[HaveII]

One more....

[Eos]

Thats one clean II. =)

[COBRAIIW]

Have II , what did you coat the headers with?
Ten years, sheesh!

[HaveII]

Originally Posted by COBRAIIW

Have II , what did you coat the headers with?
Ten years, sheesh!

I used POR (this is the brand) aluminium Exhaust manifold coating after a good sandblasting and wipe down appling it with a paint brush. It was around $35 (with shipping) for a small can that was just enough for two headers.

[IICrazy]

before a three hour drive down to portland for a car show. I cruised down with 13 other newer stangs, and I held my own pretty well. Surprised many of them with the little II.

[Putter]

Here is a 78 T-top car. All stock seems to be really straight too.
V-6 4 speed.

[deadhead5.0]

Cobra II's, I don't know what it is about them, I think I'm the only 87-93 5.0 owner who loves Cobra II's.

[IICrazy]

a new pic to whore out to all of you

[Blue Thunder]

Fresh pics, taken a couple hours ago, after recent mods:





I'll get around to finishing my new hood sometime soon, I'm sure. Hah.

[jeffnoel]

OK Blue Thunder, what did you do to get those tires/wheels under there? Give sizes and offsets please.

[Eos]

Originally Posted by deadhead5.0

Cobra II's, I don't know what it is about them, I think I'm the only 87-93 5.0 owner who loves Cobra II's.

I sold my 89 mustang for a II!

[Eos]

I love your car Blue Thunder, but the wheels look too big on a classic style car. I like to see more rubber then rim!

[Blue Thunder]

Originally Posted by Eos

I love your car Blue Thunder, but the wheels look too big on a classic style car. I like to see more rubber then rim!

I'm going for handling now, so looks are secondary in this case, but the Cobra wheels grew on me after awhile, and now I actually like them on the car.
But more importantly, I got all 4 of those wheels with the tires on them, virtually brand new, balanced and all, for $400 from a junkyard.
I work for the company that auctions off totalled cars for insurance companies, and so I'm also the guy who delivers cars to junkyards after each auction. For this reason, the yards give me very good deals, especially since I go out of my way to take good care of their cars when I'm loading and unloading them.
Anyway, I think those wheels make the II look even more similar to an '05 than it already does, and I like the look of the '05 Stangs a lot.

[Blue Thunder]

Originally Posted by jeffnoel

OK Blue Thunder, what did you do to get those tires/wheels under there? Give sizes and offsets please.

You'll probably laugh, but I never even measured the backspacing.. I got them from the junkyard, bolted on some 5-lug conversion rotors, and then bolted the wheels on the car. The wheels hit the inner wells in the back when the car would hit a bump and the rear would lift on either side, so I added longer race studs and 7/16" spacers. The wheels hit the upper arms in the front when I turned, so I modified the upper arms, added longer race studs, and 7/16" spacers. It goes down the road and nothing hits and it steers tighter than stock in a parking lot, so it works.
Check out my car domain link for details and pics of the upper arm mods.

I can tell you though, that I did test fit the rear 275/40zr17s on the front, and they also fit without hitting the stock flares, and they still turn plenty tight enough. I'd say the 275/40 17s are about as big as you can possibly fit inside the stock wells and flares.
My plans are to install 3" steel wheel flares all around, and hopefully, fit 315/40zr17s or perhaps larger on all 4 corners.

[jeffnoel]

So were the 5-lug rotors the direct swap ones or the Granadas? If not the Granadas do you think the extra 1/4" would have kept you from having to modify the upper arm?

[Mstng2]

Originally Posted by Eos

haha We'll see about those. I have some new pics of me but this is "post your ride" not "post your pics" lol

Can I be on your pic mailing list too??

[jeffnoel]

Blue Thunder, have you compensated the speedo since the new tires are 2" taller than stock? Which gear did you use # of teeth?

[Blue Thunder]

Originally Posted by jeffnoel

So were the 5-lug rotors the direct swap ones or the Granadas? If not the Granadas do you think the extra 1/4" would have kept you from having to modify the upper arm?

I used direct swap, stock type rotors, but with 5-lugs. If you moved the wheels out much more than I already have, with the 7/16" spacers, they'd interfere with the fender flares. The worst that would happen if you ended up with the same backspacing as mine, but without the upper arm mod is that you'd have a more limited steering travel. Mine steers at least as tight as stock, if not more, which I like, especially in small parking areas.

[Blue Thunder]

Originally Posted by jeffnoel

Blue Thunder, have you compensated the speedo since the new tires are 2" taller than stock? Which gear did you use # of teeth?

I had 245/60r14s on the back, which are almost the exact same height as the 275/40zr17s. But I also had 4.10s gears, which always made my speedo read about 33% higher than the car's speed. According to Dynamic transmissions, the C4 doesnt have a removable shaft gear, the teeth are cast right into the shaft itself, so you can only adjust slightly by swapping the cable gear. (unless you also find a tailshaft with a different number of teeth on the speedo drive gear, then you can make correct speedo adjustments.)
I went over the issue with Dynamic when they built my trans, and they tried to find a C4 tailshaft with fewer teeth(9 tooth shaft I think you need for 4.10s??) but all they could locate was one that was a little closer to what I needed than what I'd started with(11 teeth if I recall?) I don't recall all the numbers, so they might be off.
Anyway, for about 10 years, I've been driving the car with a speedo that was way off.
Now that I've swapped in the 3.10 gears,(stock was 3.08s in that car) the speedo seems to read only a few mph slow at highway speeds. I can probably correct this slight error by just changing the cable gear, which I'll eventually get around to doing. But I'm so happy to have a speedo almost right again, a few mph error doesnt bother me!

[jeffnoel]

Since the Granada rotors would have given you 1/4" would you still have needed the spacers?

[Blue Thunder]

On a side note: I pushed my car into some turns last night and today, to see how it feels with the new tires, and it's a completely different animal than it was with the old tires. (I had 195/70r13s on the front, and 245/60r14s on the back) I think the II now handles at least as good as my old '85 GT did.
I don't even have a rear sway bar installed yet, and the front stock bar looks like a little coat hanger under there. So that's next on my to-do list. I have a rear bar taken from an '84 or '85 bronco parts vehicle that had a 9" in it, I'm going to see if I can make it fit the II by fabricating some end links and clamps. It's 1" in diameter.

[Blue Thunder]

Originally Posted by jeffnoel

Since the Granada rotors would have given you 1/4" would you still have needed the spacers?

Well, with those rotors, I would have used a 3/16" wheel spacer, to arrive at the same 7/16" of wheel spacing, which seems to place the wheel perfectly in the wheel well.

[Blue Thunder]

I will go out later and measure the overall backspacing on the front wheels, and post the results.

[1970impala]

Hi, my ride:

[DR.M]

My '78 II.

Caution, I have not had a chance to resize the pics yet so they may be a bit on the large side
http://www.precizion.org/tien/MustangII/