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  1. brtnstrns

    Shopping for a new Mustang, what the hell is wrong with people?

    Yup, there are a whole lot of trashed mustangs out there. Unfortunately, they're a relatively cheap means of driving a sports car so anyone with a quarter of a brain can get one. A lot of the time when they do, they drive them into the dirt and feel like they're worth an arm and a leg and get...
  2. brtnstrns

    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Dang. Which method did you use for polishing the exhaust? I'm going to have to do that at some point but I think I may want to get new exhaust tips welded on first. But gaaah, 8+ hours of sanding and polishing? Definitely not something to look forward to...
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    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Oh yeah that's right. Well that works too!
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    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Thinking polished as well. And if you can get away with it...the red calipers to go along with it
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    A few pics of the Mach

    :doh: re-read the thread
  6. brtnstrns

    May have found the one...

    Don't have any insight for you, but that car is freaking clean! I doubt I would hesitate if its what I was looking for and if it ran properly.
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    A few pics of the Mach

    Just waiting on my claybar to arrive in the mail and a nice warm day!
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    A few pics of the Mach

    Haha yeah they are misaligned. Trust me, it drives me crazy as well. I've got to take it to an exhaust shop eventually anyway, so I'm going to let them fix it. As txredgt said below, I definitely said screw it after how much trouble I had just assembling the exhaust and having the car sit for so...
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    A few pics of the Mach

    No worries man. Right now it's already got a forged 5.0 stroker with built heads, ported long runner intake + spacer, all supporting mods including built transmission and terminator fuel system. I installed an entire bushing kit on the IRS so it should be near bullet-proof and have MM coil-overs...
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    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Yeah I don't have the upgraded cover either. Spent enough money as it is on all that crap. I have a cover brace but its not installed because its missing a piece (bought it used). I'll probably do the upgraded cover as well some point down the line. May just drive it this way till the cover gets...
  11. brtnstrns

    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    I did not. Granted I haven't driven it over ~50 mph. If you went with the full FTBR kit without the FT1401 delrin isolated rear mount, I believe you're just supposed to put as many shimming washers as you can on the bottom of the front mount and only one on the top. I believe I ended up putting...
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    A few pics of the Mach

    Unfortunately I don't. I was doing it all by myself and spent most of the two months cursing at myself for even wanting to do it! So I never wanted to take the time to take pics. Now that it's in, I feel much better. I haven't gotten a chance to really put it through its paces since its not...
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    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Mine makes a "whirring" noise which I believe is to be expected with the FTBR kit. From what I've read, the driveline vibration is supposedly due to not having the pinion angle optimized.
  14. brtnstrns

    A few pics of the Mach

    Not a photo shoot (pretty obviously). The car has been getting the Cobra IRS treatment for the past two months so its acquired a lot of dust along with the guts of bugs from the car being driven to me from 6 hours away when I bought it in October. Finally got most of the kinks worked out with...
  15. brtnstrns

    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Turns out it was just the dust shield scraping on the rotor *whew* be sure to make sure those aren't rubbing. I'm assuming mine got bent out of shape while I was moving the rear end around by myself.
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    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Awesome man. Best of luck. I would be driving mine but I've got some horrible grinding noise coming from the passenger side of the IRS. I'm really REALLY hoping its just the emergency brake stuck but I don't think stuck brakes can make that much noise. I might be another 300-500 dollars deep if...
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    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    It was pretty damn terrible. It required a lot of hammering and wrenching on the new bolt they provided. I was certain it was going to come out the other side with thread damage but it came out just fine. The metal those bolts are made out of is pretty impressive. Now its just a matter of taking...
  18. brtnstrns

    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Bad ass man. I've got mine back on the ground as well and took it for its first drive around the block tonight. Lots of noises and smells I gotta figure out. And gotta get this IRS exhaust all fixed up at some point: Hate that its all cock-eyed Sorry, quick thread jack :D. Just wanted...
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    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Yeah, I did some long hard thinking about it and realized that spending a likely $30k modifying a 127k mile GT over the course of my life made less sense than just going after the car that I'm aiming for. So I found an 03 Mach 1 with 47k miles thats essentially fully built. But still as a used...
  20. brtnstrns

    Progress Thread 96 Mystic Cobra Build Thread

    Yeah I can only imagine. The Mach 1 I'm picking up today has a fully built SRA so I'm hoping I can sell it or trade it to fund getting all the finishing parts of my IRS build and slap that baby onto the Mach. I'm trying to make it essentially indestructible.
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