My first Mustang. Brand new, haven't started to mess with it yet!
This is the first modification I have pictures of. Motorsport / Crane Cobra 1.72:1 aluminum rockers and JBA headers. (1993-1994)
Cylinders look pretty good after 66,000 miles, no ridge and you can still see the cross hatch!! Mobil 1 is good stuff.
This is what happens when you combine an SVO Master Cylinder and stock '87 and later 60mm calipers and snooze behind the wheel. I couldn't lock the tires with both feet! I rear ended a 89 Pontiac Parisianne, (Chevy Caprice in disguise). Unfortunatley, he was on the brakes hard too, so his rear end was way up in the air. Caught his bumper right across the head lights. Took out the hood, front cover, top of the radiator core support, condensor, radiator, water pump, fan and lots of little stuff. Fortunatlely the fenders weren't tweaked. This was July of '99. That pretty much totals a 15 year old Mustang even if it only has 70,000 miles and is in great condition!
I test drove a stock 94 GT, thinking I might take some of the parts from the '85 and hop up a newer car. What a dog!! With all the money I had already poured into this car, I couldn't let it go. I decided to fix it. It needed paint anyway (faded) so I had Crown Coachworks fix the wreck damage and re-paint the whole car. This paint looks nicer than the stock paint ever did! They clear coated it, believe it or not 1985s were not clear coated, 1986s were! Replaced the stock hood with a Cervini 2.5" raised cowl hood. Replaced the GT front cover with an LX front cover because a new GT cover was $500 and the LX was only $150. I never used the fog lights anyway and I like the cleaner look of the LX cover! Painted a lot of the gray trim body color, I like this look a lot! The Cobra R wheels and 275/40/17s in back and 245/45/17s in front don't hurt either! While Crown had the car I had them weld in some Kenny Brown Double Cross Subframe Connectors and roll the rear fender lips too. When I got it home I upgraded the front calipers to 73mm Lincoln MKVII calipers. These work perfectly with the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe rear disks and SVO master cylinder, now I can stop!!
I converted the car to 5 lugs for the Cobra R wheels using Lincoln Mark VII rotors in front. In back, I got stock length Moser Engineering axles with 5 lugs. I re-drilled the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe rear rotors for 5 lugs.
Big meats! Now I have enough traction that it doesn't spin hopelessly in first gear!! It handles great too!
In front, I used Dupli-Color High Heat Ceramic 1200 degree aluminum color paint on the calipers. I painted the edges and centers of the rotors with flat black 1500 degreeVHT Flame Proof coating.
In back, I left the calipers as they came from Stainless Steel Brakes, they look pretty good after eleven years! I painted the edges and centers of the rotors with black High Heat Rust-Oleum since they had surface rust and VHT needs a clean non-oxidized surface.
Lowered with Ford Motorsport M-5300-B Lowering Springs. Now it doesn't look like a four wheel drive pickup truck. The only rubbing has been the rear tires on the tail pipes, and that is only under extremely aggresive driving!
ENGINE MODIFICATIONS:
Edelbrock Performer Aluminum Heads #6037
Edelbrock Performer 302 Intake Manifold #3721
Crane #2031 Cobra Cam, 276 /282 adv. duration, 214 /220 @
0.050", 112 lobe separation, .513"/.529" lift
Crane Cobra 1.7 Ratio Aluminum Roller Rockers
Ford Motorsport M-6565-A302 Hardened Push Rods
Ford Motorsport M-6500-R302 Hydraulic Roller Lifters
Carter M6904 Mechanical Fuel Pump
JBA Underdrive Crank and Alternator Pulleys
Ford MotorSport M-8005-C Aluminum Radiator
1986+ Fan Shroud
1993 Heavy Duty Fan Clutch
K&N Washable High Flow Air Filter
Brass Radiator Works High Flow Water Pump Kit
Accel 300+ Ignition Module and Coil
Accel Distributor Cap and Rotor
Champion Premium Gold #2071 Spark Plugs
Ford Motorsport 8 mm Stainless Spiral Core Ignition Wires
Mobil 1 synthetic 10W30 oil
Peak Hard Driver synthetic filter, pn HD01
DRIVE TRAIN / SUSPENSION MODIFICATIONS:
Ford Motorsport R58 Cobra R 17X9 wheels, Dunlop SP8000 tires, 275/40
17
rear, 245/45 17 front
Ford Motorsport M-5300-B Lowering Springs
Ford Motorsport M-5500-A Rear Upper Control Arms
Steeda Caster / Camber Plates
Steeda Polyurethane front sway bar mount bushings
Ford steering limiter washers, pn N804842-S
Moser Engineering custom alloy 5 lug axles
Ford Motorsport M4006-B355 8.8 inch / 3.55 Ratio Rear End
Ford Motorsport M-6375-B302 10.5" Flywheel
Ford Motorsport M-7560-C302 King Cobra 10.5" Clutch, Pressure Plate,
Throwout Bearing
Ford Motorsport M-7553-A302 heavy duty clutch cable and release arm
upgrade
D&D Steel T-5 Input Bearing Retainer
Stainless Steel Brake Co. Rear Disk Brake Conversion (87-88 T-Bird
Turbo Coupe
rear brakes, drilled for 5 lug)
Monroe Formula GP struts and rear shocks
11 inch, 5 lug front brake rotors (Lincoln Mark VII, Raybestos pn 6009)
Spindles (87-93 Mustang 5.0)
73mm Calipers (91 Lincoln Mark VII, steel pistons, Bendix pn R55246S
and
R55247S)
Stainless Steel Caliper Sleeves
Performance Friction Carbon Metallic Brake Pads (front, 91 Lincoln Mark
VII pn
1994 0199.20)
Stainless Steel Brake Co. Front brake flex lines
Stainless Steel Brake Co. Brake Proportioning Valve
Stainless Steel Brake Co. Master Cylinder (84-86 SVO Mustang)
Hurst T-5 Shifter
Mobil 1 Synthetic 75W90 Lube in Rear End
Amzoil Synthetic ATF in Transmission
EXHAUST:
Ford Motorsport Off Road Dual Exhaust
JBA Shorty Headers with Jet Hot Thermal Barrier Coating
Stock Mufflers and Tailpipes
EXTERIOR:
Cervini 2.5" Cowl Induction Hood, pn 106
LX Front bumper cover / deleted GT Fog Lights
Painted body color: waist band, mirrors, head light buckets, cowl vent
Rolled Rear Wheel Well Lip
Kenny Brown Weld On Double Cross Subframe Connectors
INTERIOR:
Ford Motorsport 140 MPH Speedometer
Autoguage 2.875" Mechanical Oil Pressure and Water Temperature Gauges
Concord AM/FM Cassette with 10 Watt / Channel
Concord DBX unit
Concord 18 Watt / Channel Rear Amplifier
Infinity 6X9 Triax Rear Speakers
Infinity 3.5 inch Front Speakers
I’ve finally started with the fuel injection conversion. I thought I
blew a
head gasket a few weeks ago, so I tore it all the way down to the short
block.
Head gaskets were OK, it was a leaking intake gasket. Well, no sense in
bolting
all the carbureted stuff back on, so here goes:
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