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Posted by Blue91LX (Member # 8320) on :
 
I'm Taylor, you probably know Yellow94gt, I'm his little brother. I just moved to California from Northern Idaho and began working on my first Mustang. When I was down visiting for spring break I bought a 91 LX roller off of a guy here on CaFords. I left the car with my brother while I was finishing up HS and over the last month or so have been slowly putting it together.

Sence it was already engineless I decided that it would be best to go ahead and do some engine bay clean up. I welded all the small holes closed and made panels to cover what was unfixable with the wire feed. So far I've gotten the bondo work done and the last coat of primer and will hopefully be painting it, (body color), this weekend!

Whenever I hit a snag with the engine compartment I've been working on the motor. I bought a wrecked hatch from a buddy to use as a doner car for this project. I took the stock 5.0 and T5 tranny out of it. I cleaned it up by sand blasting certain parts, putting a fresh coat of paint on the block and heads and had a few parts powder coated as well. It has been a lot of work cleaning everything up, but I didn't want to throw some nasty, greasy old motor in my nice engine bay. With my bros help, we also tore down the motor to the bare long block and replaced all the seals and gaskets, because I don't want this thing leaking all over the place either!

Heres some pics guys!

My car


Motor before


Cleaned up


starting with the driver side. going to do a battery relocation so i dont need to be able to mount it there.






Passenger side.







[ July 13, 2008, 08:54 PM: Message edited by: Blue91LX ]
 

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Posted by RED@7kVERT *8850GT* (Member # 5909) on :
 
ahh...arons old LX....beautiful car!!

Welcome!!



 

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Posted by Blue91LX (Member # 8320) on :
 
Yeah the guy that bought it from Aaron just bought it, rolled it off the trailor, and let it sit in the garage for a year before I bought it.
We also know the previous owner before Aaron. This car has been in our group of friends for a long time. It has quite a history.

[ July 12, 2008, 05:21 PM: Message edited by: Blue91LX ]
 

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Posted by Just a lx (Member # 7036) on :
 
nice I like! so that thing has some secret parts in it right? lol
 

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Posted by Blue91LX (Member # 8320) on :
 

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Originally posted by Just a lx:
nice I like! so that thing has some secret parts in it right? lol

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Well if I told you they wouldn't be secret would they? No not really, for the most part shes gonna be all stock... for now.
 

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Posted by F8LSN8K (Member # 7080) on :
 
welcome. nice work and car good luck
 

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Posted by SmokinLX (Member # 1684) on :
 
Car already look's good! I bet it won't be stock for long .
 

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Posted by 2stangs69-91 (Member # 1951) on :
 
sweet car It will nice to see it back on the road again. Pick through the pile of extra speed parts out back of AED.
 

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Posted by Luke87GT (Member # 21) on :
 
So it was YOU who bought it
I wanted that car bad!

Just kidding man. Welcome and best of luck with the buildup. I'm sure big brother will steer you in the right direction.

Luke
 

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Posted by maeco (Member # 2578) on :
 
i wish i had the skills to do hat type of work.
nice man keep us posted.
 

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Posted by Pure Stang (Member # 7251) on :
 
oh you suck a wanted the wheels off that car lol.... nice car and welcome!
 

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Posted by shiftylx (Member # 2670) on :
 
ditto about being glad that car is going back on the road
you have some good skills there my man, i'm def. jealous! looks real nice, gonna be a clean fox when it's done.
 

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Posted by Blue91LX (Member # 8320) on :
 

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Originally posted by 2stangs69-91:
sweet car It will nice to see it back on the road again. Pick through the pile of extra speed parts out back of AED.

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Originally posted by SSF 50:
what is that big hole for in the pass. sheild?

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Air intake, i saw this thing called the Fox Box online. i think i might use it.

Check it out.

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/Detailed/2666.shtml
 

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Posted by 532Fastback (Member # 1482) on :
 
Looking good, i like the underhood work you did. Looks super clean.
 

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Posted by EPIK (Member # 7481) on :
 
Welcome Taylor!!!

Thats a clean stang. I remember it being up for sale a while back...Good luck with the project!!!
 

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Posted by 92stangLX (Member # 3252) on :
 

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Originally posted by Blue91LX:

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Originally posted by SSF 50:
what is that big hole for in the pass. sheild?

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Air intake, i saw this thing called the Fox Box online. i think i might use it.

Check it out.

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/Detailed/2666.shtml

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Fox Box is a cool setup. You should talk to Bottlefed. He has one on his 'vert.
 

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Posted by Fox Lightning (Member # 7658) on :
 
Looks clean man, have fun with the project.
 

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Posted by turbo50 (Member # 6700) on :
 
Looking good. Lotta work to remove the tubular k member and put a stock one in for paint.

Same thing I am doing on my fox.

Looking good.
 

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Posted by Yellow94GT (Member # 431) on :
 

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Originally posted by turbo50:
Looking good. Lotta work to remove the tubular k member and put a stock one in for paint.

Same thing I am doing on my fox.

Looking good.

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I have a few old k members from the shop that have small wheels welded on them for moving around cars that have the motors/front suspension removed. We just put one of those on for paint, it took about 15 minutes.
 

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Posted by turbo50 (Member # 6700) on :
 

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Originally posted by Yellow94GT:

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Originally posted by turbo50:
Looking good. Lotta work to remove the tubular k member and put a stock one in for paint.

Same thing I am doing on my fox.

Looking good.

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I have a few old k members from the shop that have small wheels welded on them for moving around cars that have the motors/front suspension removed. We just put one of those on for paint, it took about 15 minutes.

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Originally posted by SSF 50:
what is that big hole for in the pass. sheild?

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Originally posted by 98slowhoe 'FIFTYLX':

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Originally posted by SSF 50:
what is that big hole for in the pass. sheild?

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it use to have a s-trim in it with a power pipe

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We also decided to just leave it a large opening because we aren't really sure what combo we will be running later on. This was there is enough room for any setup.
 

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Posted by 89_302notch (Member # 5906) on :
 
i like the car and for the engine bay you did a very nice job to it soon i hope to get my bay lookin as good as that
 

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Posted by turbo50 (Member # 6700) on :
 
What did you use to get the sway bar mounts off of the frame rails?

I plasma cut mine but it looks like Ill have to grind the residue off and it is a BIEEEETCH!!

Any trade secrets?
 

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Posted by Yellow94GT (Member # 431) on :
 

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Originally posted by turbo50:
What did you use to get the sway bar mounts off of the frame rails?

I plasma cut mine but it looks like Ill have to grind the residue off and it is a BIEEEETCH!!

Any trade secrets?

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I just had him drill out the spot welds and knock them off with a hammer. Once they were off its just a matter of smoothing out the area and welding the holes up.
 

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Posted by DA ONLY STANG WID HRE'Z (Member # 8511) on :
 
engine bay looks really clean! nice job! keep up the good work.
 

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Posted by Blue91LX (Member # 8320) on :
 

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Originally posted by Yellow94GT:

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Originally posted by turbo50:
What did you use to get the sway bar mounts off of the frame rails?

I plasma cut mine but it looks like Ill have to grind the residue off and it is a BIEEEETCH!!

Any trade secrets?

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I just had him drill out the spot welds and knock them off with a hammer. Once they were off its just a matter of smoothing out the area and welding the holes up.

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Drew responds to questions on my thread before i even know they are there.
 

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