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About ardenq
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I'll keep an eye out for you in Austin. I'd love to check out your car!
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Thanks for all the replies guys. Got it sorted out. Thanks for all your help guys! 315/35/17 in the rear.
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Who here is running a 315 in the rear of a 69 or 70 I've seen a couple fitting with a litter persuasion in front of the wheel on the inside and curing the lip and fm the bump stop. Obviously rim choice will limit options. But I've read not all 315's are the sa,e width, is any known to be skinnier Any input??
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Anyone else?
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Looking to buy power brake pedal for 70. I already have a 70 booster. Needs to be 4.5 inch center to center pivot. Thanks
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Thanks! I ended up making the trip right before Christmas. I was able to drive it a little bit. The boss clone needs an engine after a 50 dollar eBay distributor ate my cam. I guess God old saying goes, you get what joy pay for!
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69 Fastback: First car in 1985 - Bought it back in 2011
ardenq replied to TexasEd's topic in Project Progress Forum
Any update on this? I'm curious if you sorted out the brakes yet? Arden -
69 Fastback: First car in 1985 - Bought it back in 2011
ardenq replied to TexasEd's topic in Project Progress Forum
Any update on this? I'm curious if you sorted out the brakes yet? Arden -
10K to spend in upgrades, need idea's?!?
ardenq replied to ardenq's topic in 1969-70 Technical Forum
I've found that out the hard way when you're putting together a plan. Unfortunately there isn't going to be saving to do more later, the boss granted a one time concession that I'm going to stick to. I looked at the guages and most of the six guage sets aren't the right size for the year one insert. I would need 5 inch main guages and the kits were 3 3/8 inch. Piecing it together with a five inch tach and speedo I was over the vhx set. If you do run across one with five inch main guages pm me the link because I'm going to have to make every buck count. I didn't expect to spend fourth percent of the budget on but I'm open to it because of I know how important it is. One thing I considered is bolting in the aje k member, it uses sn95 suspension and brakes and a fox rack that would hit three categories. I'm also open to keeping the rear drums to save money. So far I've committed approximately 1600 to air conditioning and pulleys/freon (otherwise the wife will never ride in the summer time with me). That leaves 8400 left I'm guessing the trans will run 3500 which leaves 4900 for brakes and suspension/wheels tires. Darkbudda, you and I are both believers in doing it right the first time. I'm just not sure which way to go from there? -
10K to spend in upgrades, need idea's?!?
ardenq replied to ardenq's topic in 1969-70 Technical Forum
The car has leaky power steering currently, I've read about increasing caster with that box which made me look at kits with upper arms with built in caster like the cpp mini subframe kit or tcp. Currently the car has 14 inch wheels, I as looking at the modern wheel choices for 94-04 mustangs from American muscle. I really like what 70fastbak did with his car. Another issue with the suspension is it has a really nice 3 inch over axle exhaust I would like to keep which makes bolting a rear subframe in difficult I think. -
10K to spend in upgrades, need idea's?!?
ardenq replied to ardenq's topic in 1969-70 Technical Forum
I've heard some negative things about the borgeson box not returning to center. Have you used it? -
10K to spend in upgrades, need idea's?!?
ardenq replied to ardenq's topic in 1969-70 Technical Forum
They made A LOT of Mach 1's so I don't think this is very rare optioned car. Now if it had a big block... Either way everything is going to be retained and can be reversed. Also, I can not sell the car (part of the deal) so the value of the car doesn't come into play. I just want to make it safer and more enjoyable to drive. -
Hey guys, I'm new to mustangs, but not new to this car addiction. I had a chance to buy my uncles high school car that he said he would never sell. It's a 70 Mach 1 and although the wife gave me a hard budget I'm hoping I can get all the upgrades done since it won't happen again. A little about the car: 70 Mach 1 351C, 4 speed, manual drums, P/S, Non A/C. It was restored over the last 30 years and it's been done for a bit it really hasn't been driven too much. What I do know is I would like it to be updated to make it more modern to drive. The good news is the body, paint, interor and engine are in excellent condition. The things I would like to do in order of importance is A/C Power disc brakes Overdrive (4.11 currently) handeling/fix the 80's rake Guages (VHX are nice I've used them before) I've been down this road before and things spiral out of control quickly because the Mustang Steve kit I'm looking at doesn't work with the 14 inch wheels and the 18 inch wheels don't work with the 14 inch tires. So now, brakes, rims, tires have to be figured into the budge (which I'm very ok with) I would also like to address the zbar when doing the overdrive swap. Possible TK0 600 and switch it over to cable. I don't know what headers are on the car right now so that may make it tricky, I've looked into hydraulic but It didn't look like the clutch master would work with the MS booster. Also, with the suspension there are a million different ways to go also, It's enough to give a guy a headache. What do you guys think, what would you do if you had 10,000 to spend on these things?
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Thanks, I've always loved this body style. I'm going to have to sell it to finance the new one. For whatever reason these cars seem undervalued, now if it were a real boss...