Nov 2 09

  Not a big update, but I have been doing some welding and painting on the Fairmont... I have been welding up holes in the engine bay, and finished welding the underside of the SFC's. I also cut one coil off of my front springs and wire wheeled and painted them, the front was sitting a tad high for me, but the rear was perfect.

 

Oct 14 09

 Alright, no picture updates today, but I finally ordered my Axles and spool! I ordered the Strange 33 spline Axles and the Strange Spool as well. Next week I'll hopefully be ordering a Trickflow diff girdle as well as a brace for the back of the racing seat, that will be welded on the cage. Still waiting on the rear end to be narrowed... Taking alot longer then I thought :( lol. 

   I also finished welding up my drivers side SFC, and painted it and the floor all with POR-15. I also have the drivers side rear wheel well almost finished, and I may start the drivers side today. I'll have to get pics.

Oct 7th 09

  Not a whole lot has been done... Still waiting on the rear end... Oh well, money is tight so progress is slow. Still got a bit of body work done, both to the hood and the glass fenders. I ran out of paint so It dosnt look great, but the areas that got a few good coats look pretty good. The hoods getting there, theres just lots of sanding to do, but once its done, and its painted I should be able to finally make a mold of it! lol. Dash is out too, I need to fix a few areas from previous abuse but thats alright, I also need to make something nice to fit in the area the radio currently occupies.

 

 

 

Sept 1st 09

  Well, I've been slacking on the pics again. I've finished one side of the floor, exept for the roll cage, but ran out of gas for the welder. So Once I get gas for my welder i'll be welding up a seat mount then I'll paint the that side. Next on my to do list is to weld the south side bar brackets to the rear end housing, and then paint the housing again.. lol Then I'll hopefully be getting some 33 spline axels and a spool, and 4:10's. Oh, I also finished welding in the patch in the trunk, and painted it up. So the trunks ready for a fuel cell.

 

 

August 8th 09

  Finally brought my rear end to chassis shop(or whatever you'd call it...) to be narrowed, I also finally figured out it will need to be narrowed 1 and 3/4" each side so my slicks will fit. It should be back in like a month... or so. Now I need to get some axels, a spool and 4:10's. I also need to hit up a wreking yard and get some drum parts, like backing plates.

 No pics today, but I will post some up of the finished trunk and the finished floor asap.

July 31 09

 I cut out all that rust today, so finally 99% of the holes are welded up now :D, I just need to find any pinholes, and make sure I havent missed anything lol.

The patch pannel, I trimmed it a bit more to fit but didnt take  pic, it sat in the hole better with the peices still on lol. I'll have to take another pic tonight of it all done. I had to grind the weld smooth first ;) lol.

 A couple updated pics of the floor. I still need to grind down the welds on the patches above the rear frame rails.

 A better pic of the patches in the rear. Not perfert, but strong. I'm not going for looks on this car lol.

July 14 09

Got some more shit done... I found another hole too which sucks but what can you do... The rear end is getting narrowed up this week too.

 I painted my front end up, it was looking pretty hagard...

 Mocking up the southsides to see what they look like

 Repainted the headers :)

Stripped the rear end so I can bring it to the guy to get it narrowed.

Mocking up my hoodscoop on my hood(my buddys car though, its more together)

 Cleaned up the edges and sanded the lip where it will be bonded to the hood.

Took the area where the scoops going to be down to bare metal.

The disk is to help hold it down lol, I also put in 4 rivits per side to help hold it down, once its dry I will grind them out.

 

 

June 22nd 09

 I've been lazy on updating this.. lol I'm slowly getting shit done... SFC's are almost in, the patch for the spare tire well has been tacked in, I got a cam(B303, nothing fancy but the price was right), and I pulled a scoop off of my dads mold. Its not perfect but it will do the trick :). Hpefully this week my rear end will finally be sent in to get 9" ends welded on.... but well see.

May 25th 09

   New parts! They are ported out 351W heads.

 Old heads... nasty lol

May 10th 09

 Its been way to long but after paying off my debts and my court/ticket BS work has started again. I've gotten my one SFC just about in and the other side will be done asap. I'm picking up a set of heads for my engine and then I'll be getting started on the rear end. So i'll be updating alot more hopefully LOL.

  I put mine all the way into the rear frame rails, hopefully it will make the car stiffer.

 

 I pie cut the bar so it would slide right into the frame rails. Once I made sure everything would fit correctly I welded the cuts back up.

 

 Ready for welding.

 

I thought I took pics of it welded in but i Guess not, i'll post some up asap.

 

March 10th 09

 I picked up new wheels and some 2x3 steel tubing for the sub frame connectores.

The wheels are aluminum spares powder coated white, I will be rocking these untill I can aford a set of convo pro skinnies lol. They have M/T Sporstman tires on them.

