More Progress....
Last week I got the car ready for a 400+ mile cruise & a HUGE car show...
1st up was a full detail with Meguiars products. Yeah, I know its not high end stuff, but I have had great success with it. The process was clay bar, paint cleaner, polish, carnuba wax, & then I followed that up with Meguiars "ultimate" quick wax... I hate to say it, but I have owned the car for 2 years now, & this was the 1st time I detailed it... It needed a claybar BAD!!!
This was how the clay looked after doing the top part of the rear bumper only
Being that I was super busy all week getting ready for my trip, unfortunately I didn't get any finished pics other than some VERY bright outdoor pics, but I will get some nice pics this week....
Next up was a new 6 piece headlight kit froim 50 resto to replace my yellowed originals. This was their 'budget" kit, but the quality was pretty decent IMO...
Old headlights...
New headlights...
New on the passenger side & old on the driver side... You can see my shiny freshly waxed hood too
Here is the car all cleaned up @ the Fabulous Fords Forever car show @ Knott's Berry Farm in L.A....
I Also installed a new OEM clutch cable from maximum motorsports since the LT's melted my old one. I had to use a heat sheild from MM around the cable to keep the new 1 from melting too... Anybody out there with Mac LT's, how do you keep the clutch cable from melting because it basically touches the headers everytime the cutch is engaged?
Also, I know this is kind of a Noob question, but how & the heck do you adjust Fox headlamps???
Dude ive been spending the last week trying to adjust my headlights, there are 3 thread jamb nut type things that you have to swap over from the old ones to the new ones, just takes time and a 6mm socket and you'll get it
oh and BTW you wear gloves to claybar a car? cough wuss coughoh and i moved the mounting tab for the clutch cable forward a bit and it keeps it from contacting the headers
looks good bro. im with you on the claybar. i can feel the paint on my notch needin it too.
headlights look good. the little jam nuts adjust the caster of the headlight essentially. tightening the TOP nut, will push the headlight housing downward. loosening it will pull the housing back, raising your light beam.
Thanks bro....
Anybody have a pic of these Jam nuts, because I dont see them on my headlights?
you know those threaded rods you had to remove by popping those small clips out, there were 3 of them, that were attached to the black adjustment plate, the two right above and below each other is for up and down adjustment the lone one on the other end of the light is for left to right adjustment
btw dude how far are you from this listing?
1989 ford mustang 5.0
Ok, I know what threaded rods you mean...
I live about 5-10 minutes from the blue car. I can check it out if you want, but the car in modesto is about an hour or so south of me...
ahh ok, well i gotta see about a few things before you go checkin it out, besides im leaning towards the black one cause of the cage
but i have always wanted a blue fox...
I see. Well just keep me posted on what your considering...
WOW!!!!! The car looks insane Dustin! Wanna fly to NY and do mine?
LOL... Thanks Bro, buy me a ticket, I would love to see NY...
Really though, the paint looks good for what it is. Its very shiny, but still does have a lot of fine scratches, knicks, chips, etc, but its MUCH better than it was 2 weeks ago...
BTW, I finally got to install that 180 Tstat I got from you. LOL
looks great man. tint the windows 35 percent all the way around and call it good for now. what kinda motors setup in that? if you mentioned it i apologize, im going to check the rest of the thread now.
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