TwinTorino

[chaz75]

i love it. very very cool. chaz

[Blue70]

This build is awesome, I can't wait to see more
and I love the plywood engine, good thinking.

[BMF Machine]

This is GreaT! Who said CreativitY is DeaD! Keep on Man!

[rjsjea]

Cool build.......

[MZ 500]

Good idea with the wood block looks like you used Solid Works I'm on it all day at work I have used it for a few things on the car.

[zman1969]

Cool project! although I'm partial to '70 torino's as I used to own a 70 429 SCJ 4 speed car- good memories for sure- keep up the good work and update us! Oh BTW i have a 69 RS/Z thats 76b too. Ill be watching how this turns out.

[Otto-813]

That mock up engine was a good idea! Nice job cant wait to see more build pictures!

[SVTforme]

Thanks for all the feedback guys! Trying to keep things on a budget here . And yes - I am using Solidworks - could not live without it.

Got the engine in the car the past couple of days. Sure is a lot easier when it is lighter. The shaker on the 2004 Mach 1 sits very far forward when in the Torino, so I had to take it apart and shift it back about 8" to make it look right. Not sure if I am going to keep it on the car or not. Hope to get a lot done on this over the weekend.

Engine does not like the factory shock towers as you can see - the cam covers won't fit. The plasma will make them go away this weekend so a pair of 2004 Mustang shock towers can be installed.

[PhillipM]

Looks great man! IRS is a lot of work and takes the right kind of guy to enjoy it. Keep it up!

[SVTforme]

These cars will spend a lot of time doing laps on the road couse and taking road trips in general - so hopefully we are those kinda guys .

[SVTforme]

Finished up the wooden mockup this week. Believe it or not, a std household copper pipe is the same size as a dowel pin, so this was easy to set up. This allowed the trans to be mounted to the buck motor. The motor mounts were set up, along with the exhaust, oil filter adapter (OFA) and the intake manifold. This allows everything to be mounted on the stock k-member for now. Starting to look like a real setup now, aside from the wood . Next step it make up mounts for the chassis fixture to get the engine and trans at the correct position and angle.




Finally started work on the underbody once again. Since the 315 or 335 tires will not clear the inner wheel wells, we needed to make some more room. The suspension will also move differently than a solid axle (you get camber change now with the IRS), so that further defines the need to minitub the rear of the car. Since there is no kit available (may be a while before DSE makes a Torino kit) - we need to just cut out an inch of floorpan and add an inch to the inner wheel wells. Finally got to put the plasma cutter to its first test - is worth its weight on gold during this step. It is very easy to cut straight lines this way too.

Had to cut holes in the trunk floor so the upper control arms on the IRS would fit. Also hitting the pinion snubber and will hit the jounce bumper brackets, so those will have to go away too. This all needs to be done so the car can have a lower stance and still sit at the correct "design" position as it was designed (and not just at some arbitrary control arm angle).




Also have a complete 3ds Max model to post up here within the next week to get some feedback on the final design for the cars.

[fairlane347]

Cool progress, will be awesome when its done. Are you going to have them at Woodward Dream Cruise in 09? If so I would love to see them.

[streetrod77]

Nice. I also thought about the 4.6 in my Comet but not enough engine bay.

[icebird84]

Excellent work and project

[1971CHEVELLE]

i love it. very very cool

[SVTforme]

Finally managed to get some additional work on the car over the holidays. We removed the pass side wheel tub and then moved onto the front to attack the suspension.

If you look at the previous pictures, you will see that a DOHC engine was not meant to fit within Torino shock towers. Easy solution there - get rid of them. They will be replaced with 2004 Mustang based ones.

I will say once again how great a tool a plasma cutter is!! This is by far one of the best and fastest tools I own. It makes cutting up cars a breeze. Once the shock towers were out, the stock Mustang k-member was modified to allow it to bolt into the Torino. A spare mockup steering rack was placed in position and will work perfect once in place which is another relief as we were not sure if it would hit anything.

[SVTforme]

Once the front shock towers were removed and the stock Mustang front suspension k-member was modified, the engine was placed in the car. Surprisingly, the engine and exhaust fit quite well, and should only require a few tweaks to make it work. This is a big relief as we had thought it was going to be necessary to widen the frame rails. The only thing that is really in the way is the old trans crossmember brackets which will be cut off anyway. The motor mounts on the crossmember will need to be adjusted as the engine needs to shift back at least 6". Things are finally starting to move along now!

[CptKlutz]

Great work and keep it coming!

[MZ 500]

Looking good man I like the idea of using the mustang K-member and it looks like the rack is going to work out nice too.

[SVTforme]

Started to mock up the front suspension by putting the control arms in place as well as the spindles, hubs, struts, caster/camber plates and brakes. The suspension is sitting approx where it will in the shock tower area. Next step is to finalize these points with a plumb bob to match the same points as a stock 2004 Mustang. Then it is time to build up costom strut towers. The struts shown are just for mockup. In the end the car will be running coil over struts with adjustable rebound and compression (Koni or Tokico - haven't decided yet). The Maximum Motorsports caster camber plates will allow us to run 2-3° of camber at the track and then back to close to stock specs for the street. The only immediate problem is going to be with the hood hinges interfering with caster/camber plates. One thing we did figure out here is that a SN95 Mustang swaybar is not going to work here since the Torino framerails are much lower than the Mustang, so I think we are going to have to run an S197 Mustang bar instead.