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Thanks Guys.. I'm sure all them mustangs are going to love the plate too..
Got to work on the car last week some. The few times I have took the car out it has thrown a check engine light for tps. After getting the voltage readout I figured it just needed to be adjusted in the computer. Talked to Dale about it and he says he'll take care of it for free to just bring it in. Before this weekend the farthest the car has been is about 5 miles round trip and always in town. I have not had too much time and honestly been a bit nervous due to the check engine light. Then the cold weather cane and with no heat/side windows it was just adding fuel to my fire. Well last week I sat down and started figuring out the windows. The are all in which made my itch start to get the cel fixed. Being that I wanted to take the car over a half an hour away I didn't want my expensive fuel modual rattling around in the trunk anymore. I talked to Timmy about it and he did a great job as always. So Saturday my brother cane over early and we made the maiden voyage. The car was great.. Seemed to track very well on the road. Felt good at 60-65 on the highway. There are defiantly some things to be addressed but overall I was very impressed and it seems a lot of others on the road where too. It felt great to get some actual seat time and get to know the car some. Got to the shop and was in and out within a half an hour for free as promised. Drove her home and no check engine light whatsoever. As I was about to pull into the drive way(now note that I had babied the car the WHOLE way there and back as I want to break it in correctly) I gave it a little more than half throttle and my brother looked like he was going to need a diaper. The wheels spun a bit and the rear started to slid.. Just enought to get his eyes big and make him get off his phone.. Good times.. All in all it went great.. Now I just wish it was warm out and with more day light. More to come.. Here are some pictures.. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...c36203f2bf.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...475a1809ff.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...41c2b9baab.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ade027c6bc.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...c1dc91cbb2.jpg |
Been busy lately. Got sick of scrapping on the headers and rubbing the tires. So after some though I decided to just go air. Ridetech says that a car can be just as competitive on air as coils. With that being said I started looking. Well new kits are pretty expensive.. 4/5k -/+ I need to have the better of most things and this is no exception. I had a few bucks from Christmas and decided to try to find a used kit for less. Maybe something that will get me on air and then I can upgrade little by little. I found an older system that was made by Ridetech. Guy wanted 2k and after a few email with pictures to Danny over at Ridetech I purchased the whole system for 1500. Thanks for all the help Danny! The big downfall to the system is the management system is very old but I plan to upgrade to the E3 when I get some money saved up again.
While all this was going on I took advantage of MCB Ridetech deal and purchased the tru-turn. So in the past week me and some friends installed it all. The tru turn original did not clear the drives tie rod with my dynatech headers. I did some digging and Chev67 has the same exact setup. After some talking to Jason (Chev67) he let me know that I need to put a 1/4" spacer under the pedestal mounts. After that was done everything cleared fine. Big thanks to Jason. After all this work I was motivated to get my front wheels on. After some searching I found a very nice set of 275 KDW's for the fronts. Had them mounted and balanced and slapped them on. I still need to order the 1.5 " spacers which will be done this week.. Enough talk onto some pictures.. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...5e5fa1be9e.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...9e251ec79a.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...1c3ab832a4.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...5474157172.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...d66db990d4.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...d4bfd5c5d6.jpg And Daddy's little helper.. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...833cf689fb.jpg Im thinking for this spring/summer Im going to do a semi-black or flat on the outside..cheap and easy and it will look badass.. Mr. Vengeance what do you think? Wanna come up and help me? |
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You have some great hotroding skills! way to get things done:thumbsup: |
Cool teach them young!
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Great looking ride!!!!!!!
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Looks great, really like the wheels and stance. Nice work.
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Love the stance
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Thanks guys. I love it too..I can’t wait to see the ford owners reactions to it. Hopefully they can take a joke.
