[Fuzion]

I've been Collecting parts for my h/c/i upgrade for over a year now, so I decided to start a progress thread of my work for other to reference. I was planning on taking care of all of the work in my apartment’s parking lot but I didn't even last a day without the property manager coming out and threatening to file a complaint about my behavior. So after a lot of convincing, a buddy of mine is letting me use his garage for the entire build. To pay him back I got to build a concrete foundation for his new hot tub, help him install a procharger in his lt1 camaro and some other projects around the house.

So Anyways,

My Car: 87 LX, no option car, 107k miles.



Towing it from my apartments to the garage:



Stang with my daily driver



Where all the work is going to be done:




No time was wasted, dove rite in.




Have you guys seen a speed cable that sticks out like this? my friends 89 LX doens't have all this hanging here. his cable goes straight into the firewall.




Ok, so she is going to receive the Trick Flow Street Top End kit, with 30lb injectors, 255lph fuel pump, 80mm Pro-M, and 70mm throttle body. Along with that I bought a 3g alternator kit and I'm planning on going with an electric fan. Exhaust will be the same, ford racing shorty headers, o/r h and the bassani catback.

This coming weekend the block is coming out, I’m going to paint it black, replace the oil pump, pump drive shaft and reseal the block. Once that is complete I plan on sanding down the engine bay cleaning up all the harnesses by hiding them and painting the bay gloss black.

My vision is simple for the bay: black intake with black valve covers, black bay with accents in silver... like all the accessories.

Any comments welcome, thanks for looking.

[FrankenStang]

I'm going to add this thread to the "Official Progress Threads" thread for easy finding.

[Coast2CoaStang]

The shot of your car in the garage really shows the clean lines of a notch. I love how "sedate" a coupe body looks in factory stock trim.

I look forward to the progress.

[cenok is family]

nice! i have never seen a speedo cable like that, and i've worked on A LOT of mustangs. what is that piece the cable plugs into? usually it goes straight to the back of the speedometer

[Fuzion]

Originally Posted by ~FrankenStang~

I'm going to add this thread to the "Official Progress Threads" thread for easy finding.

Thanks Frankie

Originally Posted by Coast2CoaStang

The shot of your car in the garage really shows the clean lines of a notch. I love how "sedate" a coupe body looks in factory stock trim.

I look forward to the progress.

Wow man you sound like a poet. Gotta keep that Foxbody love Alive!

Originally Posted by cenok is family

nice! i have never seen a speedo cable like that, and i've worked on A LOT of mustangs. what is that piece the cable plugs into? usually it goes straight to the back of the speedometer

I've done a little more thinking about this, the car had no options from factory but when I bought it in 05 it had dealer installed A/C and cruise control. The A/c and Cruise were not installed in the traditional way, it had the cruise device in the engine bay in the MAS sensor location, I was forced to delete the cruise when I converted to MAS air. The a/c compressor was installed in the stock location but the a/c lines were routed in front of the upper intake instead of behind it.
So my conclusion is that what ever is pictured above probably has to do with the dealership installed cruise control. I'm thinking about purchasing a 140mph speedo cluster so if I make the change I’ll try to see if I can get rid of it.

Thanks for the comments.

[cenok is family]

oohh ok, that would make sense since cruise control works off of the vss and if your car didnt come factory with cruise, it probably doesnt have a vss.

[SteedaGT9150]

should be fun man, keep us updated. pm sent

[Fuzion]

Originally Posted by cenok is family

oohh ok, that would make sense since cruise control works off of the vss and if your car didnt come factory with cruise, it probably doesnt have a vss.

It all makes sense now, when I replaced the speed cable i had to purchase the one for a non cruise. So, i'm planning on figuring out how that vss adaptor is hooked up and removing it then I should be able to connect the speed cable directly into my new 140mph speedo. Cenok, thanks a lot for your help on this.

Originally Posted by SteedaGT9150

should be fun man, keep us updated. pm sent

Replied to your PM.

[Fuzion]

UPS Delivered today.

Dropped off my new oil pump and driveshaft, a/c delte braket, 255lph fuel pump and a set of R&M wire loom brakets.

Pic:


Going back to the garage this weekend to try to get some work done.

[SteedaGT9150]

did you go with the black kit from trick flow?

[Fuzion]

Originally Posted by SteedaGT9150

did you go with the black kit from trick flow?

