$5000 budget Mustang

[Six_Shooter]

I like those ducts.

[bonecrrusher]

Get some CF, resin, and a vaccum bag??

[Bryce]

Ron,

CF is not that hard to make, unless you need ultimate strength and/or a perfect finish.

[Payton King]

Dude, that is going to be killer in there.

Tell me you did not cut that board just for place to take a picture. LOL

[Damn True]

Looks great Ron. Has the gears turning for a couple things on my car. How did you affix the mesh?

[Crestronwizard]

I am in the Baltimore area at least once a month for work.....do you offer tours? :-)

[Ron S]

Dude, that is going to be killer in there.

Tell me you did not cut that board just for place to take a picture. LOL

No Payton, that is the stuff my contractor has set up in the basement. I'm sure he wouldn't mind me using it.

[Ron S]

Looks great Ron. Has the gears turning for a couple things on my car. How did you affix the mesh?

Its pinched in between a 1" aluminum flat bar, and the framing, and held together with rivets. The hard part True, is building a wooden buck to hammer the mesh over. These weren't that bad to make, the side vents on the car were a PITA though.

[Ron S]

I am in the Baltimore area at least once a month for work.....do you offer tours? :-)

I work in Bmore, but live at the MD./PA. line.

[Ron S]

Watching that show last night motivated me to finish this lower grill/brake ducts. I kind of liked the thing without the splitter, but its growing on me with it. If the weather holds out, I plan on hitting the drag strip next Sat., interested to see what kind of quarter mile times this thing runs.

[lt1chevelle]

looking good! is that a little nova under the cover?

[Ron S]

Thats my buddy Franks twin turbo LS1 powered 63,somewhere around 900 hp's. It kind of did a dance with a telephone pole, and he is in the middle of rebodying it as we speak, it should be a super nice car.

[1red68]

Ouch! Poor guy. those telephone poles make poor dance partners.......

[srh3trinity]

The bumper looks great. Are you still planning on tidying up the interior some?

[Ron S]

The bumper looks great. Are you still planning on tidying up the interior some?

I'd like to, but dought I'll have the time.

[Norm Peterson]

The brake duct/lower grill isn't finished yet, finished trimming, and welding tonight.

The exhaust had this resination at about 3000 rpm, I assume it was from the way I mounted the mufflers. Everything was in such tight quarters(as I'm sure your real familiar with) that when I mounted the mufflers, I welded three little mounting tabs to the frame, and 3 to mufflers. I used the little exhaust hangers that look almost like a shock bushing. I guess it was kinda rigid, because the front bushing kind fell apart, and started this ratting, that drove me up the wall. I'm hoping the flex in there will correct this issue. Only time will tell.

I think as long as the flex sections have more than enough "flex" to accommodate engine/transmission rocking and chassis flex, you'll be OK. There doesn't look like there's a huge amount of clearance between the muffler inlet pipe and the hole cut in that frame tube, so I can see where looseness at the front of the muffler would make for a rattle.

You'll also relieve fore/aft loads and lateral pipe displacement caused by exhaust pipe expansion - I'll bet it wants to grow quite a bit during a track session, and if it can't grow rearward it'll "pop out" of its cold shape either laterally or vertically. If it's mostly quiet just cruising around on a cold day and noisy out on the track or when driven hard, this is the likely reason.


You may or may not fix the resonance. That's a function of the lengths between changes in exhaust system cross section. Sometimes a drone where the two pipes get to resonating in phase with each other can be reduced or eliminated by making the right side and left side exhaust lines slightly different length ahead of the mufflers. The flex sections will at least shift the frequency that the pipes as a whole will want to buzz at.


Norm

[emazingli]

Nice build up mate Ron S! From a rust into a new one! Fit to budget. :D

[Ron S]

Had a very good day at the drag strip. Me and a buddy drove our cars to the track, its still pretty cold here so it wasn't real crowded. We both made about twenty passes, I was a little worried about the clutchless 4 speed, beacause this was kind of its maiden voyage. It took a few passes to master, man is it a hoot to drive.

The track was cold, so the Bfg's spun through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gears. At one point, because of the violent nature of the trans, I broke loose pulling 4th gear and got a little close to the wall. Still managed to run a 10.94 @ 132 mph. If I had a set of drag radials, I think the car had a 10.4 in it. Nobody broke, everybody ran good, a really fun outing.

A buddy took a bunch of video, as soon as he gets it up, I'll post it. Ron

[David Sloan]

Very cool, glad to here it went well. That's some good times for the tires an cold temps! Man i cant believe the weather today its 81% here. I sure wish mine was done, but i am working on it today.
Got the old floor pans out an cleaned up the welds for the new pans to go back in.

[andrewb70]

....It took a few passes to master, man is it a hoot to drive.

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Told ya! Great times for being so traction limited.

Andrew