67 Fairlane AWD

[gschris]

So I have this 67 Fairlane, the underside is pretty rough, i have been racking my brain, going back and fourth on Pro Touring, or street/strip.. I picked up a 2000 AWD V8 explorer for the EFI 5.0, and 8.8 rear end.. got a C-4, some 18 inch wheels, was basically going to build a 2x3 tube chassis and use a mustang II front clip from welderseries.com... well.. then i got thinking.. the wheel base on the explorer is like 5 inches shorter than the Fairlane... and the track width is really close.. sooooo why not use all the suspension, modify the frame, use the power steering, power brakes, heck as much as possible from the explorer and make an AWD fairlane convertible...so thats what i am doing... here is a pic of what i have for a car, and the wheels, they are 18x9 and 18x10 FR500 replicas..

[Protour_Pinto]

Picture needs more sawzall, and smoke!

[Spork82]

That's going to be one cool car! choppy choppy time!

[1tuff68]

Super cool project. I have thought about an AWD project so I'll be watching with anticipation

[kingcrunch]

Subscribed.
The world needs more AWD conversions. Anybody know stuff that holds up to 500whp? Like CV joints, front diffs, transfer cases, etc.?

[Munssey]

.... i'm listening!

[wfo guy]

I like the sound of this. If you do this well, drag racing will be easy but you can turn corners and stop. :)

[Restomod]

You have my attention!

[Motorcitydak]

Great idea, good luck with the build!

[gschris]

here is my donor.. i am going to use as much of it as i can, brakes, cooling, electrical etc to keep costs down and simplicity...132779132780

[feeble]

Been thinking using the Explorer AWD platform on a car as well. Subscribed.

[1tuff68]

Since I saw your thread I started looking into this for my '60 Falcon wagon. I haven't been able to find any way to easily upgrade the brakes to 13"+ discs. It looks like the Explorers came with 11.25" discs. Any thoughts on upgrading brakes?

[gschris]

I had originally thought about using Saleen explorer parts..but they had issues and were all recalled...once the chassis is under it I am going to try and find parts to put at least a 13 inch rotor without spending a million dollars...we will see...I wonder if there is a way to use sn95 cobra parts...

[1tuff68]

That's what I was thinking. '03/'04 cobra brakes might work, probably just need to come up with a caliper bracket

[injcted]

Very Cool build waiting to see more!

[Nurseben]

Love the AWD! I purchased an AWD Savana for the engine and things got out of hand real quick. 1969 c10 on AWD van, neighbors hate me.

[gschris]

Awesome! More pics!!

[andrewb70]

Interesting....

Andrew

[Nurseben]

Just fired mine up and was a great feeling. Keep at it, you won't regret it!

[meatonastick]

Did anything ever come of this? I love the idea of awd conversions, and fairlanes are just cool to begin with so this is a formula for something amazing.

[NoNo]

Anything new, on here ? I'd love to read more...