What did you do to your car today?

[Mister 4x4]

Did a little grinding and wielding. I put 7 hours into both patch's and I still not done.::-/ Eric,Mark my hat is off to you both for the amount of work you guys are getting done. Mike

Hey Mike - right backatcha! Your sheet metal work is AWESOME! It ain't easy making that stuff from scratch... trust me, I know these things.

 

[marks73]

Did a little grinding and wielding. I put 7 hours into both patch's and I still not done.::-/ Eric,Mark my hat is off to you both for the amount of work you guys are getting done. Mike

Hey Mike - right backatcha! Your sheet metal work is AWESOME! It ain't easy making that stuff from scratch... trust me, I know these things.

Mike

As you can see in my last pic I too need to make a bottom rear wheel well repair. Thanks for the great pictures on the right way to do it.

Eric

Keep taking those pictures. How do you think I'm figuring this stuff out.

 

[mach71351c]

I will be working on the Mach 1 most of this weekend. I will post what I get done. Mark the wheel opening lip was a bitch to get just rite. Just when I think it was good I would walk away and come back and mess with it some more. The patch panels don't fit that well, there just something to work with. Take your time is all I can say. Mike

 

[marks73]

I will be working on the Mach 1 most of this weekend. I will post what I get done. Mark the wheel opening lip was a bitch to get just rite. Just when I think it was good I would walk away and come back and mess with it some more. The patch panels don't fit that well, there just something to work with. Take your time is all I can say. Mike

Good advice and much appreciated! Thanks.


I worked on the old car trying to remove the layers of repairs when POOR BILL SHOWS UP! after spending about 4 hours yesterday fabricating for me. He shows up this morning to see how the welding turned out when the shingles for my roof showed up. Now he's 71 with bad knees and after watching me (with 2 back surguries) carry 6 bundles up a ladder, comes up with a pulley/rope/4 wheeler and saw horse idea. I load 4 bundles on the 4 wheeler and back up to the saw horses. Bill takes 2 off and connects the rope. I pull them up to Mel takes them off and spaces them on the roof. 22 square! (66 bundles). However!

I did run down to Applebees and get Bill and Pauline a $50 gift certificate and when I told the manager why he through in a $10 bonus card. Worked Mel like a dog till dark though. We got about 7 square down. Great to know GREAT PEOPLE!!

 

[sm3570]

Went to the body shop today, he's hoping to have the fenders, hood and doors in primer and the body stripped by the time I get back from vacation in 2 weeks. Also he put the paint on order: 2012 Kona Blue, Ford paint code L6.

 

[Tnfastbk]

I will be working on the Mach 1 most of this weekend. I will post what I get done. Mark the wheel opening lip was a bitch to get just rite. Just when I think it was good I would walk away and come back and mess with it some more. The patch panels don't fit that well, there just something to work with. Take your time is all I can say. Mike

Good advice and much appreciated! Thanks.


I worked on the old car trying to remove the layers of repairs when POOR BILL SHOWS UP! after spending about 4 hours yesterday fabricating for me. He shows up this morning to see how the welding turned out when the shingles for my roof showed up. Now he's 71 with bad knees and after watching me (with 2 back surguries) carry 6 bundles up a ladder, comes up with a pulley/rope/4 wheeler and saw horse idea. I load 4 bundles on the 4 wheeler and back up to the saw horses. Bill takes 2 off and connects the rope. I pull them up to Mel takes them off and spaces them on the roof. 22 square! (66 bundles). However!

I did run down to Applebees and get Bill and Pauline a $50 gift certificate and when I told the manager why he through in a $10 bonus card. Worked Mel like a dog till dark though. We got about 7 square down. Great to know GREAT PEOPLE!!

What no roof pics

 

[marks73]

No problem! I actually put them all to work! We had a large time! Today was Kalobs (our oldest grandson)10th birthday and I promised him I'd let him shoot a gun today. Believe it or not he thought it was pretty cool!

 

[71_badmach]

Man, now you guys are going to have to slow down, I'm getting tired!

 

[marks73]

I only have 9 more days off and the sooner the roof is done the sooner I get back in the garage!

 

[JimNiki]

after 9 years of looking at a non functional ammeter gauge, today I got it working! The gauge itself was in perfect condition so I ran heavy 8 gauge wire and whallah!