There has been lots to post so ill bring this back to the surface. The car has had some bad luck recently. The goal for this summer was to get the new wheels on the front. After some brief research into adapters I decided instead of paying 200+ for some custom adapters to make the wheels work I would talk to forgeline and see how much new lips/barrels where. I spoke to Mark over at forgeline and he has been great all the way around. I can’t say enough good things about him and his company. I had 8" barrels and 1.5" lips and we came up with me keeping a 9.5" wheel and changing them to 6" barrel and 3.5" lips bringing the backspacing to 5.6" and front spacing 4.9". Mark even sealed them together before shipping so all I would have to do it put the faces in and bolt them together. I received the assembled lips/barrels and it was just as talked about. I placed the centers in and hand tightened all the bolts down, then started going star pattern with the torque wrench. Got the first wheel done no issues and moved onto the second one. Got 3/4 of the way done and snapped one of the titanium arp bolts into the face. After talking with Steve over at forgeline he said send me the center. Well they extract the broken bolt and send it back. FOR FREE. He did just that..the wheel center was repaired and should be here today. Again thank you Mark and Steve for all the help and great customer service. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...6A73C67258.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...6A77AB77DF.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...6A7B408134.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...6A6A1AFFE8.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...0F0F8BAF85.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...0F175FBD8C.jpg In other news I took advantage of MCB ridetechs sale in December and ordered the lower control arms to help with the clearance of the new wheels. They came in and being excited I put them on. After putting them on I could not get the wheel on. The hub was too far up into the wheel well. With the stock upper and lower control arms I had no issues getting the wheels on and off. I called ridetech and after some picture and talking we came to the conclusion that the used front bags that I bought where to short of a stroke. The new lower control arms have a 2-3" drop in the mounting pocket compared to the stock lower control arms. So basically in a nutshell I either need to order new front bags or run stock lower control arms. So for the time being I installed the stock lower control arms. The next issue was my yellow top battery has been not holding a charge. Being that I bought it through jegs I called customer service and they said no problem. Send it back and we will send you a new one. Pulled the battery and sent it back on a saturday. On that Monday my little brother came over to help me get the tail pipes cut up and reshaped to fit around the rear bags when they are fully aired up without touching. We started around 8pm that night and we were done around 10:30. He says to me do you want to do anything else for the next half an hour. I just received the new lower control arms. So I said yea lets jack up the car and pull the wheels..ect. I always jack the car up under the center of the subframe. Well the car was a bit lower than normal because I didn’t air the front all the way up before I pulled the battery. Being tired and not thinking I went ahead and tried with the jack on the edge of the frame. Got it up almost all the way before the car rolled back a hair, slipped off the frame and the jack went right into the bottom of my radiator. A costly mistake on my part. The next day I talked to Tony at entropy radiators and he told me he would build me a new one for a lot less. Thank you Tony. I was told the lead time would be around 3-4 weeks but I didn’t have any extra cash at the moment so I was fine with the wait. A week later my wife tells me that she has a suprise for me. She went behind my back and ordered me a new radiator. Talk about an awesome woman. So this past weekend I replaced that. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...0F367DA917.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...0F3C004BF0.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...0EE7C1EC76.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...0EEF37B574.jpg Late last week I took my one good wheel and had the tire mounted to it to do some test fitting to see how much work needed to be done to the fenders to get the wheels to fit. I put the wheel on and it was close but after some rolling and talking with Timmy we decided to just make custom front fender wells. This was if I want to ride the car a little lower on the road it will work and I can take advantage of how low the car can go when parked. We will be continuing this weekend and should have them wrapped up before the spring really hits. After all that is done we will be painting all the trim and the car a flat black for this summer to roll around in. 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Great update and way to keep on keeping on after all the hurdles. That sucks about the radiator. We've all made those kids of mistakes.
I gotta tell ya, you got a keeper for a wife. How awesome is that! You nailed the stance, looks great. I am sure you are dieing to get it out for a drive. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing it shot in black. Its going to look great. |
I agree, your car is coming along! Great updates. LOVE the stance that thing sits so nice. :thumbsup:
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Good update. I always enjoy seeing what's going on with your build. The car looks great.
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KEEP IT UP!
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looking great. Nice job. Keep bringing the little fella in the garage to help out.
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Thank you all for the kind words. Means the world to me and keeps me chugging along...
So over the past two weeks we have pretty much wrapped up the custom wheel wells. These babies are big, real big. No fitment issues though which is very nice. I can go low, ride low with out any rubbing. Timmy has them now to finish the welding and then prep and paint so more pictures to come. I also am in the process of ordering new triple adjustable shockwaves from ridetech for the front..just need a bit more money. I also wanted to show everyone the work that has been done to the fender lips as I'm sure some are curious. Onto the pictures.. Custom wells: http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...43A05313ED.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...43A7A60CEC.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...43AEC3A1DD.jpg Fenders: http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...4304941ED2.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...430F0A55B7.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...431502F698.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...431A9EB19B.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...431FD332C4.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...4325105E4C.jpg All the way up: http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...43323C577C.jpg Ride Height: http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...433E7566BA.jpg All the way down: http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...434A60775F.jpg Hopefully some all black action soon with some new goodies..more to come. |
Thanks for all the kind words guys. Been very busy within the last couple of weeks. During the week I Started laying some sound mat on the inside and installing the carpet to enjoy the car a bit more this summer.
