TwinTorino

[SVTforme]

Thanks guys..

Work has been progressing on the second car, mostly to do with items that don't require the car to be in the shop (engine, trans, offline fab etc.). Since this car is mine.. I have no reason to push to get things done faster as I'm enjoying driving it as is . Need my parter in crime to step up the game on his build to get things moving along faster, plus we also need more garage space. Have a couple of other projects on the go which keeps car #2 moving along slowly. It will go much faster once under way.. just need to get to that point.

[SVTforme]

Also added a smaller pulley to the supercharger. Supposed to add 15-20hp.. nothing huge but i'll take it. Should be a bit more for me since I am running a larger throttle body than stock and other mods.

[migg400]

Just Beautiful!!

[ramlinman]

i love this project

[johnnysrx]

any updates???

[Dave B]

Such an awesome car! I've been following along for some time now, on the website. Plus I think I saw you up here in London last summer.

[Dalamar]

Great Work Craig!
I really like how your gauges turned out, nicely done sir!

[onestopcustoms]

Hello Craig, beautiful write up. Question about the Cibie lights... are these HID?

[SVTforme]

Such an awesome car! I've been following along for some time now, on the website. Plus I think I saw you up here in London last summer.

Thanks - we did make one appearance at a show last year and it was in London. Will likely head back up there again this year as it was a cool show.

Great Work Craig!
I really like how your gauges turned out, nicely done sir!

Yeah - 5 years later.. there are now functioning gauges. After 1/2 of year of use they work perfect and a welcome addition to the interior, especially at night.

Hello Craig, beautiful write up. Question about the Cibie lights... are these HID?

Nothing too fancy here - just really good quality headlights/reflectors which work amazing compared to most cheap ones. Bulbs are Halogen H4's and H1's. Putting HID's bulbs in there would just ruin the beam pattern, although a lot of people still seem to do it.

[SVTforme]

Well.. I suppose it has been a while since an update. Where do I start? Lots on the go in the past while, a lot of it involved driving the car and dialling it in at the track and on the street. Overall very fun car to drive and no regrets whatsoever. Gets many interesting looks especially since it is still in black $50 paint. Finally had to put a pair of Torino badges on the side as most people could not figure out what it was. Once the badges were on, it was amazing how many people all of a sudden knew. Haven't really taken a lot of pictures for some reason - will have to grab more this season. Here are a couple of shots from this past season. More component updates to come..

[SVTforme]

Back into tying up loose ends on the car. First is door and trunk locks. Since this set-up uses a modern Ford PATS key, this clearly will not work with an older key, although I really don't use the key at all with keyless entry. Ended up buying some Ford lock sets that you just have to put together to match your existing key. Since we used a keyset from a 2005 Thunderbird/Lincoln LS, we only had a dash key. The lock cylinder fits right in the door with no mods, but slights mods were required to make the new cylinder work with the old lock rods. Same was done for drivers and pass side (not that new Mustang's don't have a pass side lock).

Also a good time to add a power trunk release to be used with the key fob just to confuse people even more. Nice thing is the wiring was already there, just had to spline in the 2 wires. Only thing to do now is the trunk key which is still in the works.

[SVTforme]

Next comes misc trim and interior items which will be the big project for the next month or so. Most of the trim has been polished and is back on the car with only a couple of items left. Sure makes the car look a little more complete. More pics to come once all this damn snow is gone and the car can once again go outside.




Time to grab a nice dash from the stash of black dashes . Need to put a coat of SEM paint on a dash and add a new trim piece and put back in car. Finally time to make the interior and the car in general look at little more complete.

[SVTforme]

Although the exhaust note is great in the car.. it gets old after a while, especially on a longer road trip. Finally pulled the trigger on a Retrosound Model 2 Radio with a Torino specific adatper. The staff at Retrosound are very helpful, although I would not recommend buying direct if you want the most cost effective solution.

This radio fits great, looks great and works even better. I gave it a year of production to work all of the bugs out before getting it. It has Bluetooth compatibility so you can run hands free calls through the radio and also stream songs through an iphone etc. Since the car is wired up as a newer Mustang, harness adapters were available for under $5. Solder into Retrosound harness shown below and it is plug and play.

Did not like the generic knobs, so I bought a reproduction Torino set and machined the holes in them to work with the Retrosound ones. Looks much nicer and perhaps the only stock looking part of the car. Also picked up some decent speakers that will go in the original speaker pockets in the kick panel area and on the package tray. I have original speaker grates to finish thing up. The tweeters will go in the center part of the dash where the original single speaker went.

You can also choose the LED color on the display - so this was set as bright white to match the LED's in the main cluster.

[SVTforme]

Recently bought a decent telemetry set on Ebay for recording data at the track and around town. It is made by Isaac (http://www.isaac.ca/) which is a Canadian company and usually retails for $5k+ but for some reason the auction ended at $300. This setup has a built in 3 axis accelerometer, GPS for track plotting with maps, CAN communication for pulling data off the OBD port (engine speed, vehicle speed, temps, etc) and also 8 analog input channels. It also has cellular/wifi communication for streaming data. Not bad for a fun weekend setup. It automatically starts recording when you turn the car or you can set a trigger.

[bonecrrusher]

Nice setup man!

I like the retrofit of the modern keyless entry and the rear trunk release popper!

[Dalamar]

Love your attention to detail, it's inspiring.
Also glad to hear that you're out enjoying the car!!

[nitroracer]

You may have mentioned this already, but what air dam are you running on the car in the picture below? How did you mount it to the car? I've seen someone else running a late 60s firebird piece there as well.

Well.. I suppose it has been a while since an update. Where do I start? Lots on the go in the past while, a lot of it involved driving the car and dialling it in at the track and on the street. Overall very fun car to drive and no regrets whatsoever. Gets many interesting looks especially since it is still in black $50 paint. Finally had to put a pair of Torino badges on the side as most people could not figure out what it was. Once the badges were on, it was amazing how many people all of a sudden knew. Haven't really taken a lot of pictures for some reason - will have to grab more this season. Here are a couple of shots from this past season. More component updates to come..

[SVTforme]

Front spoiler is from a 1967 Camaro. Drilled holes in bumper to mount. Had to make up brace to tie the center to the front crossmember to keep it from bending at speed (otherwise it pretty much folds over on itself). Look back a couple of pages on this thread to see that. Spoiler sits behind rear edge of bumper so there is a gap to force air into the intercooler radiator.

[Styx1967]

Any updates?

[RIDES BY DESIGN]

where have all your pictures gone? excellent build by the way