While I was at it, I also installed a new holley electronic fuel pressure gauge (Part# 26-503). It replaces the temp gauge (which was made redundant years ago with a more accurate temp gauge). It looks factory ... same style of gauge also.

 

[Jeff73Mach1]

Over the last three days I finished my front bumper and installed it and washed my car. I had to weld some studs in for the rear of the bumper mounts as the nut inside the frame broke loose on one side and sheared on the other.

While I had the valence off, I went ahead and corrected the front spoiler installation

Even cleaned up my wheels a little bit after weeing the wheel thread here!

 

[Mister 4x4]

Well, I got the exhaust in for 'test fitting' today. Just gotta mount the drive shaft, make sure it clears, then mount the hangers and zap them all down tight tomorrow. Everything went quick after bending the collector pipes to compensate for the 14 degree angles of the Hooker Competition headers. Then, cut the angle pipes to fit the new width between the collectors (14.5" vs. 25" the Pypes kit comes out to without cutting). Also lopped off about 6" of the trailing end of the X-pipe unit to line up the mufflers where they're supposed to go.

The only thing bad I can say about the Pypes kit is there were no instructions or even illustrations (but they had some online I printed...) and I wound up 2 clamps short (for the tail pipe hangers).

I just got home from O'Reilly Auto Parts and my pal Jake went through the books and discovered that the proper U-joint for an AOD yoke to stock drive shaft conversion is not a Precision U-Joints PUJ 513, but a 353 instead. Should have that in tomorrow in short order.

Here's a couple shots of the Pypes 2.5" stainless 'Violator' system in the car 'test fitted.'

Front looking back:

Just behind the X-pipe, looking forward:

Also picked up a Mr. Gasket Fuel Pressure Regulator, Fuel Pressure Gauge, and some other nit-noids to begin plumbing the fuel system along with 2 more 2.5" exhaust clamps and U-bolts for the rear axle-end of the drive shaft. More pics tomorrow.

 

[71_badmach]

Good lookin Mach Jeff! And Eric, those nice shiny new pipes look great!

 

[Don65Stang]

I'm looking forward to the video Eric!

 

[TheJ]

Looks good Eric, I'm glad you got the collectors to work.

 

[marks73]

Well, I got the exhaust in for 'test fitting' today. Just gotta mount the drive shaft, make sure it clears, then mount the hangers and zap them all down tight tomorrow. Everything went quick after bending the collector pipes to compensate for the 14 degree angles of the Hooker Competition headers. Then, cut the angle pipes to fit the new width between the collectors (14.5" vs. 25" the Pypes kit comes out to without cutting). Also lopped off about 6" of the trailing end of the X-pipe unit to line up the mufflers where they're supposed to go.

The only thing bad I can say about the Pypes kit is there were no instructions or even illustrations (but they had some online I printed...) and I wound up 2 clamps short (for the tail pipe hangers).

I just got home from O'Reilly Auto Parts and my pal Jake went through the books and discovered that the proper U-joint for an AOD yoke to stock drive shaft conversion is not a Precision U-Joints PUJ 513, but a 353 instead. Should have that in tomorrow in short order.

Here's a couple shots of the Pypes 2.5" stainless 'Violator' system in the car 'test fitted.'

Front looking back:

Just behind the X-pipe, looking forward:

Also picked up a Mr. Gasket Fuel Pressure Regulator, Fuel Pressure Gauge, and some other nit-noids to begin plumbing the fuel system along with 2 more 2.5" exhaust clamps and U-bolts for the rear axle-end of the drive shaft. More pics tomorrow.

Nice looking job! Can't wait to hear it!

 

[Steven Harris]

Eric - it looks really nice. How did it fit for the rest of the car?

 

[mach71351c]

Nice job Eric I had a good afternoon with my Mach 1.Will post pics tomorrow.

 

[Totalled]

Hey Eric, how about an underneath shot looking up so we can see the bends..? I will be doing the same, hooker headers to x-pipe in about a month.

Thanks.

 

[marks73]

Hey Eric, how about an underneath shot looking up so we can see the bends..? I will be doing the same, hooker headers to x-pipe in about a month.

Thanks.

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