Guess that depends on what we’re defining the finish line as.You'll never settle on one car to the finish line.........
* For a definition of automotive ADHD,..see Tanners' thread:
https://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/tannerc91gts-gila-hoopty-t-top-monster.891881/
Guess that depends on what we’re defining the finish line as.
White car is still together, running and driving. Just drove it a little last weekend. No plans to take it apart yet.
The new car isn’t ready anyways.
Will it go to a race track? Possible but unlikely.
The automotive ADHD part you’ll never get an argument from me about.
Im out of garage space. Guess that’s how I tell I’m done.If you're just looking for a project, don't buy any more cars. I'll send you my 86. We'll have to agree though that my $10,000 Windsor stays where it's at. The Kenne Bell is negotiable.
Gonna be out in something in 2018 no matter what. If I can get the rear end done in by January and get the new turbo kit built it’ll be game on. Appreciate the encouragement!In love with the cobra . I hope you transfer it all over to that and make some killer passes in it .
In love with the cobra . I hope you transfer it all over to that and make some killer passes in it .
Hopefully you won’t kill this thread off. The white car basically runs and drives right? Did you ever figure out the overheating/electrical issues?
Is the Cobra plan to use one of your other motors and build a completely new turbo setup? And a new trans etc? Or will the white car become Na very soon?
I like both chassis . Everywhere you look at the track is another fox . I still love them though but it's nice to see something different , with that said . I don't know tanner anymore then anyone else does here besides Facebook . But from a human stand point I'd rather see him in the safer of the two chassis wise trying to go fast with a new born .'I guess that's me slowly growing up .Not I. I'd rather see the white car completed. I prefer a Fox over an SN tho.
That’s what it’s all about for me right now.I like both chassis . Everywhere you look at the track is another fox . I still love them though but it's nice to see something different , with that said . I don't know tanner anymore then anyone else does here besides Facebook . But from a human stand point I'd rather see him in the safer of the two chassis wise trying to go fast with a new born .'I guess that's me slowly growing up .
Wait.......You took a nice car, that had a nicely done, smoothed engine bay. Cut that away in favor of a tubular front mount. ( which is purely race car stuff).Guess that depends on what we’re defining the finish line as.
White car is still together, running and driving. Just drove it a little last weekend. No plans to take it apart yet.
The new car isn’t ready anyways.
Will it go to a race track? Possible but unlikely.
The automotive ADHD part you’ll never get an argument from me about.
Absolutely dude !!That’s what it’s all about for me right now.
Driving the foxbody around, I realized what it needed for me to feel safe in it at a race track. I think I went on about that a couple pages ago. Got quotes from 2-3 shops to have an 8.50 cage put in my fox. $5k~ for a reputable shop to do it. Plus months of waiting.
Wish I had the foresight to have bought a safer car a couple years ago and started with that, but it just wasn’t a necessity in my head. Figured a roll bar was good enough.
Can’t justify that anymore. It may be a 12 second car for all I know, but it’ll be a damn safe 12 second car.
Truth be told, I tried to buy my maroon 03 cobra back at the beginning of november. Agreed on a price (way too high) and the guy was supposed to have it ready for pickup that weekend. Cancelled on me the night before. I was super bummed. It’s the only car i ever regretted letting go.
Found this car for multiple thousand dollars cheaper and jumped on it.
I do hope to catch up with you and Nick at a race one of these days though Jeff! Surely I’ll make it to Lights out 15 or something lol.
Wait.......You took a nice car, that had a nicely done, smoothed engine bay. Cut that away in favor of a tubular front mount. ( which is purely race car stuff).
Gutted the interior, removed everything under the dash, replaced a pair of stock seats that could be tolerated in a street car, and put a pair of uncomfortable Kirkeys in their place, and stuck that big, "can't miss it from a a mile away" shifter, high and dry above the console, installed a minimalist wiring harness mounted on a piece of plexi, and then installed a race pack instrument panel in the dash.( which is purely race car stuff)
Installed a twin turbo'd LS, with its un muffled exhaust dumped in front of the tires, added individual coil packs, big assed injectors, and tipped a radiator over soo far in front that it can never fully be filled, and the air that blows through it will only see about half of the surface area that a vertical version would've, finishing that off by removing the power assisted everything else down to bare bones manual. ( which is purely race car stuff)
And now you say that you're worried that the car isn't safe enough? And.......that you doubt that it'll ever see a track?
Where was that thought process when you decided to install over 1000 hp in front, and back it with a race prepped T 400?
I started to address some of the inaccuracies here, but I think it’s a waste of time for us both. We don’t share the same views and as always, You’re welcome to your opinion.Wait.......
I cannot fault you wanting to be safe when in a car capable of 160-180 mph 1/4 mile speed. I also cannot fault your build ethics. And, internet ambiguity aside, my comments were more of a shove to the shoulder a la " C' Mon Man!" Intended to bust your balls, not to force you to justify yourself.I started to address some of the inaccuracies here, but I think it’s a waste of time for us both. We don’t share the same views and as always, You’re welcome to your opinion.
People change, plans change. My life and priorities are in a much different place than they were 2 years ago when I bought this car fully intent on taking it out weekend racing.
Safety wasn’t the concern, having some resemblance of a cage so the local track wouldn’t kick me out was.
I enjoy the building process and haven’t gotten much time to enjoy the “finished” part because I also know when I’m not satisfied with something and up to now, I’ve not built anything I’m happy with. Part of the problem with learning as you go and not knowing what you’re doing I guess. Constant need for re-evaluation and redirection.
I will not cut corners with safety. There is no building onto the roll bar diameter mild steel “cage” in my foxbody.
I know where my welding ability is, and bottom line, I would not trust myself to do the BEST job in TIG welding in a cage intended to save my life.
I have no intentions to air out my personal life or justify why some cars have come and gone as they have. And I’ve got no problem admitting my indecisiveness. Just a young guy still learning what I’m capable of and what I want to do.
There is no end-all “this is the car I’m gonna keep forever and putt it back and forth to work and autozone”. But i do hope to build something im proud to own. This is not my crowd here much as it used to be, I realize that as well.
Im looking forward to shaking the bugs out of the white car in a couple months while I prep the other and trying to get one of them out during the 2018 race season.
You didn’t upset me, Mike. I guess I was subconsciously speaking to a larger audience, probably unnecessarily.I cannot fault you wanting to be safe when in a car capable of 160-180 mph 1/4 mile speed. I also cannot fault your build ethics. And, internet ambiguity aside, my comments were more of a shove to the shoulder a la " C' Mon Man!" Intended to bust your balls, not to force you to justify yourself.
Sht Tanner, look at all you learned from this build.You didn’t upset me, Mike. I guess I was subconsciously speaking to a larger audience, probably unnecessarily.
The “cmon man...” I feel more than anything. It would be easy to illustrate the frustrating build thread rollercoaster I’ve constructed over the last near decade. An automotive time machine would save me thousands of dollars and a bad reputation.
One of these days,..
You didn’t upset me, Mike. I guess I was subconsciously speaking to a larger audience, probably unnecessarily.
The “cmon man...” I feel more than anything. It would be easy to illustrate the frustrating build thread rollercoaster I’ve constructed over the last near decade. An automotive time machine would save me thousands of dollars and a bad reputation.
One of these days,..
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