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Video would go a long way in the sound for the rest of us to judge

Make a video! We wanna hear it!!

Keeps getting better!!!!

 

If that blue and spoiler were gone, man it would really smooth that thing out!

If it ever got repainted, it would just be straight Oxford White, but it has like 15 paint jobs. I imagine that would be a pretty expensive update to redo properly.

Only two things I really want to do to the car:

The Shelby side scopes

Ditch the spoiler and get something like this

I love the ring brothers one, but its $900 !!

1969 Mustang with LMR Series 3 Rims in Bronze

Decided I wanted to change up my rims from the 2004 Mach 1 wheels to something a little different. As far as I know, I am the first to put this combo on a classic Mustang.

This is the kit that I purchased:

https://lmr.com/item/WTK-464816Z/mustang-sve-series-3-wheel-tire-kit-bronze-htr-z2-94-04

For my suspension setup:

I am running 1" spacers on the front and rear.

The fronts have have 1" lowering springs with an extra 1/4 coil cut out:

https://www.cjponyparts.com/contour-coil-springs-1-lowering-1967-1973/p/CSC6773/

The rears currently have the stock leaf springs and a 1" lowering kit:

https://www.cjponyparts.com/rear-end-lowering-kit-1-1967-1970/p/CLK1042/

And that is it. No fender rolling. And everything is fine in the front with nothing rubbing from steering wheel lock to lock.

I think it turned out awesome! I just wheeled it out of the garage, so really didnt take the time to clean up the tires yet.

Old Mach 1 rims:

And finally:

Coming Soon....

"Blood, sweat and trans"

 

as they say

Fixed

Me Gusta

https://carbuzz.com/news/this-is-the-worlds-loudest-bugatti-veyron

If the whole house is wired for CAT5, just put something like this in the basement:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-5-port-10-100-1000-gigabit-ethernet-unmanaged-switch-blue/6040713.p?skuId=6040713

Tie it to LAN 1 from your modem to it and you can light up 4 rooms in the house. Put your wireless router in any of those 4 rooms. I had something very similar in my old house.

In my new house, I lost all my hard wire access, so i went with an Orbi. So far, has been pretty kick ass.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-orbi-ac2200-tri-band-mesh-wi-fi-system-3-pack-white/6373080.p?skuId=6373080

Ford can EAD. I'd rather not buy another one.

Go drive an ST. It will change your mind....

You want a Focus ST. They can be had under 10k nowadays.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2949748555063686/

Or a Fiesta ST

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/627316544691481/

And we are now complete. Started the car and everything seems to be in working order (Minus the GPS, still need to drive it to test). Biggest complaint of the gauges, is the RPM reads in increments of 100. I didn't notice that when I bought it, but its written plain as day on their website. Oh well, it is still better than the void I have had since purchasing the car.

Anywhoo. So here is the new front. I ended getting a new grill as well. Old was was getting a bit shabby. Also has new new LED Parking lights from https://vintageleds.com/ (Same place I got my sequential taillights from)

Here was the old front with the old grill, headlights and a normal bulb in the parking lights

Old Grill from the day I bought the car with the John Deer tractor lights:

And the dash is back together with the GPS and the new gauge panel.

Old Dash

This was after I had put things back together for the first time. I replaced all the blown bulbs with Blue LEDS and had installed the cheap 3 gauge pod

This was the old Tach and fuel gauge:

And the reason I put anything in the dash at all, because they chopped the shit out of it to put that EQ in there (Which didnt work BTW.). Man that crushed blue velvet. lol

Im going to take some new ones this year.

Finally got back out in the garage and made some progress.

First, I had to get a handle on the wiring behind the dash. I had mismatch crap everywhere, and even though the pic may not look like it, this is the cleaned up version

Made some simple block off plates for the radio and heater controls. Maybe Ill replace the heater core someday. I do want to put a radio in it, just not really sure what that will be.

Finished up getting the cluster assembled and wired. Ended up getting it wired to a 12 pin connector so I can remove the entire assembly easily in the future.

Finally getting it powered on for the first time. You can see the turn signal light in the left side.

And back in the dash.

Pretty much only thing left is to get the switch panel, dash reinstalled and the GPS mounted.

https://www.toybarncars.com/used/Formacars/2019-Formacars-Shelby+Cobra+Replica-3b11539e0a0e0a6b1ad9e1bc7a8b3e6f.htm

https://modernmusclecarsflorida.com/inventory

Here are the pics:

AOD

302 and C4

Got the headlights done, turned out better than I hoped.

