Here are some pics of myself and my friends fixing, cleaning, and breaking a beat up 94 Vert that I purchased for $6,000 as my "Daily Driver." Some great before and after stuff, we got it ready in time for the big Fabulous Ford Forever show.
The purchase:
1994 Mustang GT Convertible, 58,000 miles. Red/Black/Black. Tons of suspension: BBK subframes, Steeda springs, Bilstein shocks, BBK strut brace, BBK C/C plates, Suspension Techniques panhard bar, a HUGE front sway bar (don’t know who's it is), a custom welded 6 point roll bar. The engine was rebuilt and had only 7,000 mile on it. With: custom ported Edlebrock Performer Heads, Edlebrock upper and lower intake, BBK TB, Steeda under drive pulleys, E303 cam, Crane Gold Race 1.6 roller rockers, hardened pushrods, Crane valve springs, Jacobs Electronics ignition, BBK long tubes, BBK off-road H, and some shitty ass cat-back (looked like a muffler shop hack job). There is a bunch more, but you get the idea. ;-) Car came with all its receipts and all of the documents, including the flow bench charts for the head work.
Picking it up. Don't know if you can tell, but the paint is F'ed up. This thing has been outside for probably its whole life . . . without ever being waxed.
Worlds ugliest rims for a stang.
This is the rear passenger side.
And this is the rear driver side, see anything wrong?
The roll bar was unpainted and had rusted over time.
On the way home the car made horrible noises. Turned out the Aluminum Drive Shaft was grinding on the e-brake bracket:
Not good.
First we thought the axle being shifted over might have been part of the drive shaft problem. So we fixed that by having Jamie at Fabtech cut/weld/and lengthen the incorrectly installed panhard bar. The drive shaft then made more noise now that the rear was fixed. So we took out the aluminum one before it had a chance to break and pole-vault the car into oblivion. We ground down the e-brake bracket and installed a smaller diameter stock steel drive shaft. Finally problem solved
epper:.
Then we created problems for ourselves . . . with new exhaust:
The Bassani cat-back sounded great and replaced the leaking POS that was in there before. But, the driver side pipe could not be adjusted much because it was hitting the panhard bar. Not only that, it was slowly shaving tire rubber off the driver side rear really bad.
So we need spacer’s right!:
That was a fun adventure in itself. The car needs .75 inch spacers to fix the problem. That means it needed longer studs. Sal from Sal's Speed Shop helped us pull the axles so we could have Rocco from Ragged Edge Performance enlarging the axle holes and pressing in the studs (thanks to Sal and Rocco).
THEN, the crappy momo's, with there horrible small lug-holes that no tool made by man can get into to install the rims, wouldn't let us install the open ended lug nuts.
So my friend gave me his 95 Cobra R's to use because his car blew up and he wouldn't be using them for a while. But, with the .75 inch spacers the wheels stuck out way too far. So I bought ANOTHER spacer, this time a .375 inch spacer . . . problem fixed.
The Fab Fords thrash:
We started painting the rollbar, detailing the engine, treating the interior, clay/cut/polishing and waxing the paint. Steve (from True Forged Wheels) let us borrow his extra set of black FR500's 18's for the show. Because they looked better than the Chrome Cobra R's. I liked them so much that I just bought a set today so that will be the cars new look :coolman:
The Paint was in bad shape.
The back was worse.
We took out the back seat to get to the roll bar and paint it. The seat was so beat up that we just got a rear-seat delete and installed it after painting the bar (no pics of that yet).
We had to rattle-can the black hammer finish paint in sections.
The solid front door bars . . . "Daily Driver" :thumbsup:
After all the paint work.
Looking good
The engine before.
The engine after some work (bad pic I know).
At Fab Fords:
Sittn' Pretty!
Getting ready to leave after the show.
Some Pics of my friend's cars from the show:
Hector's Mach1 on True Forged 19's.
Rocket Couch's Blown Vic.
My 02 Lightning on True Forged 22's and other True Forged wheels in the back.
Stopping for food.
