68 Mustang Progress

[kmcanally]

Cars lookin' real good. You did a great thing by getting those 18's on there. The black and green color go great together. I saw your video the other day. Sounds pretty nice. What is your setup? Exhuast wise? Are you cammed as well? What cam did you go with?

Thanks...It was fairly easy to calculate the fit of the 18" wheel/tire combo when I still had the 17" Cobra R's still on the car.

The exhaust is JBA shorties into a Dr. Gas x-pipe into Flowmaster Delta 40's and full tailpipes over the axle and out the back... all 2 1/2" and fully ceramic coated.



The cam is a 244 duration @ .050 Crower solid roller with .544" lift. The specs on this cam is one of their "street roller" SBC grinds. These street roller grinds do not require the huge spring pressures normally associated with solid roller cams...with the reduced pressure hopefully I will get some long term durability out of the lifters.

[Restomod]

Hey KM,you going to put the trim back around the 1/4 extensions and trunk lid??? I have been unsure as to put this back on mine or not. BTW your car looks and sounds super!!! What size rear tires are they?? I have 285-30-18 Dunlop 9090 for the rear of mine and yours look close.

[kmcanally]

Hey KM,you going to put the trim back around the 1/4 extensions and trunk lid??? I have been unsure as to put this back on mine or not. BTW your car looks and sounds super!!! What size rear tires are they?? I have 285-30-18 Dunlop 9090 for the rear of mine and yours look close.

I planned on putting the trim on...although now I wish I had filled the holes in the end caps so that I did not have to....The trunk lid is a NOS piece that come without the holes drilled...I guess it would be easy to fill and refinish the endcaps...hmmmm. I also did not fill the holes for the rocker panel trim and now I wished I had as well....I might even leave off the drip rail trim...

The rear tires are 295/35-18 and they are close. The right side fits great and seems to have lots of clearance but the left side is much closer to the fender lip. The right q-panel was repalaced 20 odd years ago and is the likely reason for the disparity. To fix I am going to machine 1/8" to 3/16" off the mounting flange of the wheel.

Have you driven your car yet with the 285's....any problems?

[Restomod]

Mines not even close to the road yet but I already trimmed the lip off. Thanks

[hechtrod]

Those are my favorite mustang wheels. I've thought of putting those on my '94 GT. Anyway. Haven't see a 60's stang with those wheels on it, and I really like it.