 

What my engine looks like insid e :O lol

 

March, 3rd, 09-  New engine!!! 351W from a truck.

 I started pulling it apart. Its in decent condition but will need a overbore, rings and pistons. I will be putting all new bearings in too ofcourse.

 Just stuck the old streetmaster intake on it for fun lol. I'll be picking parts up for it soon, but I am getting the rear end and the cage in first.

 

 Pulled the interior back out, so I can weld a few "things" in ;) Once I buy a welder that is.

I picked up some South Side bars also. Once I weld the brackets on I will paint them to match the rear end.

 Did a bit of work today, getting ready to pull the 302.

 

New rims :D

 

It drives :) Finally got it going, kinda jerry rigged with a threaded rod shifter and no interior but its nice to drive it. More pics at the bottom of the page

Engines in!!! Finally. Now to make a tranny cross memeber.

More pics at the bottom of the page.

This was taken the day after I dragged her home. She was an old project, an ex inline 6 cyl car. All in all shes pretty clean, floors were pretty bad from sitting but not anymore.

302 out of a mustang. Really really dirty lol.

The hoods pretty bad but will be fixed and hopefully last untill a fiberglass replacement is bought.

One side of the repair, not very straight but i'm working with very few tools.

Otherside

Engine after some cleaning. There was like a half inch of grease on this thing.

Passenger side floor pan semi welded in.

Panited the subframe on the drivers side after cutting what was left of the floor off(I did the same on the Passenger side.)

After the paint dried i traced the new piece and trimmed a but more then welded her in.

Car in garage

Random weird picture of the Fairmont.

Smoothing out the repairs

The engine gets some paint. The oil pan will be painted later, i gotta see if i can fix the drain plug or not.

Engine bays been rust proofed(POR-15) and then painted, I'm not to happy with the color but its better then rust and cream. The paint can said it was much more of a Grey...

Another shot.

Its almost time to put her back together.

Repair on the drivers side tacked partially in.

Rust damage on the drivers rear door frame.

Got most of the accessories on, still need a dizzy

New(used) wheel + 140mph speedo.

Another repair under the passenger rear seat. I kept blowing though on the top so i gotta cut it out more and add another piece to the repair.

Carb back from being tanked, while putting it back together i added an electric choke.

Another shot of the engine in its current state

Hole for the floor shifter

trunk patch... looks like shit but is fixed now, i'll have to get a shot of it.

Just a side shot showin some body work goin on.

Dirty and messy engine bay, waiting for some clips and bolts so i can tie everything up.

New shot of the 302. Shoulda grabed one before i pulled the alternator bracket so i could fix the air pump.

Repaired area waiting for paint.

Representin!

first time in daylight for awhile.

Engine and tranny mated up

Engines in!

Cars sitting almost normal. Will be sitting alittle lower in the front and will be getting some 245's on the rear and 225's on the front after i buy an 8.8

Got the harness up, I still have to wire up the alternator and coil so the rest is still a mess.

With air cleaner on, just an old one my dad had layin around. Once the cars on the road i'm buying some Ford Racing valve covers and air cleaner.

Looks better then black i guess...

New cap and wires

Got the MSD blaster coil in, along with the AEM throttle cable bracket. Got rad hoses and heater hoses on.

Another shot

Finally got some shit done. I got the tranny crossmember mounts welded up, cooler lines run and muffler hangers up.

Painted and nice lookin :D

Muffler hangers

Another shot of the engine :) I also mounted the fuel pressure regulator.

Got it almost all together lol You can see my new rims and tires too, there 225/60/15 up front and 265/50/15 in the rear.

A shot of the engine almost all done, now i just gotta paint a few things and i need a fan.

I'll have some more pics up tonight with the tailpipes up and my new shifter in. I ended up doing a transgo shift kit too

Alright as promised heres what was done in the last few days.

A shot of the interior with the B&M Pro Stick shifter installed.

I cant really show the shift kit so heres the yellow tranny pan :D lol

A shot of the floor and Flowmasters

Another shot of the interior.I also peeled the wood grain shit off of the gauge cluster trim.

Mustang tailpipe hanger from LateModelResto. I had to drill holes but it works.

Another shot of the LX Mustang tailpipe. You can also see my nasty rear end, it will soon be replaced by one from a turbo coupe.

 New intake all painted up.

 

A shot of the car all together.

 

Engine bay as it looks now.

This is where its sat scince i broke the rear end at the track.

This is whats going in it once i get my buddys car out of the garage. I left the diff cover as is so you can see what the whole rear end looked like when i got it. I'll be putting in 31 spline axles, a mini spool and a Trick Flow diff girdle.

 

 Stay tuned, the 5.0 will be pulled and something alittle more... Powerfull, will be replacing it.

 

................................FoMoCo!!

 

 

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