I just have to say that I love your car, and your progress on it is amazing!!!
Outstanding thread, lots of good info and pics. Everytime I look at mine I see all the work that needs to be done, and I will keep coming back to this thread for inspiration.
Not much cooking lately (except the parts below). I had 3 straight weeks of travel for work so all I did was drive the car back and forth to the airport. So I guess I've been driving it and enjoying it, rather than wrenching on it.
I went to take it to the store a couple days ago, let it idle in the driveway for a couple minutes, then noticed some smoke coming from the driver's side underneath the hood. Shut it off and popped the hood to find this (I removed the screw holding the fuse block to the sheet metal):
I bought this wiring install kit when I upgraded to a 3g alternator over a year ago and haven't had any issues. After posting another thread on here, come to find out these audio type fuse block holders aren't too good under the hood. So I upgraded to a MEGA fuse block holder with a 150A fuse. Got everything put back together today and no more smoke. It'll drive me nuts though for a couple weeks every time I drive it. I'll be watching to make sure I don't see more smoke.
I also replaced the ignition switch, just for piece of mind, since those tend to fail on these cars. So much that Ford did a recall on them at some point. Glad I checked. Here's what I found when I removed it.
So, after a couple of near smokey/fire scares, I'm upgrading my insurance to collector's insurance in the next few weeks. It will actually drop my insurance premium by a couple hundred a year, but I'd rather have the car insured for a set value rather than leaving it up to "the book".
I swapped out my existing taillight lenses for a set of refurbished LX ones. Mine were in OK shape, but not fantastic.
The right one seems a little cockeyed up at the license plate, but I've messed with it and messed with it and that's just how it sits.
BTW, did you make it to Colorado? (I have to catch up on your build!)