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- by Tom
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Congratulations to 1Badbird for being the February Ride of the Month.
  
  
  
My car is a 1988 Ford Thunderbird Base 5.0. I bought it back in 1990 with 27,800miles. I was actually looking for a Mustang Lx 5.0 but I couldn't find what I was looking for. My Dad and I found what is now my Bird at what used to be Matway Ford in Brownsville, my Dad had to talk me into test driving it because it looked like an old man's car, (I was 22 at the time), but I'm glad I did! Then just like everyone else that loves their car I couldn't leave it alone, so started the long list of mods./additions.
I decided it ran really good so I wanted to make it a good looking DD, something different than what everyone else had, and something that would turn some heads. And eventually it ended up looking how I envisioned it would. I entered a couple car shows with it in 92 and a couple more in 93, then I started showing it every weekend in 94 and have been ever since. I've won well over 200 awards with it over the years including a couple best of shows, and a few first place awards, including 4 first places at the Carlisle All Ford Nats.
Then I decided as things went bad I'd upgrade/modify it for more power. And so far with over 130,000 miles it's still running good. I had it dynoed at Tim's last year just to see if I'm going the right way with it, it came factory with 155hp, when dynoed it now has 178hp and 272 tq. at the wheels. Not really big numbers but for all I've done it's not bad.
Here's a partial list of things I've done, as you'll see most are for looks:
Headlight covers
Universal wing
Progressive wheels
Rear window louvers
Chrome wheelwell trim
Alot of engine dress up items
Turbo Coupe raven leather seats and consol
Rebuilt trans. w/ Trans go shift kit
3" cowl induction hood
Removed air intake silencer added K&N filter
H.O. upper intake with spacer
Bullet fuel door
FMS lowering kit
Turbo Coupe 8.8 with 3.55 gears
Taillight sequencers
Ceramic headers
Off road x-pipe
2 1/2" pipes
2 chamber Flowmasters
Smog pump delete
I'm sure there's more I've left out, and there will be more to come. They're never done!!!
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Within the next 3 weeks, we'll be moving UGH from its single server instance on a development server to our production server pool. After the move it will be on a distributed file system (glusterFS) across 6 boxes and the database will be on the new MySQL 5.X - cluster V7. This will spread the load across 6 webservers and 7 database servers through 2 load balancers, a dedicated firewall and some other things.
We hope that the move will be less than an hour, but as many as you know, stuff happens. I'll make sure to make a full backup before the move, and ill update this thread the day of the move.
Thanks
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i am thining of ordering these beenies, if you guys want em they will be 12$ each.. let me know asap.so i can order them.
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Is everyone happy with our current name logo? I want to make sure everyone is happy with the UGH logo that under the gt500 at the top of the forum before i get it put on a shirt or a hat... please let me know exactly your thoughts.. If we should change it, improve it, or leat it alone!!
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Ok guys i am getting some artwork done for new t-shirts for the site, I need to know what color should the shirts be??
I am thinking white or grey?
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