ascMcLaren Enthusiasts

MercRS · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 193

looking for a pic with no air dam on it the ASC Capris should have a special nose from Mercury right?Air dam Delete?I am putting a new air dam on my Euro and its a mess.
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negusm · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:22 am Post subject:

I "sort of" have a picture of the old bumper cover I had.

The cover is a standard GS cover. ascMcLaren trimmed it to a couple inches from the belt moulding and 1" from the sides to where it bolts to the fenders.

On my current car, the body guy ONLY cut out 10" areas about where the foglights go. This gave the air dam a little extra support.

On my site is an installation document....beware it is big so you can print it:
http://www.ascmclarencoupe.com/ascLiterature/ServiceDocs/ascAirDamInstall_1.jpg
http://www.ascmclarencoupe.com/ascLiterature/ServiceDocs/ascAirDamInstall_2.jpg

Sorry for the quality...it is a copy of a copy of a copy. If you print it, it will look better.

You also need the feature strip to do it right. Hank sells them. You can see it in the installation diagram.

-Mike
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Sandy · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

Actually it wasn't "Air Dam Delete" from Mercury, it was the front fascia of the GS that was installed by Mercury on the assembly line, that the workers at ascMcLaren trimmed as per Mike's sheets pictured in the prior post. and then put on the ascMcLaren specific lower front fascia.

It seems funny. FoMoCo didn't really wanna acknowledge the existance of the ascMcLaren, yet...they sure made alot of concessions towards helping & assisting ascMcLaren, didn't they ? I mean, how many "customers" can have their own D32 buildcode from Ford ? BUT BUT BUT FoMoCo fought against having the name "Mercury" or "Capri" used ON the ascMcLaren sales brochure!

Almost like, "We will do it for you, just don't use our name!"
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MercRS · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 193

mine has only screws up at the very top of the air dam it had a lot
of extra drill holes.wasn't put on very well.
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81 Mercury Capri RS
70 Mercury Montego
71 Mercury Cyclone GT
69 Mercury Marauder X-100
70 Mercury Cyclone GT
86 McLaren Euro Coupe
85 McLaren Capri Coupe
03 Mercury Marauder
70 Ford Fairlane 500 SCJ DragPac
70 Mercury Cougar
73 Montego GT

eric5oh · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:18 am Post subject:

Mine had a ton of small tek screws too. I hate that trim that covers them up too. Kinda cheesy. I think I will be riveting the new one on.
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