67 GT500 build

[HighwayStarManny]

very nice Eleanor

[BigRed]

Now that the exterior and the interior are done for the most part its time to turn my focus to under the hood.I really want to make a statement under the hood. I have some big plans, that will make under the hood just as nice as the rest of the car. I Spent a ton of money on the next big purchase for the car, I will be Redoing the engine bay, upgrading fuel system, changing the valve covers, and converting the stock ford fuel injection to Mass Flow stand alone fuel injection. The manifold, fuel rails and throttle body came in today. Each part is made in house by mass flow and I gotta say when I opened the box I was blown away by the quality, its a work of art!





1000CFM throttle body

closed


primary's open



secondarys open


It even uses a ford throttle position sensor and idle air control valve!

[Madhatter]

its good to see an old car with someone thats not afraid to do modifications man i loove this car i have been looking for a while

[BigRed]

one of the final stance of the car.



and a link to more
http://www.flickr.com/photos/killerb...th/5899617354/

[kramerbuccs24]

eh

[FRESH]

Beautiful car

[Anonymoose]

Im gonna have to chime in here since people fucked with me when I first got here about stancing things that arent meant to be/normally stanced. This car sorta doesnt fit in with this scene/website in it's current state. Sure its a badass muscle car and alot of work has gone into it - and kudos to you for a good job for what it is, but it's pretty mundane and dare I say boring along the lines of restoring/building one of these - specially since you just went with the whole Elenor theme. I dont see anything interesting done that would place it into the style of car this website was created to celebrate. I could understand if it was bagged or slammed, but it's just normal. I'm not even ******, I'm a huge Ford fan, look at my icon, I DRIVE a Ford, but this just doesn't make any sense in this scene. This kind of car needs to be in classic car shows and muscle car meets, not the slammed/stance/hellaflush/stanceworks/etc scene.

So unless it's going to be bagged/scraping frame or something in the future I'm kinda confused I drive a heavy 350hp V8 American vehicle but it's on a 9/10 static drop . I'm really holding back saying the typical things here like "4x4!" and "Needs moar low!" but it really does.

Dude there isn't a certain criteria for any cars anywhere including this site, it's about what the owner wants and people can like it or not. It's because of people like you that these "scenes" even exist and the sentence I highlighted above is THE defnition of gay imo. WTF.

[P78]

i like that final stance pic

but a lil more rake woulnd't hurt anybody

but still mad props to this car man!!


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lol he deleted his posts

[Anonymoose]

There's a monkey on my back and I can't shake it.

Signed,
Kaidotech

[BigRed]

i like that final stance pic

but a lil more rake woulnd't hurt anybody

but still mad props to this car man!!


edit

lol he deleted his posts

I tried a little rake, normally i run a little rake on my cars, but on this car it looks odd. It seems to be best sitting even.

[mateo m3]

beautifull car!!! glad to see you are redoing the engine bay and getting rid of that cheap plastic intake

[Dave_The_BMXER]

This car is so damn beautiful.

[BigRed]

couple shots of the engine bay before It gets ripped apart tomorrow.

[Foxbodystang]

So clean bro!!

[BigRed]

I haven't had any real updates in a while but I've been busy planning, fabricating, ordering and returning stuff for the past 2 months.

I'm keeping the car small block but I wanted to do something different, I wasn't happy with just bolting on some ford racing valve covers like everyone else does. So I had some pent house finned big block valve covers made. These are the same style as the original gt500s, but rather than saying cobra I milled out the center to put an emblem on there. I also had some billet fill caps welded on to replace the stock push in covers, In addition I had some AN fittings welded on the back of the valve covers that will run into a yet to be fabricated catch can. I was also torn on what color I wanted to do them. I wanted polished fins to match the billet grills, however I didn't want to paint them black like the stock shelbys, and I thought natural was too plain. So I decided to paint them satin pepper gray to match the car.



polishing the fins





painted body color






next was the air cleaner. I wanted to run the oval air cleaner like the original Shelby's. But rather than bolt on the standard black finned cobra air cleaner that everyone else does I decided to do something one off.

I started off with a blank finned cover which was custom ordered.


I stripped it and milled out the center to fit the same emblem I have between my taillights.



I also polished the fins to match


and painted it body color like the valve covers



next up was the air filter, which turned into a huge process, including purchasing 3 filters before I found one that fit. The original GT500s ran a 1 7/8th" oval filter, however that wouldn't clear the mas air flow sensor. So I ordered a 3" K&N filter which turned out to give me enough clearance for the mass air but hit the hood, Not to mentioned looked silly. So I looked around a but and found a 2.25" filter made by SB filters





the final product.


After about 10 orders to Summit/Jegs I got all of the correct fuel fittings and my fuel pressure regulator.

Another thing that took a while to figure out was the heater hose. Normally people run a standard hose and just kind of lay it over the valve cover. That wasn't gonna do. So I got matching fittings to convert it all to 10AN hose.



The fuel pressure regulator



The next set of issues was the air cleaner base, It wasn't sitting flush and was hitting the idle air control valve along with the throttle linkage. So I had a spacer/ O ring welded on to solve that.



Since my stock ford throttle cable is too long I'm going to be running a lokar throttle cable, So I ordered the lokar throttle cable bracket, however it wast even close to fitting and was hitting the air cleaner base, Idle air control valve,fuel rail and throttle linkage . So I made my own bracket that clears everything.