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Shiny is Good! => Your Pintos/Bobcats & Racers => Topic started by: pintoperformance on December 19, 2003, 12:23:08 AM

Title: My 1978 Pinto Converted wagon to Panel
Post by: pintoperformance on December 19, 2003, 12:23:08 AM
Converted this 1978 Pinto Wagon to a two seater Panel Wagon(http://imagehost.epier.com/20680/viperredpinto3.jpg)
has a 2.3 with a Holley 500 cfm 2bl,hedman header, Wolverine Camshaft-getting read to install another head that has been ported and polished.....
Mike

Before conversion
(http://imagehost.epier.com/20680/pintoprime.jpg)

AFTER CONVERSION AND VIPER RED PAINT..
(http://imagehost.epier.com/20680/viperredpinto.jpg)
Title: Re:My 1978 Pinto Converted wagon to Panel
Post by: streethorse on December 19, 2003, 08:45:15 AM
Good job on the mould in. That is one of the best conversions I have seen.
Title: Re:My 1978 Pinto Converted wagon to Panel
Post by: GERBEAR on January 12, 2004, 08:42:06 PM
Looks Great I have a 1978 wagen I like to make a delivery wagen or a CA wagen . Were did you get the panels from and was it hard    Thanks Gerald      GLAYINWA@YAHOO
Title: Re:My 1978 Pinto Converted wagon to Panel
Post by: pintoperformance on January 14, 2004, 12:48:19 AM
Gerald,

Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fordpintostreetmachines

then click on files--the whole process is listed in the file section on How to convert your wagon to a two seater panel wagon....oh  yea this is a club site for PInto owners, so you will have to join the club....

anyway some of the other stuff I am doing is
1. changng the paint scheme --right now it is Viper Red
   will be painting it PT Cruiser silver faded into red metalic or the other way around --still kicking that around..

2.  Have installed a 8 inch rear
3.  Have fabricated and installed a rear bulkhead panel behing driver/passenger compartment--this houses my relocated battery and some of my speakers.
4. Fabricating panels for the interior, and installing custom courtesy lites...
5. lowered front 3 inches and will be lowering the rear 3 inches this week.
6. Installed new Crager wheels-14" front 15"rear..
7. Changing my speedo to a 140MPH one and installing a factory tac out of a Dodge.
8. fabricated and installed ground effects side skirts--made from ones taken from a Dodge Daytona--will paint these a black satin color...

that is about it for right now...

Mike

here is a pic of the ground effects (side skirts) I am working on plus my new crager wheels.

http://imagehost.epier.com/20680/pintogroundeffects3.jpg