94STANGLA
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94STANGLA here starting my build thread. To really start this we have to go back to July of 2010. So July of 2010 Im working as a porter as a car dealership, I am looking for a Jeep Cherokee. I quickly become friends with a tech who was a mustang owner, 93 fox body, 306 block with a blower on it. So I found this 94 gt convertible for sale and bought it for 2800. When I bought this vehicle I had 0 mechanical knowledge, when I was looking at it I knew to look for leaks and such and it looked to be a solid car. I knew it had been wrecked in the front end hard enough to blow the air bags but other than that it ran and drove really well. So I drove it home and immediately did a tune up on it. MSD wires and dizzy cap, and new plugs. Ran great and got me through a few months of college. I then started noticing a rattle at high speeds and on acceleration in which the cause was a cracked bellhousing(this will happen again at a later date). So it sat for about 2 weeks until I could source a junkyard tranny.
First major repair went smooth, everything was good for about 6 months and the tranny quit on me, no crack just internal failure. By this time I had a second vehicle and was having plans for doing something big, no wife and kids yet and nothing really in my way. Time went by it sat for a few months and I never could get anything together so I did something dumb and found a transmission shop in Florida and purchased a "rebuilt" trans (4r70w) from them. When I got it, there was a nick in the bellhousing. Called them up they said I must have done that when trying to install, I hadn't even cut the straps off the pallet yet. So there goes 900 (should have known better). I installed it anyway, bellhousing cracked in less than 100 miles.
So now im thinking its really time to get this thing going and going well, I was thinking 351 with a c4 and just a huge build. Well life got in the way, I got married, inherited 3 awesome step kids and everything got put on hold until about a month ago. Insurance company called and said "you put your mustang insurance on suspension four years ago, do you have any plans to do anything with it?" So I broke down and got it towed home and yanked the trans out and will try to successfully overhaul it myself. As you can imagine I have come a long way since I first purchased this car, I have no fears when it comes to wrenching on it especially since it is not my daily driver.
To present day, as I said before budget is limited due to being married and what not and will be limited to only things that will get it running and driving properly because I miss driving this car. I worked extremely hard to purchase this car and have put it off for too long, It was my first car that I bought and paid for myself and that always makes it a little more special.
I apologize for this being such a long first post but I wanted yall to see the "history" since ive had the vehicle, this will be a very slow build but I will try to keep yall updated the best that I can.
coming home
on stands right after I got the tranny out...looks like its on grass but the jack stands sit on concrete footers I made for just this purpose, just difficult to see.
when I first got the tranny out
after I tore it all down
First major repair went smooth, everything was good for about 6 months and the tranny quit on me, no crack just internal failure. By this time I had a second vehicle and was having plans for doing something big, no wife and kids yet and nothing really in my way. Time went by it sat for a few months and I never could get anything together so I did something dumb and found a transmission shop in Florida and purchased a "rebuilt" trans (4r70w) from them. When I got it, there was a nick in the bellhousing. Called them up they said I must have done that when trying to install, I hadn't even cut the straps off the pallet yet. So there goes 900 (should have known better). I installed it anyway, bellhousing cracked in less than 100 miles.
So now im thinking its really time to get this thing going and going well, I was thinking 351 with a c4 and just a huge build. Well life got in the way, I got married, inherited 3 awesome step kids and everything got put on hold until about a month ago. Insurance company called and said "you put your mustang insurance on suspension four years ago, do you have any plans to do anything with it?" So I broke down and got it towed home and yanked the trans out and will try to successfully overhaul it myself. As you can imagine I have come a long way since I first purchased this car, I have no fears when it comes to wrenching on it especially since it is not my daily driver.
To present day, as I said before budget is limited due to being married and what not and will be limited to only things that will get it running and driving properly because I miss driving this car. I worked extremely hard to purchase this car and have put it off for too long, It was my first car that I bought and paid for myself and that always makes it a little more special.
I apologize for this being such a long first post but I wanted yall to see the "history" since ive had the vehicle, this will be a very slow build but I will try to keep yall updated the best that I can.
coming home
on stands right after I got the tranny out...looks like its on grass but the jack stands sit on concrete footers I made for just this purpose, just difficult to see.
when I first got the tranny out
after I tore it all down
(excuse the gut, its also a project)
