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Hi guys new to the forum. I've owned this car since 1994, bought it stock and worked on it for years. recently I decide to take it out after many years away. She hasn't been on the street since 2001. I always pull it from the garage and test it out, start it, take it down the street and put her back. Always garaged and covered.


Going to bring her back and do some shows and cruises with her.


I just wanted to say hi and hope to get some feed back on different ideas I have because I have been out of the mustang world too long.


1988 gt modified

bored out .30 over
cobra upper & lower intake
k&n filter
still speed density
t5 world class HD trans
pro 5.0 shifter
HD clutch set up and adjustment cable
transmission has steel upgraded parts for strength
I'm rusty on all the work.

electric fan
mac ceramic shorty headers
mac hiflow cat h pipe
2 chamber flow masters
subframe conectors
full street cage with low door bars
3.27 rear end gears
shaved doors
cervinis 2.5" cowl hood
dugan whale tail
all new lights
cobra rear bumper
cobra style front grill insert
re done interior (needs new seats)
repainted in 2000
dynomat floor deadened

center line 16x8 star wheels
motorsport lowering springs
front and rear sway bars


to do list asap:
redoing all the brakes asap
brake lines an fluid
re-balance drive shaft
upper and lower control arms
pan hard rod
new tires
maybe a new crate motor someday and a TKO trans
new seats and some odds and ends.
disregard the vortech sticker on it. I use to have a fuel pump in it that never worked good. sticker is gone and so is fuel pump, also the window stick is gone.

hopefully I can upgrade and redo a lot of things that I did when I was young and stupid.
Thanks of reading -Jeff


 
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90sickfox

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Welcome to the forum !!!

That car is beautiful...and I still love those wheels. Very nice ride. Wish I would've kept some of the cars from when I was younger. My car is no where near that pretty.
 

RaggedGT

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Sweet Fox, that thing has a cage in it? Oh- Welcome to Stangnet.
Check out the fox section,start up a thread there and be ready to meet many like minded people.
Back to the fox-good looking car,what kinda power are you putting down?
 

Davedacarpainter

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Welcome to Stangnet brother.

Good looking mustang.

Good story about hanging on to a car.

I look forward to your progress.

Look around the other threads here in the fox section. Feel free to offer help when you can.

It's good to have you with us.
 

jeffg1988gt

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It has a 6 point street cage welded in
The rear bars go all the way to the rear hatch area and not just down through the speaker covers.

I've never have put it on a dyno. To get some real power I would have to switch to MAF and do new heads and other fun items

I would like to put a crate motor in the size 306 with 375-400 hp some day.
This month I'm doing all the work myself as usual to get her out and about
It's the first car I ever bought.

Thanks guys.
 
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mikestang63

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nice ride Jeff and welcome. Do I see a Vortech sticker on the 1/4 window?
 

jeffg1988gt

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You did see it when I was younger I wanted to put one in. So I started with a fuel pump from vortech it never worked good because I didn't know what I was doing.

I was 21-23 years old when I started to upgrade the car.

I bought it in high school by working two jobs.

It looked like this.


Then later after high school, I got a real job wheels and other items.

Then paint and the rest of the items. But then it became a car I couldn't use every day.
And life changed.
 

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Mustang5L5

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Welcome.

Your story sounds a lot like mine. Bought my car when I was 17, drove it in HS and always had dreams of big mods. Then life got in the way, priorities changed and car sat pretty much a decade or so.

Last year I was finally able to get it back on the road and do all the mods I wished I could have done when I had the car in my teens and early 20s

Like you, I had to undo some stupid stuff I did when I was a teenager
 

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Nice car, welcome to the site
 

deathb4dismount

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Ilove those wheels. Wings arent really in style anymore, but very nice ride.
 
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