In the beginning

[stangs-R-me 120]

Welcome to the forum.

Wow, that is coming along real nice ... love the Grabber Green.

Doug

[Northernstang 18]

Thanks Doug, things are going pretty slow at the moment with Christmas coming and winter here. Temperature here a few mornings ago was -30 Fahrenheit.

[WFB 470 0]

Love the color!

Who made the shorty headers? do they only fit the CJ heads? How's the clearance in the car?

[Northernstang 18]

Sanderson headers. They make headers for pretty much any engine if I remember correctly. They are pretty tight. I had to tweak them a bit to clear the steering box and the back of the right side shock tower. Also had to make a custom Z bar for the clutch linkage. 

 

[TexasEd 180]

Very sharp looking.  It's come a long way.

[Northernstang 18]

Thanks. Hopefully she will be ready for the road by the end of may if the snow is all gone by then.

[Northernstang 18]

Hard to believe it has been almost a year since I last posted. Life took a u- turn and my hobbies got put on the back burner. Hopefully this year will be better. Leaking rear engine oil seal turned into complete  removal and disassemble. I managed to save the block , just got back from the machine shop 0.040 over. The rest was garbage. So I guess I should have found engine parts and built my own engine in the beginning instead of buying a “built “ engine from a supposedly fe builder. Expensive lesson learned.

[Northernstang 18]

[RPM 1,178]

One of the things taught in the police academy is people will lie to you. Sorry you had dealings with one of them. 

 

 

[69RavenConv 284]

Far and away the most frustrating part of the hobby - having to do something twice (or three times, or...)

[Northernstang 18]

Well, I personally don’t do repetition very well. So I’m going to build this engine with a little modern touch. Still collecting pieces .what I have so far.

[RPM 1,178]

That should lighten her up a bit. 

 

[Northernstang 18]

It certainly lightened my wallet lol. The price of parts up here is getting stupid, that’s almost 6500.00 sitting on the floor.

[RPM 1,178]

Yikes! Is that why you didn't get an 8 stack injection? :)

[Northernstang 18]

Would probably have to take out a second mortgage for that lol.

[WFB 470 0]

As a fellow big block Mustang owner, I like it! And this reminds me, I should create a thread on my car.

FE valvetrain is complex, be sure to install the oil restrictors in the heads and spring for decent valvetrain. Also, do multiple test fits of the intake to the block heads. Since they all meet - the intake has to match on 3 sides. I just installed a Performer RPM and despite spending almost $700 on the intake, had to grind every bolt hole slightly to align to the heads (also Edelbrock). This problem only gets worse when the block has been decked.

[Northernstang 18]

Thanks ,I’m aware of the fe oddities, had a few over the years.