Check out this thing (vid):
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/508412/fullsize/dscn5151.mov
Agent 47 AIX SN95
Let me know what you guys think. This was a lot of work and it was all worth it.
The purchase:
1994 Mustang GT Convertible, 58,000 miles. Red/Black/Black. Tons of suspension: BBK subframes, Steeda springs, Bilstein shocks, BBK strut brace, BBK C/C plates, Suspension Techniques panhard bar, a HUGE front sway bar (don’t know who's it is), a custom welded 6 point roll bar. The engine was rebuilt and had only 7,000 mile on it. With: custom ported Edlebrock Performer Heads, Edlebrock upper and lower intake, BBK TB, Steeda under drive pulleys, E303 cam, Crane Gold Race 1.6 roller rockers, hardened pushrods, Crane valve springs, Jacobs Electronics ignition, BBK long tubes, BBK off-road H, and some shitty ass cat-back (looked like a muffler shop hack job). There is a bunch more, but you get the idea. ;-) Car came with all its receipts and all of the documents, including the flow bench charts for the head work.
Picking it up. Don't know if you can tell, but the paint is F'ed up. This thing has been outside for probably its whole life . . . without ever being waxed.
Worlds ugliest rims for a stang.
This is the rear passenger side.
And this is the rear driver side, see anything wrong?
The roll bar was unpainted and had rusted over time.
On the way home the car made horrible noises. Turned out the Aluminum Drive Shaft was grinding on the e-brake bracket:
Not good.
First we thought the axle being shifted over might have been part of the drive shaft problem. So we fixed that by having Jamie at Fabtech cut/weld/and lengthen the incorrectly installed panhard bar. The drive shaft then made more noise now that the rear was fixed. So we took out the aluminum one before it had a chance to break and pole-vault the car into oblivion. We ground down the e-brake bracket and installed a smaller diameter stock steel drive shaft. Finally problem solved
epper:. Then we created problems for ourselves . . . with new exhaust:
The Bassani cat-back sounded great and replaced the leaking POS that was in there before. But, the driver side pipe could not be adjusted much because it was hitting the panhard bar. Not only that, it was slowly shaving tire rubber off the driver side rear really bad.
So we need spacer’s right!:
That was a fun adventure in itself. The car needs .75 inch spacers to fix the problem. That means it needed longer studs. Sal from Sal's Speed Shop helped us pull the axles so we could have Rocco from Ragged Edge Performance enlarging the axle holes and pressing in the studs (thanks to Sal and Rocco).
THEN, the crappy momo's, with there horrible small lug-holes that no tool made by man can get into to install the rims, wouldn't let us install the open ended lug nuts.
So my friend gave me his 95 Cobra R's to use because his car blew up and he wouldn't be using them for a while. But, with the .75 inch spacers the wheels stuck out way too far. So I bought ANOTHER spacer, this time a .375 inch spacer . . . problem fixed.
The Fab Fords thrash:
We started painting the rollbar, detailing the engine, treating the interior, clay/cut/polishing and waxing the paint. Steve (from True Forged Wheels) let us borrow his extra set of black FR500's 18's for the show. Because they looked better than the Chrome Cobra R's. I liked them so much that I just bought a set today so that will be the cars new look :coolman:
The Paint was in bad shape.
The back was worse.
We took out the back seat to get to the roll bar and paint it. The seat was so beat up that we just got a rear-seat delete and installed it after painting the bar (no pics of that yet).
We had to rattle-can the black hammer finish paint in sections.
The solid front door bars . . . "Daily Driver" :thumbsup:
After all the paint work.
Looking good
The engine before.
The engine after some work (bad pic I know).
At Fab Fords:
Sittn' Pretty!
Getting ready to leave after the show.
Some Pics of my friend's cars from the show:
Hector's Mach1 on True Forged 19's.
Rocket Couch's Blown Vic.
My 02 Lightning on True Forged 22's and other True Forged wheels in the back.
Stopping for food.
Check out this thing (vid):
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/508412/fullsize/dscn5151.mov
Agent 47 AIX SN95
Let me know what you guys think. This was a lot of work and it was all worth it.
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