Project: Cheap thrills
05-08-2016, 05:24 PM
#24
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Parts continue to accumulate or on their way in shipping.
Used hurst shifter:
80 bucks, bought off the classifieds here
Couple shifter *****:
I bought both because I couldn't make up my mind one way or the other. I got them super cheap because they are in an uncommon thread size for modern cars. No problem for me, I'll just spin up a couple brass or aluminum adapters on the lathe and problem solved. I'll have to make one to adapt a boot to the shifter, so it's work I'd be doing anyways. I've got lots of scrap lying around that will work just fine for making adapters.
I've got some baby soft black deerskin left over from another project, so I'll sew up a shifter boot from that. I'll reuse my automatic console plate by cutting it wider and mounting the shifter boot to it. I can't decide between using gray thread or red thread to sew the boot. The car is staying red, but the interior is going to be gray (currently 20 different shades of red). Have to think on that one a little more, but I'm leaning towards gray.
Now, because the black shifter has a running pony on it, I felt a little off about having "Cobra" emblems everywhere else on the car. It was also kind of time to shed the Cobra stuff. That's from a different period in my life and it more or less ended when my first marriage did. The car isn't a "real" cobra anyways.
So I ordered up some tri-color ponies on the fenders:
And a tri-color dash pony from a 91 for the passenger side dash bezel:
Wasn't sure what to do with the drivers side hatch once the "Cobra" is off, but I think it's going to be this:
You can get those on ebay for a couple bucks. I grabbed the mustang pic off the net and Photochopped it on.
I'm also going to need a hood scoop for clearance with the carb spacer I am planning. There's also not going to be much room to run ducting to the air cleaner with the strut tower braces I've got planned and other assorted what nots. So I've got a local fiberglass guy building this hood scoop from a mold off an original 82 scoop:
Which I'll will widen to match the hood profile better:
The scoop will be functional and I'll seal the aircleaner to the bottom of the hood. That will give me the clearance to run a taller spacer and it will be gulping cold fresh air.
I was going to order this pool ball and make a shifter out of it:
Would have added a whole new meaning to the term "grabbing gear", but it's not exactly cheap to buy (just over 100 bucks CAD) and while my missus would never say no (heck, she doesn't care if I watch **** or look at other women - just don't touch), I could tell she wasn't overly impressed that I was considering it. I've got better places to spend my money on the car right now anyways.
Maybe next year?
Used hurst shifter:
80 bucks, bought off the classifieds here
Couple shifter *****:
I bought both because I couldn't make up my mind one way or the other. I got them super cheap because they are in an uncommon thread size for modern cars. No problem for me, I'll just spin up a couple brass or aluminum adapters on the lathe and problem solved. I'll have to make one to adapt a boot to the shifter, so it's work I'd be doing anyways. I've got lots of scrap lying around that will work just fine for making adapters.
I've got some baby soft black deerskin left over from another project, so I'll sew up a shifter boot from that. I'll reuse my automatic console plate by cutting it wider and mounting the shifter boot to it. I can't decide between using gray thread or red thread to sew the boot. The car is staying red, but the interior is going to be gray (currently 20 different shades of red). Have to think on that one a little more, but I'm leaning towards gray.
Now, because the black shifter has a running pony on it, I felt a little off about having "Cobra" emblems everywhere else on the car. It was also kind of time to shed the Cobra stuff. That's from a different period in my life and it more or less ended when my first marriage did. The car isn't a "real" cobra anyways.
So I ordered up some tri-color ponies on the fenders:
And a tri-color dash pony from a 91 for the passenger side dash bezel:
Wasn't sure what to do with the drivers side hatch once the "Cobra" is off, but I think it's going to be this:
You can get those on ebay for a couple bucks. I grabbed the mustang pic off the net and Photochopped it on.
I'm also going to need a hood scoop for clearance with the carb spacer I am planning. There's also not going to be much room to run ducting to the air cleaner with the strut tower braces I've got planned and other assorted what nots. So I've got a local fiberglass guy building this hood scoop from a mold off an original 82 scoop:
Which I'll will widen to match the hood profile better:
The scoop will be functional and I'll seal the aircleaner to the bottom of the hood. That will give me the clearance to run a taller spacer and it will be gulping cold fresh air.
I was going to order this pool ball and make a shifter out of it:
Would have added a whole new meaning to the term "grabbing gear", but it's not exactly cheap to buy (just over 100 bucks CAD) and while my missus would never say no (heck, she doesn't care if I watch **** or look at other women - just don't touch), I could tell she wasn't overly impressed that I was considering it. I've got better places to spend my money on the car right now anyways.
Maybe next year?
Last edited by Great white; 05-08-2016 at 05:34 PM.
05-09-2016, 03:41 PM
#25
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Never ceases to amaze me how one simple change can effect the whole look and feel of a project.
Before:
after:
Nothing but a change in valve covers....
Before:
after:
Nothing but a change in valve covers....
Last edited by Great white; 05-09-2016 at 05:51 PM.
05-14-2016, 08:41 AM
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More goodies showed up yesterday.
80 buck hurst shifter:
60 buck window regs:
Shifter is used, bought it off a guy in Ontario and a friend of mine out there picked it up and mailed it to me. I needed a shifter because my 1995 T5 came without one. I was thinking I was going to be stuck with buying one of those 60 dollar ebay shifters and fixing it's "issues" myself. When this one popped up on a Canadian mustang site for 100 bucks, I was able to grab it for 80. New prices for this shifter seem to be in the 200-300 USD range, used seems to be in the 10-200 USD range. So I'm good with 80 bucks CAD!
