New guy from Norcal project "Garfield"
 

some of you guys have seen me on Pro-Touring been a member there for a bit and have been lurking here so I decided to join.the look of this car will be drastically changed here in the next year or two to reflect more of the "pro-touring" look. I am planning on ditching the two tone paint in favor of an all Orange paint job. changing the wheels for something in a flat finish and have some ideas on the interior to help play on the outer color scheme.this is project "Garfield" my soon to be ALL Orange 67 cougar.

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New paint buddy? The paint has barley dried on the car now....

What are the specs on your wheels? Do the T4 calipers clear the wheels without spacers?


jeff

yup its gonna get painted all orange and I will do something to accent it not quite sure yet. those wheels are Boyd Coddington Hotrods 17x7 front and 17x8 rear 4.5 b.s. and im wearing 235/45/17 front tires and 255/45/17 rears right now.yeah they clear the T4's with no wheel spacers.

Welcome! Nice looking cougar. :thumbsup:

Which front suspension setup is that? RRS....Gateway?

The strut/brake combo is from Gateway my lower control arms are from Opentracker,The Tubular lowers from Street or Track I bought wouldnt work But I am using the Street or Track strut rods. only thing left up front will be ditching this mustangs plus 1-1/8 sway bar in favor for one of the cobra auto 1-1/4 hallow sway bars.

Forget Nice cougar, Thats a Nice Torino you have!

lol thanks!

Torino 420 do you have a build thread on your car? was kind of curious as to what you used for a block on your big/Small block build.

I just have a thread on the mini tub project, the motor was built back in the mid 90's using a 69 block. It is an old school stroker using a modified 400 ford crank with 4.060 stroke, the bore is 4.060 as well....it's a square stroker :lol:

Here is the thread on the mini tub if you want to check it out: https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=28042

Btw if you are at all considering the Gateway front suspension setup I can go through all the Headaches it caused me and what I had to do to remedy them.No sense in someone else loosing money on the "guess" work for their front end conversion.I plan on doing a build thread at some point.

Sounds good, loud even for Spintechs :D

yeah im not sure which mufflers they sold me. they are a full size muffler not the tiny race ones. I asked for something comparable to my two chamber flowmasters and they said these were 100db quieter. the exhaust is long tube headers with 3" going into the X and 2-1/2 from there all the way out the back.

hopefully I will get a chance to ditch those longtubes soon, but the car hasnt been on the road in years and thats the goal as of right now!

It's about time for an update on this cat.:D Are you going to get it on the track before my car or not:rofl:

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as some of you know, ive had my front suspension woes because of doing things in different stages= compatibility issues! Maier racing is suppose to release some LCA's that will solve my current suspension problem.

I have told myself I will not go any further with the car till the suspension is Ironed out, due to the fact I want to make sure the funds are there whether It cost me $500.00 or it cost $10k because I sell off the current setup and start over.

I have been very sick the past few weeks and now have "walking pneumonia" and my child is due any day now! look for an update after the first of the year, but as luck would have it, im on track to being able to afford the DSE aluma frame setup without braking the bank!!

Well, I hope you start feeling better and everything turns around for you. Good luck and congrats on the new child. :thumbsup:

any updates?

started a thread in the build section:

https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=52852