1967 Mustang Coupe, Project "Code Blue"

[Wesley J]

I am running the same rear wheel with 5.94" backspace, a stock width rear and no spacer. If you want to go as low and wide as possible you have to suck it in.

Man I love your car, as you can probably tell!

I'm likely going to narrow a 9" from a truck. Narrow 1 side to center the pinion and have a 58-58.5" rear. Then I can space the wheels out to exactly where I want.

I assembled the QA1 rear coil overs tonight. Can't wait to build the rear 3 link!

Wes

[kmcanally]

Hi Wes, I thought you would recognize me. Since you are adding available tire room/clearance by changing to a coil-over why not go ahead and move the inner wheelhouse flush with the outside of the frame rail? Then you could run at least a 295 tire on the 18x10 version of the FR500.

Man I love your car, as you can probably tell!

I'm likely going to narrow a 9" from a truck. Narrow 1 side to center the pinion and have a 58-58.5" rear. Then I can space the wheels out to exactly where I want.

I assembled the QA1 rear coil overs tonight. Can't wait to build the rear 3 link!

Wes

[Bryce]

Wesley,

Can you do me a favor? Can you give me the specs of the FR500 18x8s: weight and Backspace.

[Wesley J]

Wesley,

Can you do me a favor? Can you give me the specs of the FR500 18x8s: weight and Backspace.

The weight is an issue for me. The other rims that you see in pictures in my shop are forged and weigh 20 lbs. I believe the weight of the FR500 is 30 or 31 lbs.

I've found the FR500's in standard backspacing for SN95 as well as S197. The SN95 is 5.9" BS, 24 mm + offset, 9", the S197 is I believe 6.2" BS. I'm rolling with the SN95 and narrowing the front to 8" so I'll have an effective BS of 4.9 and an offset of about 10 mm+.

I'll add a 1" spacer in order to get the tire out to the fenderwell. At least thats the theory. I'm going to get some 3/4" and 1" Al this week and turn out some spacers.

Wheels are getting ordered today.

Wesley J

[Wesley J]

Wheels are on the way from Steeda.ca. They gave me a great price, almost as good as ordering them from down south. Considering the issues I've had with the TireRack.com I thought I'd rather spend a bit more for good service locally.



Copying the look of this stellar car:



Wesley J

[George Manont]

Wheels are on the way from Steeda.ca. They gave me a great price, almost as good as ordering them from down south. Considering the issues I've had with the TireRack.com I thought I'd rather spend a bit more for good service locally.



Copying the look of this stellar car:



Wesley J

Hi Wes,


Those are nice wheels, good choice. ( I almost pick 'em before settled with the current set. )

But Wes, they're meant for NEW Mustang . Means that you may need spacers again.


My wheels are also meant for 05 + 'stang, but I like 'em and don't mind using spacers. ( 1" Front / 2" rear )






Oh, btw, you said the " Code Blue " was an inline 6, please check wheel's lug nut ; 4 or 5 ?


Best to your project !


Cheers,


GM.



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[796spdbu]

Nice project! Im digging the coupe body!

Greg

[jackfrost]

cool project. sorry to hear about the setbacks.

[Bryce]

thanks wesley!

[csx4766]

WOW !!! I am really impressed. Very nice Mustang. We certainly need to talk since I am building a 67 Coupe right now.

[Wesley J]

Ok, first, thats not my green car above. I wish! Hopefully I'll have one as cool (or cooler in my eyes) in a year or 2.

Second, on the wheels, I'm using SN95 versions and you can see all my calculations above on wheel spacing. I'm good.

Wes

[Bryce]

wow, good work wes! the kit is a bummer though. Good luck!

[chunger]

This kit appears to be far from a "bolt-in", why did you stick with it when there are other kits that require less work to install & make work?

[Wesley J]

This kit appears to be far from a "bolt-in", why did you stick with it when there are other kits that require less work to install & make work?

Cost. This kit will be around $3k including rack, adjustable struts, disc brakes.

Any of the stock replacement style (Grigs etc) would be north of $6k (not including brakes) for me here and most arent designed to be used as a daily driver (open Heims).

Wes

[67cougnut]

Cost. This kit will be around $3k including rack, adjustable struts, disc brakes.

Any of the stock replacement style (Grigs etc) would be north of $6k (not including brakes) for me here and most arent designed to be used as a daily driver (open Heims).

Wes

yeah cost def. makes a difference. i went with the unisteer rack kit which i got on sale for about $1400 then turned around and bought the gateway strut/brake kit which was about $4000 so $5400 vs $3000 price makes a big difference.

[Wesley J]

yeah cost def. makes a difference. i went with the unisteer rack kit which i got on sale for about $1400 then turned around and bought the gateway strut/brake kit which was about $4000 so $5400 vs $3000 price makes a big difference.

Shipping, duty and exchange adds about 20% to that and you still need to add brakes/rotors which would get me to the $7300 CND mark. I'm about $2700-2800 into my front end as of today. The head aches dont seem too bad when I look at it that way..

Wes

[482supersnake]

and built a new crossmember that holds the rack and bolts to were the old round tube crossmember was.

[Wesley J]

On a positve note for the FatMan kit, I have gained a huge amount of space for headers. Looks like some tri-y's are in my future...

Wes

[Wesley J]

Wow, I think I'm defining the term "Scope Creep"....

Ordered up a new exhaust today. I had a hard time not considering it was $530 shipped to my door. Got it from http://www.pfyc.com

Magnaflow 2.5" Stainless Steel Cat Back:

http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/s...ne=all&id=3364



Wesley J

[mbrunson427]

What are your opinions on the fatman kit so far? I've always been curious about their stuff, just haven't physically seen a car running their stuff.