My 2001 V6 Coupe Build Thus Far

[lowflyn]

I love reading extended builds like this. Kudos from a fellow Mississippian. DeSoto Co currently.

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[Swift]

I love reading extended builds like this. Kudos from a fellow Mississippian. DeSoto Co currently.

Hey man thanks! good to see another Mississippian on SVTP!

So I picked up a set of cobra brakes the other day for the low. My buddy bought a 95 GT and wanted to upgrade to new edge brakes, he made me an offer on my stockers, and I took it and bought cobras. Calipers were hideous when I bought them so I blasted them, rebuilt, and painted them. All together I have $150 in the brake upgrade, rotors and rebuild included.

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[Brandon Adams]

Very clean, did the same to mine in a different scheme

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[Swift]

Not much of an update but, I put on the tank, exhaust, driveshaft, parking brake cables, etc. Have to pull the exhuast back off to polish before it goes on for good but I couldn't help but mock it up once I had the H pipe on it.

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[sonicdan]

Car looks good, man.

I'm in North Mississippi....not many of us on here, I don't think lol

 

[Murder Snake]

just went thru this whole thread. amazing work, attention to detail, choices spot on. a pleasure to see and even more, what a nice job you have done on the write ups and keeping everyone interested, updated. Nice job!!!

I just picked up an 04 six for my son. red. first thing he wanted was to plastidip the rims and the center panel between the tails as well as the 40th anniversary emblems. all done. he was some sound so have a cold air kit on it's way and will do a dual exhaust upgrade soon. I can't take the car near as far as you have due to finances but I enjoy reading about all kinds of builds and ideas. yours is really nice.

 

[Swift]

just went thru this whole thread. amazing work, attention to detail, choices spot on. a pleasure to see and even more, what a nice job you have done on the write ups and keeping everyone interested, updated. Nice job!!!

I just picked up an 04 six for my son. red. first thing he wanted was to plastidip the rims and the center panel between the tails as well as the 40th anniversary emblems. all done. he was some sound so have a cold air kit on it's way and will do a dual exhaust upgrade soon. I can't take the car near as far as you have due to finances but I enjoy reading about all kinds of builds and ideas. yours is really nice.

Hey thanks man! That means alot! I'm sure he's loving the car. I consider myself extremely fortunate that a mustang was my first car. So much aftermarket support for relatively cheap, and it's a fairly simple car that you can learn as many mechanical skills as you want on! I wouldn't trade it for anything! And I wouldn't say never, as far as progress, I started as a 16 year old mowing yards to pay for simple mods, and plastidipping parts on the car, which has eventually snowballed into this. I knew absolutely nothing about cars when I started on this car. Had never even done an oil change before. Here is the car circa 2011 LOL

 

[Swift]

I made a ton of progress over the last week. Key points are:

• Wiring harness tucking/extending/wrapping DONE
• A/C lines cleaned, polished, installed
• Cobra front brakes installed
• Alternator disassembled, painted, rebuilt with all brand new parts
• Power steering reservoir relocation done
• All power steering/hydraboost lines plumbed and sealed
• Clutch cable installed

Key points of things that need to be done before fire up:

• Build cold air intake piping
• Rob a set of front banjo bolts from the junkyard
• Install belt
• Hook battery back up
• Paint and install headlight panel
• Put lots of hose clamps on things
• Fill fluids
• Turn Key

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[Weather Man]

Nice hands on with all the fiddly bits!

 

[Murder Snake]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!

 

[paulyboy928]

badass! love the build!

 

[Swift]

Thanks guys!

Got my intake tube all pieced together and it is getting tig welded currently as we speak by a good friend of mine.

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^^ Find you a girl that organizes your garage while you work on the car.

 

[Murder Snake]

nice work!!

 

[Swift]

So a few updates. The car does run. Got the intake all welded up, put it together for the last time, hit the key and it fired right up. Looks to have a dead coil or two, so I'll be ordering a set of those today.

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This is the engine bay in all of its final glory (aside from painting the intake of course)

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And progress from here may slow just a tad. Had to go out and buy myself a new toy to take my mind off of the car, and some other issues.

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[Murder Snake]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Swift]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!

Much appreciated!

 

[50 Deep]

Congrats

 

[Swift]

Test drove this pig today.

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First impressions:

My god, I should've done the IRS swap years ago. Makes the car tons more predictable and rides like a cadillac. The car runs great. Like it was a factory 4.6 car. The alternator died, RIP. Tested with another one off my grandmother's lincoln town car and it worked perfectly. Oh and my headlights and blinkers don't work, and all fuses are fine. Not sure about that yet.

 

[Murder Snake]

no pig there and no lipstick needed!!! even without the front fenders, clean and looking good. can't wait to see it totally done.

 

[Fox-4]

Oh man, everything looks amazing! When you did the IRS swap did you do anything to it and was it difficult to do?

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