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  1. dennis112

    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Thanks Bill. Its been an interesting and fun project. I hope to have it wrapped up by this time next month just in time for the racing season.
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    The primer finally allows you to see the A frame part of the towers that I worked so hard on: On the wheel well side of the towers and under the frame I used black brush-on Rustoleum (my favorite low-buck rust preventer): The next time that I am in the garage I'll undercoat the...
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Finally some noticeable progress. Made some additional supports for the tower and welded them in: Essentially I have built and added every part of this kit: Finished sanding the electrocoat off the towers: Added a skim coat of body filler to the panels where needed: Sanded...
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    Power Brakes With Manual Tranny?

    Don't know why they wouldn't work. Just be sure that all 4 drums are included.
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    Power Brakes With Manual Tranny?

    That is for 4 wheel disc brakes and the disc MC won't work properly with drum brakes. You will have a car that will be even more unsafe than using the jelly jar type MC. Initially you would need a MC for 4 wheel drum brakes which has additional valving built in the MC (residual valve(s.) The...
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Thanks Jim. It's coming along as good as I could ever hope for. Should be in primer after the next go round.
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Made some progress on the welding front. Finished the rough installation of the driver's side tower: Made, fitted, and added the big block tower supports. Used 3/16" steel plate: Lots of filler welding and grinding to make the tower edges smooth: Rear of towers...
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Now all I needed was a way to support the A shaped section. I experimented with a piece of cardboard and found that the formed 3/16" sheet metal plates could be used as a backing: This is what the trimmed backing plate ended up looking like: Here is the final design of the backing...
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    In this post I'll detail how I notched the 67/68' shock towers. I used a discarded pair of 65' Mustsang coil springs to help determine the amount of spring-to-shock tower clearance before doing any cutting of the tower. One full coil was cut off of one spring so it could be positioned by hand...
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    Progress Thread 1969 Calypso Coral 428 Cj Mach 1 #1124

    Beautiful "goal" car. I love it.
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    I also wanted to point out that in addition to the FE and Lima motors I mentioned above, a 351C would be right at home in the new engine bay using any off the shelf header spec'ed for a 70' Mustang. Although this has been done previously using specific and perhaps costly "swap" headers, the...
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Thank You Rusty.
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Thanks Rusty. Its not really a tough project for someone creative who likes to mess around with a welder. Not really inventing the wheel as Ford did all the R&D and its a better setup. I hate to disappoint you but I am not going to leave the new towers as they are, even though it would be a...
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    Too Much Compression!

    Speed Pro is OK for a budget build. Hypers are OK too for a mild build without a power adder-just don't run the motor on the extreme lean side. In most cases, 9.5-10:1 will work fine, but remember that cranking compression is also based upon the camshaft events. With careful matching one can...
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Primered the frame area of the shock towers that will be covered by the Boss 302 Trans Am support braces: Decided to punch two 5/8" holes in the braces to better prime/paint and to later clean out the drains as needed: Later I will install rubber plugs in the holes to keep out debris...
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    Removed both the sway and strut rod brackets from the car: The sway bar brackets will be reused, but must be moved closer to the shock tower: The old strut rod brackets (center) cannot be used, as can be seen in this comparison: Temporarily installed the lower control arms to verify...
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    Too Much Compression!

    Probably want a flat top on the 289 to keep the compression up with the 351w heads. Its hard to get to much compression with that combo unless you have the pop-ups. Many piston catalogs give an expected compression based upon a certain CC head (and you say yours are 60cc.) I suggest looking...
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    Too Much Compression!

    The tighter the quench (that's the piston-to-head distance), the less the chance for detonation to occur at a given compression ratio. A thicker head gasket is the wrong way to drop compression in your case as it opens up the door for detonation. Lowering the compression by using a dish or...
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    Build Your Own Universal Rotisserie .

    Very nice work. It has a lot of great features and would be great for any restoration. I really like how compact that it can be broke down too. Kind of surprised about the costs though, but I haven't priced that much material in a long, long time.
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    Grafting 67/68 Shock Towers To 65/66 Mustang

    The towers and motor mount brackets are now firmly welded to the frame. Everything was first fastened in place with either bolts or an assortment of vise grips: You never have enough vise grips for such a project . . . . . Then the plug welding began: Since the Mig is...
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