1994 Mustang GT Pro-Touring

[LERM]

Awesome job so far. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

[thethrillofspeed]

What size rubber are you running on the front? I have 275's on the front and 315's on the back of my SN95, sure would like to go bigger up front.

[drivefaster80]

Hi, great job. I was thinking about doing something similar widening XXR 531 19x11 +15mm 6.59"BS with an extra 2 inches and fitting some 345/30/19 Michelin Pilot Sport Cups. Do you think that would work? or what that be too tall and too wide?
http://www.nlmotoring.com/XXR-531-Wh.../53191432n.htm

I guess you started out with an 18 by 10" saleen wheel with 22mm offset, 6.37"bs and added 2" to the inside of the wheel giving yourself a total of 8.37"bs making the wheel wider on the inside, thus having to remove things in the way towards the inside of wheel well like, quad shocks, exhaust then cutting the tubs? does this sound about right?

[supernatural]

Nice build! subscribed!

[Josh@Ridetech]

Looking good. I'll be sending my wheels off to them to widen shortly, glad to see them doing quality work.

[Peter R]

What size rubber are you running on the front? I have 275's on the front and 315's on the back of my SN95, sure would like to go bigger up front.

275/35-18 on 9" wide wheels. I wanted to go wider but it was going be a lot more work so I took the easy route on the front. The 10" wide wheels stuck out to far for my liking. Some fender flares may have looked good but I am not ready for body work yet.

[Peter R]

Hi, great job. I was thinking about doing something similar widening XXR 531 19x11 +15mm 6.59"BS with an extra 2 inches and fitting some 345/30/19 Michelin Pilot Sport Cups. Do you think that would work? or what that be too tall and too wide?
http://www.nlmotoring.com/XXR-531-Wh.../53191432n.htm

I guess you started out with an 18 by 10" saleen wheel with 22mm offset, 6.37"bs and added 2" to the inside of the wheel giving yourself a total of 8.37"bs making the wheel wider on the inside, thus having to remove things in the way towards the inside of wheel well like, quad shocks, exhaust then cutting the tubs? does this sound about right?

I like those wheels and that is a good price. If you widen those 2" they would never fit unless you did some major mods. Wheel tubes, springs, frame rails ect.

That is pretty much what I did but my quad shocks and exhaust were already gone. After cutting out the wheel tub the frame rail was also in the way. I tried 3 different ways of modifying the frame rails then just cut them out completely and welded in new frame rails. I'll try to find some pictures of that. I am missing a bunch of pictures right now.

[Peter R]

This was the 1st thing I tried. Notched the frame then tried to suport it with angle iron.



This is version 3.0 for the frame rails, I cut out the factory frame rail then welded in a plate and butt welded the new rail in. Then I was worried it might break so I cut it all out againg and slide the frame rail into the factory frame rail. Not sure why I didn't think of that first.

[Peter R]

I found some missing Pictures! Here is where I slid the frame rails in and welded them.




I also sandblasted then fully welded the upper control arm mounts.

[Peter R]

Here is the "Nascar" Panhard mount I bought cheap online.

[Peter R]

Braced it up good.



Then cleaned up the axle.



Here is a shot of the other panhard mount.



Here it is finnaly done.

[drivefaster80]

here you go this should solve your problem a little pricey but https://www.maierracing.com/product/...-front-flares/ How much did your 10" wheel stick out? you should be able to fit a 305 tire for sure, also I asked maier, he told me I could fit 315 on all 4's with his flares, but he couldn't tell me what size wheels, so expect to modify flares up front to fit 18 by 10's.

275/35-18 on 9" wide wheels. I wanted to go wider but it was going be a lot more work so I took the easy route on the front. The 10" wide wheels stuck out to far for my liking. Some fender flares may have looked good but I am not ready for body work yet.

[drivefaster80]

Its beautiful, a real piece of art, who needs expensive Max motorsports when you know how to build a freaken NASCAR suspension! I'm sold, I'm next, seriously can you build me a sn95 or sell me yours when its done let me know what you want for it ok. I don't have the room, the tools or the know on how to do it myself but I still want to watch, learn how people do it.

How do u mount the coil-overs and what spring rate did you use?

[drivefaster80]

nice, where would i buy frame rails like this? what size,dimension,thickness? would be possible just to weld in a already made backhalf rail, what I see is used for drag racer?

[drivefaster80]

so u just welded some plates to box it in and added a rod to support it?

[drivefaster80]

the right mount with the 10 holes, did you just weld that onto the new frame rail, how did u figure out exactly where to weld it? where did u buy it or did u build it, if so how.

The black pan hard rod thats welded onto that mount then appears to go the left upper new frame rail? where exactly on the rail did you weld that? thanks

[drivefaster80]

Where could I get such a cool, pan rod with anodized red heim joints, whats the length,thickness of the rod?

[drivefaster80]

is this where you got the nascar mount? it says it come with the SERRATED FLOATER, where did u find that? or could i just go to the hardware store and buy a small serrated plate and or block or do i have to find something specific like http://www.ubmachine.com/serratedblocks.html

http://www.2040-parts.com/new-nascar...mount-i408564/

[Peter R]

here you go this should solve your problem a little pricey but https://www.maierracing.com/product/...-front-flares/ How much did your 10" wheel stick out? you should be able to fit a 305 tire for sure, also I asked maier, he told me I could fit 315 on all 4's with his flares, but he couldn't tell me what size wheels, so expect to modify flares up front to fit 18 by 10's.

Those look nice but I'm going to try and reduce the amount of bodywork for now. I'm getting the itch to get this on the road. Next summer I hope to have it running NA then add a turbo when funds allow.

[Peter R]

Its beautiful, a real piece of art, who needs expensive Max motorsports when you know how to build a freaken NASCAR suspension! I'm sold, I'm next, seriously can you build me a sn95 or sell me yours when its done let me know what you want for it ok. I don't have the room, the tools or the know on how to do it myself but I still want to watch, learn how people do it.

How do u mount the coil-overs and what spring rate did you use?

Thanks for the compliment but I'm learning as I go. What is nice about working with metal is when you screw up you can just weld it back up or start over if needed. It cost more time than money. I made the coilover mounts. I'll see if I can find some pictures of them. If I remember correctly I think the rear springs are 175lbs. They might be to stiff but I won't know unti I get it on the road. It was a bit of a guess on the proper rate.