fox project

[blacksheep-1]

I run in the Florida FAST series (autocross) have won the last several years with a 96 V6 against 350Z, V8 mustangs and camaros. I moved up to the top class to run against kit cars, race cars and etc.

here's the project Anti-Rice

Brought home the $50 dollar mustang and put it on the rotisserie

welded up the 50 trillion holes Ford puts in the fenderwells

cage and fuel cell install

Dropped the cage through the floor so the top could be welded up

Deleted the sun roof as well

finish sanded with an "idiot stick"

 

[blacksheep-1]

Fuel cell install

firewall

welded in "jack plates" so the car can be lifted up at several points.

paint for the interior

 

[blacksheep-1]

Granetelli K-member and coil overs

01 Cobra IRS with 4.11 gears

ripped out the rear fenders

test fitted the Maier fender flairs

gutted the doors

 

[blacksheep-1]

found a hi output 302 engine and T5 trans
Rebuilt both

GT40 heads and a 780 Holley carb with an HEI dizzy

cut down the choke housing and bead blasted the parts

a little "cut to fit"

and...in

 

[90goldtsiawd]

Sweet project! Any pics of the V6 you were beating everybody with and what was done to it?

 

[blacksheep-1]

I didn't like the ride height of the car, so out came the IRS, and I then notched the rear frame rail so the upper control arm could have more room to move.

replaced the front springs with shorter ones

Much better ride height..

 

[blacksheep-1]

Sweet project! Any pics of the V6 you were beating everybody with and what was done to it?

We ran it at the Grassroots Challenge, then went to a Porsche club autocross and ran 3rd over all. That little v6 mustang spread a LOT of hate and discontent!

putting it on a riceburner at Gainseville for the $2001 challenge

lowerring springs, GT sway bars, 3.73 gears, aluminum flywheel, inlet pipe, dual exhausts, shifter and reprogrammed ECM. Ran 14.38 @ 98mph with a 75 shot.

 

[DRCjasper]

Nice project you've got going.

 

[blacksheep-1]

It wiggles by itself.....

Although i have TONS of detail work to do

 

[Brutal DSG]

Very cool

 

[unclesams_svt]

Great project, keep the updates coming

 

[OhNo5oh]

Lookin great, how involved is the IRS swap?

 

[blacksheep-1]

Lookin great, how involved is the IRS swap?

pretty much a bolt -in here's a link, I had to cut a section of frame out because I lowerred the car significantly, normally you wouldn't have to do that

IRS INTO FOX BODY

 

[blacksheep-1]

The rear fenders are now on!!!
The passenger side was about an inch shorter than the driver's side, so I had to glass up the lip and re contour it to make them look alike.

 

[blacksheep-1]

during painting..

Rolled it out of the garage after paint

 

[93&99cobrasvt]

Thats awesome!!

 

[blacksheep-1]

OK so I don't want to destroy the air dam on the car from assassinating cones during autocrosses so I decided to build a splitter to protect the nose, I'd like to say it's for high speed handling but we all know better than that..so Off to build a functional splitter that even a Honda owner would love....

First off, I located some 3/8 plywood, and made a template, I measured 3.5 inches from the dam and made little dots all around the plywood.

connect the dots..

Cut and trim..

finished in bed liner, the most bulletproof and water proof stuff I could think of, in retrospect I should have made several small access holes instead of one large one..next time

picked up some hardware, especially the captured nuts

bolted the splitter on the car using existing holes in the radiator support and carefully drilling the slip of the air dam and using the captured nuts

Installed the aluminum hood pins and adjusted the hood height by using rubber hose on the pins

and ..done

 

[NEMES1S]

This is a great build thread!

 

[mtw002]

This build looks sweet!

 

[386tunchi]

sweet build!