In other news I ordered triple adjustable shockwaves from ridetech. I can not say enough about Josh and Danny. Big ups to those guys going above and beyond. Started on putting it all back together on friday night with my brother and got it all done as far as the front end was concerned. Last week Timmy finished the welding, grinding, then body work and paint..He called me on saturday afternoon and said they where done. By saturday night I had a car again. This morning I finished mounting the remote reservoirs to the wheel wells and checking over the front end one more time before I went out. Took the car to the park with the family to shake it out. Now this is the first time Ive drove the car since the air, tru-turn, strong arms, forgeline front wheels w/ 275 tire. It was a whole different machine let me tell you. You can feel the grip that it has compared to before..MUCH more responsive. I have not started messing with the tuning abilities of the shocks yet as I just want to get an idea oh what is the normal. The air is another thing that is taking some getting used to. I love being able to adjust where I need it to be and I love how its so much smoother as apposed to the old qa1's. The only downfall at the moment is since I'm running an old management system there is no pre-sets for the air so dialing it in can be a pain if your adjusting a lot. So I'm driving there and I smell a bit of burning.. get there and take a look. My rear drivers wheel is rubbing on the inside of the well. Almost as if the rear has shifted a bit to the pass side. It would rub a bit on harder turns on coils but on the air it is rubbing when I try to be lower. Unless Im aired all the way up almost it doesn't rub. Which is a really hard ride aired up so much. I am going to try a 1/4" -5/16" spacer on that side to start. I took some pictures when we got back from our walk with my nice camera and my son is obsessed to say the least. In other news I have a meeting setup with the dealership where I bought my motor this friday to hopefully correct the belt alignment issue Ive been chasing. More to come soon..enjoy. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...931B603C0E.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...9313F75BBB.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...930A766B98.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...9326B73734.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...9339233618.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...9340B76755.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...93451BB540.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...953E9C0F65.jpg A couple of cool shots- http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...935D0065AA.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...9353614259.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...934B437A63.jpg I think it can go lower.. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...9360FE70D4.jpg |
Thanks for all the kind words guys its come a long way but has a long way to go. Still working through some small issues and bugs as I'm sure all others do. Timmy came over and we prepped the car for paint and took most of the big items off.. Finished the scuffing and prep work on Wednesday night and Timmy came over early on Saturday to start taping and all that good stuff.. We finished taping it out around noon, got lunch then sprayed it.. Not a perfect job but better than it was. This should hold me off for the summer untill I can get the cash to do my yellow with strips. Took the car out on Sunday and it threw two codes and was running a bit rough. After doing some digging everything was pointing to a dirty maf or vacuum leaks. Searched the intake a bit and found these jems.. You think they would make something better for this. Eventually ill pull the intake and plastic seal these holes eliminating any rubber. Enjoy the pictures..
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Looks fantastic bro! nice job on the wells.
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Looks awesome man, love the shots of your son with the car.
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Thanks for all the kind words guys..keeps me moving.
