Back to my old ways

**1BADP71** · 04-11-2010 09:27 PM

Thanks to Chris (Bottlefed93) I get to start something I have been wanting to do for about 13 years.

It has sentimental value because my late sisters mustang was the coolest thing ever to me when I got my license. She had a 92 GT hatch with a sunroof... that she let me race

Her car had only 24k miles on it in 1996. It was super clean.

Her car

I've always wanted to replicate her old car (but a little faster

) since I was 15.. I have never found a good enough chassis though. But now I have one

1990 lx (It made it home

)

Plans are to get a good suspension under it, straighten up the engine bay, and drop something under the hood to get it back on the road. Then I will be able to enjoy it while I restore it, and eventually toss a turbo in the mix.. I miss that feeling

I plan to cut NO corners, as I never have on my other cars, so this won't be a weekly update lol. But when the updates come they will be worth the wait.

Just putting this up, I'm not new to Fords , but I'm glad to be back in a Fox again!

Thanks to Chris , Josh, and Ray for helping me out.

Here's to a good future with her

Jeff

**Stealth Mode** · 04-11-2010 11:01 PM

Subscribing

**dirty coupe** · 04-13-2010 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Stealth Mode

Subscribing

good luck with the build . i also have 2 cars i am building a coupe and a hatch sallen clone.if you find your self needing a bad ass bodyman or painter than hit me up been doing this since 1996.I can paint these cars with my eyes closed.

**1BADP71** · 04-16-2010 10:43 PM

Thanks for the support guys.

At the moment I am leaning on putting a 4.6 2v in with a tubular front end. (after many heated debates with a few fellow old school employees on my countless options

)

Eventually put a Kenne Bell on it.

Hope to keep the a/c as well, to make the trips to the track and nights out a little more comfortable.

**Stealth Mode** · 04-17-2010 02:06 PM

Why not just a Mark VIII engine...?

<Has one for sale

Gen II engine too!

**1BADP71** · 04-17-2010 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Stealth Mode

Why not just a Mark VIII engine...?

<Has one for sale

Gen II engine too!

I was always one to use small engines and adequate boost

I have a license plate from a turbo delSol I built, it was "OMG SOHC" .. It could find its way back onto another ride of mine

**Stealth Mode** · 04-18-2010 10:25 PM

Now imagine seeing a Fox with a vanity plate that read "OMG DOHC"... Lol

**riverviewnative** · 04-18-2010 11:02 PM

Get busy bro

**1BADP71** · 06-10-2010 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by riverviewnative

Get busy bro

I have been trying too. I am working some crazy hours lately and just took a trip to North Carolina.

Things are really settling down here , so I should be back on this in a couple months

**1BADP71** · 10-28-2010 09:49 PM

Picked up a donor car, 89 5.0 with working a/c a couple months ago and drove it for about a month and a half.

I will be stripping that and getting the goodies off of it, like the dash , glass, doors, front end, block, trans, driveline, ... basically everything lol..

It looks like the sunroof in the '90 is not original Ford, so that will be coming out as well, and in its place will be going the one from my '89.

Both are 25th anniversary.

Looks like its going to be a low comp. 5.0 stroked on a factory k member, then upgrading from there. I want to get it on the road so I can enjoy it while I work on it. Nothing soon, but I am starting to gather a real plan of action now.

**Hurstmeister** · 10-28-2010 11:53 PM

There are no 'factory' sun roof fox body mustangs. They were all dealer or aftermarket installed. They had a tendency to leak after a few years because of the way the chassis flex on the hatch cars. Coupes didnt seem to have that problem.

Be sure to take progress pics. I like reading and watching other's projects progress.

Hurst

**1BADP71** · 11-05-2010 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Hurstmeister

There are no 'factory' sun roof fox body mustangs. They were all dealer or aftermarket installed. They had a tendency to leak after a few years because of the way the chassis flex on the hatch cars. Coupes didnt seem to have that problem.

Be sure to take progress pics. I like reading and watching other's projects progress.

Hurst

Dealer installed, yep. I just consider that to be Factory equipped. : )

I have pics but they are on my old laptop that I need to extract them from... Whenever I get 2 weeks to accomplish that

**1BADP71** · 11-19-2010 11:34 PM

Day I brought it home.. make that "night"

Got to spend a little time on it tonight. As more Time goes by, I am getting a lot better at deciding where I am completely going with this car.. I don't get to work on it much , but someday I will be able too. Did this tonight.

**solsi2000** · 11-21-2010 04:57 PM

nice work. you have my twin

**Iraq&Roll** · 11-21-2010 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Hurstmeister

There are no 'factory' sun roof fox body mustangs. They were all dealer or aftermarket installed. They had a tendency to leak after a few years because of the way the chassis flex on the hatch cars. Coupes didnt seem to have that problem.

Be sure to take progress pics. I like reading and watching other's projects progress.

Hurst

No "factory" sunroof cars ever? I thought it was a factory option called flip open air roof or something only available on the hatch cars.

I never purchased a fox mustang new. I was always under the impression it was an available option.
Can anyone else confirm?

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