1994 Mustang GT Pro-Touring

[Peter R]

It fits

[Z06killinSBF]

Man that looks good!

[69stang]

Josh is right again...Ford never did a Bullitt in an SN95..

Ford did a Bullitt in the SN95 body but it was later, thinking with edge version of the body.

Peter, love the earlier SN95 cars. never got around to buying one though. Nice fat rubber.

[LS1-IROC]

Cool project! Where in West MI are you?

[Peter R]

Cool project! Where in West MI are you?

Thanks. I'm just outside of Grand Rapids. That IROC is awesome looking, I always loved them. The stance is great. For me, the stance can ruin an otherwise great car.

[Justin@EntropyRad]

Ford did a Bullitt in the SN95 body but it was later, thinking with edge version of the body.

Peter, love the earlier SN95 cars. never got around to buying one though. Nice fat rubber.

semantics, but we always called those SN99s since they are too ugly to compare to 94-98 ;)

Saleens look great on everything, nice wheel choice!

[Peter R]

We finally have nice weather but I haven't had any time to work on the car. My friends motorcycle engine locked up and he asked me to fix it. It was much worse than I was expecting (it sucked in a metal washer and did a number on everything), but that is done so I can get back to the mustang. I did get the wife to let me spend some money so I have plenty to do for a while. I got the Viking coilovers with 250lbs rate 12" springs. The rate was kind of a guess since I couldn't find any solid numbers to go from. It should be close for a starting point at least. I went with the larger 5/8" eye bushings since I'm not sure if I am going to use the bottom mount in single or double shear yet. I know that double is stronger but it seems like most people are using single shear without any problems. Single shear sure looks a lot cleaner but I may go with a double shear mount just for the peace of mind. I am open to input on the mounts, or better yet pictures.

[Peter R]

Measure twice, cut once. Looks like I should have measured 3 times. I tried to mock up the coil overs tonight and It's a lot tighter than I thought it was going to be. I should have went with the next shorter shock. I wanted to try and keep a decent amount of travel, so went with the longer shocks. I was going to keep the shocks below the truck floor but It will need to stick above it a little. The stock shocks mounted a similar way so I am going to try and use the factory hump for some extra space.


I cut out some of the extra bracing with a cut off wheel for more room.


Here is the rough cut.

[Peter R]

Then I smoothed it out with the grinding wheel. I will need to weld the seam before I'm finished.



I also had to cut a notch out of the frame to move the shock in to clear the wheel.

[PANTYEATR]

love the SN95s! subscribed!

[Protour_Pinto]

Who did the widening? How much was it?

[BlackMachOne]

Wow thats a good looking coil-over kit!

[BmoreKeith]

Who did the widening? How much was it?

Since there wasn't a response, my gut tells me Weldcraft Wheels did it since they are both in Michigan. Weldcraft is pretty well known for this stuff.

[Peter R]

Since there wasn't a response, my gut tells me Weldcraft Wheels did it since they are both in Michigan. Weldcraft is pretty well known for this stuff.

You are correct, it was weldcraft. It was $235 per wheel to widen 2". That was the most economical way to get a 12" wheel that I liked.

[Peter R]

I picked up this:


To get this:


The truck intake is to tall (and ugly) so I got an ls1.

[Peter R]

Here was mocking up the 6.0L engine.


The truck oil pan hangs way to low and this is a budget build so I chopped 2" out of the stock oil pan.


I was trying to section the pan but because it is tapered I decided to just use a new piece for the bottom.


It welded better than I thought it would for an old oil soaked cast pan, but by not means does it look very good. I will find pictures of it welded, but here is the pick up I had to shorten.

[Peter R]

1st time in almost 2 years it is off jack stands. It felt good to get it out side and wash it.
2 years of grinding dust:


You would not think I have an eninge in there becasue it sits so high but I do. Don't worry, those coils are going to get cut.

[Peter R]

It was probably to soon to cut the coil springs since there are several hundred pounds of parts that still need to be installed. But I hated looking at it sitting up so high. I cut 2 coils off of each stock coil spring.

[Peter R]

First time I ever tried to make a fuel tank. I was concerned about fuel slosh/starvation on track days so I build a little sump inside the tank. I will be running dual internal pumps.


The outside corner welds came out pretty good. The inside corners did not come out so great.

[digitalsolo]

Cool build, I like the huge tires that aren't obviously huge from the outside. Nice work!