I NEED MORE TECHNICAL ARTICLES

Well, first I think you need to catagorize your tech better. I looked at the painting your interior and it looks like its dedicated to late models. I think you ought to break it down a bit instead of just listing them, or, add to the title what your covering, year wise. Oboebrian has a bunch of stuff he's saved on his website, what we really need is a good article on converting from a I-6 to a V8 as that is asked all the time. Opentracker has been making some neat mods, I think Worth has been doing some neat stuff too. Corpse did a bunch of stuff. Historicmustang does some cheap handling mods and Hopkinator has been converting a real Shelby GT-500 into a Eleanor clone. I'm sure I'm leaving plenty of people out, Mustang Steve has some neat mods on his site, but I don't know if he contributes over here or not.

Do you work for StangNet? If not, how'd you get authority to take on this project? We've been clammoring for years to get something like this up as, short of paint or new products, there isn't a whole lot that you can do on these cars that hasn't already been done. We also wanted a FAQ page, which would take care of a bunch of the same old questions. I wished we had known that some of the stuff would get taken off in the past so someone could have saved it, this is what Oboebrian has been doing.

I'm in. As a magazine writer I do this sort of stuff for a living.

I can give you just about anything you need as it applys to a 1970 Mach 1.

While I've wrenched a fair amount, this is my first Mustang project, so I can give the perspective of the beginner pretty well.

I asume you will give credit where credit is due? What about royalty checks? Being able to chat with a live person can be helpful, but mostly the Ford Shop Manual answer all questions.

The 351c forum has a links page with a lot of technical articles.Maybe you can use some of those. http://www.network54.com/Realm/tomsource/carstuff.htm

MarvinMyCat said:

Nice links, I read through some of them. I had teh ALLDATA, but it went dead after a few months.

I love the articles, but I can't use them as that constitutes plagiarism. I can only put up articles created by our very own member's little fingers on the keyboard.

Thanks Again.

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I don't think it is plagerism as long as you give credit to the author. You are simply quoting him or her.

I have about 4 times as many tech articles and write-ups that i've researched including a very in depth I6-V8 swap 'manual' along with body, paint, upholstery, and tons that others have done book marked. I just haven't had time to fully organize, write them up, and or spend time editing them for web content yet. In my articles I believe in showing detailed step-by-step pictures along with indepth written documentation, in some cases (such as installing stripe kits) i also have video footage. These methods apeal to many people's method of learning and retention.

Between working full time, owning and running an investment firm, going to school, raising guide dogs, I just haven't had much time to devote to the write-ups. But I still try to fit in an hour or two to work on them a week. But to do these write-ups correctly and all the research that goes into them takes hours to do. Basically for one of my in depth write-ups it takes me about 12 hours to organize and do. This includes hours researching and talking to people on how they did it along with documenting my way of doing things. Then editing the pictures, editing the website, checking concours & safety facts etc.

Just to let everyone know, I'm on page 20 of 50+ pages in the I6-V8 swap manual, page 32 out of 60+ of the Home Painting Manual, and page 10 of the DIY Home Mustang upholstery Manual.

But all this attention to detail equates to over 2,500 unique visitors a month and on some months over 10,000 legimate visitors to my website. I also answer about 2-3 tech/part questions a day from other mustang and ford fans. I'm not complaining, I actualy love it and want to do more for our hobby . I just want to make you aware of the huge time sink to do all this correctly and in depth

-Brian
www.desertmustangs.com

BTW I found that I need to schedule more than 3-4 hours of sleep a night. Although I don't know how I'm going to do it

Oh and Mike rayburn is very hard to get a hold of due to being really really busy with his business's and hobbies, hence the reason why there are other admin's and moderators such as 2bav8 and I. If you send him a PM, don't start worrying if it takes a couple weeks for him to respond if he actually does (unless it's a major Pro3i or SN emergency)