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- Thread starter FordDude
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Hi FordDude. Thanks for the welcome note.
I am 57, married 25 years, two daughters 21 and 23. I live in Albany, California, an SF Bay Area town located across the bay from SF and next to Berkeley.
My Mustang history on the web goes back to early 2000, when I started posting on the Usenet newsgroup rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang. At the time I had a '70 Cougar standard coupe with 351C-2v and FMX that I had already spent a few years restomodding. The Cougar headed down the road just last Fall. In Fall 2001 I bought a '65 Mustang fastback, C Code and 3-spd stick, that I have also restomodded fairly heavily. In about 2006 I became a member of the VMF and Stangnet, with the emphasis by far on the VMF. I personally know a bunch of people on this board from my days on the VMF, like cmayna, KBMWRS, Jeff Tepper, Crusty Curmudgeon, and many others.
I'm reactivating my web presence in the name of my long-suffering '65. I'm trying to revive the car after an unscheduled furlough of 32 months. Some of the aforementioned will remember the Knotts Berry Farm trip of April 2008, when the car first sprung a radiator leak on the Saturday -- which I replaced in the motel parking lot -- and then on Sunday it started dripping coolant out of the water pump -- which I replaced on the Monday morning, again in the motel parking lot. There followed a lot of hate toward the '65 as my wife and I drove it home at 90 mph pretty much the whole way. The car repaid me in early July, when I had to break hard on the freeway one morning. The front of the crankshaft decided it wanted to continue rotating after the rear had stopped. This didn't turn out well.
I bought a rebuilt engine from a fellow VMFer -- a 30-over 5.0 with E303 roller cam and iron heads -- but this assembly had sat unprotected for several years and was covered with sandy grit and also had a few rusty cylinder bores. So it needed a teardown and essentially a second rebuild. I got to work on it, in fits and starts, and finally the project stalled in December 2008.
Yesterday -- Sunday -- for the first time in 14 months, I got back to work on the rebuild. Where I am is with the complete rotating assembly bolted together. Yesterday I pulled the car cover off the '65 and removed the front cover from the '66 C Code engine currently sitting under the hood. It's soaking in a solution of some of that purple degreaser right now and I'm actually looking forward to cleaning it up real good this evening after work.
What I need help with is the public shaming part, which I know my ex-VMF friends are really good at and I expect other members will also have "chops" in that department. That is, I need help to keep me moving the ball down the field. Support and encouragement will work too, but shame works better. TIA.
I am 57, married 25 years, two daughters 21 and 23. I live in Albany, California, an SF Bay Area town located across the bay from SF and next to Berkeley.
My Mustang history on the web goes back to early 2000, when I started posting on the Usenet newsgroup rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang. At the time I had a '70 Cougar standard coupe with 351C-2v and FMX that I had already spent a few years restomodding. The Cougar headed down the road just last Fall. In Fall 2001 I bought a '65 Mustang fastback, C Code and 3-spd stick, that I have also restomodded fairly heavily. In about 2006 I became a member of the VMF and Stangnet, with the emphasis by far on the VMF. I personally know a bunch of people on this board from my days on the VMF, like cmayna, KBMWRS, Jeff Tepper, Crusty Curmudgeon, and many others.
I'm reactivating my web presence in the name of my long-suffering '65. I'm trying to revive the car after an unscheduled furlough of 32 months. Some of the aforementioned will remember the Knotts Berry Farm trip of April 2008, when the car first sprung a radiator leak on the Saturday -- which I replaced in the motel parking lot -- and then on Sunday it started dripping coolant out of the water pump -- which I replaced on the Monday morning, again in the motel parking lot. There followed a lot of hate toward the '65 as my wife and I drove it home at 90 mph pretty much the whole way. The car repaid me in early July, when I had to break hard on the freeway one morning. The front of the crankshaft decided it wanted to continue rotating after the rear had stopped. This didn't turn out well.
I bought a rebuilt engine from a fellow VMFer -- a 30-over 5.0 with E303 roller cam and iron heads -- but this assembly had sat unprotected for several years and was covered with sandy grit and also had a few rusty cylinder bores. So it needed a teardown and essentially a second rebuild. I got to work on it, in fits and starts, and finally the project stalled in December 2008.
Yesterday -- Sunday -- for the first time in 14 months, I got back to work on the rebuild. Where I am is with the complete rotating assembly bolted together. Yesterday I pulled the car cover off the '65 and removed the front cover from the '66 C Code engine currently sitting under the hood. It's soaking in a solution of some of that purple degreaser right now and I'm actually looking forward to cleaning it up real good this evening after work.
What I need help with is the public shaming part, which I know my ex-VMF friends are really good at and I expect other members will also have "chops" in that department. That is, I need help to keep me moving the ball down the field. Support and encouragement will work too, but shame works better. TIA.
Fast68back
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Welcome! I think I recall your car, isn't it a sexy brown FB?
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The Nor Cal family gets bigger and bigger. Welcome aboard from Union City. Hope your enjoying the beautiful weather. LoL.
A lot of great folks here from all over Nor Cal and the Bay Area which it seems that you already know many of them.
I would love to see some pics, seems as though we have the 65 part in common but congratulations on the fastback.
Build thread maybe?
A lot of great folks here from all over Nor Cal and the Bay Area which it seems that you already know many of them.
I would love to see some pics, seems as though we have the 65 part in common but congratulations on the fastback.
Build thread maybe?
Well, Well, Well........look who has come back from the dead. Welcome fellow NorCal StangFixer. Yes many of us do remember in detail your Naughty Knotts parking lot water pump episode of 2008.
Bill,
Welcome to SF. Sorry the Cougar is gone, I remember that car, I might have bought it from you! Hope to see you again at a poker night.
Tom
Welcome to SF. Sorry the Cougar is gone, I remember that car, I might have bought it from you! Hope to see you again at a poker night.
Tom
70_Fastback
Hell Bent for Speed
Welcome to da 'Fix.