The Official "4-Mod-Fox" progress thread

fivespeedsteed said:

you get all that tedious wiring and stuff done since your painting it? or you just jumping the gun a little

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Most of it. The doors are all done. The tails are done. The quarter trim areas will need some work since I have the STUPID Mach 460 amps, speakers and tweaters that I need to figure out what to do with. For the most part, I think I'm gonna stick the amps under the seat...idk how hot they get tho. The speakers wil go in stock location, but I'll have to cut a hole for the tweaters. I don't want to, but I have to. No highs come out of the 5x7 Ford speakers, it's all in the tweaters.

Anyways....got a new Carlite FORD windshield installed today...check it out...

1990Coupe said:

God i can't wait to see this thing done!

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Thanks. Me too. I want to paint it this weekend but I haven't even ordered the paint or the sealer. I haven't sanded it down yet either. She wants to do "couple things" this weekend anyways so I don't think it will happen. I had a guy take my place to work this Saturday to get it all prepped too. What do I do?

Chrome_Rust said:

I have an Idea for the Mach stuff for the rear. Put the rear "subs" in the rear where the pre-87 cars had the speakers. You could fab a small enclosure behind them to create the nessessary air space. For the tweeters and the amps, they can go in the factory location of the rear speakers. I have the Mach Audio in my Notch and the amps get pretty warm when pushed. Just a thought. I did car audio for many many years and since Bass is omnidirectional, placing the speakers in the hatch area should provide decent low end reinforcement. What were you doing in the front? did you cut the door for the 5x7? or are you going to run a component set? I did a Diamond Audio 6.5 M5 component. Ran the woofer off the amp in Mono like the factory, and the tweeters off the headunit. sounds amaizing! Didn't use the cross over from the speakers. Still think I am going to add a 10" sub. Do you have access to the Mach1000 stuff there? I would love to add that to my notch!!

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Where were the speakers in pre 87 cars? I don't ven remember. I might put the amps under wear the seat belts bolt up, I think they'll reach without lengthening the wiring.

For the front, I am just using a Pioneer replacement speaker. Right now I have the 5x7 wiring running to that speaker and they can't handle the bass. They sound like garbage. When I hook the tweater wires to them, it cuts out. When I switch the wiring around, the Pioneers only get the highs and voice, no bass. Soooo....to make things easy, I might just make the fronts highs, and hook up the rear 5x7's in the factory location, and put the tweaters somewhere creative in the hatch panels. If I used the 87-93 dash, I could have thrown the tweats in the dash like the factory did.

I am not big into systems, so if I can't get it to sound stock like, I'm just gonna settle for front highs and the stock rear stuff. As long as it sounds decent is fine with me. I'm not big on huge bass. I don't even listen to it that loud in my 04.

I never knew they were back there as I've only had one 86 and older car in this yard. I never even had a friend with one. That is a good place for them, but I have all the theft system and keyless remote boxes back on the left side of that car. Plus the gas tank neck and housing is in the right quarter panel. I don't know if there would be enough room for the speakers in there. Thanks for the offer to come up. I have no clue when I'm gonna finish the wiring. I wanna paint it, make it driveable and take it home. I'll finish it on my leisure in the comfort of my garage, not at work. It's getting to nice to be at work. At home, I can drink beer, have my dog out in the yard with me, and the woman is right in the house and she won't miss me. lol.

Been working on the hood and the 93 Cobra rear cover I got from Chrome Rust.

The hood is rust free, just had a few dings from storage and such. IT had a beautiful black paint job on it before. I blocked it all down with 150 a couple times, found the dings, found some high spots. I filled in some areas, blocked it again with 150 and then 320. Getting primer tonight.



The rear cover I got from Charlie is an OEM Ford rear cover. He met me halfway and I bought it from him. I had it blasted for $30.00. The urethane was so far deteriorated and sunk. It must have sat for years in hot weather. I spent about 1 hour sanding ithe urethane material down with 80 grit paper. I then blocked some flat areas with 80 grit. I fixed 6 tears in the cover, all small, here and there. I am slightly worried about 2 of them recracking during installation, so I am gonna attempt to paint this thing on the car. I don't want to but I should.

The two that worry me are the two ends....(first pic)





Notice the light and dark areas. The dark areas were sunk a lot. Now they are flat and even. I'm gonna block it one more time with 80, then prime it, then block with 150 and reprime again.....time time time....

Thanks guys. Got the stuff in primer last night. The bumper needs more blocking prolly with 150 grit, then I'm gonna prime it again. Want to make it as best as I possibly can. It will have a few flaws in it, but....for the most part it will be 90%

Gonna spray the last 2 coats of primer on the 93 Cobra cover ON THE CAR since the cracks keep on cracking off of the car. I fixed them twice off the car...crack...crack...fixed them a 3rd time on the car....should be okay, but if they crack I'm gonna deal with them.

Got the exhaust pipes straighten out (parts car in an accident) then installed the tips, shave them down to where I needed them. I had them perfect but then found an exhaust leak under the car, fixed that, so now my right tip is out further...gonna adjust that soon. They are slightly larger than I would like but they look good. The Magna Flow on the tips is hard to read but if I put them out so you can see the writing they are out too far and looks ghetto.





Ground effects were mostly stripped and leveled....hopefully paint Friday night or this weekend Saturday/Sunday. I've been saying paint time for 3 weeks, but I keep finding other stuff that needs prep.





The biggest thing is that I got the hood and fenders all lined up with my Dad on Saturday. Everything lined up good. Final adjustments will need to be made when I hang the cover, so I didn't put the fender bolts in tight. (Gonna spray some yellow primer over the gray primer on the RH fender. That grey stuff is garbage. It balls up when you sand it.)



I was going to stay about 2 more hours and get everything in primer but then I burnt the hell out of my hand. I heated the exhaust pipes up with a torch, and like a moron without gloves I totally forgot about it and grabbed with with my hand.....amnit:crapola It blistered up good on Sunday and I am not gonna be happy when this thing pops. It hurt BADDDD for 2 hours. Then I was good. I even hit a grand slam homerun during softball yesterday!!!

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1990Coupe said:

Nice to see some progress on her brother! Congrats on the Home Run!!!

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Yeah tell me about it! lol. I got more primer on those parts tonight. Looks good. My ankles hurt today man...I ran so much yesterday. I was up to bat a lot. We mercied the team both games. We play double headers.

5.0Droptop said:

Wash your dirty ass hands.. oh and your a wussy!

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lol....it's not dirt....it's dead skin falling off the blister....YUM!!!

Got the Cobra spoiler mocked up. You have to fill 2 GT spoiler holes on the left side and one hole on the right side. You also must drill a new hole for the 3rd brake light harness on the LH side....it's the outer most hole. I am NOT drilling the 4 holes in the middle of the hatch for the center mount studs. Half the time the metal warps and I'm not gonna deal with that. I'm just going to put some two way tape to fill the 1/16" gap between the spoiler and the hatch.

This didn't thrill me at all. I was almost going to say screw the Cobra spoiler. It pist me off once I realized I would have to spend 4 hours sanding, bondo-ing, priming to make this work. I stayed long enough so 2 coats of bondo could dry and be sanded and primed. I wanted it done in one night so I could stay on track for this weekend.

Got the 4 side skirts stripped and primed in a 2K urethane primer. Also fixed some spots on the front cover that weren't all that bad.