i have a ques, i have a 65 hardtop that was wrecked, i have removed all the front fender aprons and frame rails, i have added new frame rails, and have bought new fender aprons. Now the ques is, will this be impossible to weld back together straight, or would it be easier to cut the front end off a non wrecked mustang and weld that in to place and patch were is needed with the new aprons i have.

 

interesting question. only problem yo will have with all those new parts is that you really need a jig to install the frame rails to make sure everything is straight an aligned properly. If it not......you'll never get it to drive right. About the same thing with a donor cars front clip.....if its not aligned right it'll never be right. This is the area for a good body shop. They usually have the equipment to do the job right.

 

I would find a solid Mustang that you know has not been wrecked and take 100,000 measurement. Then you can transfer said measurements to fix your car. The most important measurements involve the final location of the shock towers so that the front suspension is correctly located. You want a line bisecting the front suspension to be parallel with the cab and the rear suspension.

 

there are also frame measurement in the shop manual. If it were me I would have removed and replaced 1 side at a time with bracing across from oneside to the other to help keep the frame rails in the right place. Good luck your going to need it.

 

yea i wish i could go back in time and redo it but iam stuck so, does the whole donor car front end idea sound alot easier to anyone besides me, and if i had a shop do it what do everyone think the damage would be?

 

Go find another car and take a lot of measurments.It can be done!I believe there is a body manual available that contains all the measurments available thru NPD.Good Luck as it sounds like you will need it![sm=signs003.gif]

 

Trying to add a pic of what the car looks like

 

Unless you have a lot of body shop tools like a frame jig and frame puller id pass on the car its hard to get it straight when your unsure on the rest of the car.

 

I would hate todeclare any classic Mustang beyond hope, but you may bepushing the envelope with this one. Are you replacing the frame rails because they were rusty or because they were bent in the wreck? Don't forget this is a unibody car. It doesn't take a whole lot of impact to twist it out of shape. Are the floor pans buckled at all? On the bright side, judging by the photo, if you go ahead, this would definitely be the time to check the cowl and repair it if needed. Good luck and keep us posted if you continue. I would really like to watch the progress on this one.

 

well the floor pans have been replaced and where not buckled, the frame rails where bent but not bad thats why i replaced them.