88 Mustang Rebuild For 50th B-Day

[webestang6416]

Started last spring, finished the day before I left for the show, all done by me in my driveway. Did a lot of mechanicals as well. She's got 190,000 miles on her....

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At the show.................Had a blast!!!!!!!!!! Put a total of 1664 miles on Sally....she ran perfect and got 24mpg.











Slide show..........
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/webestang/...Mustang%20B-Day

 

[Derrel]

What? Only 50 photos??? C'mon, let 'em flow!!!

(I had a 1967 with 289 and 3-speed automatic back in the early 1980's. Wrecked and totalled my brother's 1969 with 351 Cleveland.)

 

[bribrius]

What? Only 50 photos??? C'mon, let 'em flow!!!

(I had a 1967 with 289 and 3-speed automatic back in the early 1980's. Wrecked and totalled my brother's 1969 with 351 Cleveland.)

was that a Cleveland or a Windsor?



love the progress shots. cool thread.

 

[pixmedic3 3]

I had a 1965 mustang. Pony edition.

 

[bribrius]

lol. I had a 86 when I was a teenager. Motor didn't make it . Dad wouldn't buy me another one...
course I had already wrecked the truck he bought me too and lost my license so...
I ended up demoted to a subaru

 

[webestang6416]

Thanks........here is my daily driver... 85 coupe 4-banger.....

 

[bribrius]

four cylinder. \\

meh

:waiting:

:lmao:

I get it though

 

[KmH]

Big job. But she looks good.

From a handling perspective it's to bad it's a convertible. With no top the uni-body flexes a lot more than a hard top does, and all the suspension geometry changes with the flex caused when the car is turned.
A hatchback flexes more than a hard top too, but not as much as the convertible,

Did you add sub-frame connectors? I don't see a shock tower brace.

When Ford redesigned the Mustang for the '94 model year and they got around to producing a convertible, they added bracing to the convertible uni-body (mostly in the cowl area) to help minimize chassis flex. They also added a tuned mass damper above the right wheel well in the convertibles to help minimize resonant frequency vibrations.

 

[webestang6416]

four cylinder. \\

meh

:waiting:

:lmao:

I get it though

LOL............oh yeah, I have plans for a V8....! I bought it mainly because it had only 82xxx miles and no rust anywhere. Paid $1300 in 2009.

Does have tube header and a A Thrush cherry bomb muffler....LOL.....

 

[webestang6416]

Big job. But she looks good.

From a handling perspective it's to bad it's a convertible. With no top the uni-body flexes a lot more than a hard top does, and all the suspension geometry changes with the flex caused when the car is turned.
A hatchback flexes more than a hard top too, but not as much as the convertible,

Did you add sub-frame connectors? I don't see a shock tower brace.

When Ford redesigned the Mustang for the '94 model year and they got around to producing a convertible, they added bracing to the convertible uni-body (mostly in the cowl area) to help minimize chassis flex. They also added a tuned mass damper above the right wheel well in the convertibles to help minimize resonant frequency vibrations.

I plan on added them soon......I did replace the struts/shocks and axle dampers and had a buddy weld up the torque boxes.

 

[webestang6416]

2 things of note inside.....I found a very rare BBK 170mph speedo, only 500 made.


and my Pop made a rear seat delete from scratch for me.......