The Official MACn89blckstng Progress Thread.

OhOhGT · #26 (**permalink**) 09-27-08, 09:26 PM

sick vc's.

MAC'n89Blckstng · #27 (**permalink**) 10-18-08, 04:01 PM

A lil update, I wasn't able to do much the last two weeks cause of other stuff in my life but last week I was able to paint my control arms and sway bars. I'm redoing my sway bars cause I did them in red and changed my mind and am going to do them in orange to follow the black/silver/orange thing. The shocks are red but I will be leaving them since they are Lakewoods. Orange shocks would look strange IMO.

I put the rear and new control arms in the car this morning, I took pics but I guess my boss forgot to burn them to the CD I brought home with me.

I also started finishing my engine bay up. Got half way into it and then got sidetracked with the job switch and motor rebuild and everything else. So here is the progress I got done today. Welded the holes shut that I thought I needed on the rad support and dont need anymore. I also hacked off the lower rad support cause someone pulled the car by it and bent it all up so I will be fabbing up a tubular lower rad support for it. I boxed the sway bar mounts and am so glad I did cause it looks 1000000 times better. I also welded the holes for the windshield fluid line and the MAP sensor holes. I will be running the hose through the cowl and the MAP sensor is going in the inner fender area. The main engine harness is also going to be run behind the dash so no wires will be in the engine bay at all. I also trimmed down the pinch weld on the fire wall to clean that up a bit. I If all goes well Im hoping the engine bay will be painted by December and the motor will be going in. Anyways, enjoy the pics. I'll post the pics of the rear installed on monday.

MAC'n89Blckstng · #28 (**permalink**) 10-20-08, 10:46 AM

Here are the pics of my control arms painted and my rear end installed. Im waiting to install the sway bar cause Im going to re paint it orange.

Those rusty Ford C springs may be replaced by some eibachs I have, I just dont know what they are cause the part number doesn't come up on their website.

blckstng96 · #29 (**permalink**) 10-20-08, 12:25 PM

P.O.S

HAHAHAHAHA

94GTHO · #30 (**permalink**) 10-20-08, 07:13 PM

very nice work. That motor is going to look sick. keep it up man

MAC'n89Blckstng · #31 (**permalink**) 10-21-08, 04:40 PM

Thanks man!

**1990Coupe** · #32 (**permalink**) 10-21-08, 04:49 PM

DAMN! Its lookin NICE!!!!

allballsmustang · #33 (**permalink**) 10-21-08, 06:34 PM

lookin good jesse...

MAC'n89Blckstng · #34 (**permalink**) 10-21-08, 08:21 PM

Thanks, the weekends take so long to come around!!! I wish i could take a week off of work to work on my own car!!! I could get the bay done with a week straight or working on it for sure. I just gotta be patient.

MAC'n89Blckstng · #35 (**permalink**) 10-31-08, 12:23 PM

Here's a little more progress for you guys, I decided that I am going to be running the engine harness behind the dash and the brake lines down along the k member against the steering rack so I fired up the welder and closed all of the holes that remained from the shock towers back. Tomorrow I will be working on fabbing up my lower rad support out of 2 1/2 inch exhaust tubing I have laying around the shop. More pics will be up late tomorrow afternoon.

25thmustang · #36 (**permalink**) 10-31-08, 01:19 PM

Badass dude.

Get rid of that pinch along the firewall while your at it.

MAC'n89Blckstng · #37 (**permalink**) 11-01-08, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by 25thmustang

Badass dude.

Get rid of that pinch along the firewall while your at it.

I thought about it but its a ton of work and welding, plus if my hood flies up and I end up having to change the cowl my life will be that much easier to just drill the spot welds out. I did think about it tho. Hell who knows, if I get bored maybe I will. lol

MAC'n89Blckstng · #38 (**permalink**) 11-01-08, 05:42 PM

Here's the progess I got done today, I was able to stay late so I got to get a solid eight hours done, damn customers are constantly coming into the shop so that slows me down a bit when I'm working on my car.

