Its funny thinking back now. When I was 15 I had a 66 Mustang that me and my dad restored into a cruiser. Paint was nothing great, interior was very clean, under hood was nice enough for local cruises, but not nice enough to worry about driving it, it had a weak 302 with a 2bbl, a T5 out of a mid 80s 5.0, drum brakes, and Saleen style mesh wheels on it. The car looked really good, and around my 15th birthday I dumped probably $1500 into new chrome, 3" cowl hood, and headlight bezels painted, along with a Shelby Front splitter and an offset running horse for the grill. The car was nothing special but it was mine and I loved it. I had all intentions of building a motor, new brakes,
suspension, interior, exhaust, everything. I had probably 15 lists of parts I had planned to buy, and every one was different. I had one advantage though, I didnt have the message boards like you have. Instead of sitting online and picking my nose, I was working on the car, washing it, cleaning it, taking things off and on... anything to make it better. If you had asked me at 15 what the future held I would have told you all about the 66 Mustang I would have, with insane power, and all the luxuries of a Lexus...
The reality was, less than a year later the car was gone. We sold it to put a down payment on my moms new Subaru, and I was given the keys to a stock 89 5.0, AOD with a pair of dynomax super turbos, and 10 hole wheels. I wasnt thrilled but hey, I was going to be driving a 5.0 for my first car. I started with wheels/tires, then
Flowmaster catback. Gears and a few other mods came and I was loving the new car. I decided to step the mods up and thats when I realized I could not keep ripping my daily driver apart. I was stuck driving my grandmas 1987 Taurus Wagon because my car would not start after a set of mods. After being ripped off by a shop to fix it (this why I never let anyone touch the car mechanically) I decided to buy a DD. After summer ended the first snow storm hit and the next day I had a 95 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. I loved the truck but after a year or so it started to have typical Chrysler issues, and I promptly fixed and sold it. Bought a 93 4 cyl Mustang to drive around, and I still have that car today. It gets me around while the 5.0 is my toy car, that runs alright, and in the next few months should be done and look pretty damn good.
Moral of this story, when your 15 you try and rush things and have 103763 plans. Less than 2 years later (no time at all) you could be like me, and own TWO completely different vehicles than you ever imagined, andthings could be better or worse. Just remember, patience is a virtue, dont try and rush stuff. Work hard, be smart about it, and go for what you want to do (not just something you want to do one day, dont want to do the next)!
..pulled the carb off looked it over cleaned it out and put it back on the intake hooked everything back up and it still did it....
