More Go Than Show - New Edge Content

[wickedsnake00]

Alright. Finally got pictures as promised.

Here's the whole IRS as it was dropped-

Not pretty. Took quite awhile to clean up and get the rust off, not to mention fighting all the bushings.

Finally with all the rust removed and primered-


Everything painted and assembled, including reinforced LPW diff cover-


Now some updated pictures. I got bored yesterday and deleted the useless antenna. Just sheet metal and re-used the mounting screws. Not pretty. I might replace them with some plastic plugs. I also painted the hood latch bracket red, which looks good with the black sheet metal cowl.





For the future parts-
-I've got a set of new black housing OEM style headlights on order. Normally I would have gone used to keep with the theme of the build, but I got these on sale for the price of used.
-Still no tune from the tuner for the 2.76 pulley. Not happy.
-The tires I want are on national backorder. It'll take another 30 days or so before I can get them. Now looking at alternatives. to the Toyo Proxes TQ.

[wickedsnake00]

Finished up the FTBR kit install this weekend. A little noisier, but much, much firmer.

I gave it a thorough thrashing and couldn't get it to misbehave. Tests may or may not have included dropping the clutch and walking it 30deg sideways through a parking lot, spinning all the way. No more of that pesky wheel hop.

I apologize for no pictures, but my home internet connection has been absolutely pitiful.

I also received the 2.76" pulley, but I'm still waiting on the new base tune. This part is killing me, although based on the performance yesterday I probably for all intents and purposes don't need another 4psi of boost.

[wickedsnake00]

honestly its nice to see one of these getting some love! these are my favorite mustangs as well as the only ford id ever consider owning, and i'm a honda guy!
love what your doing here!

Love it man! great job

Glad to hear all the support!

Got another line on headlights. Hoping this one doesn't flake out too.

Spent the whole weekend on the IRS. Car is sitting ass up, face down in the garage with the whole rear suspension blown apart all over the garage.

As usual, nothing went as planned. First I noticed some idiot ran the brake lines THROUGH the UCAs. Had to take those off and re-route them just to drop the suspension. Tons of crap held on with zip ties (of course!). Then it took a 6ft pipe to wedge the subframe out.

Got it out and oh man what a mess. It was just one big mass of rust. I figured "garbage in, garbage out" so I may as well clean everything up. Spent more time cleaning/grinding/prepping the parts than I did on anything else, but at the end of the day all the components were cleaned of rust and painted their factory color. I actually primered the cradle trying to match the POR15 undercoating, but decided it looked unfinished and painted over it factory black.

Still need to replace the rear diff, LCA, and subframe bushings, as well as drill/tap the control arms for grease fittings. LPW diff cover will be going on.

The worst part of it all?

Just for shits and giggles, I torqued down both the UCA bolts on the problematic UCA. The arm snugged up considerably. Worse still, as I'm tearing everything down I realize the front diff mounts and subframe bushings were already MM poly. Great. I already had decent poly mounts in it. Oh well. The aluminum and Delrin replacements should stiffen things up nicely.

Pictures to come later.

Also looking forward to ordering a 2.76" pulley and putting it on the rollers for a dyno day in June.

[Dave_The_BMXER]

That's just a silly amount of wiring

[MattLarzz]

Love it man! great job

[1mellowkid]

honestly its nice to see one of these getting some love! these are my favorite mustangs as well as the only ford id ever consider owning, and i'm a honda guy!
love what your doing here!

[wickedsnake00]

Also, you have the first wing-less Mustang I have ever seen for this generation... and I kind of dig it.

I'm actually surprised at that remark. For awhile it felt like everywhere I went there was a spoilerless new edge GT with a 03 Cobra front and staggered Bullitts.

I will be thrilled to ditch these wheels in favor of my machined Cobras.

Also got confirmation my FTBR bushings shipped today. No snapping axles for me.

[MommysLittleMonster]

I feel like you're a pair of headlights and some buffing away from having a very sharp car.

Also, you have the first wing-less Mustang I have ever seen for this generation... and I kind of dig it.

[wickedsnake00]

All put back together and actually running. Gave it a quick wash, tended to some minor work, and got it out on the road.

Still looks like crap, but it felt good to take it out.









I didn't bother posting those in the showroom because much like the last round, it will go over like a lead balloon.

