Gen1 LONG TERM PROJECT CAR Build Thread Profile - Gen 1 Mustangs

[GB899]

This is the Build Thread for LONG TERM PROJECT CAR. Reply below.

 

[TMSBOSS]

How are the floors?

 

[GB899]

How are the floors?

they were very solid 20 or so years ago when I stopped playing with it and it was converted into a storage container...

 

[TMSBOSS]

Nice. You do mean long term.

 

[302BOB]

What yr is that red lawnmower?????.....just kidding......looks like a project ready to bloom when you get the tyme..............and OPM...........

 

[GB899]

boxes of "new" parts and old greasy stuff got dropped off at the machine shop today... they are still waiting on the rotating assembly parts to show up... but they can fiddle with greasy old junk while they wait...

 

[blacksheep-1]

Gt40 heads are well worth the effort, along with 7/16s screw in studs, roller rockers and a girdle. With regards tot he short block, unless it's an ultra rare 271hp version, it will have 2 bolt mains, You can buy 4 bolt mains for it but you'll have to machine the block and line bore it, a good recommendation if you are going to track it.

 

[GB899]

the block is a 1989 5.0.. it is being built with girdles etc.. rated to 7000 plus rpm... will be setting the shift light at 6000rpm... had a 1990GT back in the day and learned how to drag race & autocross... anything above 6000rpm still makes my heiny pucker... lol

 

[302BOB]

Low 6000 RPMs to maybe 6500RPM may be doable without risk, but it may not help that pucker problem that may accompany that............even in the Boss, after 6000, I.m in unknown territory...for good reason, I suppose...............

 

[blacksheep-1]

these things really need help cylinder head wise, if you don't go with the gt40 heads, I would suggest the SCCA A sedan setup.

http://www.asedan.net/misc/New_Rules.pdf

 

[302BOB]

Hey, GB899, You near Blair, Neb????...You need to get Bill P. to help you turn a wrench or two................Oops, I can hear Bill grumbling from here.................

 

[GB899]

I have been friends with Bill for a long time... and know better than to ask him to wrench on my car... he can have a beer and tell me what I am doing wrong.. lol

 

[TMSBOSS]

Bill is a wealth if knowledge when it comes to selling and driving cars. He has helped numerous folks here, including myself. Picking up a wrench....not so much.

 

[TymeSlayer]

Bill is a wealth if knowledge when it comes to selling and driving cars. He has helped numerous folks here, including myself. Picking up a wrench....not so much.

Unless of course he's handing it to you!

 

[TMSBOSS]

Unless of course he's handing it to you!

Always glad to help Bill. Returning the favors he offered so freely.

 

[PatrickStapler]

Welcome. We’re growing by the minute…err ok semi-annually.

 

[GB899]

progress has not quite by the minute.. lol
you can use an almanac & Haley's comet to date my progress...

 

[PatrickStapler]

Took a pandemic for me kick myself in the a$$. Well that and almost putting my not-race car in wall at CMP…and a wife dropping the hammer…

 

[GB899]

an update???
well popped by the machine shop to see if anything has changed.. (hoping for a birthday present...lol)
the update was the cam was in and the motor is much less greasy and the heads/intake are ready to go... but the stroker rotating assembly delivery date is a very tentative late September as of today.. so maybe an anniversary present??. lol
this has been going on starts & stops since 1991 so 2 months is no biggie...

 

[PatrickStapler]

Any movement forward is progress these days.