From the BIG town of Sparta, MI.
Just found the site threw Corral.net, here's a link to some photos.
http://s733.photobucket.com/albums/w...snake/?start=0
Sorry about the poor picture phone photos, don't do the car justice, I need to get a good camera and get some good pics. All I need to do is paint the hood, and finish cleaning up the under hood wiring, and she's ready for the road.
The 66 gt vert I've sold. Some info on the 83 gt t-top. This was my very first car, bought it in 1988, when I graduated HS, had 44,000 miles when I got it and I've owned it ever since. It now has 83,000 miles. I started the resto mod, a little over 2 yrs ago, and it is now about complete [well its never done, but its close enough to be able to drive this year].
It was a rotissery resto, completely stripped and blasted. I had to replace drivers floor board, drivers seat rear mounts had basicaly cracked the floor pan and it had to be replaced. The subframe connectors I put on have extra supports for the seat mounts to avoid the same problem.
Suspension
All bushings and mounts replaced with energy suspension polies
Front, 87 ford racing control arms with offset bushings
95 style spindles, with x2 ball joints
Steeda sport springs
Tokico Illumina 5 way struts
Steeda bump steer kit
Steeda heavy duty anti sway bar
Steeda strut tower brace
Steeda CC plates
Rear,
8.8 rear end with Richmond? 3.55 gears and Supierior 28 spline 5 lug axles
Stock upper and lower control arms [poly bushings]
Steeda full length weld on subframe connectors [ come with extra seat support and rear tourqe box gussets]
Steeda sport springs
Tokico Illumina 5 way shocks
Steeda heavy duty sway bar
replacement quadra shocks
Brakes, all with custom made stainless steel lines.
Fronts
Willwood 13 in vented and cross drilled rotors [zinc washed]
Willwood 6 piston calipers
Rear,
Willwood 13 in vented and cross drilled rotors [zinc washed]
Willwood 4 piston calipers
Willwood adjustable proportioning valve
Wheels and tires,
Front
17 x 8 MKW m45 wheels [+24 offset?]
3/8 in wheel spacers [had to have them to clear the calipers]
Cooper Zeon zpt 245/45/17
Rear,
Same as front [including spacers for a square stance]
Tranny,
Stock T5 rebuilt, with a centerforce dual friction clutch, and BBK firewall adjustable cable, and a Ford racing aluminum drive shaft.
Engine,
88 HO block
dipped and blasted
Bored 30 over
Line bore and deck checked and trued
Stock crank turned 10 over and trued [entire rotating assemby balanced including flywheel and dampener]
Eagle H beam rods
SRP forged pistons [with heads I believe 10 -1 compression]
ATI ? super dampener
Centerforce aluminum flywheel
Mallory oil pump
Twisted wedge girdle
comp cam hydraulic roller [can't remember the # I know it was .56 lift .224 duration?]
Pro Comp aluminum heads 210 cc intake ports can't remember the exhaust size, 60 cc combustion chambers, bought bare heads and assembled them ourselves. See comments at end of post.
2.02 intake vaves, 1.6 exhaust
Ferrara stainlees steel valves and we put 5 angle grinds
Comp dual springs
Arp studs
Comp aluminum 1.6 rockers
Edelbrock aluminum water pump
Engine pro degree able timing chain and gears
engine pro chrome moly push rods
Edelbrock rpm air gap intake
Edelbrock 800 thunder AVS carb
MSD digital E-curve distributer
MSD blaster 2 coil
140 amp alternator
BBK under drive pully set
BBK equal length ceramic coated shorty headers
flowmaster 3'' off road exhaust with polished stainless tips
Cooling,
Fluidyne aluminum radiator
Black Magic Flexa lite electric fan
I believe that covers pretty much everything.
Some comments on the heads, I was originaly looking at Edelbrocks rpm aluminum heads. The guys at the local race shop in Grand Rapids MI. recomended the Pro Comp units [since we wanted to assemble them our selves] and they came with bigger intake and exhaust ports then the edelbrocks I was looking at, and a better price. They also told me that some of the local racers seem to realy like them. There's very little intell on them, from what I've found here, there is a few claims of a copy cat, made in china claims. We had no problems during assembly, they seemed to be pretty well manufactured units, and with my set up the seem to perform very well [still a little early to tell]. The only issue I had was valve cover fit, they ended up sending me a set of their chrome covers [again seemed well made] free of charge, and they did fit way better [still not perfect but no leaking issues]. I guess I will be giving them the true test this summer, as I will finaly be able to put some miles on them. I'll let you guys know how they perform.
Sorry for being so long winded, but I guess thats a pretty good introduction of my ride.
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