200,000 mile GT build

[Akurma]

I appreciate that! The car spends most of its time sitting in the garage waiting for me to build and rebuild the engine. I cant leave it well enough alone. I get an idea for an improvement and i act on it making the improvement a 5year process.

I dont believe it was a northern car, I bought it local, but there is a nice rust hole on the trunk floor between the fender and spare tire well. I fear its in the beginning stages of what yours has turned out to be. So one day ill have to investigate the cancer damage and possibly correct why its doing what its doing. Seeing your handy work gives me hope that it wont be as bad of a repair as my mind is making it out to be.

I feared my repair was going to be terrible but once I got in there it was pretty straight forward just time consuming. I will say that having a replacement part made it significantly easier. Do yourself a favor and take a flashlight, pull the trunk carpet and side panels out and shine the light down the driver and passenger side where the trunk floor drops off. if you see light on the ground below.. you got a rust hole somewhere. If no light is seen, then you now have peace of mind

 

[from6to8]

I feared my repair was going to be terrible but once I got in there it was pretty straight forward just time consuming. I will say that having a replacement part made it significantly easier. Do yourself a favor and take a flashlight, pull the trunk carpet and side panels out and shine the light down the driver and passenger side where the trunk floor drops off. if you see light on the ground below.. you got a rust hole somewhere. If no light is seen, then you now have peace of mind

Hey I found your post on Modded Mustangs and replied even though it's an older post lol. What did you end up doing?

Mine has 196 k on it and recently put the 190 k engine out of my wrecked 95 in the 94 Cobra I bought in 2017. The previous 302 sig:
Ed RPM 2, .525 211/219 @ 050, TF 170, 24 lb, 75 MA, 70 TB, Mac 1 5/8 shorties, Basani X, flowmasters, 3.55, and a tune

current sig:
94 Cobra Ed RPM 2, .525 211/219 @ 050, TF 170,, 24 lb, 75 MA, 70 TB, BBK 1 5/8 LT's, BBK X, Pypes bomb free flowing catback with 3.5 tips, 3.73 and tuned.

The car feels pretty good overall but out the gate I'd like it to be more peppy. It's decent and the LT's really wake it up when you step on it especially and though I'd love to get more out of it, I'm not really desperate to do anything right now. I did a compression and leak down test before putting the engine in, I believe I did the leak down, and the numbers were fine. If I had a strong conviction that I could get at least 30-50 k miles out of putting on a blower I'd likely do it lol. I don't track the car and it's really just a weekend streetcar as I have an 04 Cobra too and another 95 that's running but I want to do a 331 if I keep it. Actually my son just traded his '18 300 S for a 21 scat pack Saturday and my goodness I'm already in love. I can see getting one of them and just leaving the other 95 for later down the road to build or even sell it.

 

[Snorky]

Hey I found your post on Modded Mustangs and replied even though it's an older post lol. What did you end up doing?

Mine has 196 k on it and recently put the 190 k engine out of my wrecked 95 in the 94 Cobra I bought in 2017. The previous 302 sig:
Ed RPM 2, .525 211/219 @ 050, TF 170, 24 lb, 75 MA, 70 TB, Mac 1 5/8 shorties, Basani X, flowmasters, and with a tune

current sig:
94 Cobra Ed RPM 2, .525 211/219 @ 050, TF 170,, 24 lb, 75 MA, 70 TB, BBK 1 5/8 LT's, BBK X, Pypes bomb free flowing catback with 3.5 tips and tuned.

The car feels pretty good overall but out the gate I'd like it to be more peppy. It's decent and the LT's really wake it up when you step on it especially and though I'd love to get more out of it, I'm not really desperate to do anything right now. I did a compression and leak down test before putting the engine in, I believe I did the leak down, and the numbers were fine. If I had a strong conviction that I could get at least 30-50 k miles out of putting on a blower I'd likely do it lol. I don't track the car and it's really just a weekend streetcar as I have an 04 Cobra too and another 95 that's running but I want to do a 331 if I keep it. Actually my son just traded his '18 300 S for a 21 scat pack Saturday and my goodness I'm already in love. I can see getting one of them and just leaving the other 95 for later down the road to build or even sell it.

What gearing do you have in there?

 

[from6to8]

What gearing do you have in there?

3.73 but I actually have a 3.55 rear end that came out of the wrecked 95. I'll edit the previous post