9838stang's Money Pit Pony

Tony · Jun 15, 2015

perfect!! get a hoot with the new stance asap!

Vegasfilter · Jun 15, 2015

looks awesome....any metal on metal noises since removing the ISO's? I think I am going to pull the trigger and just remove them.

9838stang · Jun 15, 2015

Vegasfilter said:
looks awesome....any metal on metal noises since removing the ISO's? I think I am going to pull the trigger and just remove them.

I wrapped them in electrical tape. So far nothing, if that does happen, I may get some liquid electrical tape and make a nice coating.

9838stang · Jun 16, 2015

Here is the new stance. Took the front ISOs out

9838stang · Jun 24, 2015

Dalamar · Jun 26, 2015

This thread represents a LOT of work, you have really transformed your mustang. Nice work!
great stance and finish. I like the white lettering on your wheels.

9838stang · Jun 28, 2015

After a week of running the new swaybar end links, i blew out the bushings. Looks like the factory sway bar end links were shorter than these. So i assume these were under way more stress and couldnt take the abuse. So i bought these

the blow out bushing on the end links. All 8 were doing this

and this is the length difference..

9838stang · Jun 28, 2015

Another shot of how low the car sit now lol

9838stang · Jul 2, 2015

I was on my was home from a lunch date with the girl friend today. On my way home, I went down a small stretch of highway and saw part of the road buckled. I hit the brake to lessen the hit. I was able to save my wheel but the wheel bounced up and hit the fender and took a chunk of bondo out... bummer

When i got the car, the fender that is on the car right now this very second was a complete bondo case. Well the I had no idea it was and my first winter with the car, i was kicking off a snow bugger of the car and happen to see a massive chunk of bondo fall off the car. I replaced that fender with another and painted that fender. After a couple of months and a run in with a guy who loves to clean car and used his own cleaning stuff, which killed the paint. I replaced that fender with original fender. Before hand i took a bunch of the old bondo out of the fender. Some chunks were do big they could be the same size of a golf ball. After getting the metal back to where it was suppose to be i filled the imperfections. Hung the fender only to find out the fender wasnt straight. I was in a hurry and tried to bend the rest of the metal to make the panel straight. It was to much stress on the bondo and it cracked. I sanded the cracked parts and refilled them.

After a few years i saw some of the cracks were coming back but didnt pay any attention to them.

I lowered the car more by taking out my isos, but didnt see how little clearance i had on the drivers side. and this happened

Here goes a temp fix.

9838stang · Jul 2, 2015

mean while, I snapped a few shots the other day...

9838stang · Jul 9, 2015

I know poor picture quality. Painted the lower fender. not bad for rattle job. can't wait to how it looks tomorrow. I still have to wet sand and feather in the paint line. and wash the whole. car. Even though i had the plastic cover over it, that dust gets everywhere.

After finding out how much bondo was behind that paint on the fender, i took all that crap off and reshaped the metal. I did re apply a thin layer of bondo and a few coats of paint.

9838stang · Jul 13, 2015

Here it is. I still need to color sand it but hey it looks great. I won't be color sanding for at least 2 more weeks. Gotta give it time for the humidity to go away

1998cobrasvt · Jul 13, 2015

Any shots of under the hood?

9838stang · Sep 7, 2015

1998cobrasvt said:
Any shots of under the hood?

9838stang · Sep 8, 2015

Here are a few updates on the car.

I have drove the car over 6000 miles now with out the front spring isos, and and i havent had any metal on metal noise issues.
LED light conversion works and looks great!

I got the bug to add some new puddle(ghost) lights in the car after a buddy gave me both of his from his 2013 gt/cs after he broke both of his mirrors. well they wouldnt fit where i wanted them so i ordered a set off ebay.

I have them tapped into the dome light. When ever the dome light comes on so do they.

I traced the wiring to the passenger side pillar. I cut back the electrical tape covering the 3 wires and it had shown a black wire, black with white and a grey i believe.

I ran a wire from where i am splicing into it down the pillar, under the dash to where the kick panel on the passenger side.

I ran the wire through the door and routed it where the connectors are at. and did the same to the driver side. I also ran a wire under the dash to connect both door. next was to drill a hole into both door panels

9838stang · Sep 8, 2015

Bent up the exhaust a bit. no big deal when going low.

9838stang · Sep 8, 2015

Some new shot i took

For got that i hadnt told anyone of my tank straps... lol didnt wanna buy new polished ones so i just used chrome duct tape on the straps. and they have been on there for a few months now have held up great!