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Mike, I know you said you have some plans for taillights, just chiming in as I found a guy that located these at a salvage yard in Charlotte... :shrug:
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@Noobz347 , quick, delete this post before Mike takes the easy way out and transforms his rear back to stock from the fox lights and puts boring old stockers back on!
 
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Mike, I know you said you have some plans for taillights, just chiming in as I found a guy that located these at a salvage yard in Charlotte... :shrug:
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Thanks but I'm pretty set on my plan to build a custom tail for this car too. I really need the rear 1/4 glass though, ( grinding sparks killed them and the rear window)
You'd think I'd know this by now.
@Noobz347 , quick, delete this post before Mike takes the easy way out and transforms his rear back to stock from the fox lights and puts boring old stockers back on!
Pipe down!. I have no intention of putting stock tails on the car ( or stock head lights for that matter)
 
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No,...I've had to do something that I'm not that accustomed to this week that has been slowing things down a bit...............work.:eek:

Seriously, I've been waiting on stupid banjo bolts for the front calipers. Once they get here today, I can complete the brake system, and that'll be done.
Can you not machine your own banjo bolts out of old bbc connecting rods that are laying around the shop???:nonono:

Disappointed! :stick:
 
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The correct bolts showed up today. Whether or not they are long enough is a point of contention, as they are only protruding out of the brake line caliper fitting about 1/4".
I screwed dem b itches in anyway.

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I've only had these stupid rotors and calipers for a year now, and today they are just now becoming a brake system.
This thing was truly the biggest pain in my ass I have yet to do. (not really, but close.)
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By installing it on the inside of the engine compartment, close to the MC as specified in the instructions, I managed to F up more of the paint. There is a gi honkin chunk missing behind the two lines that go to the MC because I thought after getting them bent, and tight, I'd just give the two lines a bump w/ my hand to tighten them up against the strut tower. They tightened up alright, which was immediately followed by the chip insulting my efforts by popping up behind the lines.
Everywhere a hole was drilled, paint chips.
I don't even care anymore, I'm just gonna get one of those touch up pens, and repaint the whole stupid engine compartment w/ it.

I completed the fuel system by locating a place on the exit side of the fuel rail to install the return regulator. I always amaze myself by trying to find the smallest place to jam the most s hit I can get into it, to the point of not being able to remove anything that is screwed onto it unless the whole damn thing is removed from the strut tower first.
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I dare anybody to get the line at the top of the pic off w/o taking the regulator off of it's mount first:nonono:.
I'm still waiting on MM to get me the brake line fittings for the MC, and according to UPS tracking, they'll be here tomorrow, along w/ the steering rack fittings to allow me to put braided lines from the PS pump there instead.

Dare I say that with that arrival, the entire engine compartment will be done, plumbed and buttoned up, waiting on the completion of the interior so I can wire up the engine?:shrug:

I'd be lying. I still have to dick with the AC lines first.
 
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Looks very nice. Hopefully to save you frustration is the future, are your lines higher than your MC? Back in the day I helped my stepfather run his lines on his Ranchero and we made the mistake of having the lines above the MC. We never got the air to bleed out of the system. Ended up rerouting the lines.
 
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I came across this, was it what you had in mind? I noticed that the AU was at the end of the web address for these guys, and that generally means Australia.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c2eWHNSaSZU

Yeah, isn't that thing cool as hell?
That is the engine in the orange mustang I linked earlier in this thread. A totally different engine than the one in mine. Still 4.o L, but "evolved". DOHC and all forged internals, Ford calls that dude a Turbo Barra. It was offered stock in Australian Ford vehicles making 365 HP. Much in the same way a pushrod 5.0 has spawned the Coyote, my pushrod turd has evolved into that.
If I ever change out the current banger, that will be it's replacement.

As awesome as that is, I would be scared to death to know that was going on under my hood.

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Joe, I'd bet that every turbo'd engine on this board looks like that under the hood once they're up on boost, and held there as long as that one was. I've seen a couple of old 18 wheelers at night, and that turbo in there is just as orange as the one in the vid.
 
