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Looks fantastic, Bryce. Good to see it finally coming together. Are you planning on putting a washer on the single shear bolts on the watts links to capture the heim end, in the off chance a ball comes loose? Betcha can hardly wait to take it around the block.
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Brother in law has a falcon cant wait to show him your build, he's going to stroke. Keep up those pics car look great!!!!!!!:woot:
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Thats a good idea! I will probably do something like that. I really want to drive this car! |
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The falcon runs!
http://media.motortopia.com/files/21..._IMG_19661.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/21..._IMG_19671.jpg I took it for a quick spin this evening. It feels good to drive this car again! I will upload more video this evening after my hockey game. Here are some links to my videos on you tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0TJi...ature=youtu.be |
Car looks great Bryce. Glad you were able to take it out for a quick scoot. Keep up the great work.
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I mades some more room for the rear tires and took it for a drive, no more rubbing. I mounted my flip camera under the car and drove, the video has teh flip camera upside down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkQU...er_profilepage |
Bryce, bring that sucker out to Buttonwillow next month and join a bunch of us for a fun weekend. :unibrow:
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Cool video.:thumbsup: In china you don't have to turn over the PC.:lol:
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It looks good under there Bryce. The car sounds great too. Good luck in September too.
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Well SEMA was awesome, and I got to meet and talk to a lot of good guys and Mary! LOL.
There was a few great things that happened. Addco is interested in developing a splined sway bar, not the Carbon Fiber one they had on display, and they may use my cars as the R&D cars. I am using their mustang 1 1/8" bar on my falcon right now. It would be a bolt in to my mustang that has my custom coilover conversion on. So it would make for some good pics for them. American online imports http://americanonlineimports.com/ has developed a GREAT rack for all rear steer cars. It has 8" of travel fits in a similar size package as other racks out there. It is a center take off and they will custom make a center link to your specs so you can design out the bumpsteer from the start. They made the unit out of billet aluminum except for the rack of course, so it is actually quite light. its a power rack and everything about it is adjustable. I looked and talked with the designs for about 45 minutes. I think this is the end all rack for rear steer cars. All you need to do is build your own brackets, but that is the easy part. The only down side is the $2500 price tag. But I think it is worth it. I may talk to them about using my car as a vehicle to display their rack. The other cool thing was talking with performance automatic, they have a new valve body that will help my falcon be a little better setup for autocross. I still need to post up my pictures. |
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Detroit locker 31 spline moser axles Custom axle retainer plates fiberglass trunk lid stock ford trunk release aluminum tow hook aluminum firewall/trunk separator Pictures: My daughter has been helping me in the garage: http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg Christmas was good: http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg Custom retainers: http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg Trunk release, the fiber glass trunk lid saved 23lbs and no more key hole: http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg |
Nice.:thumbsup:
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It looks good! She's a doll...
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Like it a lot. :hail:
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Where is the trunk release from? I am going with a fiberglass decklid myself and hadn't thought about a cable release. I'm doing an electric release but it would seem wise to have a backup. |
I bought it from C&G ford. They are actually about 15 minutes away from me so I was able to stop in and confirm the quality before I bought it. I paid 60 out the door.
The quality is great and work great. The lever is not modern more original. McMaster has a bunch under control cables. |
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Car and girl looking great dude! Really like the trunk release. Simple and looks great.:thumbsup:
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I autocrossed my falcon today! WooHoo.
It was my first time on an autocross I ran a 77.569. I ran X but they said I was SM class. Corvettes were running 75-80 a 63 BP corvette ran a 69.xx a super modified sprite ran 64.xx. I will post up a video after I upload it. I had a blast, the car is driver limited, of course... I need a quicker ratio steering setup, that is my next big project. I was chasing the steering.....I think my tires rubbed a little. Brakes were great. The rear shocks seemed to get softer as teh warmed up. I think I need to something a little different with my oil pan baffleing. I think I was getting some slosh as my dad noticed that i was burning some oil after a hard turn. Motor was warming up in the staging lanes, so I an electric water pump to keep things circulating while the motor is shut off would be helpful. The automatic held up fine, I started in first and ran second the rest of the course. The trans temps were climbing at the end of my 3rd run I was seeing 200*F. I would like to keep that a little cooler. I really could have pushed the car harder. But that is a respectable time I think. The detroit locker was awesome. My tires were doing their job. The announcer said "that car is very flat through the turns for such a big car" He was talking about me, HAHA. I guess when you see miatas and S2000s all day my car is big. |
SCCA autocross, the falcon can dodge cones.
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Here are some pictures of the steering column I built about 8 years ago. It started out as a full length column, now its about a foot long. It is an aluminum tube with 1.5" OD and has a flange welded to it to mount the stock horn and blinker and the upper bearing for the steering shaft.
http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg Here is my 5 bolt to 3 bolt adapter. I like aluminum and I did not like the grant piece and how far it extended the steering wheel. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg |
This is the modified column; it has a bearing in the end of it to support the lower part of the stock shaft.
http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg The pillow block mounts to the stock steering column support. The shaft collars are there for extra support. I also cut down the blinker switch because I actually hit it while autocrossing. |
The car had to come apart to get the stock box out. I even cut the shaft in half to help facilitate the removal.
http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg I had to lift the motor up and move it over to get the headers out. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg Not bad for 10 years in the car. The hooker super comps fit great but even with my solid motor mounts I was making contact with the old steering box. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg Because I pulled the headers I had to get new inserts for my earls header gaskets. These carbon inserts work great! http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg |
After lots of research and some luck at the Big 3 swap meet, I found my new steering box. I could have used my original since it only has 50K miles on it, but it was 19:1 and I have a 65 mustang box that is 16:1 ratio and in good condition, but I would have had to spline the shaft and really did not want to disassemble the box. So I found a rebuilt 67 mustang box 16:1 ratio and it has a 3/4-36 spline. This is the same as my steering quickener and will make this install a lot easier. I will put a u-joint right on the input to the box.
http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg The box is exactly the same case as my 65 falcon box. Since I had header to box contact I decided to take the opportunity to modify the box for extra clearance. I rounded the area where it hit the headers. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg I then painted it with my favorite, hammer tone gold! All of my suspension is painted this color so why not. Its hard to get a picture of the box installed. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg I will be changing out the fasteners to something more visually appealing. |
Here you can see the stock hole in the firewall.
http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg This plate will cover the hole and mount the intermediate shaft support. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg The steering shaft support has a spherical bearing with 25* of misalignment. I bent the plate slightly to accomodate the contours in the firewall. I will get some final pictures later. Here are the pictures of my bracket for the quickener. It will mount the quickener and two pillow blocks for the steering column. This should end up have very little flex. It started out as 4x4x1/4 square tube. I love the IMS scrap pile. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg Its amazing what you can do with a wood cutting bandsaw and an aluminum blade. Here are some installed pictures. I only have one of the pillow blocks installed. And the quickener is not installed either. I still need to cut and spline the original steering shaft. http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg http://media.motortopia.com/files/ca...Thumbnail1.jpg |
Impressive Bryce! Making your own steering column set-up is very cool. 3/4" x 36 is a standard size, too...:thumbsup:
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Nice work Bryce, Very ingenious.
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updated pictures from the steering install:
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It looks good all installed. Nice work.
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