Some updates to record. I've drove the car about 200 miles up to my last update and there was idling issues and check engine lights. I was pulling my hair out checking for vacuum leaks, checking my wiring and doing a lot of reading. Turns out my suspicion was correct and the tune that was on the car was the issue. I ended up buying hp tuners willing to take the tune on myself as my previous tuner told me that a car with that motor/power cant be tuned properly on a stock ecm. I went to a local car show and was talking with some ls car guys and was given a name of a local guy you has a great reputation named KP Tuning. I gave them a call and talked to Karl about setting up a date to road tune the car. We drove around for 4 hours and he really dialed a lot of the issues away. I can’t say enough about the service and current tune on the car now. A world of difference. I would highly recommend him. I was hesitant to drive the car in the past due to the fear of issues/embarrassment and breaking down. I mean you can't roll around with a bagged 67 camaro with a ford lol plate and break down. In the past month I have put over 300 miles on the car with no issues. The 500 mile fluid change is in the very near future. Now that the tune is correct I started moving on with the alignment and such. My buddy John has all the tools so two weeks ago he came over and we spend the most of a day seeing what we could do. Now note that I have every Ridetech item with the exception of their upper arms. After an inch of shims on each side and the stock arms hitting the header on the passenger side and the power steering pump on the driver’s side I knew what had to be done. The next day I ordered the upper arms from matts classic. Thanks Kim. The new arms arrived two days later thanks to Josh over at Ridetech and I put them on that night. Ridetech continues to step it up and give the customer the best product. These things come with all the hardware, detailed instructions and now have caster slugs to help get any car where the driver wants it to be. An A+ part. Here are some pictures.. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...D41B609638.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...D421A0FAB3.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...CBEC9281BD.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...CC458A019E.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...CC5C42F44E.jpg Last weekend there was a local car show so I entered and got a lot of looks, some good, some bad but it was fun either way. Enjoy. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...CC64315A80.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...CC6F1C6B16.jpg Next up is to redo the alignment, buy new front seats & get the rear seat recovered, and start working on the interior... |
car is looking good,you have came a long way with it
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Its been awhile and not to much to report on the car. Progress has slowed due to my daughter being born, the new house and the major honey-do list. But I did get new cipher euro seats for my birthday and got them installed a bit ago. They are truly the best bang for the buck. Very nice for the price paid. At the end of the summer after the alignment I did notice that there is a slight vibration through the shifter that can be felt in 4th gear at around 40-50. Only really pronounced at that speed though. It significantly reduces after 50 and none in 5th or 6th. Still doing some reading and chasing that at the moment. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Also Still need to focus on the interior areas and this winter I want to get the ride sensors installed to help with the return to presets. Other than that ill just be waiting on spring to roll around. Here are some pictures of the seats and installed. Enjoy.
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A buddy of mind just picked up a 09 Shelby GT500 and the trash talking has started. I have been on the look out for a set of drag wheels and tires for track duty. I figure now is a good time to buy so come spring I can take it to the 1/4 mile. I find a somewhat local guy selling a set of weld prostars with M/T 28 x 10.5W and I take the hour to meet up last Friday night for the set. Get there and the wheels and tires look to be as advertised. 15x10 welds with a 28 x 10.5W M/T. They look good, tires have life left. Just to check I ask the guy for a tape measure. He goes and grabs one.. I measure and come up with 4.5" of backspacing when I was told they had 5.5". I express my concern for the lack of backspacing, we agree on the price and I'm on my way. On the way home I'm thinking there is no way these are going to fit and ill clean them up and sell them at a later date. I figure when I try to bolt them up the inside of the tire will hit the wheel wells and stop them from going on. I get home after the hour drive and decide I will try to see how far off they are. Here are my findings and comparisons..
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Looks awesome! Sorry if I missed it but where are you guys located? I'd love someone local to help me out with an LS swap!
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Bro I followed this thread a few years back
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So I figured out after some talks with jegs that weld makes closed end lugs that can be used with the studs I already have. So I ordered them. In other news we had a nice day in January so I took the car out. It started to stumble and the idle was acting up a bit again. Nothing like before but it was bothering me. I called my tuner up and talked to him and started to do some reading. Well many on the forums really have good things to say about the holley efi setup. I started looking around and the Holley HP EFI kit seemed like the best fit for me with the exception that it doesn't accept DBW. So I talked to holley and if I wanted to stay with my current setup id have to step up to there dominator setup. Searched a bit and found a used setup on craigslist. The ecm was brand new in the box but the wiring had been used. So I made a deal and pulled the trigger. I sold off my old setup and pulled everything out and have spent the last week installing the new harness and rewiring everything to look clean. I can say I am very impressed with the system. The user face is so easy it makes me feel like a tuner. I got the car to start two days ago without a tuner to assist me which says a lot. My tuner is coming tomorrow night to put the final tune on it so ill have it ready for this upcoming spring/summer. No dyno time at this point just doing a road tune and some WOT pulls so I can hit the track also. Next up for the car is installing the level sensors for the airride and I have talked to a buddy about notching the rear 4 link bar to make some more room for the car to go lower in rear. Stay tuned.. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...5F0148BED8.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...DC75DBEA32.jpg I also finally did an actual bolt up of the welds. http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...A5B464C2C9.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...DF960C9363.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...1BB16AD344.jpg http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/...D4931FF166.jpg |
Good job Steven. I hear great things about the Holley set ups.. Post up about driveability, and your overall reviews, between the two set ups, after you get a little time on this setup.
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Very nice setup man. I use your build as motivation for mine.
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Do you still have this car? I saw some pics of it with some wicked sexy gold lipped forgelines.
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