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Joe Weinstein
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Hi all.
I'm just not having the time to use more than one car, so I'm going to sell my Mustang:
1986 Saleen Mustang (real Saleen), #45 one-owner.
3000 miles on a Dave Williams 410ci stroked 351 Windsor motor The car dynoes 330 hp to the wheels, and has a huge torque output from 1500 RPM to 5000 it is always around 400 ft-lbs. The intention was to build a smog-legal autocross motor that would leap out of corners. It is fuel-injected now. With a carb setup it might gain another 100 hp.
Equal-length long-tube headers to custom exhaust with cats.
T-56 6-speed transmission to aluminum driver shaft to a torsen limited slip differential.
Full heavy-duty Griggs Racing suspension, including the Watts-link rear, all installed by Griggs Racing, including special K-member to set the motor farther back in the chassis.
17"x9" ford wheels with 5-lug conversion, and Baer disks all around.
Extrude-honed upper and lower intakes. Remove cold air intake and filter.
Aluminum heavy duty radiator.
Fiber-glass hood with 1.5" rise.
Kirkey delux road-race seat for driver, adjustable. Interior redone, with a custom storage compartment where the spare used to be. Rear-mounted Optima battery with kill switch. Rear seats removed.
Bolted-in 4-point roll cage and fire extingisher.
Air conditioning is all good.
1.5 qt pressurized oil accumulator for maintaining lubrication in sustained high-G turns and at startup.
Almost new, very good looking Guards Red paint.
Receipts and various paperwork available.
This car is currently street registered in California, recently smogged for the sale. NB: this sale will be as-is, with no guarantee of street legality.
Known problems: the heater core was leaking, so I bypassed it. The racing suspension and mounts transmit some differential and suspension noise to the cabin. It's been muffled with new sound-deadening material, but it'll never sound like a stock car. The exhaust is not too loud, but at full-song, it got flagged at Laguna so I would shift into 6th passing the sound booth. It still passed BMWs so annoyingly at their track day event that they almost formed a committee before approaching me en masse to find out about the car. One ding on an otherwise new windshield.
Asking $15k [ July 05, 2008, 11:36 AM: Message edited by: Joe Weinstein ]
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SN Roush
Member # 5234
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pics
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Diamond Dave
Member # 5023
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^^ yes, I'd like to eye hump your car please. LOL
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Joe Weinstein
Member # 8495
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Once I figure how to attach photos, I will.
Here's a writeup of the motor build:
http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/engine/wein410/wein410.htm [ July 16, 2008, 12:52 PM: Message edited by: Joe Weinstein ]
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N8
Member # 6048
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upload your image to www.imageshack.us
then copy the "direct link" text (it will be a http://)
then come here create a new post
then click the "image" button below the field
then paste the link you copied from imageshack in the field
then BAM....images on this site.
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Joe Weinstein
Member # 8495
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Pics:
http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1010361ug5.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1000177bw4.jpg
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6913/p1010358qx3.jpg [ July 16, 2008, 05:56 PM: Message edited by: Joe Weinstein ]
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N8
Member # 6048
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you copied the wrong part. But the pics seem to work... That is a clean looking car man. [ July 16, 2008, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: N8 ]
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SHORTSHIFTER89
Member # 7810
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very nice
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Joe Weinstein
Member # 8495
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Thanks for the kind words. Yes it is a great car, and just talking about it makes me want to forget that it never gets driven any more... The day it was dynoed, the guy (who didn't know me from Adam) thought something was wrong, and adjusted the throttle cable (there *was* a problem, and I wasn't getting full throttle), and suddenly the numbers jumped up, and then, when he figured a way to prevent the tires breaking traction with the rollers, He laughed to himself and felt he needed to stroke my ego to warn me without offending me, saying "I know you're a great driver and all (remember he didn't know me at all) but this amount of power isn't going to be safe all the time..."
Having 415 ft/lbs from 1500RPM *is* brutal. It truly jumps with throttle pressure and you can break traction unintentionally, much more easily than a car that needs to wind up even a little to get into the power band.
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Casey90GT
Member # 6175
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Good lord that's gorgeous!
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EPIK
Member # 7481
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WOW!!! That car is really, really, really, REALLY sick!!! i couldnt imagine getting rid of something like that if i owned it. Fox Saleens are my favorite Saleens, especially 4 eyeds......good luck with the sale....TTT
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BlowN67
Member # 4229
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[ July 16, 2008, 06:51 PM: Message edited by: BlowN67 ]
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86BackInBlack
Member # 5372
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quote: Originally posted by EPIK: WOW!!! That car is really, really, really, REALLY sick!!! i couldnt imagine getting rid of something like that if i owned it. Fox Saleens are my favorite Saleens, especially 4 eyeds......good luck with the sale....TTT
yea, i wish my car looked like that
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89bluenotch
Member # 7454
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keep it!
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302DROPakaDROP92
Member # 1323
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quote: Originally posted by Diamond Dave: ^^ yes, I'd like to eye hump your car please. LOL
lol... thats a good 1....
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65shelbyclone
Member # 8557
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PM
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N8
Member # 6048
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Not sure what the big deal is. That is just a regular old 4-eyed with a lil beefy motor. And 15k wtf? Are you on crack? I can get that all day on Craigslist for 3k.
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N8
Member # 6048
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I couldnt even hate on it with a straight face
Sick ass car.
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phildog
Member # 1214
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I have worked on this car over the years, and have seen it recently since Top of the Hill Race Cars got done with it. This is a nice street car that would be a total blast on the track. You could not build this car for the price, and it will always hold value for being a Saleen.
Good luck with the sale.
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v-town50
Member # 4920
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i liked the license plate 1G TURNS
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jaejae
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F8LSN8K
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925GT50
Member # 2683
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holy shi* thats one rare fox!! dont sell it...
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