Slow 68 mustang - Big Girl Pearl or "Yellow Fury"

[arcane73]

So. Over the past year I've been gathering parts while waiting on the Phoenix temps to cool back off some.
During that time I've picked up my wheels & tires, new front suspension goodies from Mike Maier, took the 8.8 in for a ring and pinion setup and then had to toss that housing and get another one.

On with the pics!
Wheels and tires. Nothing super fancy or expensive. 17x8 fronts and 17x9.5 rears. 245/45ZR17 & 275/40ZR17 BFG Sport Comp-2.
Got these all in a deal from Discount using my summit card. Turned out to basically be a "buy 3 get third free" deal after rebates.


Also decided to ditch the stock steering wheel and replace it with something more comfortable.
Took a bit of effort getting the adapter/spacer stuff sorted out and ended up re-drilling and tapping the holes to get everything cleaned up.








I removed all of the 8.8 brackets to get it ready to go to the driveline shop. Once there, i find out that the inner pinion bearing race had been mangled at some point in the past and had messed up the housing. I didn't want to risk this causing me issues later so i opted to replace the housing with another one.....which means i had to clean up all of the brackets....again.





"new" housing with center section ready to go. Now I've got to skin off the brackets and get this down to MikeH's house to weld up the perches.



Now to the most recent changes!

This is where i started....



All of the old stuff came off easily....which i'm very thankful for....I love rust free cars!







Performed the 'Shelby Drop' and test fitting parts.





Ran into a minor snag on the brakes with the rotor rubbing the edge of the caliper. Talked to Baer and they've seen it a couple of times before with the TCP knuckles.
They've dropped some shims in the mail and I'll revisit the rubbing this weekend.

But at the end of the day I just wanted to loose fit it all together and see what I'd be working with once it was done......
I'll be satisfied with the end result. I keep walking by it in the garage and staring....