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Re: Legal Subframe Connectors!

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Subject: Re: Legal Subframe Connectors!
From: Dick Rasmussen <rasmussend@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:02:56 -0500
At 08:39 PM 11/13/00 -0500, Dick Rasmussen wrote:

In the "Update/Backdate" paragraph below, I forgot to mention that this
assumes Street Prepared!!!

I'm already creating my own "spam". Bummer (not Bimmer)!


>To Whom It May Concern but mostly SN95 Mustang Owners:
>
>I just ran across what appears to be an OFFICIAL Ford TSB (on AllDATA)
>which describes when and how to add (including welding) subframe connectors
>to 1996 - 1998 4.6L Mustang Convertibles.
>
>See TSB 00-9-7 dated 000501 "Vibration/shake at 62 mph, 4.6L Convertible". 
>
>The TSB also includes new higher stiffness engine mounts and new rear shock
>absorber mounting hardware with stiffer rubber and a shorter spacer.
>
>Obviously this would be legal for any 96 - 98 Stock Class 4.6L Mustang
>Convertibles. (For the folk who like to "lose in style"). 
>
>Under "update/backdate", does this legitimize subframe connectors and the
>stiffer engine mounts for all 94+ Mustangs since they are on the same line
>of the rulebook? I'm not sure that the existence of some sort of subframe
>connector from the factory on the 99+ verts legitimized them for 94+ coupes
>or verts in ESP. The TSB, however, may do so.
>
>Sounds like something the ESP SN95 Mustang folk can sort out amoung
>themselves. Otherwise the rest of Team.net will lynch me for bringing this
>up:-)
>
>No dog in this fight . . . except that I happen to drive a Mustang on the
>street and was looking through the TSB's for my car.
>
>
>Dick Rasmussen
>CM 85
>85 Van Diemen RF-85 Formula Ford
>
Dick Rasmussen
CM 85
85 Van Diemen RF-85 Formula Ford

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