95BlueStallion · #39 (**permalink**) 11-01-08, 08:11 PM

Keep up the good work man. Shes gonna be pretty!

satanas · #40 (**permalink**) 11-01-08, 10:37 PM

Looks great , I like that Idea of covering up the part were the swaybay bolts onto, But how you going to tighten the bolts without them turning or did you weld them on so they won't turn? Good jobs

MAC'n89Blckstng · #41 (**permalink**) 11-02-08, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by satanas

Looks great , I like that Idea of covering up the part were the swaybay bolts onto, But how you going to tighten the bolts without them turning or did you weld them on so they won't turn? Good jobs

Oh crap, I forgot about that

lol, I welded bolts in there. Turned the heat up real good and welded the whole head to the mount. I'm gonna be using ALOT of anti-seize on the nuts when I put the sway bar on so I don't have any rusty bolt issues down the road.

**QUICK91LX** · #42 (**permalink**) 11-02-08, 11:21 AM

Dude man, are you at that shop on 46 in Budd Lake? I thought you were over at the bottom of the mountain in Long Valley but I have seen your SHO a few times over on 46. I will have to stop in next time I see you there. I have been checking out that guys 82 GT since its been there...

MAC'n89Blckstng · #43 (**permalink**) 11-02-08, 12:27 PM

Yea, Im at Blue Sky Classic Cars now. Long Valley didn't want to pay me more that 11.50 an hour to do what I am doing now so I moved on. I'm much happier with where Im at now. Stop by anytime you want, you gotta see the 82 now. The drivetrain and everything is pretty much all done.

Sooooo I got a little curious last night and started thinking about how Im gonna be running nitrous, its gonna be cool an all but off the bottle Im just gonna have another low 13 second car. So I started thinking about how hard its going to be to fabricate up a turbo kit. So now I'm bidding on a T3/T4 50 trim on ebay right now lol. We'll see how that goes.

2fastnotch · #44 (**permalink**) 11-03-08, 08:14 PM

where did you get the timing cover and water pump bolts?

MAC'n89Blckstng · #45 (**permalink**) 12-06-08, 09:45 PM

Ok, so I spent four hours yesterday of work and 12 hours straight today finishing up the body work on the engine bay so I could FINALLY get it in primer for the winter. Im so happy with it. Although there are some pretty wavy parts that are real low and/or covered by stuff. Im at that point where I just want it smooth, not necessarily straight as an arrow. I just want to paint it already but Im going to wait to mock up the turbo set up so I know it doesn't interfere with the way the engine bay is. I'm also planning on doing a SN-95 dash swap into this car cause I love the way it looks. I'm buying a wrecked 98 GT for 400 bucks to part out and yank the interior out for my car. I hope my boss lets me store the car in our lot so I can part it out. Oh yea, I got my bosses permission to use the shop by myself. He's not thrilled about it but knows how much I want to finish this car!!! Anyways, here are the pics:

satanas · #46 (**permalink**) 12-07-08, 02:44 PM

Looks great!!!!!!!!

1991notchbackLX · #47 (**permalink**) 12-07-08, 04:28 PM

wow, that's really coming along now man, great progress!!

SteedaGT9150 · #48 (**permalink**) 12-08-08, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 1991notchbackLX

wow, that's really coming along now man, great progress!!

+1

MAC'n89Blckstng · #49 (**permalink**) 12-08-08, 07:42 PM

Thanks for the compliments guys. It still needs some fine tuning and a good once over but at least its protected from the weather now. I gotta por 15 the outside of it so that stops rusting. I'm alos going to have to modify it for the turbo install and the dash swap (will be using the SN95 Column). I hope I can get this 98 GT so I can start on the dash install while I save for the turbo kit.

**1990Coupe** · #50 (**permalink**) 12-09-08, 08:19 AM

NICE job its looking real good man!!!!

I have to check back a page, but that lower rad support looks beefy