I needed some motivation as I hadn't driven it since I broke the transmission on my way to school to present it as my senior project titled "The benefits of adding a turbocharger to an internal combustion engine". I got a C...lol

I bought the car just before I turned 13 after mowing yards that whole summer... heres me:


I replaced both quarters, the floor pans, fenders, hood, trunk bumpers, all new interior, alot of new chrome, and painted it in my garage.... "finished" it up a week or so after I turned 16. I washed it twice a week, no matter how cold, and if I didn't have time or something I would wake up extra early before school and wash it. Here was round one:


Round one didn't last long, I wrecked the car like 6 months later and it went downhill from there... 2 other people hit me after that so I decided the car would no longer be a DD. Ignorant ass holes who slam their new durangos door into the side of my freshly RE-painted car should be shot. Twice. Especially after they look around and get in quickly and try to drive off. Then shot again after offering me $20 to have it fixed. Someone backed down the quarter panel a week later.

Between all of this I decided to try to make the car faster. I started off with a chrome air cleaner! Then modded the log style intake off a later model to bolt on a holley 2 bbl carb. Threw on a header, cam, dual roller timing chain, stiffer valve springs, arp head studs and went from a 22 second quarter mile, down into the 17's!!!!! yea... lol

Found out you needed boost and lots of it to go fast. first turbo setup was an IHI turbo off a ford probe, way too small but spooled fast. 7psi and spinning down the track with my one wheel wonder put my down to 15 seconds flat.





Took it out to sunshine and heres the 2 runs I made, still was my DD and I wanted to make sure I could drive it home.

gah.. I need a new rear.. and wider ties... and an - Car Videos on StreetFire

Finally dropped an 8" in and did 2 wheel peels, heres my favorite video of the car... definitely on a closed coarse. I have grown up ALOT since then....

Turbocharged 68 mustang, finally with a new rear e - Car Videos on StreetFire

With such a small turbo it would run out of steam around 5k rpms, so I went bigger, too big, more like salt flats big on the exhaust side... so instead of running out of steam it wouldn't start making steam until 5k rpms lol... looked impressive though. mmmmmm intercooler



Had fuel problems with my regulator and a modded SBC fuel pump, so I now have an efi pump, and a new regulator. this setup lasted 3 days before the tranny went.