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I'll keep an eye out for you in Austin. I'd love to check out your car!

Thanks for all the replies guys. Got it sorted out. Thanks for all your help guys! 315/35/17 in the rear.

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??

Bad day

Anyone else?

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

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!

Any update on this? I'm curious if you sorted out the brakes yet? Arden

Any update on this? I'm curious if you sorted out the brakes yet? Arden

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?

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.

I've heard some negative things about the borgeson box not returning to center. Have you used it?

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?

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...

Hello everyone, I joined this site because I'm looking for information about these cars. Currently I have a 70 Boss clone that I bought recently and tried to do some upgrades to. Unfortunately, that went a little sideways and after 1 step forward I took two steps back... I recently found out; however, I'm going to be able to buy a car that's been in my family since the early 80's. It's a 70 Mach 1 in very nice shape. My uncle owns it and although he let me work on it, he vowed to never sell it. This car is the reason I got into the automotive industry and my wife worked feverishly behind my back to arrange it as a surprise. I don't have any pictures of it, but it needs to be freshened up and updated. It's had very little use over the past 25 years and he drives it sparingly to shows. I'm going to put a list of objectives together and try and figure out the upgrades that NEED to be done, things I would like to do, and the some day list-- I may need your guys help. I've been apart of forums before so I've spent a lot of time reading and searching so I'll try not to rehash things extensively covered. I'm looking for more modern improvements, I looked at VMF but I'm not sure if everyone is on both sites or people are divided. My name is Arden and I've only lived in the Austin area for a year. I moved here for work and haven't looked back. I started as a BMW tech in 2005 and worked my way through college so I didn't have to brake my back for the rest of my life. I'm now a field engineer for a competing high line automotive manufacture and can go back to enjoy working on cars as a hobby. I'm looking forward to getting to know you guys, I can tell reading through the threads it's a real great bunch of guys here. But we all known people don't read these things when they see all these words, so on with the picture: This is the 70 boss clone I need to sell to get the dream machine.