Mary Blue
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hello everybody,
thx a lot for adding....
to introduce my car and myself, it will take a bit
I am Sarah, 35 years, living in bavarian near to munich. I felt inlove with the american v8 sound , when I was 18. But it is not that easy, even as a girl, to get an american car here. It took me nearly 15 years to realize my dream. While I was searching for a car -I wanted an oldtimer all the time, I found my blue lady- now called Mary Blue. She was not in good conditions- but when we came for car inspection, I fell inlove...I knew it will be a lot of work, but I didn`t wanted a perfect car.....so there she is.
Mary Blue 1972 Ford Mustang with an 302 Windsor- BUT when I had her home, we found out- my mustang was delivered 1972 with an in-line six-cylinder engine, and my 302 windsor from 1974(!)was placed in in the 80´s in germany......and this is , whenn problems got started
to get more power, my engine was given sharper camshaft( sorry don t know, if this correct in english
) unfortunately we don`t have any information what kind of camshaft....although there where many things changed -not original from 1972-my brake lines were from the 1980`s, my balancer is from 351 Cleveland engine and so on.....I rebuilt her as best I can, and I get a lot of help of my best friend Manu, who is a mechanic.He rebuilt an 1965 mustang up to 400hp-sold it, and bought an 1968 Ford Galaxie 500XL with the 427 FE engine.....he knows the 60´s mustangs, but not the 70´s, so this why we recognize so late, that there are so many things not orginal......so pls don ´t be mad about me, if I ask "stupid" questions
.....we try our best to get the most information on our own. I bought some manuals....but still there are some riddles for us
and sometimes it drives me really crazy
and I can just make rebuilding step by step, because the most thing that have to be done are really expensive for me
so what we did already- we changed all liquids and oils, we renew all hoses, nearly all brake lines are new, a new stainless steel exhaust from pypes with an x-pipe, new wheels and tires,new petrol lines, new carburetor from holley 600,rebuilt the differential with a new ratio from 2,78 to 3,55, I did a lot of painting, new valve lid, new balancer, new drum brakes in the back, new disc brakes including new master cylinder, new water pump,new ignition cables, nearly everthing is new sealed, and this winter the new big projekt is the suspension...I try to save up money for leaf springmid-eye1"-Lowering 4-1/2 Leaf pair, so that the projekt can be started.....
I found already very friendly support in the american mustang group - I can tell you, in Germay the mustang groups are unfriendly, the most of the time, just stupid comments and so on....I am happy to be here, and maybe if all will went well, we wanna go on holiday to usa next year-looking forward to it.
pictures will follow
thx a lot for adding....
to introduce my car and myself, it will take a bit
I am Sarah, 35 years, living in bavarian near to munich. I felt inlove with the american v8 sound , when I was 18. But it is not that easy, even as a girl, to get an american car here. It took me nearly 15 years to realize my dream. While I was searching for a car -I wanted an oldtimer all the time, I found my blue lady- now called Mary Blue. She was not in good conditions- but when we came for car inspection, I fell inlove...I knew it will be a lot of work, but I didn`t wanted a perfect car.....so there she is.
Mary Blue 1972 Ford Mustang with an 302 Windsor- BUT when I had her home, we found out- my mustang was delivered 1972 with an in-line six-cylinder engine, and my 302 windsor from 1974(!)was placed in in the 80´s in germany......and this is , whenn problems got started
to get more power, my engine was given sharper camshaft( sorry don t know, if this correct in english) unfortunately we don`t have any information what kind of camshaft....although there where many things changed -not original from 1972-my brake lines were from the 1980`s, my balancer is from 351 Cleveland engine and so on.....I rebuilt her as best I can, and I get a lot of help of my best friend Manu, who is a mechanic.He rebuilt an 1965 mustang up to 400hp-sold it, and bought an 1968 Ford Galaxie 500XL with the 427 FE engine.....he knows the 60´s mustangs, but not the 70´s, so this why we recognize so late, that there are so many things not orginal......so pls don ´t be mad about me, if I ask "stupid" questions.....we try our best to get the most information on our own. I bought some manuals....but still there are some riddles for us and sometimes it drives me really crazy and I can just make rebuilding step by step, because the most thing that have to be done are really expensive for meso what we did already- we changed all liquids and oils, we renew all hoses, nearly all brake lines are new, a new stainless steel exhaust from pypes with an x-pipe, new wheels and tires,new petrol lines, new carburetor from holley 600,rebuilt the differential with a new ratio from 2,78 to 3,55, I did a lot of painting, new valve lid, new balancer, new drum brakes in the back, new disc brakes including new master cylinder, new water pump,new ignition cables, nearly everthing is new sealed, and this winter the new big projekt is the suspension...I try to save up money for leaf springmid-eye1"-Lowering 4-1/2 Leaf pair, so that the projekt can be started.....
I found already very friendly support in the american mustang group - I can tell you, in Germay the mustang groups are unfriendly, the most of the time, just stupid comments and so on....I am happy to be here, and maybe if all will went well, we wanna go on holiday to usa next year-looking forward to it.
pictures will follow
