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User Rides / Daddy Daughter 86 Turbo Coupe
Realized I haven't updated in a while. I picked up a deal on a set of seats locally. challenge was coming up with a way to mount them to bolt into stock holes for R&R if needed, clear through floor frame rails, fit me and my munchkins.
Once I cobbled up a design and got one done, it was easy...just figuring around the limitations and parameters for form and function was a challenge. Probably will upgrade to Kirky's later, but for now it gets it in the right direction.
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User Rides / Daddy Daughter 86 Turbo Coupe
Quote from: Macdowell;465334
In what shape was the 393 in btw, Gydyup? Hopefully, it wasn't too rough.
I have gotten a bit stalled on this, girls are busy with spring field hockey and orchestra, shooting..I am going full bore with early skeet season (competitive shooter) and trying to get my 67 Mustang prepped for some track hits. 
I got the seats all welded in and bolted, and its been sitting.
Gotta get back after it. The 393 came out of my 67, running really strong. Great little motor. I fogged the bores, backed off the rockers and wrapped it good so don't antite any issues with it other than finding not enough displacement?  Easy fix with a 408 or 418 kit.
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User Rides / Daddy Daughter 86 Turbo Coupe
XXXGot after the Bird this weekend, sold motor, ECU and wire harness for eng. Girls pulled all the electronics from under the hood.
I finished closing in the floor pans, PITA. Next time, I will cut the slots for the frame rails much tighter or cut onside and bent it back to re use.
Started fabricating the seat mounts, with dual positions so easily adjusted between the girls and my self.

Dug the 393 from under the bench, and started stripping it down for inspection, had to drill out those darn drain plugs.

Moving in, Gydyup
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User Rides / My 85 TBird
thanks on the plastic work, wondering about that myself.  I used a good old Wagner heat gun to strip my Mustang...worked great...maybe not the best for a dedicated shop, but got the job done for a lot less...
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User Rides / My 85 TBird
Cool, thanks, great stuff...I was gonna bite the bullet and grab a housing from one of the pre fab shops, like 300  to 400 bucks. Havent found anyone around here with the jig, but will keep looking. I will need to swap bearings ends from small to large and I know that usually costs me a couple hundred for narrow and bearing swap...so pre fab maybe just as economical.
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User Rides / My 85 TBird
Did you fab up and weld the UCA tabs onto the 9 inch?  Ive got the housing I took out of my Mustang when I shortened it some more. Its 50 3/8  to , would like to put it in the bird, and mini tub it. I am not sure about geometry and location for the UCA mounts though, any help on that would be awesome!

Nice work though, mine is going to be a drag car, but I am taking a lot in from your build.  Thanks.
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User Rides / Daddy Daughter 86 Turbo Coupe
Few more, that little tab ontop of the frame rail, cross member started out as a holder while I was positioning and tacking the rail...but decided it would be good extra re inforcement, so went back and really welded it down and added one to the other side.
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User Rides / Daddy Daughter 86 Turbo Coupe
Got after the sub frame connectors. I'm sure there are other or better ways to do this, but I went with it. Butted the new rails against the rear boxes, and front rails butted against the large front seat crossmenber with the rail notched and tying into the original front sub frame. Then fabricated plates, sides and bottom to box them in.

The top of the rear original sub frames were not even closed in nor tied to the car, so I opened up that panel and went inside that U channel and welded pieces to that, then down onto the top of the sub frame rail.

Now just need to figure out best way to tie the floor pans back to the frame rail, from inside or underneath?  the welding on the orig frames was PITA, car had been under coated, and also the seam sealer kept blowing out from inside the original frame s.
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User Rides / My 85 TBird
The Coyote fit in there without notching the towers?
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Other Vehicles / Why im building a t bird
Thanks Aerocoupe, I have a fresh Wide Ratio from Williams...had it in the Mustang for about a year, just did some street miles and back road blasts with the 393, I had a cable set up on it as well..just tried it to see if  I liked it...I did.

When I switched to the 521 in the 67, I went Hyd using an external puller slave.  No more than it gets driven, and the risk of Hyd juice on my RXT clutch pack, its the smarter play, also some of my buds who are running Pro Stick like the external better for more consistent reaction times.

I picked up a set of pedals for the T Bird doing some horse trading with a buddy who owns a Mustang shop down in NC. Gonna go ahead and put em in, but probably still stick with the C4 to start with...girls will be driving it at the track as well.  When the go off to college and I get really serious about this car, I am planning on a Lenco or Liberty, Back Half, and putting the 521 in it.  May put a front clip on it as well.

I'm still ing with the sub frame connectors, not that hard, just finding time to work on it...got the pass side about 95% in, going through the floor pans, and boxing em into the under seat cross member up front. Would have preferred to go all the way forward to the firewall with them but right now just don't have the time...rear I boxed in into the rail and torque box.

Thanks, Gydyup
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Other Vehicles / Why im building a t bird
I built this, 521 Kaase BB, Jerico DR4, 4:30 spooled, narrowed n mini tubbed. My daughters want to race, and wanted Jr. Dragsters...way too expensive, and no they are not driving the Mustang. Just rolled it out late last summer.
Wanted to get the Mustang down the track, but trashed the rear doing test hits, by the time I rebuilt even bigger...season was over.

So, instead of driving the Stang, or the cabbage on a Jr Dragster, I bought them (they picked it out) a Turbo Coupe.  got the 393 that came out of the Mustang, the old 9 inch housing and and a center section, gonna go from there. Got a nice Toploader, and all the goodies for that but probably stab a C4 in it for the girls...maybe.[ATTACH=CONFIG]39237[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]39238[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]39239[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]39237[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]39238[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]39239[/ATTACH]
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Body/Appearance/Interior / Body moulding
when the orig owner repainted the car - the mist blue to black (ugh, what was he thinking) he painted over the body molding in the same gloss black, then added a red pin stripe tape back to it...he also painted the bumpers with the same paint and primer. The bumpers will be easy as its flaking off now.  But that side or mid body molding isn't flaking.

Not sure how to go about getting that off...talked to my powder coat, soda blaster guy...and he doesn't  not recommend any sort of blasting. May just leave it, but I am going back to either white or the orig blue. Not a show car, but a track car, but still would like it to look nice.

Any thoughts?
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User Rides / Daddy Daughter 86 Turbo Coupe
The stripping continues, or as the girls call it...plucking the bird.  Removed the E brakes, fuel lines and tank, motor n trans this weekend. Scored a set of race seats for 50 bucks (keeping the budget build theme in line).
My oldest, Hannah pulled her first Eng, she was proud. She also loved the Pomona Opening NHRA Race that had several segments on the man Bob Glidden, she is embracing the Bob Glidden theme, except she calls it "Budg" Glidden.
Gonna fab up some sub frame connectors next, then get busy with the K member, front suspension swap.

Jcassity, I am selling most I pull off...E brake was one..wouldn't have pulled it had it not been wanted. ditto with seats and console lid...still have the console shell if anyone wants it.

What I am on the fence now are Wire Harness and Rear...lots of wiring in this car, and it is heavy..thinking I may pull it and re wire with a basic AAW kit.

Rear end?  Its probably going the way of back half.