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Merc4Hire
08-15-2008, 06:05 PM
Hi everybody, :beer: been a while since I've been on but I'm finally ready to sell my pride and joy to get a Marauder. I'm open to anything, any color, mods are a plus. Must be fairly local unless you're willing to travel. This is the ad I have up, obviously if you're interested in an outright purchase that's fine but I'd really love to trade for a MM. E-mail me with offers, I'm fairly open minded, venomsvtcobra@aol.com

Selling my baby becuase I have no time for her anymore and I need a daily...I almost never drive it. I have about $17k invested all together and you could part it out for more than what I'm asking. I'm open to reasonable CASH offers but will not even entertain lowballers, you offer me $8k and you can keep walking. It'd take twice that to build this car. This car is not "perfect", but is in great condition, especially for an 88! It is what it is, no more, no less. I have absolutely nothing to hide on this car, and would be happy to answer any and all questions! Although I do not have receipts, (i stupidly didn't keep any becaues i had no intentions of selling this car, ever) I can provide the numbers to all shops that did the work on this car so all work can be verified as to if and when it was done.

Pics are recent and it's still in this condition, but it now has no exhaust tips, black carpet, and the whole top half of the motor has been professionally powdercoated gloss black, insluding the radiator bracket. Other than that it is what you see.

for more pics go to www.fquick.com/nighthawk355x (http://www.fquick.com/nighthawk355x)

All mods are 4 years old MAX and have about 8k miles on them, many parts are only 500 miles old. Mechanically it's basically been restored. Paint is 7 out of 10, it was done in 99 but still shines up nice, few rust bubbles but nothing bad.


Here's the deal, the car is a turn key 10 second car easily, but could use a few things to be totally psychotic. It put down 510hp to the tires at Crazy Horse in South Amboy, NJ and this was the BARELY-TUNED run! It's got a decent tune right now, (by Job Spetter Jr. of Turbo People). Job said word for word that he could have gotten 600 RWHP out of the car easily as it sits, but he couldn't dyno tune it to peak because it's making too much boost(18lbs) and needs to be switched to a serp belt instead of the cog setup it has currently. All mods have at most 8k miles on them, many have way less, as I've sunk well over $6000 in the car this past year. With a nice drag suspension kit and a built AOD this would be a low 10 car EASY. Motor's been 10.5 consistant in the built AOD Notch it came from with a much more restrictive intake setup and a so/so tune.

-motor consists of a virgin 27,000 original mile stock short block(all mods were added at 23k orig miles), entire motor/computer/fuel system were taken from a mid 10 second full caged notch(I have a link to the for sale ad for the notch when i bought it as a donor if you'd like to see, just ask). the motor was running mid 10's at 129mph in the notch, and that's before a lot of what's done now(since then all the following was done: all new ignition components, new upper/lower intake w/spacer, bigger throtle body/spacer, bigger injectors, better fuel pump, new computer and tune.


Performance Mods:
-Bone Stock 93 Cobra Short Block with 27,000 Original Miles
-Trick Flow Twisted Wedge Aluminum Heads
-1.72 Ford Motor Sport Roller Rockers
-Mac 1 3/4 Full Length Headers
-3" Prochamber H-pipe
-Flowmaster Cat-Back
-Vortech V1 S-trim Supercharger (pullied for just under 18lbs, can't remember the pulley sizes)
-Vortech Race By-pass Valve
-Anderson Ford 4 inch Power-pipe
-Accel Gen 7 DFI Computer (BRAND NEW & tuned by Job Spetter Jr. of Turbo People; the same person who tuned "Big Daddy" Dwayne Gutridge's 7 second Notch)
-Trick Flow Track Heat Upper/Lower Intake(6 months old)
-1" Phenolic Intake Spacer(6 months old)
-Professional Products 75mm Polished Throttle Body/EGR Spacer(6 months old)
-Ultradyne Cam(284/284/-525-525)
-Motorsport Doulbe Roller Timing Chain
-MSD 6AL Ingnition(6 months old)
-MSD Distributor
-MSD Blaster SS Coil(6 months old)
-Taylor 10.4mm Race Wires
-NGK Race Spark Plugs
-Edelbrock High-flow Aluminum Water Pump(1 year old, 10k miles max)
-Fluidamper Damper
-Downs 3 Core Aluminum Radiator(1 year old)
-Aeromotive A1000 In Line Fuel Pump(hidden in front of the fuel tank, 9 months old)
-72lb Injectors(9 months old)
-Modified Fuel Rails
-Paxton Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator
-Stainless Steel Braided Fuel Lines(9 months old)
-PA Performance 100 amp Alternator
-Battery Relocation Kit
-Optima Red Top Battery(3 months old)
-Moroso Shut-off Switch
-World Class T-5(in the car about 1.5 years, only has about 5k miles on it and hasn't seen full throttle at all yet, same for clutch/flywheel)
-Polyurethane Trans Mount
-King Cobra Clutch
-Aluminum Flywheel
-Pro 5.0 Shifter
-Aluminum Driveshaft
-Driveshaft Safety Loop
-Eibach 1.5" Lowering springs
-Eibach Rear Sway Bars(front removed)
-KYB AGX 8 Way Adjustable Rear Shocks
-KYB 4 Way Adjustable Front Struts
-QA1 Adjustable Caster/Camber Plates
-BBK Upper/Lower Rear Control Arms
-Reinforced Torque Boxes
-Aftermarket Posi(Eaton I think, can't remember)
-Strange 31sp Axles w/extended Studs
-4:10 Gears


