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For those that remember, this is the Mustang I sold my brother so I could buy a Chevelle. He called me a few months ago and asked me if I wanted to buy it back. BUT, he said, "I messed something up." He apparently broke a rocker arm, or the cam and lifters need replaced. The car has 161,124 miles on it so something had to go eventually. He couldn't drive it as well as I could anyway. ;)

Fortunately, he put a new paint job, new wheels and tires and a new TKO 5 Speed in it. He did take out the driver side roll bar because he was tired of climbing over it he said...he threw the bar away though.

That is an Absorber sitting on the hatchback by the way ;)

Have you found what was wrong with it?

I toyed with an 89 for a while that was in sad condition. I did a re-ring job and added an E-303 cam, and iron GT40 heads and some shorty headers, an Explorer intake GT40 style and throttle body and egr spacer. I had a Holley cold air intake and I couldn't get it started once so I shot some ether into it and it back fired and I about burned it up. Fried the air cleaner anyway then made a mess when I shot the fire extinguisher on it.

I was very glad to see it go. To many weird things about Fords.

gotta love the fox body............looks like a nice one.........put a 347 stroker in it, and just see how the chevelle boys feel about it then...........con grats on geting her back.........

thats a nice looking stang. more pics if you don't mind

I hear a 460 BB Ford will fit in the engine compartment. THat would be fun.

Stroke a 351 windsor out to 408 stick a supercharger on it and look out.

Looks good Wally. Gonna have to give you a shout next time I'm down there. Might be back there soon. Buying a house, which requires me to travel there often.

Got my Mustang back
Wallace,
My sincere condolences to you and your family. :p

Bill,
Funny you should say that...now my Son wants it for his 16th birthday (February 8). My wife is glad to have it back in the "family" and my daughter wants to climb on the bars inside.

Freddy,
We will have to get together sometime when you come back, I'm looking forward to it.

Whitaker,
I've heard the same thing, but I'm going to keep it a small block. I want to save the big block for the Chevelle. :)

I'll get some more pix of it when the rains stop. I took a few yesterday before I waxed the Chevelle and it started storming as soon as I put the wax away.

I do want to put a 347 Stroker in it, and eventually a Supercharger or Nitrous. That all depends on what my son wants when he turns 16. If he still wants it then, I'm just going to replace the cam and lifters (E or B) and keep the engine stock from then on out. If he wants to do anything else to it, then he will have to pay for it. He is going to "pay" me for the car when he starts to work...we all know the payments are going towards my insurance bill :)

good call Devil Dog! Are you home? How is everything?

Bob,
Yes I'm home and everything is fine...thanks for asking.

When I had a Mustang I did all the web stang sites, and read up with 3 or 4 books about them. I found the deal on those iron GT40 heads as they were used in only 1 year or so on the Ford Explorer. Which is the intake I used as well. I paid $300 for the heads with a fresh valve job and surfacing. Then I opened up the exhaust quite a bit and smoothed the runners in. I found a used but like new E-303 which wasn't a bad upgrade with the auto trans I had.

You must really trust your boy. To put him behind the wheel of anything with some power and speed is brave. School him on the finer points or steering while the back tires are lit up and you are going sideways creeping down the road.

Whittaker,
Yes I trust the big guy, he's a good kid...really. I will take him to an empty lot and show him how to drive the car. It's a 5 speed, so he has his work cut out for him, the clutch is a killer to push in :)

I won't show him to much of the wheel spinning, but I'm sure he will find that out for himself once I start to give him some driving time. He won't be 16 until February, so he has time to wait and listen to my stories. :)

Throw on an ATI Procharger and some drag radials :D

Chris, now you are talking...:)

Speaking of Mustangs coming back. Heres the one I built for my little sister back in the day. Its got 3:55's, CF DF clutch, Sub frame connectors, Tremec trans, ported heads and intake, LT hooker headers and a whole host of stuff, it had been sitting in my Moms garage for the last 5 years. Back in June my lil' sis called and said: "Mom wants her garage back want it back?" Its been here at the house about a month, I'm enjoying the good gas mileage but my 17 year old is slowly tryin to claim it.
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Looks good, and I like the Cobra wing on the back. I traded my pony wheels for weld wheels; which my brother quickly sold. Did you put the exhaust threw the back of the bumper like that?

I went with 3.73's, and BBK Headers, Sub's, Aluminum Driveshaft w/loop, roll cage, pulley's, K&N...well basically all the bolt ons you can get. :) Now it's time to change the cam and lifters, E or B303 will be put in. Just don't know which one just yet.

Yes I did, I melted the Cobra rear cover when it ran a little lean on a coupla extra pounds of impromptu boost years ago ;) Luckly the stock cover was lying around and I was feeling nostalgic. As far as Fords letter cams. I've ran both in stock and not so stock 5.0's. The E was more civilized and with ported heads on radials will get you embarassed by stock 5.0's until you hit 3rd and 4k plus where you'll blow by them. The B on the other hand has more power in the midrange and will run with the E and then some (I've seen B's easily put up 3 mph more over an E in the same bolt-on stocker) meaning less embarassment down low. The only reason I'd run an E is if I was boosted or had Nitrous and had to have an E.O. number.