'65 Fastback project

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

Nice spy shot, let's see one with your arm around her man!!!


From what we can see she looks healthy

Nope, that's all you're getting out of me. Maybe you'll see her if I drag her out to an event one of these days. Probably not on the west coast though. East coast/south might be fun though, I've been thinking of shipping my car out there to hit up some events one year. She does have a thing for speed, probably worse than me I remember driving separately up to the mountains and being asked, "what do you call it when the tires are screeching? You know, when you have to steer the other way."

Matt

[Matt@BOS]

Alright, new page, time for car stuff again. I had a little bit of free time yesterday, and couldn't keep myself from opening up my pile of boxes. I was like a kid at Christmas, okay better than Christmas.

Here is what arrived on Friday.




Alright, who has one of the other four before me? I know Strope got his a couple weeks ago.


C6 spindles with 5x4.5" bolt pattern hubs, "severe duty" units will be available later in the year.


Cast aluminum shock and control arm mount, with tubular upper and lower control arms. I'm looking forward to seeing how the new Speed-LIGN adjuster works for changing camber and caster. I cannot believe how much adjustability is built into this front end. I won't go into detail about all of it at the moment though.

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JRI Shocks. These just look well made, I really want get this car on the road to see what all the fuss is about with these. That probably won't be for a while though. These shocks are double adjustable for high and low speed rebound, unlike the former Afco units, which I believe had adjustment for low speed rebound, and compression. As for springs, this kit ships with with 400lb 10 in. front springs. My first thought was that this seemed a little under sprung, but I suppose with an aluminum N/A mod motor up front they really aren't that heavy. Somehow I have a feeling I will be changing things up for my needs.



Overall, I have to hand it to DSE, I have never seen an aftermarket part that comes close to resembling this. Their front subframe for the Camaro is amazingly well built, but this actually has aspects of today's OEM quality, coupled with the expected delrin bushed control arms, etc.

Matt

[Rick D]

WOW Matt that's just beautiful!!!!

That DSE stuff is really nice to

[89 RS]

Cool parts man, I can't wait to see this Mustang come together Matt.

[67zo6Camaro]

Not much to say here except Wow.

You know what picture I'm talking about don't you?

[Tom.A]

Coming along nice. I think we need more pictures to give our full opinion

[John510]

Awesome Matt!

[Vince@Meanstreets]

The 400's might be fine Matt, with the minimal cosine and effective ratio that the DSE geometry has worked into the frame.

[Matt@BOS]

you guys are all too funny. So, who is up for a little group road trip to the east coast? We can't miss Del Mar Thanksgiving weekend though. I was back there visiting her for Thanksgiving (which is when we realized things weren't going to work, haha) and I missed out on just about all of the fun in Del Mar. I'm not missing Del Mar this fall. Priorities, right?

Anyway, Vince, the reason I was thinking of adding more spring up front, was based off of two kinda vague assumptions. First being the fact that I am leaning towards a supercharged Coyote Aluminator engine, which would would put the engine plus intercooler weight in the 525-550 lb range. Second, after sorting out my Camaro, and driving several other similar ones, I'm starting to think I like a little more spring than DSE has been using on the first gens. I am also going to be putting somewhere between a 295-315 tire up front, which means I could probably add a little more spring, especially if the Mustang rolls as much as the Camaro does. Who knows what the car will actually need in order to drive the way I want it too. I might have rear springs that are stiffer than the fronts with the Maier torque arm...

Matt

[Matt@BOS]

Update! Been busy patching rust in the drip rails and replacing the panel behind the rear glass. That stuff really is no fun at all. I had to make some of that stuff from scratch. Everyone shaves drip rails, and now I think I know why. I probably had 30 hours into making and fitting the front corner on the driver's side drip rail so that the trim would fit over it perfectly.

Anyway, I started working on something a little more interesting, so here are some pictures. This was my first time playing with the English wheel, and I'm pretty happy I haven't had to make more than one hood scoop... at least so far. Still need to do some more hammering and grinding on it, but it is really starting to come around. Really wish I had big shrinker/stretcher. Making a bunch of cuts probably isn't the cleanest way of doing things.

The scoop is just a little bigger than stock, and will hopefully fit the engine I don't have yet The idea was to make something that looks vintage GT350ish and won't draw too much attention to itself.