$5000 budget Mustang

[454bug]

Excellent times Ron!

Just losing 1/2 second to running street tires and a non-optimun setup (shocks, sway bars, etc) for the drags is VERY impressive! It's amazing they list the KDW-2's as a 300 rating and still get the traction they do...

Just like the Beach Boys... I heard you, "layin' rubber in all 4 gears"!!

[Ron S]

Love the fact that these cars can, do a street cruise, run a roadcourse, an autoX, and go run 10's on the dragstrip without changing a thing. Pro Touring, the Swiss Army Knife of cars, how can any car guy not like the P/T style?

[64LS1Nova]

Your talking me into it deeper and deeper every day! I'm watching you have more fun with this car than any car I remember you ever having!

[1red68]

and thats what it's all about, having fun with our cars and enjoying the people you meet along the way.

[tommycomfort]

Love the fact that these cars can, do a street cruise, run a roadcourse, an autoX, and go run 10's on the dragstrip without changing a thing. Pro Touring, the Swiss Army Knife of cars, how can any car guy not like the P/T style?

Pro-Touring: The Swiss Army knife of cars
How can we not put that on stickers and shirts?
Tom

[David Sloan]

Pro-Touring: The Swiss Army knife of cars
How can we not put that on stickers and shirts?
Tom

We got to get Bill Or Larry working on this! Thats just Cool! LOL!!

[tommycomfort]

We got to get Bill Or Larry working on this! Thats just Cool! LOL!!

As soon as I get a minute I'm going to put that in my signature block. If it's ok with Ron of course...

[Ron S]

Have at it Tommy, You've got a nice little knife there yourself.(I am talking about your car)LOL

[monteboy84]

Silly Ron, don't you know that 6-speeds can't go fast in the 1/4? ;) Looks great, always nice to see a corner carver whooping up on dedicated strip cars. There really is no substitute for these cars, watching those cars from the strip trying to keep up with you through the corners would be a scary sight to see.

-matt

[Ron S]

Actually its a 4 speed in the car, I was looking at Keislers clutchless 6 speed, but it was alittle out of my price range. Its all relative, all my drag race buddies can't understand why I would build a car that is so slow, there are alot of 8 second door bangers tagged here in Maryland.

[ProTour69Bird]

omg! i saw your car on the widebody thread, looked up your build...... went through the entire thing tonight. wow. you slayed your build! as much as you said you were working, **** was still getting done. im impressed. i kept seeing the "$5000 budget...." pop up in updates so offen, i now feel like a jackwagon for blowing it off. you've got some talent sir. damn it, its 11:00 and i wish i was cutting and grinding my car to pieces. my bird better be ready for this weekends toe-2-toe throwdown.

nice design on the newer bumper, the little chin strap looks dope

[Ron S]

Thanks, i love the birds too. It is on my list of cars I want to build before I croke.

I just loaded my car to head to jersey, there is about 2" of snow on the ground here. This car is a handful when its dry, I must be nuts. Hope the weather over by the shore is just wet, and not snow covered. Oh well, I said I was coming. Ron

[David Sloan]

Have Fun ! Be safe!!

[Nessumsar]

Hope you make it there ok Ron. We're all expecting a race report!

[Ron S]

This is turning into the War and Peace of threads, the thread that never ends.



It was a crazy weekend, I'm still kind of in a funk. While on the road course at RTTS, the engine in the Mustang let go. While trying to lay down a decent time, in one of the faster parts of the course the engine locked up, knocking the side out of the block, laying 3 gallons of oil on to the track, and putting me into the wall.

While on the cruise Friday, the breather puked a bunch of oil out, only did it once, but it should have given me a heads up. Saturday while beating on it, it seemed a little down on power, but ran OK. When time trialing on the road course at about 6500rpm / 110 mph, in a long sweeping turn the thing let go.

Pulled the engine this morning, it appears #5 piston broke right at the ring land, throwing the rod thru the side of the cylinder. Looks like the heads made it though. I remember the guy I bought the engine from, saying he squeezed several times, maybe that weak'nd it,maybe not. I still want to have some fun this summer, so I guess I'll have to figure some things out.

[RS_Customs]

Saw your post in the RTTS thread, that sucks bad! Hope you can find a short block easily and get her back running quickly.

How did the body fair when you went into the wall?

Robert

[64LS1Nova]

Real sorry to hear this Ron. I know exactly how you feel. The girls got upset when I told them the news. I may have to bring them by for a visit.
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hmm, I'm not doing anything with my powerplant at the moment

[JBCO]

Ouch - sorry to hear Ron - how's the rest of the car? And yourself?

[Dan S.]

This is turning into the War and Peace of threads, the thread that never ends.

It was a crazy weekend, I'm still kind of in a funk. While on the road course at RTTS, the engine in the Mustang let go. While trying to lay down a decent time, in one of the faster parts of the course the engine locked up, knocking the side out of the block, laying 3 gallons of oil on to the track, and putting me into the wall.

While on the cruise Friday, the breather puked a bunch of oil out, only did it once, but it should have given me a heads up. Saturday while beating on it, it seemed a little down on power, but ran OK. When time trialing on the road course at about 6500rpm / 110 mph, in a long sweeping turn the thing let go.

Pulled the engine this morning, it appears #5 piston broke right at the ring land, throwing the rod thru the side of the cylinder. Looks like the heads made it though. I remember the guy I bought the engine from, saying he squeezed several times, maybe that weak'nd it,maybe not. I still want to have some fun this summer, so I guess I'll have to figure some things out.

Looking at the picture, it seems like the sheet metal damage is all in the rear.

Is it bad?

[Ron S]

Looking at the picture, it seems like the sheet metal damage is all in the rear.

Is it bad?

The turn before it let go, I heard a vibration,I checked the guages, oil pressure was up, taching around 6500 in third gear. I was leaning forward listening for the vibration when the engine locked up. It locked the rear wheels, because I was partially through the turn, the car went into a spin. Once the rear wheels hit the 3 gallons of oil,and antifreeze, I was just along for the ride. I hit the wall backwards, its funny all was thinking was, I hope the block lived. Of course it didn't.

Looking at the car today,the chassis was so ridgid, the quarter hit so hard it has the perfect shape of the guardrail, but the crossmembers kept it off the frame. Probably a weeks work on the sheetmetal, its the engine that breaks my heart.