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Suspension & brakes from a 90's mustang?

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Kats66Pny

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Friday night I got a lead on a 90's model mustang (no clue the specific year just a 90's) that the owner was trying to get rid of not long ago. He was going to just give it away. It's basically a parts car. There is no engine or tranny, no title either. The guy who heard about it is going to call me when he finds out if the guy is still wanting to get rid of it. I might only have to pay for towing. :vic

Hubby said he's heard of folks swapping suspension parts and brakes from 90's mustangs and putting them in classic stangs?
 
As I understand it, the only items of possible use might be disc brake calipers and rotors, but these parts are readily available (cheap) over the counter new/rebuilt and it wouldn't make much sense to haul a whole roller car home to get these parts.

If it has an 8.8" rearend.... this could have some value, but again, I don't think it's worth hauling a whole car home for.
 
I was mistaken..the car does have an engine and tranny but the engine is blown (it's only a V6 so I wouldn't want it anyway) but there is a possibility the trans is fine.

Besides suspension, brakes, and rear end.. we were thinking of stripping that sucker down for anything that could possibly be used for my 66 .. radio, speakers, wheels, console pieces, seats.. possible AOD tran (instead of my little 3 speed auto C4) if the trans is ok and then sell what we don't need and then take it to the metal scrap yard and get a little $ for other little gertrude parts.
 
Like Dave said, free is not always good. Not much would be an easy swap. Maybe the seats but I am not sure on that as I like th '99-'04 model seats.
 
"Kats66Pny" said:
I was mistaken..the car does have an engine and tranny but the engine is blown (it's only a V6 so I wouldn't want it anyway) but there is a possibility the trans is fine.

Besides suspension, brakes, and rear end.. we were thinking of stripping that sucker down for anything that could possibly be used for my 66 .. radio, speakers, wheels, console pieces, seats.. possible AOD tran (instead of my little 3 speed auto C4) if the trans is ok and then sell what we don't need and then take it to the metal scrap yard and get a little $ for other little gertrude parts.
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Doesn't switching to the 90's model strut-style front end require an expensive kit like FatMan Fabrication sells? I mean, I'm sure a home-brewer could fab those parts up, but to be frank, I don't think you're at that level, as I doubt you have a machine shop, and I doubt you've done the years of research it takes to understand proper suspension geometry. A small degree of variance can ruin your car. Consider this a long shot. As Dave mentioned, the calipers and rotors might swap in, but they will also require an aftermarket kit to bolt those calipers to your spindles. Depending on your car, Mustang Steve probably sells a kit that will work. There are of course others out there. Just know what you'll have to spend to get them.

If it's a 90's model, the AOD is probably an AOD-E, which means you'll not only have the standard AOD headaches (header fit, new crossmember, shifter linkage) you'll also need a computer and harness to control it (unless you upgrade your car to EFI, which will also require a computer, but I believe that one computer will control both the engine and AOD-E)

if the radio is aftermarket, that will work easy...if it's a stock ford unit, it probably will require you to butcher the dash, if it'll work at all. I don't remember if your dash has already been cut for the radio, but if it hasn't DON'T and I'd caution about cutting it any further. If the radio will fit in a Single DIN, and your dash *HAS* been cut, you're good. The speakers should work fine, you'll just have to figure out the mounting, especially in the front.

You said it's a 90's model and I think by then Ford had switched to the v6 mustangs having 5 lug wheels, but there were some years where even certain V8 mustangs had 4 lugs (IIRC). If it has 4 lug wheels, you can't use them, of course. The console, I'm not sure how much you want to use of it, but it'll require some working to make it work and look good, but I don't think it's impossible...that one will get down to skill and tenacity.

The seats should be a go. I've heard of people putting in seats from the earliest FOX mustangs right on through to 2004 and never heard anyone say "Man that was hard!"

Not telling you you shouldn't do it, just want you to know what you're getting into!

Steve
 
I wouldn't mess with it. Axle is too wide, weak (being a V6 car), and the vintage Mustang suspension is technically superior to the 'modern' MacStrut poop. Transmission is strong, but electronic and requires an $$ Baumann computer. Wheels don't fit without spacer$. So, that basically leaves the radio, seats and calipers, which are fair game and reasonably easy(ish) to retrofit. :lol

And, the factory radio/speakers are shiiiat. PartsExpress has some verry nice buyout speakers on sale right now for $10ea and you can pick up an older CD/radio for nothing from the folks that gots ta have the latest....makes it a non-issue IMHO.

Then again, I hoard stuff. I have enough speakers to open a RadioShack and a freebie nice old Clarion CD player destined for my Mustang, so I'm biased. :lol

PS: If you can sweet talk me into buying a new stereo, I'll give you the clarion. It's nothing fancy, but it's from back in the day when McIntosh (makers of $3000 radios) owned Clarion; it sounds niiice.
 
I agree with the others...you would be amazed at how little there would be useful on a 6-cyl Foxbody Mustang. They are disposable cars for a reason.
 
It's a V6, so it's not a fox body, it's an sn95. AOD-E trans, wider 8.8", and basically useless for anything else. Let it go.
 
The guy still has the mustang sitting around as far as I know, so I could still get it if I wanted. He's only asking $200 for the whole car. I decided to pass though. I'd rather use $200 towards a new cowl.
 
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