Appearance Mods:
-Boysenberry "Blue" Paint(it's definately more purple)
-Cervinis 2.5" Cowl Hood
-17" Gunmetal Cobra R Rims With Cobra Center Caps(now on the car with ****ty used tires...got them free from work and I wanted to see the rims on the car)
-Indiglo 140mph Gauge Cluster w/custom Gloss Black Overlay Plate
-Grant Wood Steering Wheel(adds a slightly retro-mod look to it)
-Black Ball Shift Knob
-Flaming Pony Dash Plaque
-6 Piece Smoked Headlight Lenses
-20% Tint All Around With Tint Across Top Windshield
-HVAC Vents Painted Gloss Black
-Shift Bezel/HVAC Control Cover Painted Gloss Black
-Pony Emblem Above 5.0 Emblems
-Ventshade Rain Guards
-Black Chrome Fire Extinguisher


Electronics/Audio:
-Autometer Tach Pod
-Autometer Triple Gauge Pod
-Autometer 5" Tach w/Shift Light
-Autometer Boost Gauge
-Autometer Fuel Pressure Gauge
-Autometer Water Temp Gauge
-Autometer Oil Pressure Gauge
-Autometer Fuel Level Gauge
-Pioneer CD Player(not wired up yet)
-Infinity 5x7 Rear Speakers
-Custom door fittings for 6.5 speakers(professionally done by a guy I previously sold the car to...he owned a car audio business)

I'm about $17k into this car right now, so I just want to sell it without losing my shirt, $11,500 obo, no tire kickers or low ballers but I will definately consider a serious offer. Car comes with original ponies with Eagle F1 tires on front and used BFG drags on back, and the pictured brand new new 17" gunmetal cobra R's. E-mail venomsvtcobra@aol.com

Also, E-mail is the best way to contact me. I may not see replies to this ad because I don't check back often.
http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicles/full/839049989.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=49989)
http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicles/full/839049972.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=49972)
http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicles/full/839049974.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=49974)
Older motor pic, now half the motor is powdercoated gloss black
http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicles/full/839049978.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=49978)
http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicles/full/839049979.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=49979)
http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicles/full/839049980.jpg (http://www.fquick.com/garages/viewgallery.php?action=viewimg&id=49980)

Merc4Hire
08-15-2008, 06:08 PM
Only difference from these pics is it now has new black carpet, no exhaust tips(has dumps due to anti-roll bar), and the entire top half of the motor and a few other parts under hood are powdercoated gloss black.

ImpalaSlayer
08-15-2008, 06:14 PM
looks sweet man. good luck

Vortech347
08-15-2008, 06:41 PM
You're making that power with a stock block. Its basicly waiting to go boom. (So is mine) You've also got 10 second power with 15 second brakes. Don't expect to get more than 10k for it. Honestly... I wouldn't expect anymore than 9 for mine. I saw the listing on ebay. How high did it go? Fox's don't fetch a damn thing unless they are a 93 cobra or 93 R. They are the absolute worst car on the planet to sink money into and sell.

offroadkarter
08-15-2008, 07:20 PM
They are the absolute worst car on the planet to sink money into and sell.


Not true, any honda (minus the S2k and NSX) would be FAR worse :lol:


Greetings again Nighthawk, i know a local car show where you could put that with a for sale sign, might get lucky (but you'd get to hang out with 3 marauders :) )

Pm me if your interested :D

Merc4Hire
08-16-2008, 03:59 PM
You're making that power with a stock block. Its basicly waiting to go boom. (So is mine) You've also got 10 second power with 15 second brakes. Don't expect to get more than 10k for it. Honestly... I wouldn't expect anymore than 9 for mine. I saw the listing on ebay. How high did it go? Fox's don't fetch a damn thing unless they are a 93 cobra or 93 R. They are the absolute worst car on the planet to sink money into and sell.

Yes and no, honestly I'd consider $10k, but fox stang prices are on the rise. A few years back 3-4k was the going rate for a so/so fox, now yuo'd pay closer to $6-7k.

As far as my car goes, believe it or not the car's on a fairly safe tune. It was tuned by arguably the best tuner in the northeast, maybe even the country. He builds and tunes stangs that hold records in just about every motorsport imaginable. According to him and a few other mustang guru's in my area the motor should put up with this for a decent while so long as it isn't beat every time you give it gas, especially with 27k original miles on it. It has about 4k miles on the setup and I did a compression test and everything's stellar. :D

As far as the brakes go you'd be surprised. With the upgraded master and SSBC front caliper/rotor setup it gets back to zero fairly quick, straight and safe.:beer:
And as far as the trade goes, I never said I wanted a 6000 mile, showroom new Marauder. So it's still reasonable to offer...

Edit: and as far as e-bay goes I never had it up...too many scammers and BS artists, I wouldn't waste my time or money with e-bay.

Merc4Hire
08-16-2008, 04:04 PM
Not true, any honda (minus the S2k and NSX) would be FAR worse :lol:


Greetings again Nighthawk, i know a local car show where you could put that with a for sale sign, might get lucky (but you'd get to hang out with 3 marauders :) )

Pm me if your interested :D

Hey, long time no see! That could work...send me the info. I list it everywhere but the internet's full of tire kickers and dreamers...you know how it is.:shake: