Foxbody owner from Iowa

General karthief said:

I think the longer you hang here and post the more features open up.

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kiddiccarus said:

LOOKS GREAT
Welcome to the Forums here. What is the paint Code on that? Is it a Gunmetal Grey?

Here is the section what will get you the best answers on that Transmission swap

1979 - 1995 (Fox, SN95.0, & 2.3L) -General/Talk-

General discussion for the Fox 5.0 Liter Mustang from Ford.

www.stangnet.com

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I am not sure about the paint code. I will check it out when I go out to put the clutch and pressure plate on later today. as for the forum. I spent some time perusing it last night thanks. I have found lots of information so far I was having difficulty finding the jumper behind the radio. But I found it once I knew where to look. I have the pedals swapped and the aid sitting on the floor I am just waiting for the transmission to get here patience Has never been one of my virtues

96stangfl said:

I'm sorry, I meant no offence. I was just imagining a sort of legacy build. I'll keep future comments like that to myself.

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it's ok. The thing is, if you knew the kind of relationship my Dad and I had before he passed, you would understand that nothing would make him happier than to know that I was continuing to enjoy this mustang, building it and modifying it however I felt like at the time. you see, that is what we have done together pretty much my entire life. My Dad was a mechanic and so we were always working on things together. we did restomod long before it was even a word. My first vehicle was a 1970 ford shortbox pickup that we swapped a 429 and toploader 4 speed into when I was 14. Then for my 19th birthday my parents gave me the 65 mustang project that he had bought earlier that year, I thought he had bought it for himself, but I thought it was cool. I still have that one btw. the first thing we did to it was repaint it and then we rebuilt the engine out of my grandmas comet, and swapped in a 4 speed. I learned almost everything I know about cars working on that mustang. we have modified more times than I can remember.

later when that engine was getting tired I built a new engine from a dissassembled long block kit. I had Dad watch me, but I built that one myself, it was my first engine build. we later swapped a 5 speed into it, and added a supercharger.

when my Daughter was 11 we started building her a 67 mustang. that we got running in time for her to take to her first car show when she was 14.
it has a 5.0 and aod trans from an 89 mustang I bought and rebuilt off ebay. we later put an msd atomic fuel injection kit on it.




this picture is my Dad helping my daughter torque the main caps on her mustang engine when she was 12



he helped me build my 90 jeep wrangler that I did a 4.6 liter fuel injected swap, and all the other things I did to it.

This is the last picture I have of him.



that picture was taken about 4 months before he died. I brought him over from the nursing home where he was living so he could help me put the body back on my 71 bronco project.

building cars and modifying them, and talking about what our next project was going to be was what we did. I enjoy working on them more than driving them. for me that is the fun part. so yeah this car is a legacy build in a sense and I intend to keep on building it and having fun with it for a good long time. Dad just passed last august but I am sure he would love to have been a part of this project too.

ok I checked the code. it is 1D smoke metallic.

nc94stang said:

Welcome.,Nice car.

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thanks. it is coming along. and getting nicer all the time.