6.2L LS engine and possibly a C5+ Corvette 6 speed auto transaxle . This won't be for a year or three though, if I do. The main reason I would select a Chevy LS engine is I'm very comfortable with them and can likely integrate the Ford electronics with it. Don't ask how yet, won't be working that out unless I decide to do it.Anyway, I like to help others improve their rides and will offer advice to help an owner achieve their goal. Sometimes I may not agree with what someone is doing, but will still try to lend a hand. I am very opinionated though, so if I'm helping someone I'll also add in why I think it's a bad idea and will present alternatives even as I offer assistance. At this time I know almost nothing about Lincoln LS cars or Ford architecture, but I'm a fast study and have an affinity for automotive tech. I also have a knack for it, because when I'm working on a car I can almost throw parts in the general vicinity and they'll install themselves. While my direct experience won't apply to an LS, and really I don't intend to do much to this as long as my wife needs it for transportation, a lot of it will apply to anything with wheels. I hope to be a net addition to this board. Thanks for reading. Did I mention I also like to type?