My 1987 Mustang Build
11-11-2009, 11:45 AM
#22
Thanks for the comments guys. It still needs to be touched up and refined a bit, a little more painting to be done. I also need to get earlier model door panels so they will match the rest of my grey interior. Those came with my donor car so I wasn't really out anything. All the donor car had in it was those seats, door panels, and dash.
11-23-2009, 10:52 AM
#23
So I decided to ditch the GT40 intake and go with a Holley Systemax. The upper plenum had a nasty crack causing a vacuum leak. I decided to get the intake that I wanted to go with in the first place(the GT40 was free). Before, during and after shots..
Usually I bring my car to the shop on the weekends to work on it but I just couldnt contain my excitement when it showed up in the mail so I threw it on friday afternoon. Great deal on this one. It was a display model, never used so they knocked off $100.00! Also running a 1" TFS spacer.
Usually I bring my car to the shop on the weekends to work on it but I just couldnt contain my excitement when it showed up in the mail so I threw it on friday afternoon. Great deal on this one. It was a display model, never used so they knocked off $100.00! Also running a 1" TFS spacer.
11-23-2009, 05:19 PM
#25
Yeah the tensioner is close but I couldn't get anything smaller to fit. It started up a lot higher but as the belt stretched it came to where it is now and hasn't moved. There is about 1/2" clearance there.
11-24-2009, 10:01 AM
#28
^ Thanks army.
yeah the the heads were free as well. My plans were to build it with the gt40 intake and heads because I had them at my disposal. In a few years I am planning a H/C/I swap. Now that I have the intake I want it'll just be a C/H swap lol.
I will probably just leave this engine assembled and throw it in my brothers Mustang in a few years. He is away at BCT and really hating life right now so me and my Dad are on the hunt for a Mustang to surprise him with during the Christmas break they get.
yeah the the heads were free as well. My plans were to build it with the gt40 intake and heads because I had them at my disposal. In a few years I am planning a H/C/I swap. Now that I have the intake I want it'll just be a C/H swap lol.
I will probably just leave this engine assembled and throw it in my brothers Mustang in a few years. He is away at BCT and really hating life right now so me and my Dad are on the hunt for a Mustang to surprise him with during the Christmas break they get.
11-24-2009, 02:44 PM
#29
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cool!
I dont mean to trash talk your heads, its just that I know you would be much happier with some trickflow's like mine.
$800 buck's for some used ones like I got and they would be a radical change, even with the stock cam.
I dont mean to trash talk your heads, its just that I know you would be much happier with some trickflow's like mine.
$800 buck's for some used ones like I got and they would be a radical change, even with the stock cam.
