Well, I thought I would start a build tread on the 1967 convertible. On a whim, I sold my 1977 Toyota FJ40, and decided after years of doing the 4x4 thing, I should get back into muscle cars.
My brother found this car for me (he is the Mustang nut in the family), and it was super clean, and had been sitting for 10 years. The PO was a young man, and this was his first car in hight school. He had dropped in a 302 with a C6, but the install was not very clean. No stall converter, kick-down cable, and wires where just twisted together with electrical tape.
I just planed to do a few minor things to it, once I dug into it and realized what a mess the PO had made of things I decided to give the car a little TLC. First thing was to pull the engine and transplant a DSS Racing engine with a T5. I scored one off Craigslist!! First thing I did was have my engine guy go thru the engine, and also had the T5 rebuild. We have also added disc brakes as well easy to do while we had the engine out.
Engine Specs:
DSS Level 10 CNC block.
DSS pistons
Stock rods and polished crank
Comp Cams 270HR roller cam
Ford GT40 heads
Comp Cams pedestal mount roller rockers
Edelbrock Performer RPM Carbed Intake
Melling High Volume oil pump with hardened shaft
Summit Racing SFI balancer
Here is a shot of the day we bought it about 6 weeks ago.
This weeks progress:
My brother found this car for me (he is the Mustang nut in the family), and it was super clean, and had been sitting for 10 years. The PO was a young man, and this was his first car in hight school. He had dropped in a 302 with a C6, but the install was not very clean. No stall converter, kick-down cable, and wires where just twisted together with electrical tape.
I just planed to do a few minor things to it, once I dug into it and realized what a mess the PO had made of things I decided to give the car a little TLC. First thing was to pull the engine and transplant a DSS Racing engine with a T5. I scored one off Craigslist!! First thing I did was have my engine guy go thru the engine, and also had the T5 rebuild. We have also added disc brakes as well easy to do while we had the engine out.
Engine Specs:
DSS Level 10 CNC block.
DSS pistons
Stock rods and polished crank
Comp Cams 270HR roller cam
Ford GT40 heads
Comp Cams pedestal mount roller rockers
Edelbrock Performer RPM Carbed Intake
Melling High Volume oil pump with hardened shaft
Summit Racing SFI balancer
Here is a shot of the day we bought it about 6 weeks ago.
This weeks progress:
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