Hey everyone, I recently purchased a 1991 LX to start working on and building up. Could use any input ,suggestions and help you are willing to give. Thanks.
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I'd start with geting rid of all that blue colored wire loom and giving the car a good buffing out.
That's what a friend of mine said.. seems like it would be more trouble than it's worth.. the car is unfortunately about 5 different colors of red.
Is there a benifit of taking all the loom off? I want to do a h/c/i upgrade then look at getting a paint job. I've recently done a tune up. New plugs, wires, dizzy cap and rotor, cleaned iac, cleaned throttle body and mafs, New fuel filter... Anything else I should do?
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Yeah I'm not a fan of the color but I like the look of having wires hidden and nice and neat looking. One day maybe I'll change it to black or get rid of it.
I was just busting your balls lol. You can find nice black loom for cheap just have to look around. Looks like a pretty clean car though. Seems to be nice and straight. I might also change/check the trans fluid. When I first got mine home and looked at the fluid it was more like watered down vegetable oil than trans fluid.
Ok how is that done? I've never had to check or change it. Would it be something I can do? Or would I need to take it to a shop?
If you check it pull the full first before you pull the drain I've seen guys pull the drain first and can't get the fill out and now they have to remove the trans in order to fill the dang thing
Good advice however you don't have to pull the trans out to fill it back up (if it's a T5). Just need to remove the shifter and fill from there. At least that's how it has worked for me for other vehicles.
Thanks for the info guys. I'll check it out and see if I am able to do it. It's a T5 what kind of trans oil should I use?
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I vote paint first. If you already have a good running motor then just enjoy it for a little while and put the $$ into paint. From the looks of the body it looks straight so very little time spent on body work which saves money. In the perfect world, i'd pull the motor and do the HCI while sending the car out to paint so they can shoot the engine bay too. I hate looking at cars with clean paint jobs just to open the hood and see a different color engine bay.
There are plenty of hopped up fast mustangs that look like junk because all people want to do in those cars is go fast. So a motor gets all the attention, gets rebuilt, gets modified and the car is fast. This happens from owner to owner while the interior looks like junk and the paint and body looks like junk but hey it's fast right? Looks like just another beater.
How about a clean good running Mustang that displays the pride and the love that we have for these vehicles!
Anyways it's your 5.0 and congrats on getting the vehicle.
I vote paint first. If you already have a good running motor then just enjoy it for a little while and put the $$ into paint. From the looks of the body it looks straight so very little time spent on body work which saves money. In the perfect world, i'd pull the motor and do the HCI while sending the car out to paint so they can shoot the engine bay too. I hate looking at cars with clean paint jobs just to open the hood and see a different color engine bay.
There are plenty of hopped up fast mustangs that look like junk because all people want to do in those cars is go fast. So a motor gets all the attention, gets rebuilt, gets modified and the car is fast. This happens from owner to owner while the interior looks like junk and the paint and body looks like junk but hey it's fast right? Looks like just another beater.
How about a clean good running Mustang that displays the pride and the love that we have for these vehicles!
Anyways it's your 5.0 and congrats on getting the vehicle.
Unfortunately I won't be able to pull the engine unless the shop I take it to can do it. The PO redid the interior, and replaced the seats from an 03 mustang, so luckily the interior is really nice. Yeah I'm still deciding on an order to do things. But I think a paint job has moved to the top of the list. I don't like all the shades of red.
Feel better after that rant?@5.0notslow
I vote paint first. If you already have a good running motor then just enjoy it for a little while and put the $$ into paint. From the looks of the body it looks straight so very little time spent on body work which saves money. In the perfect world, i'd pull the motor and do the HCI while sending the car out to paint so they can shoot the engine bay too. I hate looking at cars with clean paint jobs just to open the hood and see a different color engine bay.
There are plenty of hopped up fast mustangs that look like junk because all people want to do in those cars is go fast. So a motor gets all the attention, gets rebuilt, gets modified and the car is fast. This happens from owner to owner while the interior looks like junk and the paint and body looks like junk but hey it's fast right? Looks like just another beater.
How about a clean good running Mustang that displays the pride and the love that we have for these vehicles!
Hahaha thanks. I thought it would be cool, to me at least, to see how far I go with my mustang and to see it progress..
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