$5000 budget Mustang

[SicMonte]

I like the black...I have a think for satin black.

[GrabberGT]

I didnt like the idea at first but I like the stripes. But Im not sure white is the right color for it. How about you carry the fabricated/machined look into the stripes with satin gunmetal (like the wheels) or brushed silver like the ridetech Velocity Camaro stripes. It'll work well with the wheels, splitter, and interior panels.

[bikefreak600]

I didnt like the idea at first but I like the stripes. But Im not sure white is the right color for it. How about you carry the fabricated/machined look into the stripes with satin gunmetal (like the wheels) or brushed silver like the ridetech Velocity Camaro stripes. It'll work well with the wheels, splitter, and interior panels.

+1 with the silver stripes or match them with the wheel color. that would look sick !

[Ron S]

Got the rear straightened and back in, with the gear change, and Wavetrac installed. Took it out for a cruise, after running the Detroit, and the 3.18 gears, this such an improvement. No more cracking and banging, and at 40 mph, I matted it and damn near lost it. I can't believe how finicky that engine is, if you don't keep it in its happy power band its a bit of a turd, but when its in its happy place its a complete handful.

[Zanie]

+2 on the satin gunmetal. But I almost hate to try to give Ron guidance since everthing he's done on this car is so "right on"!

[Flash68]

Ron, I am thinking just the opposite... ditching my *******ized white Mustang stripes and going with flat black. lol

For yours, I think it'll look tits either way.... it's tough to leave things alone... and appears tougher than average for you. Ha.

[Ron S]

Ron, I am thinking just the opposite... ditching my *******ized white Mustang stripes and going with flat black. lol

For yours, I think it'll look tits either way.... it's tough to leave things alone... and appears tougher than average for you. Ha.

I need to consentrate on fine tuning, and stop all this major changing. I only really get to beat on the thing 3 or 4 times a year, and everytime I do its a new car, and I need to learn to drive all over again, usually with no practice. Some changes were improvements, and some were a total fail, like the 3.18 gears. I guess the only way to find out is to try different things. I think I'll stick with the 3.89's and just practice driving it, and fine tune the shocks etc.

As far as the stripes go, the more I look at it, the more I like it the way it is. When the windsheild got knocked out, I painted the cowl blue, thinking I would try this stripe thing. I will probably put blue on the hood when I paint it just to see, but in the end I see the flat black ending up where it started.

[fej]

This build is awesome, great fab work man.

Please build me a factory width splitter like yours for my 66 coupe project

[GT500KR_Vert]

+3 on the satin gunmetal. match the rims. also add side shelby stripes.

[GNon18s]

Didn't you place very well at Carolina motorsports park? Was that with the 3.18's? I thought that track was very challenging on street tires but seemed like you did great. I will say I thought your car was broke at one point when you pulled under the garage because that differential was banging and clunking like crazy, glad to here you ditched that!!

[Ron S]

Kershaw is kind of different then any track I've been on. Gearing played no part of that equation, I was spinning though 50% of the course. Hate to say that gave me some bad input,once I hit a track where I needed some bight (due to the traffic) the 3.18's dogged the the engine too bad. The power ban that my cam likes leaves me a small widow for gearing.

I've always made up for my lack of road course experience with raw horsepower, take away my horsepower, and I suck. There is no substitute for experience, and beating on the car a couple times a year when your running with the likes of Danny, Kyle, and Brian ain't makin it. Really need to do more track days in Jersey I guess.

[Ron S]

Starting to peck away at some of the stupid stuff, that has always bugged me. Trying not to go to SEMA with a car that is so rough around the edges (literally). Ford was kind of odd on the fastbacks, in that they allowed rain water to enter the quarter vents, draining into a rain gutter, down a tube, and through a drain hole in the rocker panel. Of course all that was rotted off of this car, so when it rained it just ran into the car. When there was no windows it didn't matter, but now that the car is pretty tight I figured I'd fix it.

Fabbed up some new rain gutters out of aluminum, installed the drain tube, and installed a drains in the rocker panel. I started to make some aluminum panels to cover all that up, all that little stuff is a PITA, but it is becoming a real car.

[speedfreak68]

Wow, I'm very impressed with this car! You do fantastic work!!

[ONDSKAN]

Ron.... Big fan of this build. Saying that I would like to weigh in on this stripe and look debate. Keep it in the spirit of the build... smart, rough,and mean...keep it the way its is with the black hood! get a couple of smart @ss bumper stickers (like "eat my stang" or something) and just lay waste to people of the tracks and autcrosses. Big props T

[mdes0]

If you go with the stripes I think you need to black out the headlight and grill area to keep the bad ass look going, like the new stangs. Incredible build by the by. Gives me some confidence to go do my own wide body on my second gen camaro.

[67coug5.0]

Would you consider coming to the west coast? Like maybe an autoX event? It'd be sick to see that car in real life! When/where is the optima street challenge?

[GrabberGT]

Is that a fan attached to your brake cooling hoses?

[Payton King]

Look on page 97. Hoses with fan goes to diff cooler mounted right there.

[GrabberGT]

Thanks. Havent seen on a fan like that one.

[GT500KR_Vert]

looks like the exhaust fan from my boat and jet ski, used them to get the gas vapors out before starting the engine.