Jae 'Bird
2nd Gear Poster
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2023
- Messages
- 120
- Age
- 19
- Location
- Edmonton, Canada
- Vehicle Details
- 1990 Ford Thunderbird Base with PEP 151A, 3.8L NA V-6
Hello everyone, I’m new here, been on TCCOA for a little while just watching and absorbing a bunch of good info. Then I heard that the more active people made this forum, so I had to hop over here. A little bit about myself, my name is Jae and I am currently at the university of Alberta studying for engineering. I live up in Alberta, Canada. I own a 1990 T-Bird that I have had since 2019 when my Dad gave it to me/ let me drive it and work on it. It’s nothing remarkable, just a base model 3.8 with power driver seat and power mirrors but It’s special to me not only because it was my Dads, but because he bought it “new” (it was a loaner from the dealer with 2,000 kms (1243 miles for my southern friends)) in 1991 and its been in the family ever since, so its been around awhile.
I’ll try to keep this short but a little about what’s been done to the ol’ ‘Bird since 2019: Oil and filters of course, changed almost all the light to LED, rebuilt the window motors and had to change one when it completely failed, remounted the side glass in the regulator (this is something I’m proud of cause it worked so well, ill put up a detailed tech article hopefully soon), new tires, new brakes all around, fuel filter. There's some other odds and ends and if its important ill mention it but other than that its all original. The car has 178,947 kms (111,193 miles) at the time of writing this, and she gets parked in the winter, October to April-ish, (it is Alberta after all) and my parents want me to be safe on our crazy winter roads.
I like to spend the winter planning what I want to do to the car, I know its no hot rod so I want it to be a really comfortable cruiser. I have a bunch of questions on various things but I’ll save them for the right time/thread as this is just a getting to know me post. I’m glad to be here with likeminded people who want to keep this platform alive. - Jae
I’ll try to keep this short but a little about what’s been done to the ol’ ‘Bird since 2019: Oil and filters of course, changed almost all the light to LED, rebuilt the window motors and had to change one when it completely failed, remounted the side glass in the regulator (this is something I’m proud of cause it worked so well, ill put up a detailed tech article hopefully soon), new tires, new brakes all around, fuel filter. There's some other odds and ends and if its important ill mention it but other than that its all original. The car has 178,947 kms (111,193 miles) at the time of writing this, and she gets parked in the winter, October to April-ish, (it is Alberta after all) and my parents want me to be safe on our crazy winter roads.
I like to spend the winter planning what I want to do to the car, I know its no hot rod so I want it to be a really comfortable cruiser. I have a bunch of questions on various things but I’ll save them for the right time/thread as this is just a getting to know me post. I’m glad to be here with likeminded people who want to keep this platform alive. - Jae