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The stock T5 finally broke on me so I decided it was time to work on rest of the driveline and the suspension while I had it apart. so I called this the 2nd phase.

I fogot to add while doing the motor stuff I put in all new sensors, injectors, fan, police fan clutch, battery tray, oem battery cables, fuel lines, fuel tank, upgraded tp 155l/hr pump, convertible motor mounts and few other things i'm forgetting.

Astro performance super high alloy T5


DEZ racing pulled apart the rear end and installed the '03 cobra diff, FRPP 31 spline axles, FRPP 3:73 gears, master rebuild kit and rear girdle.



then I did the '01 bullitt springs, MS cater/camber plates, mms lower arms and FRPP uppers, ssbc front brakes. not in the pic FRPP lower front arms. mms strut brace & KYB AJX struts/shocks.

I also picked up all new oem switches, in the pic you can see how worn the stock ones where


getting it ready top go





the roads by this time where full of salt so my buudy who owns the shop came and picked her up



the body project starts..










-- Edited by skunk on Saturday 17th of April 2010 05:25:14 PM

new oem GT steering wheel in the wrapper


new side mirrors



Picked up new wheels and tires for the car

FRPP 17" chrome pony R's





and Dunlop star specs

wow nice fox things sick...id stay with the 93 cobra wheels

That looks just like my brothers did with the cobras about a year ago but alot better keep it up man

coming along great! I like this car a lot.

LOL. you didn't catch that on channel 7 news . nah I had been saving up for awhile before I bought the car and stock piling during. I pretty much knew when I picked one up I wanted to my own things and it would need some work, I just needed to get a rust free example to start. I figured do it right and no regrets later or very little anyways. pretty much will be the same plan on the new motor in the future. do some research and build what i want get all the funds together and pull the trigger, nothing premature so I don't skimp. Thanks for all the positive remarks guys.

Nice! Cars gonna look great.

Thanks again guys for the positive remarks. hopefully going to stop by the shop during the week to check on it and grab some pics. I'm also going to stop by a local shop that does alarm/radio installs and get some prices on a Viper alarm system or a GPS type system for it.

coming out nice, one of these days i need to restore my body but from 10' away it looks great hahah

a new update from jsut over a week. We found 2 rust spots that slowed us down just a bit. They where hiding under the door jamb rubbers righ at the bend by the upper door hinge. water must like to pool here and we found it on the drivers side and sure enough when we pulled back the rubber on the pass side it was in the same spot but less severe. no biggie, some grinding, sand blasting and welding in a new piece and good as new.

you can see rusty spot I'm talking about by the upper hinge




all fixed up!







passenger side spot going to get worked on next


cleaning up rocker and straightening lower lip and fixing minor rust spot..







done..




working on D/S door, new hinge pins, seam sealer and some prep getting it ready for paint






stripped fender fixing low spots




misc. pics..








getting ready to blow color in the jambs/hatch/under hood real soon!!!

keep it up looking good

Thanks guys!

sled wrote:

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looks great alot of time put into this car nice job. wanna sell the 93 cobra wheels? let me know first please

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yes with pretty much brand new tires. you get 1st dibs. pm me if you want.

more repairs done and the jambs recieve color.

gonna be mint doing a great job

another update. progress on going. installed the drivers door and fender, worked on the lines and the upper part of the door alignment needed some work to get it nice. In the end the lines are all dead on and looking good. found litle bits of surface rust under the stock seam sealer nothing that popped through but totally hidden to it was all stripped it and taken down. new seam sealer applied and primed.

At this point now all of the body is DONE! next week going to start blocking and getting the body ready for paint and prepping the new bumpers, etc also. The end is getting ever closer yet still much to be done.

some new pics..

nice job man......good work!

91chrisgt wrote:

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your going all out and u mask the bodyside mldg wtf?????!!!!!! j/k man car is ganna be sick!! keep up the good work!!

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moulding needs a different prep so primer/paint doesn't flake off, also it's in mint condition and just needs prep for actual paint no need for primer on it. thanks for positive comments though.

Loopy I really like those wheels almost pulled the trigger on a set before I got a really good deal on my R's.

-- Edited by skunk on Tuesday 8th of June 2010 09:53:16 PM

It has been awhile since the last update. The shop has been real busy and so have I with my sons graduation and some other stuff. The underside of the hatch is painted along with the jamb & rear section of the car. I spent alot of time myself cleaning every square inch of the rear panel and bumper support, priming and sanding to get it perfect. I took a couple of pic real quick and they are about 2wks old..




I just got back to it the middle of last week since they are still busy. They gave me a hand putting the hatch back on but I spent a serious amount of time getting the hatch lines prefect has they can be. The hatch sat a little low at the roof line before which I think alot of them do. I looked at a few of them during recent car show and noticed how the hatch fits the opening and went from there to improve on the factory. anyways I took it back off and made 2 stainless shims to raise it a little and opened the holes a touch so I could get a little more side/side adjustment. It now lines up just about perfect with the roof line and the sides are much better than factory and it seals up nice and tight . I have prepped all the ground effects got all the spider cracks in the paint out and inside the mustang letters .

I also test fitted the new oem bumpers to see how they would look and found out yet I need to do some more work since my anal side keeps showing through. The front cover needs a little build up on the very top and some on the sides to match up to the lines of the front fenders and for some reason on the pass side of the rear bumper where the extension bolts on I have a slight gap at the very bottom wher it starts to flare out but It's fine on the drivers side. must be something with the mold so I got to do some work and build up on that area also. I don't have any pics my son is using my camera on his trip and I haven't gotten it back yet but I will get some up asap. just wanted to keep the thread alive and let everyone who is following along know it's still ongoing. I'm jsut taking my time and making sure every square inch is touched, fixed and ready and getting all the lines near perfect. more updates soon.

looks like a lot of fun

90stangGT wrote:

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I cant wait to see this thing all done.

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your not the only one

Great job. Very nice car..

Got the rear bumper stripped down for the most part need to get the paint out of the embossed mustang letters. I also started to sand down the primer on the skirts to get them ready for paint. going to start on the under side of the hood next week. 1 guy is out on vaca and the shop is loaded with work so I'll be up there working on it alot to get it out the door buy the end of the month...hopefully. I'll never really bitch though for how long it's taking considering what my buddy is charging me and how detailed of a job we are doing.

some recent pics..