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I know, I was just hoping to not have to do a hood scoop. But I think I'm not going to have much choice. I prefer a nice, flat, low hood. More a sleeper look than look at me. I can at least console myself with making the scoop a bit custom and not like anything else out there....

I knew it was going too smoothly. Air cleaner hits the hood. Combination of the higher edelbrock intake and the oval air cleaner. So now I have to think about a restrictive air cleaner or using the hood scoop I have. Have to think about that for a while... Want to see what a thousand bucks...

Hmmm, what could this be? Oh yeah baby! 31 spline axles for the 3.73 31 spline traction lock diff. Sn95 flanges for the SN95 rear disc brakes. Now I can get to building up the 8.8 for the last time. It will be one serious piece of kit! Certainly able to handle anything I'm going to throw...

Pulled the passenger side trim panel off and stripped the old "GT" emblem off. It was pretty ratty and I'm not building a GT clone. Cleaned it up and put the "Tri-bar pony" dash emblem on (from 87+ cars): Damn! I really like that! Perfect for the look I'm after. Not too flashy, not too...

I'm running BBK longtubes and H pipe already. Basically, all I need to choose (when the time comes) is a cat back system. :)

I've been "eye-balling" all different types of aluminum heads for the 302 lately. I'm not so much after the HP increase most claim, I'm after dropping 40-60 lbs off the nose of the car. I wouldn't turn my nose up at another 30-40 hp though. So I'm looking mainly at a set of (gasp) eBay heads...

Stuff is beginning to roll in. Dash and console: I've got a console already (I have two actually) but this one goes with the dash. So I know it will plug in and work. It also has the E-brake opening rubber in good shape (the ones I had went to melted goo at some point) and it has the 4 speed...

I've been "eye-balling" a set of used 03/04 SVT cobra front control arms on ebay for a while now. They're 79 usd/100 CAD. I don't understand why someone in the states hasn't snapped them up. I've been stalking them but the shipping price doubles the purchase price. Well, today I pulled the...

Getting ready to fit my lower bodywork. Got fleeced today on ebay for the side piece mounting hardware. Used, but still usable. Roughly 100 bucks less than what the mustang parts housing want for them, but still stupidly priced. My urethane pieces are all warped and twisted from the guy I...

Kinda pulling away from the T Top roof conversion idea the more I think about it. Noisy, prone to leaks and weakens the structure (even with full length subframe connectors like I'm building). I'm sure tossing it back and forth with hard on/off the throttle when "autocross-ing" it won't kind...

As promised, pics to go with the post: (ignore that great big accel coil on the back of the strut tower, went on in the early 80's when they were popular. It won't be there in mustang ver 2.0)

Bit of a score today with the potential to be a big/huge/massive score. I found out where the capri I had taken some parts off had went and the gent told me I could come by and grab the couple sensors I needed off what was left. The car hadn't quite shown up at his yard yet, so we waited and...

Well, got the LH camber/caster plate installed. Easy to change the settings, in fact almost too easy. It's just open slots and needs a fine touch when adjusting and it's a fine line between the bolts being tight enough to move yet not so loose that it looses it's settings. +6 Degrees caster...

Whoops. turns out Mark Williams carrier bearing caps are sold as "each". So apparently I didn't order a set, I ordered one. However, it was explained to me that one is all you need anyways. Replacing both is optional and mostly overkill. Here's the skinny: The cap goes on the drivers side...

I started thinking about my rear axle. 8.8, disc brakes, traction lok, 3.73, 31 spline axles and 31 spline carrier. Sounds pretty "beefy" for my relatively mild carbureted roller engine. But those mismatch carrier bearing caps were just bugging the heck out of me. Yes, I machined them to the...

Finished the last insert set and installed the rack. Nice little package came from rockauto today with my tie rods and a few other bits that I needed to more forward so that was a timely delivery. I had to cut the old PS pressure line on the original V6 pump. The 94 rack came with the pressure...

Aluminum inserts fresh off the lathe: fit to the rack: They're machined to a friction fit, and yet not a friction fit. I cleaned the rack bosses as best possible, but they're not perfectly round. The rack is also from a 96, so it's lived through 10 years of NS winters. We all know what...

Well, one step forward, two steps back. Got the fox rack out today. Went to install the sn95 rack (which should be a simple bolt on job) but no joy. Seems the earlier fox cross member has a slightly different mounting scheme. The later foxes and sn95 use a "tube" that goes through the rack...

Damn you ebay! 03 mach 1 springs too cheap to pass up: Takeoffs from a car in georgia. Nice and clean, rust free! I need a set anyways as my front coils have the typical broken off lower coil. The spring rates for the v6 springs is also way too low with the weight of the v8 on them now...

Strut pics: