when do you anticipate first fire?

 

Lol thanks bud, I'm hoping to have it fired by no later then April.

How is your car?

 

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I hydro dipped my valve covers today. I'm going to clear coat them tomorrow.

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I welded some fittings on the other day obviously before I dipped them lol

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Do you have to put clear coat on the covers now or will the dip hold up to fuel? They look pretty dam cool!

 

I'm going to clear them yet. the dip is very durable.

 

If you don't mind me asking, How wide is the rear end from wheel mounting point to mounting point on your mustang ?

 

I know it's way late but I'll get that measurement for you tomorrow.

 

A little update it's been awhile.

The motor is ready to go in, I was getting ready to put in Saturday and realized my
Convertor won't work with the flex plate. The convertor pads are hitting the outside ring on the flexplate.

So my guess is I need a 164t one, which in turn means I need a different bell then also. So if that's the case it's going to be awhile before it
Goes in.

I did get the interior pretty much finished.besides a few snags.

I have race craft seat mounts for kirkey seats, but it had my helmet into the funny car cage. #ad


I cut 2.5" off the race craft mount and I only gained a half inch up top.(idk) you can see the stock mount in back and the modified one up front.

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So I sat it on the floor and made mounts for it. Here is the start of the front mount.
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I have to take pics of the finished product.

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I made a panel for around my aerospace shifter, and one to mount my msd power grid manual launch
Control.

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I purchased an msd power grid system and mounted and wired it in. #ad


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Mounted my co2 bottle(2.5lb) still have to run the lines.
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After I had my ati balancer mounted,I found out people would cut the hub down, well I already went and bought a Peterson
Crank mandrel to give me the clearance I needed from the turbo system so it's staying where it is.
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But with letting it out like that I had to modify my crank trigger,.

The first pic shows off I spaced out the sensor to get centered on the crank wheel
It pulled the timing pointer out to far.
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So what I did was spaced out the whole bracket to get over wheel, and then I took off
The big spacer from the ati timing pointer and drilled and tapped the msd bracket and mounted the rest of the ati
Pointer to it. So everything is lined up now.

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I had my turbo system coated by swaintech in their white lightning coating, it looked more like bright silver.

They said you can paint over them with no worries, I tried them on without painting them first.
But didn't like the way they looked, nothing complimented them and they showed dirty prints
So I painted them black.

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Here they are painted
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I just like this pic

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Then I have just been doing stupid little things.

Like I made a battery hold down.
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Then I took a piece of sheet aluminum and bent it around where
The pipe goes thru the cowl. It's not finished in this pic but it's has since
Been seedless all the way around. Trying to keep water out.

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Car is looking great.

What does the MSD launch control do?

 

Thanks, here is msd's description:

This module is perfect for the racers that can use a 2-Step style rev limiter. With this system the module will take over the shift light prior to launch. The module makes it easy for racers to quickly and simply make last second changes to the launch rpm, light intensity, or launch light window from within the cockpit.

 

It is grossly overpriced but works well

 

Well the motor and trans was about to go in on Saturday but I ran into a problem.

My dumb ass never thought to check what flex plate my ptc convertor was for and found
Out the hard way lol. It's designed for a164t and my bell and flex plate are 157t.

So I called ptc today and they are going to restall the convertor and change the pads
For me. Then I can put everything in finally.

 

yep that will slow ya down a bit. Any idea when you will be getting the converter back?