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Fivefingerdeathpunch said:
I'd love a fox body, should be a decent car when it's done.
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As long as its just us here... (looks around, over shoulder)... make my fox a plain de-chromed Fairmont with perfect stance. In a mundane color.

This specimen was actually not too shabby, relatively speaking body-wise. As with all Mustangs, economy in manufacturing wins over ruggedness so if you want that you gotta put it. We will. They are a decent engine holder, I reckon. Be interesting to see how far (fast) it goes. Shaved doors would look good. I like some of the cowl hoods for them real well but I think since our flat one is in primer and good it'll get used. I've barely started on fenders. Then theres bumpers and claddings.

Once we have car in primer like this...

Owner, boss, and techs have a much better idea of where the price is gonna land. So now the process of shaping the build can begin in earnest. This is pretty much what I do at least with new customers, get bodies straight and in primer so we can form a plan. The rest is easy and the sheetmetal bodywork is usually the giant unknown. I think I've made practical decisions on the repairs and nobody is complaining yet.
 


you should tell them to shave the doors lol and have a HUGE blower sticking out of it and tub the rear wheels. that is pure sex right there. with the right color combo it would be an amazing car
 
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Twin turbo is a waste, just more things to have fail or worry about and more money to spend.

If you can't make a single turbo fox go 9's in the 1/4 you have issues. They will run that without a problem on 600-650whp if you can hook. The sloppy mechanics single turbo fox ran 7's with a built LSx403 and single turbo with a weight around 3100 lbs. They were running high 8's with somewhere around 650-700whp through a Th400.

Only real issue is how much power you want, anything over that 600-700whp mark and you risk bending the rods from the power on stock motor. Also Matt the sloppy mechanics guy was making his fairmonts run 10's with 500whp with stock intake, stock throttle body, stock exhaust manifolds flipped forward and custom piping. Only real upgrades are the 80 lb/hr injectors, boost controller, 4L80e transmission and a ford 8.8 from an exploder. The rest is nearly all stock with a tuner to round it out.
 
True. I actually typed that: "make a cutout" but changed it to plural because racekar. One hairdryer is very plenty, agreed. They would even be quick with a turbo'ed 3800. I bet the build will end up with goodies worth a 10.5 ET but never trip a staging beam in it's life. Just my guess. In any case it can't help being a fun ride.
 


Thats the idea, man! That faux oil bath air cleaner helps the huffer sorta blend in. At a glance even with hood open, the average person might think it only has half that power.
 
Speaking of old trucks... I thought this was fairly cool-

We made a bed floor for a '67 Ford short / wide pickup yesterday.

The original was useless, too badly beaten to use even though the bed will have a wood floor kit installed over it. We needed a strong fresh floor that will hold a load like the gennie would, but it didn't have to look just like the old one. Replacement quarter-floor sections are available but at $250 a pop plus shipping. Ouch, then you gotta weld em together! Screw that. The idea of using a late model salvage floor did flash across the radar but that was still too much labor. Heres what ended up happening...

Pickup with trailer goes across the highway to a metal vendor, picks up a 5' x 10' sheet of hot rolled 16 gauge steel just under $80, hauls it to shop.

Piece is cut to proper length / width and marked for side flange bends and strengthening beads.

Edge flanges were roughed in with a 3 lb. mini-sledge hammer with the floor hanging off the edge of our frame rack.

Then two guys held the floor perpendicular to that rack with the rough flange clamped down while a door skinning hammer was used to flatten it. The sides of the floor attach with those downward flanges but the ends overlap braces.

Then, four guys using one of these...

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( Thats a Woodward Fab WFBR24P )

... worked as a team to roll the series of beads you see in the pic below into that big heavy sheet of metal. We all learned from it but also made a cool part from scratch which is like my favorite thing to do now. See where we were learning, on that second bead from the right? Yeah a little hammer and dolly will fix that up, no worries. Again, I was just glad to be part of the crew. A lot of smooth teamwork was required to not screw it up totally. Mike is currently re-fitting xmembers and wheelwells all together with the new floor. I think it looks great for something thats gonna be covered in wood anyway. Problem solved, money saved.

 
awsome. learning on the job is the best. I know that older truck parts these day are getting to expensive to buy new. but you missed a dent on the wheel arch on pass side lol sry i just notice things like that i know you will take care of it. hell if you saw the bed of my truck it has way more abuse than that sweety
 
Those were new wheelhouses and they fit horribly! Especially when they gather up in the corners like that. Once its all welded and dressed, cosmetics will be addressed for sure. Since this was made of heavy gauge sheetmetal, there were times when one guy had to hold the bead roller still on the floor. Lesson #1, have enough men for the job!
 


i typed in google men at work and that image came up. i never knew there was a band called "men at work" so im guessing its them but when a guy is holding another man arm i kinda question his actions
 
Yeah if we touch one another its with a fist lol. I thought that might be men at work. Too many vegemite sandwiches, not enuf bacon.
 


More Ford truck then...

Heres one thats been in the background in bits and pieces, a 1940 truck. Confirming cab to frame fit here, since that cab was floor deep in mud and grass for many years and all the bottom was goner. Chassis and gear are leftovers from the last SEMA show truck job. It will be for sale when done.



Mustang bumpers, I've been sanding again. This front one is an aftermarket crash part, Colonel's. Decent I guess, had less paint on it than the car luckily. Grey spots are our 3M flexible repair material.







Started on the rear one. Its the original. Has lots of badly cracked white repaint over the stock paint. I busted out the 40 grit, it all has to come off.









The windshield bed cleaned up pretty as you please. That took patience. Just original paint left there now.

 
Well it should be a white Mustang anyway. Turns out those cracks all over the rear bumper cover were in the plastic itself. Replacement required, so I stopped on it. The co-worker that had the accident Thursday (grey Fox pictured prev) bent an axle among other things. Worthy of note was how the big chunk of rim broke off a Bullitt wheel exposing the whole tire bead in a few-inch section... but it still held air. Close call, but a steely wouldn't snap like that lol.
 
Honestly I lost my place on the archived shiny stuff pics for this thread... and I've tried to figure it out. Someday. Anyway-

Blew the doors off that Fox last year... starting on the engine area now. Filling in unwanted factory holes in the structure. Core support is looking better already, and I'll be taking away much other ugliness. Stock airbox won't be around, neither will the battery so those areas and the strut tower faces will be visually cleaned up a great deal. Happily, we decided NOT to fill EVERY hole I marked with tape. Just the uggos up top, pretty much. I'm gonna drill the airbox brace off the apron and close up the round hole (passenger side), then whatever CAI we use can tell us where or if we need to trim that big oval kinda hole there.











Other stuff in primer, a 48 Chevy and 67 Ford cab- yawn



 
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