hello everyone... i'm new here.
can anyone tell me if 2005 mustang wheels will fit my 1992 tbird? i've just bought the car and i'm looking for any ideas on completing a nice bird. any assistance would be great.
Sorry, wrong bolt pattern ... and a bit too much positive offset. Bolt pattern can be changed on the T-Bird a few different ways.
Try a search in this forum under "Mustang wheel", lots will come up. Basically, it's the same issue as trying to put 94 - 04 Mustang wheels on, 5 on 4.5" compared to 5 on 4.25" pattern for the Bird. But the 05 wheels have about 15 mm more positive offset (on the 8" wheel) compared to the SN95 Mustangs.
nothing, see, people think when i say the tarus was one of the best cars ford made im kiding, but IMO anything that can sell that much, and have so many diffrent versions over a close to 15 yr period, be more misguided then our thunderbirds, and still not get canceled till 05 when they finaly just came out with a new car to convey a new image, goes down in my books as being an exceptional car, even tho it was a piece of crap at certain moments
Sorry, wrong bolt pattern ... and a bit too much positive offset. Bolt pattern can be changed on the T-Bird a few different ways.
Try a search in this forum under "Mustang wheel", lots will come up. Basically, it's the same issue as trying to put 94 - 04 Mustang wheels on, 5 on 4.5" compared to 5 on 4.25" pattern for the Bird. But the 05 wheels have about 15 mm more positive offset (on the 8" wheel) compared to the SN95 Mustangs.
Doesn't the Continental or the Town Car have the 5x4.25 bolt pattern too? I'm pretty sure it's the Continental, as there's one near me that has what look like chrome SHO wheels.
Yeah Eric.... if your Stang hubswapped and like some nice 16X7s for the "sleeper T-Bird on-the-street" LOOK while you stay busy blowing-away '05 GTs and even one's share of '03/'04 Terminator/Cobras -there's nothing like 'em!
peace out-
-mike
P.S. And don't mind the 4X4 look... I'm old school, and with her "track" LOOK, her attire and accompanying rim/rubber of choice will do 'plenty' to fill up them wheelwells... -all in due time of course.
that's a good looking tbird! the wheels look good on it. where did you get your hood? where is a good place for body kits for a 92 bird? if the mark 8 wheels fit, how many sytle are available? thanks for your time.
I can only answer one of your questions... the one I have first hand experience in-
The hood is the glass Cobra-R cowl style from Legendary (i.e. Fast Glass, or whatever Larry and his crew -still in business or whatever? -are doing any more.)
Yours in a '92 and at the time Legendary was the only 'game' in town for us '96/'97 folks for aftermarket glass hoods, so I bit only because what's UNDER it woudn't fit w/the OEM stock steel '96.
Others can speak better for hoods for model years such as yours, maybe Age Classic, Cervini's... I'm not for certain. Of course the new GP on the smooth cowl hoods "now" gives even the '96/'97 owners an alternative and that's a great thing.
As for wheels, most of the Lincoln Mark VIII's flavors will cross over to the T-Birds and Cougies, same MN12 platform, same bolt circle PID, but as for the styles available and per your tastes, that's where your research and homework come in.
If you're into looking and viewing Mark VIII wheels and styles aside from the custom aftermarket wheel vendors and outlet direct (tons of them over the I-Net), one suggestion would be to spend a little time maybe viewing some of the owner's rides over on the www.markviii.org boards.
I know little to nothing about bodykits as that's not my style, sorry.
mark 8 is a very slightly tweaked mn12 platform called the fn10
continentals have the 5x4.25 bolt circle also, there based off a taurus platform
92 birds have a few choices in hoods but i dont think ive seen a cobra r style hood on an 93 and below, but then again i dont really look for them and could be very wrong...
its a shame it probably wont ever look that good, paints going up, car might be lowered soon, it needs alot work suspension wise so for sure very soon, im just hesistant to start riping into that like that
and its not that good, i hide the ickyness in the pics, got the good angles, im just a good photograpgher, and it has gotten a little worse, but when i go all out and clean it, i get all tyhe dirt off, so the true color comes out, what i wanna see all the time, with just a light wax and a light wash, instead of 4 hours of detailing to get it to look like that
I can understand your problems, luckily last year the money that woulda went into prom and class trip and such went into my new konig 17s and tires, but only becausde i basically hated everyone in my class. I did, however, go to my junior prom, and that was freakin awesome, the girl i took actually wanted to take my bird instead of a limo, it was her idea, so i made it nice and sparkly for the night, and then it rained lol. Are you taking the bird to prom? I wanna see some pics if so!
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