Monroe Handler

[Red67Mustang]

Any updates?
Cool build.

[feeble]

Cool build.

Thanks!

Any updates?

Yup!

It's been a busy summer, my wife and I went to Germany in June to visit our oldest son and his wife. Right after that I was slammed with a work project that kept me from my car and pretty much everything else for a solid month.

In spite of that, did get some things done since the last update. These are not in chronological order.

BODY

Got the rear fender wells cut out, got tired of looking at the tires sitting on the fender lip.





Filled in the factory quarter panel fuel fill hole.


Welded the rear fill in:


Closed up some spots on the interior on either side of the fuel cell:



Fuel cell fill hose and tube pretty much done. Initial roll pan fitting done. Need to get the pan louvers bought yet.








ENGINE:

Most of the parts for the initial engine have been purchased. Nearly everything is at the machine shop.

I had the cam spec'd by a guy that specializes in Cleveland / Clevor builds. Fairly mild on the duration but 0.590I / 0.600E lift with 1.73 rockers.




I switched the Explorer cam position sensor over to a good steel gear to match the billet cam.



Heads have been cut for screw in studs, guide plates, hardened exhaust seats, CC'ed to 58cc.



Crank is done. Genuine 289 hi-po rods with 3/8" bolts are done. Everything still needs to be balanced.

Got the throttle bodies bought but am still waiting on some backordered parts to mount them to the intake.






CHASSIS:

Got the last little piece installed for the horizontal tube that the third link attaches to.



Because I don't have a tube bender and didn't have time because of the work project I mentioned, I decided to hire out the fab of the door bars. Turned out pretty good and it is still reasonably easy to get in and out.




After the car returned home, got some tubes added between the top of the shock mounts and diagonals. Aside from the harness bar, I'm not sure how much else I'm going to do back here.




Factory Mustang II V8 engines are offset to the passenger side 1". I've always thought that looked odd so I am moving the engine over 1" to the driver side (centering it), dropping it 1/2" (with 1/8" clearance between the Moroso oil pan and Fox manual rack) and moving it back ~1-1/8", allowing me to use a Fox aluminum driveshaft as-is. All of this improves the center of gravity to my favor.

I bought some of these engine mounts from Speedway, removed the rubber and added urethane bushings.



Designed some new frame mounts:





and redesigned a transmission crossmember originally designed by another Mustang II owner.




The new engine and frame mounts really open a lot of room for the headers.

Currently working on installing ridetech front lower control arms so that I can eliminate the strut rod to make more room for the headers.

A couple shots of the whole car at various times this summer:





This car is morphing into what I hope will be an interesting mix of vintage 70s fiberglass street machine, pro-touring & street fighter styles.

Stay tuned!

[feeble]

Finally got the Offy IR (supposed to be Individual Runner but isn't quite) adapters I was waiting for so I can start mocking some of this intake up. The adapters turn the carbs (or throttle bodies in this case) sideways so you can tune the carbs without taking the whole thing apart. The recommended Offy linkage (on the left in the picture) for use with the adapters isn't the best so I'll probably be making some changes there.




With the throttle bores wide open, you can almost see the intake valve it is such a straight shot. It looks like it should work pretty good but fingers crossed the EFI will improve the drivability and lower end torque.