Congrats Matt on getting the purple people eater in to ousci. I might actually make it there this year.

Congratulations Matt on the Optima invite! Well deserved :cheers:
You and the car were really dialed in, and just think how much more dialed you'll be by the time November gets here! :guns:
Thanks for the rides! :wow: :wow: :wow: You were flying!

Thanks Chris! Hope you make it down to Vegas this year. It has been a few years, hasn't it. At least a few beers are in order.

Karl you're welcome to hop in the passenger seat any time. Glad you picked up the Challenger so I'm no longer alone in the purple car club. I wish the brake lines had held up so you could have had fun driving all weekend. Somehow I have a feeling I will be seeing you and Blue in November!

Matt

As everyone has pointed out.... and I did at RTTC..... Well deserved Matt. You got a pretty cool Resume going for the 69. 2009 Sema invite, then a GM design award. Some time passes and you have been getting seat time driving, and getting faster and faster. Now an Optima invite. Great Job.

I can't wait to see what this 65 Fastback project may bring as it's build unfolds. It should bring several other feathers for your automotive cap.

Cheers to you.

Absolutely!

Matt, can't believe I missed this one until now... My 3600 lb car with its stock coyote is going to look like me running compared to this, obviously I love the motor choice, and the suspension choices (I had a 65 coupe planned with this DSE/Meier setup), and the body mods! Can't wait for a ride!

You're welcome to ride shotgun anytime, but I'm not making any promises that it will be fast when it gets done.

I got a wheel to test fit this week. It is an 18x10 with an old 275 going on it for mock up and to figure out how much I need to move the front wheel opening forward. The finished wheels will have titanium hardware and maybe a brushed or brushed nickel finish on the outers. Even unfinished I'm pretty happy with the looks. I contemplated getting a set of Forgelines or CCWs, (and might for track wheels/tires) but don't think they will ever come close to looking at home on the fastback like the Lites will.
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Matt

car is looking good. those are nice rims.. you should be able to fit a bigger tire then that on your car.. i have a 19x10 going on my 65 fastback and i am tubed to the frame and my tire is a 285-35-19.. on my iforged wheels

Thanks! I am looking at putting a 285 on that wheel and either a 295 or 315 on an 18x11 on the back. The car is going to be a bit nose heavy so I am going to try and keep the tires as close to square as possible to simplify tuning and balancing the car. With only 500hp I don't need a huge 335 out back.

You should be real happy when done, Kyle took me for a ride in the DSE mustang yesterday and I had a blast.

I looked at those mini-lites but could never get to the bottom of the whole new gen fiasco, but they are in your backyard.

those mini's should look pretty sick on the FB.

I will agree with that Matt. They look great.

Awesome Stang!!!

Nice build Matt! Looking great, can't believe I didnt got through this one before. Spent the last 30 min catching up....now get to work! We are doing a 65 right now too, so hurry up and get yours all sorted out so we can learn from it!

Matt, that wheel is sick!!:trophy-1302: Either this one you've pictured or Forgeline's will be banana's on the ride. CCW's are okay too, but not as nice as this wheel or Forgeline's.
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Hey Matt can you give some info on those minilite style wheels , i am chasing exactly that style for my 67 Fastback. Very hard to find down in Australia .

I "THINK" those were NewGen Lites....... I could be wrong? Probably can't get those anymore! Unless whoever was cutting them could crank out a set........

Tyler is right, they are New Gen Wheels.

Not the Hijack the thread. But here is a set of Mini Lite style wheels that are made by Gripp Equipped. They are even more traditional looking. Email or Pm me for some pricing if needed.

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No worries Rodger. I could never really warm up to them with the flat machined faces because I thought they just looked like Mini Cooper wheels, but in all grey, thems be some kick ass looking wheels! :thumbsup:

Matt, thanks for showing me the Mustang last week, it's coming along very nicely! Now can't wait for a ride....:headspin:

Sorry for the crappy cell phone photos, but...

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The car is sitting on the ground for the first time in maybe 10 years! I also need to get another phone, so maybe picture quality will go up soon as well. I suppose I could actually use the real camera, but then I'd have to get them off the card, and... you know.

looks good, can't wait to see this one done....say, you did take the phone out of the wrapper right? :D

LOL Its looking great Matt, those wheels look lost under those rear quarters. Nice work.

Carry on Matt...

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Coming along very nicely Matt. A subtle wide body. Slick! :thumbsup:

Matt shoot me a PM we need to talk about some color for this bad boy!!:popcorn2:

Them ol' Mustangs ain't too bad are they.....




You're right... crappy photos! Kool Kar!

I know, I know. I haven't gotten the DSLR out for at least a year.

And, sadly I am behind the times. I'm probably going to go buy an iPhone with a fancy gazillion megapixel camera, and that should provide better pictures until I scratch the lens up on that too. I don't feel bad about being the last person on earth to buy one, but I will have to come to terms with the fact that you could probably teach me how to use it.

An iPhone is so complicated it doesn't even come with instructions.... if you want a messed up pile of buttons - buy a Windows 8 phone... My friend who is a salesperson for the pile -- can't even use it! HAHAHAHA....


You'll love the new "smart phone". They just work.

Despite a few of the tools that I've used to work on the Mustang, I'm not actually actually a cave man or luddite. I do have a smart phone (one with Google's OS) it is just getting a little old. Oh, and not to get off topic at all, but I hate Windows 8. I tried one one of their laptop/netbook computers with the touch screen, and the whole user interface seemed simple at first, kind of like a smart phone with lots of rectangular buttons on the screen, however if whatever you were looking for wasn't accessed by a big icon, good luck finding it.

I think there are HUGE layoffs coming over in Redmond.... Sales just have to be HORRIBLE.



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Back on topic. Now that the car has been on the lift, I've been able to make some more good progress on it. I got the engine in yesterday, and spent today cutting out the transmission tunnel to make space for the massive TR6060. Then it is on to making a transmission cross member.

Engine with coil cover:

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Great pictures Matt :rolleyes:

Looks great! Did you alter the motor mounts? The motor appears to be set in deeper than other installs I've seen. They seem to mount the motor high giving it a high center of gravity.

And they said it couldn't be done!!!! How cool is that!!

Man this guy is getting grumpy... not even supportive of his fellow Furd owners.

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I like to make sure my piles of junk look better in person.

Yeah, it pretty much just dropped in there and balances on its own. There are four 1/4" spacers that are provided and I used all of them so that the oil pan would be able to clear the K member. If it had a different pan I could probably drop the engine down a bit. As for engine set back, I haven't done anything. It should be in exactly the same position as the engine in their test car. Speaking of which, I got to ride in their test car with Kyle when they came out to Del Mar. It is a fun little car, that revs to 8250, and that is where the engine spent most of its time! It handles well enough I'm not too worried about changing the pan to lower the center of gravity. Besides, if I lowered the engine, the transmission would be hanging down quite a bit.

In Psych class they called that a defense mechanisim. On LATG we call that 'deflection' :lol:

Looks fantastic Matt! :thumbsup:

Lookin good Matt. The engine looks nice in its new home.

Way to go Matt! That looks slick!!