With my Mazda nothing happened, just wanted something bigger, so I bought the Lincoln Mark VII LSC. This si the first luxury car I have ever had, I'm use to the sports cars RX-7s, Mustangs, Camaros things I had in the past. My drivers side seat is starting to wear, but I still have power windows, seats, antenna, truck, fuel door, key-less entry with a code, and heated power mirrors. No problems with the air ride suspension, it was a Florida car. Bought it from a retired lawyer, it was his wifes car, and he up-dated the cars for him and his wife, so I bought it for a steal, the car still books for like 4 thousand and change, but I bought it for like 2,800, and its worth every penny, everything in the car is power, sunroof don't leak, seats move in all directions, no "check engine" lites, or "ABS" lights, car runs like a champ, I just cruise with it, I don't race it, or get on it, and the gearing it has, you get a lot of speed top end, its nice, fast, luxurious, and handles really good, and for some reason, the more weight you put in, the more comfortable the ride is, and also, with the air suspension, the ride levels out, so you can pack the car and trunk with people and luggage, and the car never looks like it is sagging, it stays straight, and level, and rides like your on air.
1.-The car handles like any stock Mustang, and rides better too.
2.-The only thing id advise anyone to do, is up date the valve body in the transmission to a more firm shift, and higher line pressures, the tranny will last a lot more longer, the shifts will be a lil more firm, but worth it, plus it's a Luxury Sport Coupe it should shift liek that from factory, but it don't.
3.-Air ride suspension can be expensive, but there are web sites that offer instructions, how to turn it from an air ride suspencion car, to a coil springs, and struts car.
4.-For those who wanna lower the car, with out buying the lowering kit, or any of that stuff, just adjust teh ride level sensors, they have adjustmants, the longer you expand the ride level sensor, the more higher the car will think it is, and it will lower it self down more than stock height. I think you will only lower it like an inch or inch and a half, try it out.
5.-For a decent looking body kit go to www.groundeffects.com and find the year and make, the kit sort of looks like the mustang gt body kit, with the air scoops on the lower part of the kit and the cut outs for the fog lights, I'm talking about the 86-92 body style Mustang GTs. The rear wing they offer for the car is nice also, not liek the rice burners where its gonna look like a shopping cart, this one is low profile, and nothing radical, very sporty, and goes with the car. Check it out, www.groundeffects.com.
6.-Good modification to do is the polyurethane bushings for the suspension, I wouldn't do the motor, cause then youll feel the vibration from the motor, and tranny, but that's up to you.
7.-To get a lil more power, take the silencer out of the air box and get a cool air induction kit, or Ice man kit, and rip out the restrictive silencer and air tube that is located inside the fender well, youll open up the motor a lil more, and get better fueal mileage, youll hear the engines roar, but its not extremely loud, and won't botehr you inside.
8.-The first thing I think you should do to get a lil more power is get a bigger exhaust, those tiny tail pipes kill the car, and the factory says you can't put 2", or 2/1.2 inch exhaust, but it fits, go to a place that knows how to bend pipe, might cost you a good penny, but well worth it when you drive it again, its liek comparing apples to oranges the power gain you will get, if you do the cold air kit, and exhaust, and play with the timing and advance it a lil bit, also get 8 or nine millimeter wires, platinum plugs, youll be good to go, theirs a lot of stuff from teh factory that restricts the power in these cars, let it loose, stock mustangs around town will think twice about messing with you, and camaros too.
9.-Rear end gears aren't a bad idea for the car eitehr, from summit magazine, their only like 249 for a set of 3.73s, or 3.76s, or whatever ratio you want, maye cost more or less, but its their. These cars have the 8.8 rear, just like the 86-91, or 92 Mustang GTs. A lot of stuff form drive train, and motor swap right over, the car is a Mustang GT with a longer, heavier body, its only like 600 pounds heavier then the Mustang GT, mine witha full tank and me not in it and the car is empty of luggage or any of that stuff, was like 3860lbs, with a full tank of fuel.
10.-Under drive pulleys are a good modification for these cars also, frees up some power under the hood, cause the belt runs soo much stuff, the a/c, alternator, crank, pollution pump, fan and waterpump, so it will free up some ponys under the hood.
11.-Super chargers do fit under the hood, just order one for a Mustang GT with out the mass air flow sensor, cause these cars don't have the mass air flow, like some of the later Mustang GTs. If you do the supercharger, definately do teh valve body in teh tranny, firm up the shifts, and bump up the line pressure, and save a lot of money now, rather then doing a tranny.
12.-For those who wanna know why their switches under where the cup holders pull out to don't work, its cause when you have a cold beverage and the condensation from the beverage falls onto the switches it fries them out.
13.-If your car has keyless entry, meaning you have the option to open the car door with a code, if you bought the car used from someone who never used the keyless entry cause they didn't know what the code was, you can find the code in the truck, where the trunk lid is bolted on to, their should be five numbers, and those are your keyless entry code numbers, if you wanna make your own code, type in the codes the car came with, and within five seconds, you put the numbers you wanna use, but the code that came with the car can also be used, or use your own code whatever you wanna do.
14.-Your heated mirrors are activated when you turn on the rear defroster, a lot of people ask me where the switch is for the heated mirrors and don't realise that it is actuated by the rear defroster switch.
15.-The doors are very heavy, Id sugest you grease the hinges every soo often, basic maintenance.
16.-Headers are a good modification for these cars also, headers, exhaust, platinum plugs, 8,9,or even 10 millimeter wires, do injectors if you do any head work, and get a gt-40 upper and lower intake on the car, and a cold air induction kit, and you will open up a lot of power that the factory restricted on the car, also, advance the timing, and do pulleys, and fuel pump.
17.-Be careful when mouting amps, and connecting amps in the rear section of the car, cause the factory installed amp is in the trunk, and the air ride suspensions computer is mounted back their, don't wanna mess with that, watch where you mount stuff. My opinion, the stereo sounds good, has nice bass in my car and its the jbl premium sounds, id just up date the speakers, and leave it, even the head unit is fine, or you can change it, but your looking for sound, id just up-date speakers, and it should be good to go from their.
18.- Theirs a lot more I wanna write, but I'm beat, if you wanna know more about the car, you can e-mail me at augie1979@citlink.net, I'm located in New York State, in Orange County, yes the same Orange County, as the show that is given on the discovery channel, that shows american choppers, also known to us as "Orange County Choppers" I'm also willing to sell my car for the right price if anyone is interested, anotehr known problam with the car is the clear coat peels, but mine was a florida car, well the guy I bought it from it was his wifes florida car, so the car hasn't seen winter, and I'm looking fro a winter beater, so I can put my lincoln away under a car tent, or in my friends heated garage, so if anyone is looking fro one, make me an offer, I miss my Mustangs, and RX-7s, I wanna get back into them, lincoln is nice and I don't regret having it, and I love my car, but I miss my sports cars, and I miss the five speed also, this was my first automatic, I miss banging gears, lol, if anyone needs help with their car or whatever, I know these cars and what to look for, feel free to e-mail me augie1979@citlink.net...Thanks again, hope this might of helped anyone out, later!!!1.
Very good review. Very helpful.
PLEASE, do not chop up these cars and swap out the air suspension. These cars are special for their technological advancements they had back in the day! Air ride is very simple to maintain and is not expensive at all. Each air spring lasts for at least 5-7 years and costs no more than $130 at a Dealer. They are very easy to change as well, much easier than a spring! 5 minute job at most.
Enjoy these cars, they will never build them like this.
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