Project SicMonte

[SicMonte]

Fluids almost ready to go in...



Keeping the optima happy while it's out of the car...



Rough routing of the trans lines to the cooler...



Spacers I had to make so that the bracket would fit on the new pan!!

[SicMonte]

Poor car just wants to be back on the road!!!



Wiring up the radiator fan and new trans cooler fan.



Gauge install nightmare!!!!

[Tony_SS]

Love the floormats. lol

Thanks for reminding me I need one of those drip pans over the blockoff plate like you have..

[sr73bu]

LOL! love the floormats buddy!

-Sean

[72D100]

nice floor mats, no sarcasm

[bonecrrusher]

Mustang is all done and back on the road!!! Insurance took care of everything so we are all set to go. The floor was reshaped and welded back together, new rack was installed, paint touched up, and new front heat exchanger brackets were put in. Car is great and Kim is happy! Thank you for asking!

Thats good its all done and running.

A happy woman is the best kind!

June 2nd - yeah I'll be in the middle of the HRPT - so no DC trip for me.

[SicMonte]

WOW! Ive had more responces on my floor mats then on the car!!

Here they are...

[SicMonte]

Im thinking of taking out the radio........what do you all think? The rear roll bar bars go through the rear speaker holes so those are not in. All I have is the 3.5 inch speakers in the dash...and they are a joke.

Im thinking of taking it all out and putting my gauges in that area...

[Norm Peterson]

I don't think I'd put any important gauge that far away from looking down track.

As far as the speakers themselves are concerned - can you get something a little bigger into the doors or into the rear seat side panels?


Good to hear that Kim's Mustang is back in business again.


Norm

[SLO_Z28]

Ditch the radio IMO. Why? Because race car!

[carguykeith]

I was originally planning on ditching my radio too but had so much gauge/ switch real estate after ripping out the hvac and stock gauges I went ahead and put one in. Just threw in a sony deck that holds my ipod inside of it with some 6 1/2 components and some 6x9 (all in the doors) for like $250 total.

Definitely not going to win any stereo competitions, but I can easily listen to the stereo while driving down the freeway at 75. That doesn't sound like much but remember I'm running a race prepped bigblock with headers using only an x-pipe and 3" race mufflers all while turning 3,200 RPM down the hwy...

[SicMonte]

I was originally planning on ditching my radio too but had so much gauge/ switch real estate after ripping out the hvac and stock gauges I went ahead and put one in. Just threw in a sony deck that holds my ipod inside of it with some 6 1/2 components and some 6x9 (all in the doors) for like $250 total.



Definitely not going to win any stereo competitions, but I can easily listen to the stereo while driving down the freeway at 75. That doesn't sound like much but remember I'm running a race prepped bigblock with headers using only an x-pipe and 3" race mufflers all while turning 3,200 RPM down the hwy...

got any pics of the speakers in the doors??

[SicMonte]

went to go put in the trans fluid and I guess I put it in too fast....b/c it started to leak from the top vent after only 8 quarts!!!!!! whoops...



This is my exhaust...all dirty and nasty. I cleaned it all off and painted it before putting it back up.



Upon cleaning the mufflers I saw a small hole in one of them where a weld gave away. I had to patch that before finishing the painting!!



These screw jacks are a life saver when you have a bad back!!!

[Tony_SS]

I'm very jealous of that lift..

[carguykeith]

got any pics of the speakers in the doors??

I do, but kind of forgot I'm also running aftermarket inner door skins from Scottrod Fab (awesome product and service btw) so probably not very helpfull.

Here is the components and the 6x9 are in the very back bottom corner of the door js tout of view but you get the idea.

[ATOMonkey]

You can always build your own speaker enclosures and wire them up with quick connects, so you can pull them out at the track.

[SicMonte]

Ok the trans is in and everything works well...except for the trans temp gauge. I had to install the temp sender into the pan. Here's how it went!!


This is the PML pan with the trans temp sensor boss.





My fitting is has 1/2 NPT threads and seemed to be way to big for the boss on the pan so we decided to get a bung and weld it on.

[SicMonte]

Jason Huber over at GForce Design Concepts got the 1/2 NPT bungs for me. He originally tried to tap it, and we both knew it wasn't going to work, but was worth a try!!



He sandblasted away some of the powdercoat and fit up the bung.



All welded up!!!

[SicMonte]

I went up to the shop and brought the pan home to finish the installation. The threads on the 1/2 NPT adapter were a lil buggered up so I ran a tap in it and they cleaned right up!!



The pan is now all painted up and installed on the trans.



Now to install the fittings!!




I ran the temp sensor cable/wire through some 1/4" line clamps that attached directly to the pan bolts for a nice and clean install. After that I just routed the wire up to the gauge. It was a lil bit tough since this is a mechanical gauge but the wire bent pretty freely. I did avoid very sharp bends though.

[SicMonte]

I drove the car all day yesterday and today and only saw a max trans temp of 180 degress. I do have a hugeXhuge Derale trans cooler with it's own fan so that might have something to do with it!!!

This was taken this morning at a local Sunday morning cruise in we call "Donut Church".



and tonight at dinner......car drives so well now!!!!!