Duncan's 5.0 Convertible Progress Thread
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fivespeedsteed
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very nice work sir. so that way its sitting is no iso's anywhere. top bottom front or rear. no isos what so ever? i have c springs. im trying to sort out the fox body lean. think im gonna switch driver and passenger front ones and not run rear iso's at all.
The car has no iso's. The springs are FRPP B.
Just an update, got the car mostly back together. Just need to put the valve covers and upper intake on. I was going to try and finish her today, but I forgot to buy valve cover gaskets.
So, its back to the parts store for the billionth time. 
Update pic.
Complete head swap and porting the intake. The porting guides weren't kidding on how much material you remove to get the factory intake flowing well. If you look at the drivers side header you can see the taylor boot protectors. I also threw in an exhaust video. 
As far as performance. The car pulls much harder 3.5k+ rpms. It use to fall off around 4000-4500 rpms, and now it pulls hard all the way to 5500 rpms.
Exhaust video; FRPP 1 5/8" headers, pypes 2.5" catted x-pipe, and flowmaster american thunder catback (super 44's)
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As far as performance. The car pulls much harder 3.5k+ rpms. It use to fall off around 4000-4500 rpms, and now it pulls hard all the way to 5500 rpms.
Exhaust video; FRPP 1 5/8" headers, pypes 2.5" catted x-pipe, and flowmaster american thunder catback (super 44's)
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BigDanTheMan
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please keep that tape deck. put what ever CD player you want into the glove box or something. the stock deck is classy. i bet you could even wire the tape deck to an aftermarket deck through some aux inputs... i might try that.
Cool thanks
do you remember what size you got? I have the same wheel i'd like to cover
Coast2CoaStang
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hsean
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hsean
10 Year Member
cool i glanced at the website earlier did you happen to see if they have charcoal to match our seats?
hsean
10 Year Member
ok i found that they have the charcoal but i don't know how well it will match our seats .when i get back from vacation i am probably going to order black.hey mike if you ordered charcoal let me know how well it matched up with a pm.
I ordered the black one. I was debating charcoal, but we will see. I think they have a wrong color exchange policy.
According to the pic above though, black looks like charcoal.
According to the pic above though, black looks like charcoal.
hsean
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yeah i am probably going the same route because the charcoal kind of looks light
It has been a while since my last update. Finally got around to replacing the rear quarter panel on the fox. Found a match at the local u pull for $34.99. Now I just have to remove the rest of the spot welds from my quarter panel and the replacement. Is it just me or did a blind monkey spot weld these panels on?
Mostly removed Old Panel with Damage :
New Panel:
Mostly removed Old Panel with Damage :
New Panel:
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