I to am looking forward to the finished car

Not much progress until this weekend. Stu and Rob came by again today to pitch in. Stu had been working on the brake light circuit on the 66 T-Bird I picked up a few months ago, which is tied in to the sequential signals. With some resoldered wires and a new relay, they are operational. He had also cleaned up the housings for the taillamps, repaired some of the sockets that were corroded, and repainted the reflector surfaces. His brother James is refinishing a set of used lenses to replace my cracked originals, so once that is done, I can get it screwed back together, then over to the shop for a safety check and get the ownership transferred.

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Stu's chocolate lab Daisy came along today, she seems to like sitting in the T-Bird. I'll have to take her out for a ride in it once it is going.

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We were just finishing that up when Rob came over. So we moved over to the Mustang, the main challenge for today was getting the Maximum Motorsports roll bar completely fitted and bolted in. Rob had been over briefly a few weekends ago and we had a few of the holes drilled as a starting point.

Interior panels out to access the wheelwells for the rear tubes ... the red interior is being replaced with grey panels, other than the headliner, which I dyed grey, and will probably do the same with the carpet.

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A shot of the floor so that I can gloat about how solid this car is:

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Roll bar mocked up in place:

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Mounts snugly in the corners after we scraped away the excess seam sealer:

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Rear supports fit nicely to the wheelwells:

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Rob drilling the rest of the holes for the rear bar supports:

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Stu working on the dash, I have a tilt column to swap in. He also got the booster and master cylinder off, they are going to be replaced by SN95 pieces. The brake lines came apart with no trouble using standard wrenches. Sure is nice not to be dealing with rusty crap, Stu and I have had enough of that collectively. While we're at it, we can also swap in the cluster with the 140 mph Ford Motorsport speedo that I picked up a while back.

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Rob and Stu getting the main hoop bolted down:

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The backup plates inside the wheelwell, again nice fit and quality from MM:

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We discovered a few small spots where daylight was visible between the edge of the floorpan and the wheelwell on the right side, the seam sealer had been applied poorly at the factory. So before we went any further we used some outdoor caulking to close that up. Further evidence that the car has not seen any salty winters, if it had, those holes would have been shag-nasty for sure.

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A couple of weekends ago Stu's brother James had helped me strip the grey interior bits from a car at Mustang Specialteaz, the local Mustang parts emporium. So before the roll bar rear supports got bolted in to place, we trimmed the panels to fit and set them in place. So much better than the porno red!

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Roll bar now bolted down, and painted with some Rustoleum appliance epoxy, quick drying with a tough finish. Looking more like a track day car now:

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Stu also reshaped the rear brake lines that were going to interfere with the axle bump stops, so the rear suspension can be squared away now ... basically just needs the springs popped in, and everything snugged up at ride height.

Next weekend hopefully we can get the booster / master cylinder install done, and when the column goes back in we can go with the hybrid MM steering shaft I have to hook up to the SN95 rack. Then I can get all of the front suspension tightened up, other than the springs which have to wait for the engine install.

I had my SHO out running when I was instructing at the first event of the season a few weeks ago. Poor car, it sat all winter, I just topped up the oil and coolant, bolted on the track wheels and tires, and wailed on it again. It's not long for this world, the Mustang needs to get done sooner rather than later before the SHO decides that it has had enough of constantly seeing 7,000 rpm. LOL


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Ed

Some nice progress. A lot of work to get a cage in that's for sure!
Awesome T bird. Got to be the nicest body style for the T bird in my opinion.

^^ No kidding! Cage does look awesome though. Fast Ed will be all set for the track.

Wow just all read the thread... :tup nice work Ed

Where's the ending !! :wiggle: I hope it's a happy one ???

Still in progress unfortunately, haven't done a lot with it since the last update. Got sidetracked last year going Chumpcar racing with some friends, and this past winter has been too damn cold to work out in the shop. The above zero temps seem to be here now, so it's time to get back out there and bolt some stuff together.


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Ed

Can't wait to see the progress. This is one of my favorite threads.

Car is now up for sale, got offered an amazing deal on a nicely done S197 that I couldn't pass on. Selling here:

https://www.cmoc.ca/mustangs-sale-18...%244500-19989/

With all the work you've already done to the car, somebody's gonna get a great deal.