Still on the hunt for new headlights. I've had five sellers back out on me so far, which is quite irritating.

New wheels still sitting in the garage while I enjoy roasting these skinny 245s.

FTBR bushing kit and LPW diff cover have been ordered, so the whole rear suspension is getting blown apart as soon as I get my hands on it. Should be fun.

[rice4life]

Holy fuck. I can only imagine what the PO was thinking(or not) when working on this car.

[wickedsnake00]

Picked up the gf from the hospital today, so although I didn't get any work done, I can count it a decent day.

Back to the updates. The heater core has got to be one of the least rewarding procedures. You rip everything apart, only to put it back together again the exact same way. You do the most work with the least reward. It sucks.

Of course knowing the previous owner(s) of this car, you know it wasn't exactly stock.

Fucking Copper Spaghetti!


What the fuck is this octopus of wires?


This one took the cake. I follow the antenna wire, and notice it abruptly turns away from where the antenna is. Out of curiosity I follow it and find...




That's a second antenna that was horizontal behind the dash. That means the one sticking out of the fender wasn't even connected. I guess I can shave that antenna off now, seeing as it was purely ornamental to begin with.

Also not pictured above was the removal of some uneeded wires, as well as the AC dryer and some AC lines that freed up room in the engine bay.

So there's what the car got. I'll throw up some video of the truck before/after the delete next time I get the chance.

Meanwhile FTBR bushings need to go on order like yesterday. Why you ask? It's not like it's getting warm anytime soon.

This is why.
http://www.500festival.com/other-events/community-day


The opportunity to take the car for a lap around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the week before the Indy 500.

[FluidMotorUnion]

Dude, you're busting your ass on this, and it shows. It's really come a long way since the beginning, and I can't wait to see what happens as you continue. Spring's almost here!

[wickedsnake00]

Neglecting this thread as always. Got tons of work done, but with little to show. Another thing putting a damper on this was a close friend ending up in the hospital, but they'll be getting discharged today or tomorrow, so it's full steam ahead from there.

The dash is finally back in and buttoned up after replacing the heater core. All kinds of cluster****ery was going on back there. Yanked out yet MORE wires, and re-routed/cleaned up the remainder. More pictures on that later.

Got the hardware for the console. Biggest problem is the bolt snapped off, so I need to take the whole e-brake out of the car to grind it off. Yay again.

Most of my free time was occupied with visiting my friend, and on the truck. The truck got itself an oil change, tuner, Flo-pro delete pipe, and I scored a new commercial CCV cover from the junkyard for a project I have in mind. Should look pretty spiffy when all is said and done.

More Updates at 11.

[HooWybrow]

Still a big fan of this build. Still glad you're looking for factory headlights.

God damn those things are fucking ugly.

Keep it up!

[wickedsnake00]

not being a critic or anything but wont the "exhaust anti theft system" cause an extreme rattle? lol or maybe more info on how its run so i dont make myself look like an ass

No rattle at all. It's relatively taught so it doesn't have much room to make noise.

I just looped it through the support bars on the DPF and DOC, welded it to the bars, then looped another piece around the frame rail and pad locked them together. I tried to keep it as taught as possible to make it as difficult as possible if you were trying to steal them.

But that may be a moot point, as I just found out my delete parts arrived today.

The car on the other hand currently has the entire dash sitting on the front seats. That was a major PITA.

Also found more problems as I was dismantling everything to get at the heater core. Biggest problems were missing bolts to hold the console down, a thoroughly trashed secondary shifter boot, and a snapped bolt on the E-brake. While it will be a pain to replace those, it will improve the problems I had with the console rattling, excess noise into the cabin, and the e-brake handle feeling sloppy.

In the process I also removed the brackets I found that were originally for some LED strip footwell lighting. I may re-use those and install some new lighting.

No luck finding 01-04 headlights. Found a few 99-00, but I like the black housing of the 01-04 better than the 99-00 chrome. Also saw a V6 new edge with some ugly ass American Muscle projector headlights on the way to work the other day. That definitely gave me more motivation to junk these.

Unfortunately the weather has sapped most of my motivation. Going to be low 30s and sporradic snow for the next week or two. No desire to roll around in the snow to install deletes, or rip off the rear suspension for bushings.

I spend too much time gazing out the window, wishing I could take the car out already.