Winter Build Plans Anyone??

Curt wrote:Wax, fresh air in the tires, charge the battery, chassis sticker, new belts, sweep trailer, pray for work and for time off from work.

These cars go to hell sitting in the trailers, huh.

Plug in the battery tender

Got to the 4th page page and realized this thread is over 2 yrs old.....got me good.

Anyway, my winter plans are to finish the 95 GT Pure Stocker and put some real power in my gray bird.

My list is getting longer by the day. Build new 557, build new headers(done), upgrade fuel system(done), convert carb to alky, beefier rear end, new wheels and smooth out the engine bay. That should keep me busy and broke til spring

bruno wrote:

richter69 wrote:New rearend housing, stronger axles, wider lighter rear rims, new ladder bars, hotter ignition, better rocker arms and studs, new intake............few other odds n ends, nothing major......

.....damn thats a complete overhaul

I might change the oil in it to, maybe lol

342g wrote:

These cars go to hell sitting in the trailers, huh.

I'm telling you. Good thing about it, I'm not breaking anything. One of these days I may get to go to the track again.

The girls are fixing to be in their last semester of college so I wont have to spend so much time away from home trying to pay for that.

Curt wrote:

342g wrote:

These cars go to hell sitting in the trailers, huh.

I'm telling you. Good thing about it, I'm not breaking anything. One of these days I may get to go to the track again.

The girls are fixing to be in their last semester of college so I wont have to spend so much time away from home trying to pay for that.

Good deal, you can migrate North, and East, we can meet up and have a blast, bring your motor home, for Dan.

Strip and repaint entire chassi (done), new rear end housing, new fender exit headers (done), re wire entire car from scratch with working head and tail lights, new 2 bottle holder, new drive shaft enclosure (mandated), new interior (done), new Eliminator block, 2nd N20 fogger system.

342g wrote:

Good deal, you can migrate North, and East, we can meet up and have a blast, bring your motor home, for Dan.

If we can keep him out of the National Dragster!

Curt wrote:

342g wrote:

Good deal, you can migrate North, and East, we can meet up and have a blast, bring your motor home, for Dan.

If we can keep him out of the National Dragster!

May not be a problem keeping me out of there Curt. My Thunderbird is in a lot of pieces right now. Getting a complete new cage,sheetmetal, new headers ,probably new gears, and maybe some body work if time pemits. I've got my 91 Mustang GT convertible is in front of it,it's getting a complete make over,new interior,top ,and paint. Gonna be a short winter..

Sounds like you were afraid of having time on your hands.

If I can convince the Crew.
Change rear end gears from the 3:70 to 4:11’s (or 3:89’s) I’ll take some advice from the field on this matter.
Mustang 2 front end. Remove shock towers.
Install bigger than 1 7/8 headers. Redo fuel system to eliminate the boiling fuel effect.
Fix the darn valve cover so there is no way it can touch the master cylinder. (It is just one of those things that I haven’t got done).

House addition comes first, then we'll see what we can get from the boys in KY. If all works out and I have enough time this winter left over, I'd like to get the Ranger body on the chassis and completed.

Suspension swap from ladder bars to 4-link, with adjustable coil overs. Gotta big head start on it already.
Thinkin a bigger carb would probly be helpful.

Back half the car, lighter brakes on the front, and stick that blue bottle thingy in the back and see how close we can come to lifting the heads off the block. That's if my new wheels can handle the power .

Doug Rahn wrote:Back half the car, lighter brakes on the front, and stick that blue bottle thingy in the back and see how close we can come to lifting the heads off the block. That's if my new wheels can handle the power .

I told you to buy wheels that could handle all that power...

Winter plans......HMMMMMM

I might just install that beatiful chuck of aluminum that Phillip is building in the piperack...

Convert the old 67 mustang's front suspension to struts with a rack.
Justin

^^^^ good plan, you wont be sorry.................

Doug Rahn wrote:Back half the car, lighter brakes on the front, and stick that blue bottle thingy in the back and see how close we can come to lifting the heads off the block. That's if my new wheels can handle the power .

i thought you were building a show car


i love how everyone one is on the bottle .....

bruno wrote:

Doug Rahn wrote:Back half the car, lighter brakes on the front, and stick that blue bottle thingy in the back and see how close we can come to lifting the heads off the block. That's if my new wheels can handle the power .

i thought you were building a show car


i love how everyone one is on the bottle .....

No Bruno..He's not building a show car like yours...
He's building one to WHOOOOP your azz, IF you ever drag your's out again..

QtrWarrior wrote:

bruno wrote:

Doug Rahn wrote:Back half the car, lighter brakes on the front, and stick that blue bottle thingy in the back and see how close we can come to lifting the heads off the block. That's if my new wheels can handle the power .

i thought you were building a show car


i love how everyone one is on the bottle .....

No Bruno..He's not building a show car like yours...
He's building one to WHOOOOP your azz, IF you ever drag your's out again..

my car can never beat Doug's deal , he's got an a460 beast ...... but i can take it out this weekend if you guys like

happy thanksgiving , and give thanks to the ones that need it

im pulling the motor out to stop the oil pan leak and im thinking i want to put in a new cam for a bigger shot of nos.

Trying too find someone close and good to redo my interior.If I don't it will be making the long trip to Dan's for the work. Throwing together a foxbody w/514 too sell and maybe FB race a little.