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Joe, I'd bet that every turbo'd engine on this board looks like that under the hood once they're up on boost, and held there as long as that one was. I've seen a couple of old 18 wheelers at night, and that turbo in there is just as orange as the one in the vid.
Yeah... Even OEM setups glow if you keep your foot in them. They're probably more prone because they generally make less power before upgrades.

900-ish degrees is when everything starts to light up.
 
Remember when I got the red car running and backed it out of the garage, only to discover I forgot to finish the brakes?
This time around, with this car, THAT will not be happening. I vacuumed the brake fluid to the rear brakes, and had my #1 help finish the job the regular way.
Great pedal feel, no leakies. No pics either.
 
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Seems that I'm just spinning my wheels (again).

I've been working on this thing for months now, but at this juncture it feels like I've hit a wall. The interior should be the next chapter in this build, as it's pretty much a requisite before I can wire the car. The interior seems daunting to me for some reason. I've had the idea for how I want to build it rolling around in my head since 2007, and I started bending the bars to head in that direction, but I'm not sure it'll turn out the way I want it, and it's a bunch of work, and a fair expense just to have it end up as unusable scrap.
I'm kinda in a damned if I do, Damned if I don't situation here.

I also have an 89 dash and console that was gonna be part of the original design, but even they would be heavily modified as well. Either way, I'm gonna have to commit to something. I'm kinda at a low fund period, and the Argon bottle is down to 500 lbs, and the mix bottle is about the same. It's gonna end up costing me a couple hundred in materials, and I really don't want/need to spend that right now. If I don't, I'm at a standstill.

The one thing that I can do is mount the shifter, because which ever way I go, the console will be modified to accomodate it.

So that's what I did.
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The pic doesn't show how far it's recessed, but the shifter sits about 1.5" below the floor in a well that I built for that purpose. Additionally, I completely made a new handle so it could be shortened as well. I riveted the whole thing in there because the floor is painted underneath, and I didn't want a raging fire blazing under the tunnel.
When it's done, all you'll see is the knob mounted above the console surface. I probably wont use the knob that is pictured.
 

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When I was in HS, it used to be my mission to protest the logic in forcing me to have to know any advanced mathematics other than how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. The reasoning in forcing me to learn algebra, (both 1&2) Geometry, and Trig was totally lost on me. Back then, I protested these "advanced mathematics classes" by doing just enough to barely get by, which in Denver, Colorado in 1973 meant a D, and I got a bunch of D's.
And for the most part, I have never needed one minutes worth of my time wasted in algebra, or trig for all these years with one exception. Geometry has been decidedly different. I'm constantly cutting angles, circles, rectangles and squares out of the steel and wood I need to build the projects around the house and in the garage.

Today I had to remember the formula for finding the area of a circle.

I remembered from class that I needed to know something about pie. Not the Grandma's apple pie variety, the stupid 3.1465 version. I couldn't remember how to do it, so I googled it.

I've since decided that the entire 4 years I've spent in HS was now a total waste. ANYTHING I need to know now is simply a Google search away.

The circle I'm talking about is the hole that serves as the intake port for the heat exchangers that I have in my trunk.

Specifically, this Hole:
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This is one of two, one on each side, and it measures 6" in diameter. Using what I learned from my Google search, I determined that the 6" hole had an area of 28.26 inches.
The reason that is relevant today, is because I need to convert that to a rectangular opening so I could determine how big the inlet of the scoop I was gonna build had to be.

Obviously, that was variable unless I had a limitation to either the height, or the width. In this case I did. On both.
The first restriction was the height. I only had 8". My choices to accommodate my surface area requirements were now leveraged by aesthetics. In other words, how far that thing would stick out off the body of the car was a consideration that influenced my decision to build this thing.

So I cut out a piece of cardboard and held it against the body to get a reference for the OMG quotient.

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This was as far as I could tolerate the thing hanging off the body. I didn't want to just stick a scoop onto the side of the car, not knowing how much of it would never see airflow based on the brick-like shape of the car, so I reasoned that I would tilt it off of the body an inch, and the actual finished opening was gonna be 7.750 x 2.750.

Simple math, I didn't even have to look it up: 7.750 x 2.750 = 21.31. A trade off of almost 7" of area, in exchange for what I hope will be augmented by the forced air being rammed into it.

So I built it.