OLD

NEW

White Halos

Orange Halos

Orange Halos with Lows on

Lows Only On

Test fit the new switch panel. This replaces the Ebay Tach and fuel gauge i had there. Going to wire the horn, and the 2 different Halos there. The other side is a USB for phone charging.

Dont have pics yet

302 that came out of 69 mustang. Mileage unknown, was running and driving when pulled. Will come complete minus carb intake and carb (Has a stock EFI intake with a plate for hoist lift on it). Front sump pan and all V Drive accessories. $100

C4 - Came out of my 69. Was a running driving transmission. Have no idea on mileage. Will come with everything i have for it. Flexplate, etc. $100 OBO

AOD - Came out of a 90 Mustang 5.0. Was told it had right at 90k miles on it and had no issues. Comes with converter and everything I have for it. $100 OBO

Not much new. Cut the rest of the buckets holes and fixed the harness.

Called on the gauges, said I was the first person to order for a 69 and I got by accident a prototype. They are sending me a new one, so that is pretty cool. I'll get some more pics when I get that started.

Well, after my "successes" with the car last year, my plan to work on it this year is a fairly mild one.

1. Fix the headlights

2. Put gauges in the car

3. Rear end swap/gear something

4. Make the Windows great again!

The headlights, I already I knew i wanted to do an LED upgrade. I had seen seen it done at car shows and loved it. Plus, something was wrong with my headlight harness I made a few years ago.

These are the headlights I went with. Was debating on getting ones with halo rings (Was afraid they be to rice). But saw some others so figured, WTH. Plus, at $100 shipped...

Now the fun part was fixing my harness. When I built it, I wanted the outside lights to work when the brights were turned on. And I had it doing that, but when it was on low, it caused some sort of cross and the Highs would be just bearly on. This in turn, caused them to burn out.

So for Christmas, I got a new harness, but hated it. It wanted you to drill holes and ground each H4 plug. Plus, when I built my harness, I had it all setup on the driver side and this new harness would use the passenger side. So I used it as a guide to fix mine. Low and behold it was setup simple, low turned on low, and high turned on high. Novel idea.... This is actually fine with the new LED lights. Only thing, is low will turn on all 4 and so will high. For now, this is how I am going to run it. Might change it later (Doubt it)

I stripped down my harness and I got to tell you, I have no idea how it even worked, I had everything messed up. So started rewiring it based on the other harness.

So I get this damn thing complety done and realize, I forgot to run wires for the LED Halos. I don't know yet how i am going to use them, but i sure as shit did'nt want to go back and add the wires later. I take all the splitloom and tape back off and add the wires. now get ready for this. I'm like 6 hours in working on this thing now. I get it all in place and plug in a light and... NOTHING. WTF?! So I make a jumper plug and and test the light directly and they are fine. Hmmm what is wrong. Yep, harness was wrong again!! I got the ground and the high mixed up. Like FML, time to take it all apart again for the 3rd time and fix. Had to get new H4 plugs for the center as the wires were now to short.

The headlight fit pretty well in the stock buckets, but there is a "vent" that just would'nt allow it to seat. So used a holesaw, figured that would be the best looking cut i could make in it. Never going to see it, just hate doing stuff like this.

Old setup

Test fitting one of the lights after modifing that bucket.

This is as far as I have got with the headlights. New H4 plugs should come today. then I can get back and modifing the headlight buckets.

Next was the cluster. Since I have owned the car, not a single gauge has worked. I have some basic eBay gauges in now, but they look kind of jank. I had plans to put something in it as I was not interested in restoring the old gauges. Everything I looked at was from 800-1000$. Kind of a hard pill for me to swallow.

Was cruising around Ebay and saw the Intellitronix brand was on sale for $400 with a GPS receiver. Now, this is not my first choice, but its made in Ohio and its only $400 to have a full set of working gauges. I could'nt pass it up.

Just got started tearing down the old cluster and getting this setup. Was almost done in getting the cluster seated when I found the lens panel is missing a hole, so going to have to call them Monday and get that sorted out.

And that is it for now.

I can tell you from experience, no paint hold up on a turbo kit. Coating it, is the only way to go.

You can wrap it, but mine always rusted when I did that.

Also, you can put the wastegate in the crossover if you dont want to cut the manifold.