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Thread: '63 Ford Falcon "Gold Digger"
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08-18-2017 #21Registered User
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Bolt-ons make performance improvements so easy! This is how my Falcon became a Corvette . . .
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10-16-2017 #22Registered User
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Well its been about two months since an update and unfortunately I haven't accomplished too much as I've been busy with some other fabrication projects. I finally got my front brake situation figured out. Turns out that granada spindles are identical to 70-73 mustang spindles so I ordered the wilwood 6 piston front brake kit, bolted right on despite being told by wilwood that they would not work. So the front suspension end is almost done. I've never driven the car before so I am going to drive it with manual steering and see how it is. If I need to change it later I'll put in a power box. As for the rear suspension, I did all the finish fabrication work on the rear end, all tig welded. Mounted three link mounts, brake line tabs, brake caliper mounts, and then painted. At first I thought I would have to do some serious modifying to the rear suspension. I ended up only cutting out one of the mount systems for the third link and tig welded the third link mount directly to the frame rails. The street or track kit has worked out extremely well for me and felt it saved me a lot of time. I have one of the wheel tubs mocked up and in the car now it just needs to be welded in. I also put the motor in to see how everything is going to fit. Might be challenging to use the headers I have but it might work out. Going to pull the motor and rebuild it just to make sure it was rebuilt right. The previous owner said he built it for this car but based on some previous work I ahve seen, I dont trust it. I also moutned the wilwood reverse mount pedal assembly under the dash. Fabricated a mount that mount to a firewall welded plate with studs to make it removable. Other than that not o much has happened. Just ordered tires and next will be ordering wheels after I determine the offsets I need, as for tire specs 245 up front and 275 in the rear should be plenty of tire for this little car.
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10-18-2017 #23
Cool the 3 link stuff worked, lets see some more pics of it all together and mounted!!
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10-18-2017 #24Registered User
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