Yes, I haven't ordered it yet due to some financial things i need to settle. But it should be ordered by next payday.

[SteedaGT9150]

nice, this should be a good weekend to start on it. its raining cats and dogs here thanks to hannah and im pretty sure your not that far away from me

[Fuzion]

Well, Saturday was a big waste of a day thanks to hurrican hanna. We were planning on finishing some of the concrete work i promised my friend on saturday but coulnd't cuz of the crazy rain we had. So we had to push everything back, i was really planning on having the engine out this weekend . All i was able to do was clean up the accessories.

Pics

Primed:




Painted:

[Fuzion]

UPS delivered yesterday, the new parts look incredible:

Upper Intake

TW head

Lower Intake

Valves

Roller Rockers

Valve Covers

Stage 1 Cam

misc stuff

[ID89GT]

Ohhhh how much is that top end kit anyway. I want it

[TomCat]

Gotta love boxes and boxes of TFS stuff, lol
Gorgeous car, btw.

[SVT32VDOHC]

Awesome man! New paint in the engine bay, with black and silver engine peices is gonna be sick! Get a nice silver/polished CAI tube and you'll be set.

[Fuzion]

Originally Posted by ID89GT

Ohhhh how much is that top end kit anyway. I want it

the trick flow kit from summit costs around 2500.00 shipped. i ordered mine on monday got here on wednesday. you can't beat summits customer service.

Originally Posted by TomCat

Gotta love boxes and boxes of TFS stuff, lol
Gorgeous car, btw.

Yea openning all this stuff was like xmas at my house.

Originally Posted by SVT32VDOHC

Awesome man! New paint in the engine bay, with black and silver engine peices is gonna be sick! Get a nice silver/polished CAI tube and you'll be set.

Im kinda torn as to what CAI to use, i really dont want to spend a huge amount of money on one cuz i am planning on going turbo within the next couple years.

what are my options? its gotta fit a 80mm mas and 70mm tb. i was thinking about a c&l.
thx for the comments.

[fivespeedsteed]

your in alexandria? nice.. i like the progress. i cant wait until i open my tfs top end kit one day in the far future. good luck with the build.

[riceslayer302]

looks really good. are you doing anything crazy with the engine bay? smooth/wirehide?

[Fuzion]

Originally Posted by fivespeedsteed

your in alexandria? nice.. i like the progress. i cant wait until i open my tfs top end kit one day in the far future. good luck with the build.

Yea im in alexandria. It felt great opening all these parts up for the first time. I've been saving and planning all this for a while.

Originally Posted by riceslayer302

looks really good. are you doing anything crazy with the engine bay? smooth/wirehide?

Nothing crazy in the bay. I was thinking about welding and smoothing everything down but since my car is at my friend’s house I'm really not trying to take up his garage for too long. Plus I would have to buy more stuff that I really can't afford. I’m just going to clean it up, sand it, paint it and try to hide as many wires and harnesses as possible.

[306notchback]

Sweet coupe, looks good!I have the twisted wedge heads and trickflow roller rockers, and love them!

[SMOKEDYA]

nice looking coupe man! coupes rule! he he ha ha! my buddy is in progress on his 306 black on black coupe no options also. he's doing a 76MM turbo from quick time turbos. i know the feeling of opening all those goodies my boxes from summit started showing up today for my 351! is that a stock 5.0 block? any reason you went trick flow over AFR? what size are those heads?peace



john

[RARE NOTCH]

I have a 88 no option car with 14000 miles on it that i am doing h/c/i on over the winter.
Heads are trickflow. Intake is NOS gt-40 tube intake. And yes it is brand new in the box.
Trickflow stage one cam and ford racing ceramic shorty's to. I am also doing a 5 lug conversion with 03 cobra brakes and 10th anv cobra wheels. Cant wait to start.

[SMOKEDYA]

Originally Posted by RARE NOTCH

I have a 88 no option car with 14000 miles on it that i am doing h/c/i on over the winter.
Heads are trickflow. Intake is NOS gt-40 tube intake. And yes it is brand new in the box.
Trickflow stage one cam and ford racing ceramic shorty's to. I am also doing a 5 lug conversion with 03 cobra brakes and 10th anv cobra wheels. Cant wait to start.

WHITE notches rule! hey are you in grove city ohio? peace


john