1984 Mustang GT Convertible Build Thread

[low89fox]

I wanna be the first truly slammed fox body. Every other "slammed" mustang is just barely tucking tire, and some even have gap! Subframe connectors are definitely on the wishlist, but I might make them myself considering I have a plasma cutter and welder and bar/tube stock. I'm considering side dump exhaust right before the rear wheels. Thoughts?

I'll probably beat you to the slammed part, lol. I'm going to be tucking rim tomorrow on 18's. The pre-made subframe connectors are well worth it, because they're only a little over $100 and save a lot of time fabricating. I'm doing the same thing with my exhaust, but tucking it closer to the body, and making both pipes exit the passenger side. I'm starting on it tomorrow, and hopefully I'll get it finished.

You can be the first four-eyed slammed fox, lol.

[Trif0rce]

Haha I won't lie I've been driving the car pretty hard, being my first reasonably fast car,so i'm assuming around 11/12 mpg. Also the sending unit is junk so the gas gauge goes all over the place, but sometimes stays around the right level. it's sweet.

[laBeef]

What kind of mpgs are you getting?

[Trif0rce]

I've been practicing getting sideways, It's such a fuckin' awesome feeling. It's such a different car than anything I've driven lately. The subie and del sol handled pretty well, so at first it was weird driving it. But compared to my Torino the car handles like a Formula 1 car.

[Solar]

Haha awesome. I was actually thinking about getting an 87 vert to build specifically in stance and comfort.

[Trif0rce]

I wanna be the first truly slammed fox body. Every other "slammed" mustang is just barely tucking tire, and some even have gap! Subframe connectors are definitely on the wishlist, but I might make them myself considering I have a plasma cutter and welder and bar/tube stock. I'm considering side dump exhaust right before the rear wheels. Thoughts?

[milano_red]

Looks like a good start!

[Trif0rce]

that right there is the best fox frontend, grille and all.
areo ones are lame.

This car looks like it smokes those really cheap cigarettes that taste like dead skin cells and cardboard.
I mean that in the absolute best way possible.

I know exactly what you mean.

Love it man. I would love to see you continue building it.

Thanks dude, I'm forced to drive the car this winter, so I'm gonna wait till spring for low. I've got a set of really friggin' stiff coil springs for it that i'm considering cutting. It feels a million times better now that the door closes better (I still have to do door pins, but it's a bitch on a ford, so I'm saving that for a father/son learning experience)

I'm really lucky in the sense that my dad knows so much about stangs that I can just call him whenever I'm stuck working on something and he can diagnose it from memory over the phone and talk me through how to fix it. I've gotta get a new wiring harness for it at some point, it was severely fucked with at some point in time, it's got crimp connectors all over the place,everything is corroded from not being heat-shrunk and just wrapped in electrical tape.

On a side note, having a speedometer that only goes to 85 is fun because you get to regularly pin it. I got the needle to point straight down at the odometer

[laBeef]

Love it man. I would love to see you continue building it.

[Stupid Kid]

that right there is the best fox frontend, grille and all.
areo ones are lame.

This car looks like it smokes those really cheap cigarettes that taste like dead skin cells and cardboard.
I mean that in the absolute best way possible.

[Trif0rce]

So, I picked up the Mustang at 7:15 AM on Monday in Franconia, NH. Two and a half hours from home. Luckily, we had my friend's girlfriend's Forester with us.Raining steadily, like 40 degrees out, and I had to do a passenger side rear brake line, serpentine belt tensioner, fix a small fuel line leak (draw style mechanical pump, little fuel actually leaks out of the line) and run two wires from the positive and negative of the battery to the blower motor, since every switch on the heater control box is completely broken. I soon became very wet, and much less likely to fix everything. I decided to skip the fuel leak, but did everything else. We bled the rear lines, but decided not to bleed the fronts even though the reservoir was empty. As soon as we left we cranked the heat, turned on the wipers, and the headlights, not knowing the charging system wasn't working at all. About 20 minutes out of Franconia the car died, so we started the forester, pulled the battery out of it, put the dead mustang battery in the forester, and drove the mustang the entire rest of the trip without anything but the engine running. 40 degrees, raining, and foggy with no headlights, and shitty brakes that we for some reason decided not to bleed.


Thankfully we made it home, I fixed the charging system that night, ended up being both a dead alternator and voltage regulator, on top of wiring issues. Then I went today early in the morning and got the brakes fixed and working as good as stock mustang brakes can (not very well), fixed the broken door latch caused by worn out door pins. The p.o. didn't fix it and just kept slamming the door harder to close it, which caused it to crack the sheet metal all around the latch post. We cut a rectangle out and welded in a thicker new piece for support. I'll supply pics of that later. First of all, here's how it looks now.


These were before I fixed the door, so do your best to ignore that. Next fix will be glueing the glass back into the convertible top so that I can run it this winter. I know, they're terrible pictures but I'll try to get some good pictures soon.

[low89fox]

I'm working on a 1989 vert... Check out my build thread. http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/sh...ng+convertible I suggest you cut your springs... I did mine, but I also bought a bunch of other crap I shouldn't have wasted the money on... It might pay off doing it "right" though, but we'll see. I like the stance and ride on the cut springs though. I also have Maximum Motorsports full-length subframe connectors, which are very necessary, especially on a convertible.

[Trif0rce]

I gotta say, I do like that 85/86 nose. And damn do I love those headlights. I might get some of the gts tinted headlight covers for it, just for cruising around during the day. Ones kinda like this.

[Trif0rce]

This is my dad's '84 that got me into Mustangs, and cars in general. 347 stroker, trick flow heads, ford racing x303 camshaft. 13 inch front rotors and 11 inch rears. Car is more than a little quick, similar builds make around 450 hp, still haven't had it dynoed.
And here's a picture of his ultra-clean engine bay.

[blowntwofive]