The regs were an ebay grab from another place in Ontario. shipping brought them close to 100, but they work fine (motors are still strong and fast) and will give me power windows in my non AC car. A little clean up and paint and they'll be good as new. Better actually, since they won't rust.
I wanted to stay pretty basic in this car, but I either need AC or power windows from a "basic comfort" standpoint.
Power windows are easier, simpler, less likely to have issues and are FAR less expensive than a retrofitted old AC system, so power windows it is. Manual reg holes in the door panels will disappear when they get re-upholstered.
Switches are going to be located in the center console in easy reach of driver and passenger, so I only need two instead of the driver master and passenger slave. That will also minimize the wiring: power to the console and then only 2 wires out to each door. Additionally, building my own harness give me the freedom to build it the way I want with things like proper weatherpak connectors in the doors.
Door gap boots I can grab from anything in the scrap yard.
I've ordered a set of switches from an 87 to work into the console. That was an ebay 15 buck grab.
So, I should have power windows built the way I want for around 90 bucks CAD and a little bit of my own labor. I'm good with that!
80 buck hurst shifter:
60 buck window regs:
Shifter is used, bought it off a guy in Ontario and a friend of mine out there picked it up and mailed it to me. I needed a shifter because my 1995 T5 came without one. I was thinking I was going to be stuck with buying one of those 60 dollar ebay shifters and fixing it's "issues" myself. When this one popped up on a Canadian mustang site for 100 bucks, I was able to grab it for 80. New prices for this shifter seem to be in the 200-300 USD range, used seems to be in the 10-200 USD range. So I'm good with 80 bucks CAD!
The regs were an ebay grab from another place in Ontario. shipping brought them close to 100, but they work fine (motors are still strong and fast) and will give me power windows in my non AC car. A little clean up and paint and they'll be good as new. Better actually, since they won't rust.
I wanted to stay pretty basic in this car, but I either need AC or power windows from a "basic comfort" standpoint.
Power windows are easier, simpler, less likely to have issues and are FAR less expensive than a retrofitted old AC system, so power windows it is. Manual reg holes in the door panels will disappear when they get re-upholstered.
Switches are going to be located in the center console in easy reach of driver and passenger, so I only need two instead of the driver master and passenger slave. That will also minimize the wiring: power to the console and then only 2 wires out to each door. Additionally, building my own harness give me the freedom to build it the way I want with things like proper weatherpak connectors in the doors.
Door gap boots I can grab from anything in the scrap yard.
I've ordered a set of switches from an 87 to work into the console. That was an ebay 15 buck grab.
So, I should have power windows built the way I want for around 90 bucks CAD and a little bit of my own labor. I'm good with that!
Last edited by Great white; 05-14-2016 at 08:52 AM.
08-07-2016, 07:44 PM
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Got the drivers side BBK longtube headers in.
Unfortunately, the SN95 bellhousing on the T5 clocks the shift fork too low and it is right square in the middle of the #6 primary. I had to dimple the damned thing to almost half it's cross section to get sufficient clearance to operate the shift fork and a littel stand off distance for heat.
I'll probably end up pulling that side back off, slicing that portion of the header tube out and welding in a new section that places that portion of the tube about 1-2" higher while trying to maintain the same primary pipe length. Even if it has a slightly longer length, that's better than the tube dimpled to half it's cross section. I dimpled it so badly since I'm just doing initial mock up fit.
They were a tight fit all the way around on both sides. A stock 302/t5 might have gone in, but I'm willing to bet it still would have run into steering column issues at least. Even without the dimple work on the #6 primary, I still had to lightly dimple the #7/8 primaries to get it to clear the steering shaft.
There goes the nice chrome finish. Not even run once....
I'll probably pull them off again in a couple years once the header paint blows off the dimpled and welded sections (and my bank account recovers) and just have them dipped and ceramic coated.
I also had to take the porta power to the BBK H-Pipe to widen it and heat/bend the two hangers to get it to fit up to the collectors.
Gawd, I despise exhaust work. It never goes easy......
Unfortunately, the SN95 bellhousing on the T5 clocks the shift fork too low and it is right square in the middle of the #6 primary. I had to dimple the damned thing to almost half it's cross section to get sufficient clearance to operate the shift fork and a littel stand off distance for heat.
I'll probably end up pulling that side back off, slicing that portion of the header tube out and welding in a new section that places that portion of the tube about 1-2" higher while trying to maintain the same primary pipe length. Even if it has a slightly longer length, that's better than the tube dimpled to half it's cross section. I dimpled it so badly since I'm just doing initial mock up fit.
They were a tight fit all the way around on both sides. A stock 302/t5 might have gone in, but I'm willing to bet it still would have run into steering column issues at least. Even without the dimple work on the #6 primary, I still had to lightly dimple the #7/8 primaries to get it to clear the steering shaft.
There goes the nice chrome finish. Not even run once....
I'll probably pull them off again in a couple years once the header paint blows off the dimpled and welded sections (and my bank account recovers) and just have them dipped and ceramic coated.
I also had to take the porta power to the BBK H-Pipe to widen it and heat/bend the two hangers to get it to fit up to the collectors.
Gawd, I despise exhaust work. It never goes easy......
Last edited by Great white; 08-07-2016 at 08:28 PM.
