struts, caster camber plates, and fender rolling

replaced the struts today with 02 mustang GT struts brandy new, also replaced the strut power stock rubber mount with a caster camber plate setup so that it doesnt blow out the rubber mount and punch through the hood, also for some race car handling.... not really. On top of that my friend rolled the front and rear fenders and now you can even put your fingers in the fender while someone jumps on the back of the car.

ms3 gold idle air control cold start

testing out the idle control on a 30deg startup
since im waiting on driveshaft, and ill do my brakes this weekend, getting somehwere for sure, doing great

accessories throttle cable, and gas tank putty!

fuel cell had leaky fittings and o rings, always wanted to try that quicksteel putty stuff and holy shit it works great

smash together, roll up in a log like play dough and cover the edges of the fittings, and viola, hard as cement in an hour and doesnt leak a drop


blazer alt, truck bracket, caravan throttle body

also my friend that gave me the fuel cell also gave me a quick disconect steering wheel attachment, and we figured, what the hell, why not make the tsock wheel a quick disconect one just for fun

so my neighbor is going to machine the hub down and flatten it and bolt it to the hub then we will weld it on the stock column

my buddy cut down a truck pan for me and we welded the pickup tube with my mig!

pics of the cut pan and actually the difference between em!

mig welded pickup tube and some shots of my rear wheel with a better camera

test fitting motor, turbo kit, turbo and more

threw in a bunch today, test fitted nearly everything, measuring how much needs to get cut out of the oil pan, and more. some nice pics of how the hotside fits in the car also.

adjusting the coil overs, plasma the fenders

my girlfriend said there was entirely too much metal in the fender well, so she sliced it out, then i painted the engine bay up also, a shot of my hodge podge bottom end.
ride height... steering rack fix and checking my cam with a degree wheel

started tearing into the fairmont

pulled the motor, trans, and much more, pulled out the dash, going through the wiring now cleaning it all up then i think ill do the K member swap first.

240 done and fairmont 5 start!

two updates in this post

made a quick update video, and then got my shit together and fired the car for fun

both cars update video

fairmont 3 fired up for the first time

time for the 5.3 to go together

today we made some room, pushed the cars back, had to replace the caster wheel on the engine hoist, then we moved the painted 5.3, installed valvesprings, studded the motor, removing one head bolt at a time then installing the studs, once the studs and springs were installed we did the cam. This time after pulling the balancer i used a LS7 crank bolt wich is longer than a truck bolt, pulled the balancer right on no problem then you finish with the truck bolt, man this worked so well i dont know why i have never done it, like it was meant to do it, crazy how i have never heard of it till my friend john said something about it, thats the way he does it.

either way the motor is back in the yellow car already with the reiners engine mounts ready for the turbo kit tomorrow.

fairmont 3 and 4 updates

truck getting there!

for not working on it a whole lot, its coming together super fast, i have the intercooler done in the right side to the throttle and i am waiting on some ebay couplers for the left side from turbo to intercooler, after that i just need to finish the valvesprings on the right, and extend the cam position sensor pickup to the new front sensor, and then install the injectors and pigtails for the injectors

then its oil feed and drain time and fire the motor and start tuning
once its running decent and seems good we will go ahead and swap in the 80e and get the driveshaft done. because we are still waiting about a week or two for the circle D converter to come in

fairmont and truck updates

well we swapped in a 94 GT master cyl and the brake pedal is way better, feels awesome.
also doing some testing with interrupting the stock IAT wire to screw up the ignition settings in the computer for help brake standing the car, that is also working!

wired in a button for reverse lights since my shifter doesn't have provisions and i thought it would be easier haha, also replaced the heater core in the car, so awesome, so easy to do in this car, just swap it out right behind the glove box, so nice to have heat again haha..

started putting in the valvesprings i got for troys truck, and mocking up the hotside, going to go quick i think!