Just another Fox Body Project

[Detroit Style]

Well, its ready to go to the chassis shop. Depending on how the car sits with the rear control arms that are being made for it, I may go back to the old springs to lower it.

BCN_7639 by Detroit Style, on Flickr

So, this one time I tried to put a 100lb 5ft long hood on a car by myself...

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It's last night home for a while.

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On its way to Detroit for some chassis work.

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[Detroit Style]

The car is now at the shop, awaiting some love.

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This should give you guys some hope, the Pacer X is one of his current projects.

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[Detroit Style]

200,000 miles took its toll on the front control arm bolts (all of the suspension bolts really).

PSA: Do not stick your camera this close to a lit torch and oil/grease covered parts.

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Someone out there must want a 5 lug conversion for the front of their Mustang... BUY THIS!!

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*No cameras or camera equipment was injured during the making for these pictures.

 

[Detroit Style]

It's back home! Now, it is time to order coil overs for the rear and get to work finishing the interior and brakes.

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[Detroit Style]

Decided to knock out some work up front, removing the sway bar, removing some lines and some other small details.

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Started to make new seat brackets for the car.

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The hardest part so far, the bracket next to the tunnel has to have a contour made to go around the tunnel.

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[Detroit Style]

Time to make a new way of mounting the seat, it sits far to high to be usable.

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[Detroit Style]

Recently, I had a snow tire let go on the beater and having killed two factory 18s, I decided to order to wheels for it. Downfall, no one had them in stock due to the bolt pattern. Well, the new wheels came in today so, I swapped the tires from the factory 18s over and put them on the car.

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[Detroit Style]

The rear coil overs came in yesterday and I put them on today. It is safe to say that with no weight in the car, I'll have to raise it up about an inch and do some fender work.

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Yeah, I think I need to pull the fenders out a bit.

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[Detroit Style]

Playing around with potential turbo placement and debating going to a tube front to make more room.

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Ready to pull all the wiring out of the car, a Mustang dash and a new column as well as finish pulling out the sound deadening.

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Figured that I'd knock out some work today so, here are the mid evening update. The column support is out, the main harness is about ready to be fully pulled out of the car and, the parking brake assembly is gone for good.

Parking brake cable is dying to get out of there.

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The quicker, more pleasant way of taking the wiring out of a car.

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It's starting to look like a welcoming home to a Mustang dash.

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[Detroit Style]

Started to make a mold fo the deck lid in order to make a lighter than steel version.

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The car was a really nice color before the last owner made it flat black.

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Lots of waxy goodness ( I knew I kept this garbage wax for a reason).

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Made sure to keep the hump for all the Lincoln looks as possible.

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Left off with this for the night, tomorrow I'll attack the top side.

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Well, for a first attempt at a large panel mold, i don't think its too terrible. There is a lot of room for improvement but, not horribly terrible.

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[Detroit Style]

Started cleaning up the engine bay, there will be filler panels made for the firewall and then everything will be blasted, sealed and painted.

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I haven't touched this car in a while, mostly due to have 0 money after bills have been paid but, that being said, I did just get back from the store, I am going to attempt to de-power the rack and get it setup to work with the SN95 spindles. The debate is, do I make a video of it or just a few pictures.

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Well, the de-powering failed. The seal at the top of the steering shaft isn't removable. The good news is, the rack must be so far gone that, its actually real easy to move by hand so, I put it back together and put the SN95 bits on it. Tomorrow I need to get some sealant to seal up the ports for the fluid and install the rack again. It will be nice to not have floppy pickle wheels to make moving the car easier.


I should also say, I have been dicking around with the engine bay, slowly getting it stripped and ready for paint and fab work.

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Musical motivation provided by:
[video=youtube;gnslHZB_ukc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnslHZB_ukc[/video]

 

[Detroit Style]

Decided to gut the dash since it weighs 100lbs, even with just the steel structure left, its still a tanks worth of weight. I think it needs to be made out of a composite of some sort.

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Tonight's musical motivation:
[video=youtube;x-YdouotPTg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-YdouotPTg[/video]

 

[Detroit Style]

I decided to fill in all the holes that are found in the engine bay of this platform and with that, I realized I need to fire up the weld I got for Christmas years and years ago that I never touched. It's your average Harbor Frieght Fluxcore box but, that should be more than enough for this project. I had some spare metal laying around from other projects so I decided to make a few test passes to see what I can do and how bad I am.

I have no real idea what Im looking at here. I know the splatter is just a by product of Fluxcore stuff and, i know I was starting to get decent beads to lay down but, past that. It looks like Greekaphilgy.


First attempt:


Attempt 1 was to weld the bent steel the the steel plate. The top weld was my most recent on that attempt and, where I turned up the speed the wire. Clearly, the top weld was the best one there. The weld to the right was a test past to see how the wire speed increase actually worked when applied to metal.

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Second attempt:
Cut out a small piece and weld it to create a little wall. That didnt turn out well, trying to weld that little piece with no means of holding it up resulted in burning through (lower left corner) and just really sloppy looking welds. Not being happy, I took a 5lb mini sledge and bent it over and as you can see, it held. Then I tried to weld it down while filling the gap that is obviously left with that type of bend. After that, I just decided to make a few lines that resemble letters or snakes.

DashGutting-5616 by Jason Bacon, on Flickr

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Musical inspiration provided by:
[video=youtube;YA6SRE2JQBk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA6SRE2JQBk&list=PLBSGkiRA2q6d0CV6ilK_pkSxyq_lmliMw[/video]

This may hurt some but, all of the connectors are cut off and all of the wiring from the car is ready to go to the metal recycler.

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[Detroit Style]

Another piece to the puzzle, thanks to Bastard SVT, a free Team Z radiator support.

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Let's see if I end up having to do a tube front after welding this thing in and turning things into liquid.

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Well, I am officially not a welder but at least I didn't burn the place down and the welds hold the weight of me. Just need to do some trimming so the turbo fits into the core support and can be bolted to the turbo holder pedestal thinger. Soon, I'll have no choice but to finish cleaning up the engine bay.

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[Detroit Style]

I decided to toss the nose on (its sitting close to where it needs to be) to get an idea of what it will look like when its together.

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[Detroit Style]

Materials loaded up and ready for a trip to the zarrrrb machine.

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The last bit of the chassis stuff has arrived!

 

[FocusMike]

Dang dude, talk about sleeper.

 

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