TexasEd

I know this is an old post but I learned the backseat of my car was useless when I was in high school. Great thread

Is this your car?

My car is missing them and I was describing them to the body shop employee. Should I add them back in and I guess they sell them at NPD.

if you put a spacer at the top of the end cap bolts does it move the bottom in more? Does that create too big of a gap at the top?

More progress pictures. You can follow me on instagram for mor pictures at https://instagram.com/red69mustang?igshid=NzZlODBkYWE4Ng== or @red69mustang

I have JBA Shorty headers from my 302 but switching to a 351W and T5 with cable clutch. Any chance I can re-use the JBA headers with the taller block?

I'm willing to commit money to keeping the site up during the whole month. How do we do that?

How much do we need in subscriptions to increase the monthly bandwidth limit?

Got a new to me roller block 351W. Looks pretty good. Tomorrow I go visit the paint and body shop.

I already bought the transmission. The gears are: 3.35, 1.93, 1.26, 1, .068 I have 26" Diameter tires The engine will easily spin up to 6000 RPM in aggressive driving if I put in 5500 rpm shift points this is what it looks like with 3.8 gears For more moderate driving I did the math and these are my speeds at 3,000 RPMs in each gear The different between 3.55 and 3.8 is 1.3 MPH in first but in 5th cruising at 70 MPH is 2184 RPM with 3.55 and 2338 with 3.8 gears. Fifth is not usable at 3.55 until about 65 MPH (2000 RPM) but with 3.8 2000 RPM is 60mph. I think the 3.8 is the best balance of high and low. 3000 RPM Speeds 3.55 3.8 Difference 1st 19.52 18.24 -1.28 2nd 33.88 31.63 -2.25 3rd 51.9 48.48 -3.42 4th 65.39 61.09 -4.3 5th 96.17 89.94 -6.23

What do you know about the headers?

It has a 3.35 first and .63 overdrive gear which is why I’m going with the 3.80 rear. The transmission is already bought but not the new 3rd member. I was told the 2.95 first gears were in the v6 cars.

I have an 8” and planning to go with 3.80 gears

A couple questions to clear up my assumptions: Are all the fastback rear seat panels the same for fold down and non-fold down? I think so. Are they the same for 69/70? Are the coupe's and convertibles different?

I'd love to see the white upholstery

Yes, doing the modern drive line conversion. Pretty excited to make the car faster than my 2013 F150 twin turbo truck.

So I never posted it in this thread but it was at that point that I was taking it to get the AC system charged and it backed into a tree damaging the passenger door, front fender and ripping the side mirror off. I couldn't even look at the car for a few weeks. I took it to a couple shows with the dents and then I got in touch with a new body shop since the one I was waiting on was taking forever and it ihas been at that shop since Feb 2023. The engine was pulled and inspected and found to not be the original 302 block so I sold it and the transmission. Will be installing a built T5 and the plan is to build a roller 351W with stock bottom end and new intake, headers and carb. I already have the carb.

@AusTex70 I saw this post and I live off Anderson Mill in Cedar Park. If you want to get together, drink a beer or work on stuff let me know. My 69 is in the paint shop for a while. I've taken about every part off it and put them all back on so I could help with your reassembly.

You need to look at all the steering and suspension components together. Play in suspension leads to steering problems. Idler arm center links Control arms ball joints sway bar bushings strut rod bushings steering box adjustment rebuilding the steering control valve and power ram and on. I did all of that stuff at once, lowered the UCA and stiffer springs. I loved the results. Then I wore out my strut rod bushings again and it is less precise.

Lol, I was coming here to share that when I had this problem it turned out that one of my door switches was bad. It was like the door was always open.

yes, this makes sense. 69 has concave panel but it is flat where the fill tube goes in. 70 has a flat panel.

I think you can probably make anything fit. It looks like that one will need a lot of extra holes drilled.

Here are some before I took it apart. I don’t know if it’s perfect