Meet Virginia

[Meet Virginia]

Couple of Shots...

 

-New Wheel example

-New Coil Over Springs

-Somewhat cleaned up Engine bay

[Meet Virginia]

JNET4JT - Here's the kit your talking about:

http://www.discbrakeswap.com/Mustang%20Disc%20Brake%20Conversion%20Kits%20SWAP1.html

Kelsey-Hayes "Type" Calipers 11 inch vented/sloted rotors.

 

I haven't driven it yet with this kit installed. Once I do I'll tell you how it performs. I can tell you this I locked the 4 wheel drums up plenty when I was driving it and I can't imagine this won't be an improvement.

 

TeaxsEd - I agree I tell my wife at least once a week if I could I'd go back and kick my own @$$.

 

MAD_IN_NC - Unfortunately the family farm is back in the Blue Ridge Area, but I'm living in the land of perpetual winter - Minnesota. So I get about 4 days a year to drive the car. But they should be very good fun filled days!! Though maybe it just means I'll have to take a winter trip once a year. I know a guy with a roller truck maybe we can make a deal to drop the car off in a no road salt state.

[Meet Virginia]

Four Piston Goodness. Supposedly the same as was used on a dealer kit in the 60s.

[Meet Virginia]

No my Gran bought it used. My Grandpa was a bit of a horse trader. Both with the fury kind and the metal kind. There were never fewer than a dozen cars around his place. His pride and joy was a 57 T-Bird with a 312, Black with the White removable hard top, red interior.

 

At one time in the late 80s I think he had 7 Mustangs - 6 from 65-70 and an 85 5.0 convertible. Funny though because the last car he bought after all that Detroit steel was a super bug.

 

I'm trying to track down where this car was sold, but I have a feeling it was in a shed for years in the 80's, hence the replaced sheet metal. I have the standard Marti I'll probably just break down and pay for the extended report. The dealer code is 25D213. Anyone have a clue where that might be.

 

OK A couple more photos. Breaks and old front end parts. Plus a lonely motor away from home.

[Meet Virginia]

Wish I had more/better images.

[Meet Virginia]

Ok so I've lurked for a while on this site and thought I'd jump in finally.

 

So here is a brief story about about my car. I bought it at 16 (a couple decades ago) from my grandmother. Basic stats are

-Grande - New Lime/Black Top

-Dark Ivy Gold Interior

-302 2bbl/C4

-2.79 Conventional Rear Axle (though I suspect this was changed at some point to something in the high 3s but still not locking)

It was her daily driver. I drove it for a year or so and then I basically killed it in shop class. Had I been my own dad back then I would never had let my kid sign up to rebuild his Mustang Engine in shop class. Just saying.

 

Basic errors - too big of a Cam Shaft, missed an important frost plug that closes an oil galley, dented the door pushing it into a post, scratched the hell out of it when an unsecured hood slipped off the hinges, just to name a few.

 

So I drove it for a couple years, or tried to occasionally, and then parked it. I accumulated a part here or there for about 15 years then decided it was time to get her going again. So I pulled the motor again 3 years ago. Here is where I am at now.

-had the heads worked a bit (all the rocker studs had been pushed out due to the oversized cam) to change over to threaded rocker arm studs, also hardened seats were put in back in the 90s so no worries there

-Swapped the cam with a Competition roller cam

-Changed over to Competition roller rockers

-Moved to a Holley 4bbl 4160

-Replaced the exhaust manifolds with shorties

-Upgraded to duel flow master exhaust

-Changed out the front drums to 4 caliper discs

-GT'd up the suspension

-Rebuilt the front end

-Beefed up the suspension

-Coil over shocks in the rear

-Rebuilt the steering

-Rebuilt the Transmission

-Custom Torque converter

-Hotter Distribution (no more points for us)

-Patch some minor rust holes

-2 new Doors

-16 inch Vintage Wheel Works Rims

-And as of last week Primer

 

Also after media blasting we found 1 fender was a doner and the quarters must have been replaced in the 80s but they did so well we don't have to mess with it. The dented door was just easier/cheaper to replace, while the remaining door was patched to often to bother keeping it.

 

The goal is to be on the road in the next couple of months. I know this is a pretty light build compared to many on here but it's mine and I wanted to share. The new scheme is going to be Black Jade, with a white top, and a double white pin stripe (similar to the black but without the reflective center and painted not vinyl). The interior is going to be Dark Ivy Gold two toned with White Inserts - I'm not sure how this will look but I'm crossing my fingers. Later I'm going to switch out to HIDs head lamps and LED tail lamps.

 

My Paint Guy says it's bad news to have a car without a name. Since this car spent so long in the Blue Ridge Mountains I figured Virginia was fitting. I'll start with the before photos and add some more later in the week.