Show off your less than perfect 5.0!

[fivespeedsteed]

heres mine when i got it. perfect shape minus the paint. it wasnt a piece thats for sure. if my gf hadnt had orginized it to get painted for my bday gift it would be just as ugly, but lower, faster, and more broken stuff working. my next fox i want to look junk. but be fast..

respray, eliminating the titanium lower accent and making it all the orig. light titanium frost color and ditchin the cheese graters:

 

[lambo]

heres mine http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q139/lambo1238/?action=view&current=9c03d818.flv

 

[Darkwriter77]

What's wrong with cheese-graters?

Mmmmm ... grated cheese...

 

[strtrcr50]

Need a top and interior

Also, new windshield trim

 

[DmnStr8]

What a previous owner did to the rear seat area of my coupe qualifies it for sure. He cut the metal out of the pacakage tray to fit a sound system I believe. I've put a steel bulkhead in to cover it. Once I got it in the way I want (with minimal rattles) I'm overing it in dynamat and carpet.

Butcher Job

Bulkhead
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5PNTSLO

 

[QUICK91LX]

Well, here is the saga of my 89 GT.

This is the car the day I bought it...
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Then I began to disassemble it for paint and AOD to T5 swap...
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Then i took it apart some more...but money started to get a little too tight...and so this is pretty much what it looks like now...
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I did however manage to have a couple pieces painted...front & rear bumper covers, and all the ground effects...
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In the end I am shooting for something like this...just minus the black stripe in the molding, and I am not sure if I want to keep the black wheels...
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[DonaldJP]

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This is what it looked like when I bought it.

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A couple days after I got the car.

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New Hood and Headlights (the sticker has been takin off the windshield).

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New Cowl Vent Panel.

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The New front end and fender and the handprints that put it on.

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I still got alot of work to do to it, still gotta line the hood up and stuff, gonna put a saleen wing on it, LX taillights, maybe a Cobra rear bumper, new convertible top, changing interior and convertible top to black. And then one day, finally get it painted.

 

[Disturbed90gt]

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[Boss 351]

you look discouraged in the engine pic...

 

[Disturbed90gt]

i was thinking. about what i dunno but i was thinking..........lol

 

[Boss 351]

ooo can I play too?

My current engine bay

What I had before (traded the white coupe for the current hatchback).

But yesterday I took the headers off, alternator bracket, power steering etc... to paint the block black, I cleaned up the valve covers and installed the proper OEM A/C delete braket. Looks better, still have some things to do...

 

[Boss 351]

i was thinking. about what i dunno but i was thinking..........lol

I'll do the same sometimes, I'll just stand there and think about all the things I want to do but remember how much cash I have in my account and get all sad and ****

 

[Disturbed90gt]

i had just got the car to the house that night and got it running again cause the guy i got it from had robbed some parts off of it for his bronco. i think i was sitting there day dreaming to be honest with ya cause i really dont remember what i was thinking. all i remember was the flash of the camera.....lol

 

[PJB]

Last August:

April:

June:

Right now the motor work (heads and cam) is just about done and so is the bodywork. It just needs a few things and a paint job and its all ready to go.
I havent really had a chance to take any pics lately.
The fenders are now on and all the dents and rust spots have been repaired.
It should be painted and done in 2-3 weeks.

 

[Boss 351]

nice to see some progress pics in this thread... I want to share some of my first mustang

before/during

4 banger car, pretty good shape for what it was

after cleaning and painting

after

engine bay after 4banger to 5.0 swap

prettyness

 

[foxmustangman]

I like how you have a 5.0, yet your name is Boss 351...It makes me laugh.

Oh yeah, and your car is frikin RAD! I love the hood scoop.

 

[Boss 351]

I like how you have a 5.0, yet your name is Boss 351...It makes me laugh.

Oh yeah, and your car is frikin RAD! I love the hood scoop.

Well at the time I had a 351 built up to put IN that car, I only had a 4 banger T5 and everyone told me it wouldn't hold up the 351's torque (had 69 or 70 heads on it). I sold the motor for profit and built a little 302 instead. I didn't have enough cash at the time for a better 5 speed or even to get a C4 built. That entire black Mustang cost me maybe $3000 all said and done (budget stang)... I could take off in 5th gear if I wanted to and it would burn rubber in 1-2-3 AND 4th gear. (geared 3:73 + 4 banger T5 = funny but didn't burn so much rubber once I put the 275's on there). Motor had airgap intake, ported E7's, .500 lift cam (like an E303), straight pipes from front to back (no mufflers, just gutted catted H-pipe), and lots of weight reduction (no power steering, insulation, radio, etc...)...

 

[foxmustangman]

That's frikin sweet. I wasnt making fun of you (just to clarify) I just thought it was funny. But it all makes sense to me. That's a nice lookin' engine too.

 

[Boss 351]

lol no worries... I kind of miss that car. It was fun to drive in town with the 4 banger springs and removed front sway bar (or tortion bar, whatever it's called) it felt like it was lifting in the air everytime I gave it some gas Not so fun on the highway at high speeds though.

 

[5-SpeedStallion]

Peeling clear coat and HALF of a 5-lug swap Oh, and it's not a 5.0, either