Build Thread '83 T-top Coupe - Welding Holes in My Rear

[Noobz347]

You can also make a set of these for cheap cheap cheap.

Pick up the casters from Home Depot and make them from 2x4s. I think @tannerc91gt made a set of these? Stupid simple.

 

[90sickfox]

The TeamZ tubular lower support worked out well for me. It came out of the box square. Now that I know a little more I probably would've made my own.

 

[Noobz347]

https://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/t5-trans.900191/

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Thanks Noobz, but I already have a T5.

I'm going to go with at least a TKO500, who knows when it gets to that stage though, I may go all Magnum over you a*s like Scott did

 

[stykthyn]

T56 cough

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Progress today.

After work i went to see my beloved Scuby so I can keep on stripping him to a shell. I brought a 3 ton jack with me from the shop and yanked him into the middle of the unit.

This allowed me to open the passenger door and get the right fender off. Then taking the door off is nothing. I disconnected the wiring harness and buzzed out the hinge bolts and whamo, the door is off.

The hinge pillar is in nice shape.

Then i opened up the trunk and got that ragged a*s rear bumper off. Then I disconnected the wiring harness to the decklid and pulled it off.

For some reason God decided we needed more July here in September. It's 95 and humidity is at 85%! Good lord, when did I move to Alabama?

Now begins the exciting stuff for me. Saturday i'll start emptying the engine bay! Woohoo! Though one thing I'll do this saturday is to crawl under Scuby and do some measurements to see if he's been tweaked much.

Here is tonight's booty, I'll take the stuff to work tomorrow and remove a few things. I need to strip the decklid of it's wiring harness and stuff. I found the six pack of Dirty Bastard behind the bumper:zombie:

I want to have the drivetrain out before next weekend, MAYBE finish plucking it out on Saturday.

Here's the license plate off Scuby. So the last time it was registered by someone was July of 2000.

So, I know what you're thinking, what are you doing tomorrow night lazy bones? Why I'm going back to the yard to start the pull of my supercoupe engine! Two bananas!

 

[95BlueStallion]

Moving right along!

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Yes sir. I will probably pull the glass on Saturday as well.

 

[NIKwoaC]

My humble opinion- a T56 is like 35 lbs heavier than a TKO 5/600 and damn near twice as heavy as a T5. Yea they shift nice, but is that extra gear worth the weight penalty? Granted, it's not a T56, but I daily a 6 speed and I almost always skip 5th gear.

If you're building a road race car, or designing a new car that needs to woo the press, I get it... But for a street/strip or even an auto-x car, IMO it's a bit overkill.

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Yes sir. I will probably pull the glass on Saturday as well.

You sir, earn three Bucky beavers badges for all of the hard work...

 

[Davedacarpainter]

You sir, earn three Bucky beavers badges for all of the hard work...

Lol, it’s just so nice being able to work on it again. Plus with the end of the warm weather on the horizon, I want to get as much done as I can before I hibernate.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

My humble opinion- a T56 is like 35 lbs heavier than a TKO 5/600 and damn near twice as heavy as a T5. Yea they shift nice, but is that extra gear worth the weight penalty? Granted, it's not a T56, but I daily a 6 speed and I almost always skip 5th gear.

If you're building a road race car, or designing a new car that needs to woo the press, I get it... But for a street/strip or even an auto-x car, IMO it's a bit overkill.

You’ve got to believe me, I was joking about that one......well.....at least that’s what I think right now.....

 

[90sickfox]

Man, you're getting a lot done now !

Hope that cars not too twisted....but I know you'll fix it and it'll be better than new.

This thing is going to be amazing to watch cone together over the winter.

 

[Davedacarpainter]

Man, you're getting a lot done now !

Hope that cars not too twisted....but I know you'll fix it and it'll be better than new.

This thing is going to be amazing to watch cone together over the winter.

The winter will primarily be drivetrain time. The springtime will be when I seriously get after repairing the shell.

Once I finish pulling the glass and the current drivetrain the body will sit, nice and dry, in the storage unit till till April-ish.

 

[90sickfox]

I'm just glad because this thread is moving along again. We know they'll be posts on every little thing you do.

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

The winter will primarily be drivetrain time. The springtime will be when I seriously get after repairing the shell.

Once I finish pulling the glass and the current drivetrain the body will sit, nice and dry, in the storage unit till till April-ish.

Good thing,....Bucky Beaver plaques are hard to come by,....I ain't handing them all out before the end of the year....( unless you plan on doing some heroic sht between now, and then...)

Just remember as you start spending all of this " disposable income" on the car....three words....I don't recall...

That way you'll feel better when anybody asks you how much money you have tied up into the project...like..........a $6,000.00 6 banger....( and we aren't EVEN counting all of the buddy deal machine work/ DIY fab crap that would've made this engine twice that)...

" if you had to guess, how much do you have invested in the engine alone?"


I don't recall.

 

[General karthief]

I use that line all the time.
Only with me it usually true

 

[Davedacarpainter]

I went to the yard today and removed a bit of stuff from the t-bird eb. I don't have a picture of what I took off because i'm just worn out.

Though I do have one picture. I mentioned to the yard owner about the radiator support being thrashed. He said he had one he pulled from a fox body cougar sitting up by his shop.

It's the same as my car, except for the bumper and absorbers, of course.

So I ask him, "How much?", he says to me, "you can have it for free".

FREE, my favorite four letter word!

I'm going back to the yard tomorrow to hopefully pick the last of the stuff that'll allow me to pull the actual engine.

I promise pictures of what i got tonight and what I'll pluck tomorrow.

How about that, did I mention FREE!, radiator support?

I'm going to take it to work monday and cut out what I need and sandblast it and throw a little etch primer and a couple coats of regular primer on it. This might be a good time for me to smooth it as well.

 

[NIKwoaC]

Score!

 

[95BlueStallion]

Awesome score!