Dragon Slayer - 1995 Mustang GT Build Thread - Now With 100 Percent More IRS

[RAU03MACH]

That hood looks like it is petty decent shape
The car dose anyway

 

[nitroram33]

That hood looks like it is petty decent shape
The car dose anyway

It's definitely a 20 footer lol.

 

[nitroram33]

Tires should be here Friday, going to change the oil here in a minute and hopefully drive it to work Sunday or Monday so I can see what else needs attention.

 

[RAU03MACH]

What tires did you get for it

 

[nitroram33]

For now, I went with 275/40 17 BF Goodrich g-Force Comp 2 A/S. Eventually when I get another set of wheels and tires and use the Vintage Venom brackets to convert to GT 500 brakes I'll go with some R888Rs.

 

[RAU03MACH]

Not a bad choice still good
I'm running nitto 2nd gen
285 45 17 rear
245 40 17 front that's on all of my mustangs

 

[nitroram33]

Eventually it will get either 285/35 19 & 305/30 19 or 295/30 18 & 305/35 18s depending on whether I got with 6 or 4 piston GT500 Brembos, but for now I'm sorta limited by the wheels that are on it.

 

[nitroram33]

Got the oil changed this evening and went to fix the battery cable but didn't have any lugs big enough for the cable so that'll get punted until tomorrow. Still waiting on wipers and a bunch of other crap to through on it this weekend. Ordered a rear seat delete so I can silence the fuel pump noise down a bit lol.

 

[evilcw311]

Don’t need no damn delete!!! Just need moar speakers!!!!! [emoji38]


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[nitroram33]

Don’t need no damn delete!!! Just need moar speakers!!!!! [emoji38]


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Right now there's no rear seat at all, the pump gets pretty loud when driving it around town lol.

 

[nitroram33]

Updated the first post with a link to all of the pictures Photobucket murdered, in no specific order:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/87683219@N04/sets/72157712657827192/

 

[nitroram33]

So I've got a few things done since the last post. I got the negative battery cable replaced as well as drilled out the broken off hold down bolt and got a new battery hold down installed. Tires have been replaced, wipers replaced, and windows cleaned up a bit. Front driver's side export flare is back on as well as a new fender badge installed to cover up the mounting holes in the fender. Rear seat delete is in and does quite things down a bit when idling around town but there's no real escaping the bullet mufflers and higher revs lol. Also got a replacement ashtray to plug the hole in the console and had to replace the speedometer gears as that was broken as well. Installed a rearview mirror radar mount so my V1 can come along too now. I know there's some crap I'm forgetting and some pictures I need to take, but I've driven it to work a couple times now (70-ish miles round trip) and it's done great so far. In unfortunate news, the Cervinis stalker wing is splitting pretty bad and anything above 65 makes it want to starting splitting in half so I'm going to have to do something about another wing/spoiler soon but figuring out what to do about painting the replacement is going to be a pain as the paint is pretty faded and isn't even a factory color to begin with (was originally a black car, apparently). I may just go ahead and get an S351 and get it painted Performance Red since that's what the car will be redone in eventually anyway and just deal with it being way glossier than the rest of the car for now, but I haven't decided yet... Anyway, here's a few pictures for now until I get around to taking more recent ones:

 

[50HSN95]

I don't think I have ever seen that wing before, that has a cool look to it. Unfortunate it is coming apart on you.

 

[nitroram33]

I don't think I have ever seen that wing before, that has a cool look to it. Unfortunate it is coming apart on you.

Both the wing and the hood are Cervinis Stalker pieces. I don't mind the wing, it's just seen better days lol. It was already installed on the car when my friend bought it back in '04 and has spent roughly 15 years just sitting around and that hasn't been good for it.

 

[nitroram33]

So after seeing ReplicaR's Kaenen S351, I decide to go ahead and replace the Stalker that was on there (I'd been considering S351s for a while but didn't want a cheap one). The Kaenen appears to be pretty decent quality and doesn't touch in the center like a lot of them do. The fun part was going to be color matching as the car has an unknown color on it (originally a black car) and whatever it is has badly faded over the years. The plan was to plastidip it for now until the rest of car was ready to be painted. Turns out, flat HEMI Orange plastidip is damn close to whatever color this thing is now. Old wing and it's cracks:

Trunk lid is rusting from a lack of seal between the wing and the trunk lid, will probably wind up replacing it at some point in the future:

New Kaenen S351 wing in HEMI Orange. Ran out of spray so you can still see a bit of the black that it arrives in when looking at the underside in the rear but it works for now and isn't cracked:

 

[ReplicaR]

Looks so much better... but I may be a little biased.

 

[nitroram33]

Looks so much better... but I may be a little biased.

Shouldn't look like it's trying to talk to me at anything above 55 either lol.

 

[joe65]

I still like the horizontal tail lights on those

 

[nitroram33]

I still like the horizontal tail lights on those

That's because horizontal > *

 

[nitroram33]

The rack developed a leak on the driver's side some time over the last couple weeks and poured all the fluid out a hole that I hadn't noticed in the boot. Turns out there was also another hole in the passenger boot as well. So instead of replacing the the seal and boots (and the other seals and the inner tie rods while I was in there), the car got an 03-04 Cobra rack this morning. No pictures, but I have an appointment to align it and then hopefully I finally get a chance to take it to the Dragon since I'm off the next week+ with work being closed.