It started w/ 18ga. mild steel. I cut two sides from my template, measured the potential width for the top plate, cut it, "radiused" the three plates over my thigh, and welded it together,

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I used my MIG, and welded it together from the underside. Using short bursts, and moving around a lot to minimize warpage, once done I was able to grind the thing w/ a flap wheel to get it fairly respectable.

I built the other two pieces, and welded them in the same way. They all required bending, and the back piece needed a fair amount of compound bending at that.

But I managed.

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I'm gonna bolt these things on, as opposed to welding them permanently (for reasons I'll cover later) So that required I build 4 tabs to run bolts through.
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I sprayed it w/ etching primer underneath after that, so it won't rust while I'm body working it.
Next I had to bend over 1/4" of the front of the ting to allow me to put some sort of screen in front of the thing.
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One almost done on the right, and the one were talking about on the left.
I finished the one side yesterday, and have already gotten about 90% done w/ the rough body work. Despite the careful welding, the process of forming the front lip and all of the bends and radiuses make the thing terrible to look at. I knew it was gonna require several hours dicking w/ Bondo ( not my favorite part of the job) but here is the one that is almost finished.
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Little stinkin' high spots keep rearing their head forcing yet another coat of Bondo. This is after 4 applications, and as much sanding in between. Tomorrow, I'm gonna go buy some glazing putty, to hopefully put this thing in primer.

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This is what will go in the hole when it's all done. How I hold it in there is a point of contention though. I'll probably do like I've done all over then engine, and glue it.

Now for the rest of the story:

You're probably wondering where the pic is of the thing bolted on the side. Another point of contention.

It's freaking HUGE. If there was ever a 4 wheeled, retarded, second cousin to a Lamborghini Countach, placing that scoop on the side of the car just made my car that guy.
I don't know if I can stand the thing hanging out there like it does, and THAT is why it's bolted on. I really don't have a choice though, I cant make a flush IMSA style duct because I don't think I have the room. Even if I did, to properly build it to duct air in, THAT opening would be GIGANTOR.

I'm gonna plod along, and bolt these things on when I'm done w/ them, and put the car down on it's tires, to see if that changes anything, or makes it worse.
 

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@madmike1157 RE: Math you learned in high school.

Despite my 2 year degree in electronics technology, I also struggled with algebra & trig. The electronic formulas all made sense, since you had some idea of what the end result was supposed to look like. Too wild an answer and I knew that I did something wrong. Today, I can still remember Ohm's Law formulas, even though I don't actually use them that much. However I struggled to make it through the 2 required courses in college algebra. Calculus - forget about it - all I remember is that calculus was used to figure the size and shape of parabolic antennas. My calculus instructor was a very nice lady who suggested that I drop the course and take an incomplete rather that fail the course.

Geometry in high school was another point of contention for me. The teacher gives you the answer and you prove the answer is correct. I always asked why prove something when the answer was obvious. I never used geometry until I started fabricating things and doing construction work around my house. Now I am glad I took geometry even if it didn't make sense in high school.

I guess the bottom line is for me, higher math has to have an obvious use. To make it stick in my mind, I have to be able to visualize what the answer might be. I remember many of the electronic and mechanical types of formulas and equations quite well. Abstract formulas and equations still baffle me to this day.
 
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I was pretty good in Algebra in HS and found out recently in my recent stint of college to earn my associates degree that I'm still pretty good at Algebra...Yes I got A's. But geometry, trig, and even Physic(which is considered science but uses A LOT of Math) just gave me headaches in high school. I also found that geometry was actually useful in life after school and wish I would have paid more attention to it in high school. Unfortunately Geometry class was right after lunch when I was in 10 grade so I spent most of my energy just trying to keep my eyes open in class. But I find I use physic and geometry a lot in my head when I shoot pool, not so much the formulas but more of what the end result will be kinda like what @jrichker was talking about.

Mike, is there any way you could possibly recess the scoop some? Kinda like the nostrils on the hood of the 96-98 Cobras? Of course it would have to be more squared just to stay with the body lines of the brick shaped car. I don't know what's under that panel just forward of the hole but I think if you were able to recess that scoop some it might not look so hideously related to a Lamborgini Countache. :eek:....:rlaugh:
 
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