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Old 01-16-2013, 09:17 AM
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Thanks guys. I'll post some more pics up tonight. The falcon will be heading back into the garage tonight to start the upgrades.
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I love these bodies! Amazingly - it's probably the only car out there that If I told my wife I bought -- she'd be happy!


Nice work! Love the DIY building -- and you seem to be very capable! Good for you.


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Here are a few pics from the November Good Guys in Pleasanton. Liz Miles was nice enough to send them to me.


Turning in, and looking ahead


Mid turn, starting to come off line, the car is kind of flopped over on itself.


Is that tire smoke?


The Pits




Little stainless carpet protectors I fab'd up.


Custom "light" duty limit straps (9000# breaking strenght rock climbing webbing)


Spent some quality time on the lathe making "GT-350" center caps for the -05 mustang wheels. Got the machine time down to 20 min each.

Grant GT steering wheel got the same treatment.







Custom Export/Monte Carlo Bar


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Between copying Bryce and you I should be able to dial my wagon in.

Love your car.

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Between copying Bryce and you I should be able to dial my wagon in.

Love your car.

2 door wagon. Nice
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Always love seeing builds where people aren't afraid to pick up the tools and build it themselves. Great job so far. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!
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Always love seeing builds where people aren't afraid to pick up the tools and build it themselves. Great job so far. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!
Thanks for the encouragement. I have a lot of fun building the parts, and I don't have the budget to pay to have it done. I am a mechanical engineer by trade so building parts just helps improve my skills. I have a great job with a full machine and sheet metal shop that I can use after work when I need to do some heavy work that I can't do in the garage.

Not worrying about re-doing work is one thing I have learned. Sometimes revision is the only way to find the solution.

Serpentine belt setup Evolution:

Rev 1: Junk bracket from Ebay

This blocked the timing pointer, and had junk hardware.

Rev 2: Custom Bracket



Test fitting mockup


Getto Break


Custom offset pulley, turned from 2 and welded.


.004" runout, at least as good as OEM


Dialed, 3 pulley setup.


Rev 3: Power steering added

Epic Fail, not enough crack pulley wrap = belt slippage and awful noise.

Rev 4: Added idler for 180 deg+ wrap = all good now



Stock 5.0 tensioner used for stock


Final setup works great

Don't forget to vent the KRC power steering reservoir if you are going to use a stock box. Otherwise the pressure will build and you will push a seal out of something.

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