RogerC

Yup, 69. Not much left of it.

Anyone with a 69 or 70 with a 351C. I'm looking for a longitudinal distance from the front face of the engine mount legs on the shock towers to the front face of the oil pan. Thanks in advance.

Been thinking about my engine compartment overall configuration. I initially wanted to go with the Martz front suspension and R&P set up. I really like that set up best of all the options with R&P. I was thinking of going dry sump on my 351C. I backed off that but never felt good about the engine position height-wise with a rear sump conversion. I decided to retain the front sump and do several things to ensure good oil supply in the 351C. I'll document those later. Keeping the front sump meant re-thinking my suspension. Back in the mid 80s I installed the Global West Negative Roll set up. It seemed obvious to move to their coil-over negative roll set up as I already have the A arms relocated (slightly different than the Arning/Shelby mod) and I wasn't really feeling the work necessary to do the Martz set up. So I pulled the trigger on the GW kit adding Willwood 12 inch disc kit. I'll get a quick ratio manual steering box and roller idler arm. I bought the shock tower plates from opentracker and started welding those in also. More to come. BTW, My company was bought, an agreement was signed last month, waiting on .gov official approval due to DoD contracts. New company is intending on expansion. Its a french company with facilities in Miami (north american HQ) and Mexico along with other facilities around the world. We've been told they want our company as the main engineering and manufacturing facility in the U.S. Our biggest customer outside of DoD is GE Aerospace & GE Power (whatever they're called now) and the Cincinnati & Peebles facilities are fairly close (day trip). Also, Rolls Royce is over in Indy.

Not installed yet but using NuRelics. http://1969stang.com/forum/index.php?/topic/70369-69-supercoupe/&do=findComment&comment=489061

I have this information. For some reason, the 1st page only posted as a link. https://i.postimg.cc/8596fRZX/Pictures-20240728-0001.jpg

Opened my oil pump up. Wanted to see if it was still good. Looks like something got between the housing and the gears gouging them. You can barely feel it but I'll replace the pump while I have the engine apart.

I bought a Scott Drake switch (C9ZZ-17A553-V2) off ebay from Ohio Mustang Supply back in April. Other listings. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_id=276413494430&_nkw=Scott Drake C9ZZ-17A553-V2 Variable Wiper Switch&_sis=1

Slight diversion from the 69, Added front spoiler and rear spoiler wicker bill to DD.

I talked to the machinist a few days back. I'm going to try and drop off my block next Friday. He's going to sonic check it, clean it, do a complete eval and determine what all needs done.

Your 5K limit is sensible. If you were to rebuild and take care of the vulnerabilities it would probably be good to around 5.5K - 6K. Though the engine was designed to run at 7K in 4V form, the vulnerabilities make that risky. Rod bolts are good but the nuts are the failure point. If you're running stock valves, those are ticking time bombs. The oil system has some issues also. As D0ZX said the cam and heads are going to limit any useable power up high anyhow.

In the process of making my own copies of the RM style. Had the pieces laser cut at work. I can't recall where I got the cad files from. I overlooked that the bolt holes were line on line and had to open them slightly with the drill press.

Been checking in every day. I want to post a couple of pics once I'm able to again.

See ben's post (bswor) between my posts. He's working on it. http://1969stang.com/forum/index.php?/topic/220009-bandwidth-issue/page/3/#comments

Got my polycarbonate quarter windows yesterday. They'll be fixed in place and not moveable. Made by Plastics 4 Performance in the UK. They were pretty pricey to ship to the states but I think they're worth it. I tried making my own with 1/4 inch plexiglass but it didn't turn out well. They look well made and accurate. Direct link worked to load the pic.

Excellent, Thank you Ben. I don't think others have noticed yet.