Bright Blue 94 Mustang GT

[Chenn2389]

9/18/2020

Started to disassemble the top end and exhaust today. My new puppy was helping. Sleeping on the job SMH.

 

[Chenn2389]

9/25/2020

Pulled the engine today. I pulled it with the T5 still on it. FYI if your going to pull it with the trans still on make sure you have two people. I did it by myself and it took forever. I couldn’t get the angle right even with a load leveler. The cheap engine hoist I borrowed slid into the front bumper while I was under the car trying to guide the T5 out of the tunnel. Scratched up my front bumper pretty good. Guess its time for a cobra bumper.

 

[Chenn2389]

11/6/2020

Found a engine builder. Jim and Ray Basko in Gilbert AZ. Took the engine in today. Getting 331 stoker, cast crank, forged beams, hyper flat top pistons. We were talking intakes and he said I would be better off with the Edelbrock Performer RPM II or the Trickflow Track Heat. The performer 5.0 is gonna choke it out around 5000 rpm and with the cam I want to put in I want to spin it up to 6500 rpm. Will cost me about 30 HP. Hopefully have the engine back by January 1. But we all know how that goes probably wont see it until march.

 

[Chenn2389]

11/13/2020

Found a local guy in phx to rebuild the T5. Rich the T5GUY. Loves fox bodies and has been rebuilding T5s locally here in phx for decades. He did a quick turn around. Full refresh, new bearings, sliders, carbon synchros, and slip yoke bushing and seals. Very happy and great price.

 

[Chenn2389]

11/17/2020

Got some goodies from summit. Trickflow Track Heat intake. The trick flow port is 75mm, so I ordered the matching Trickflow 75mm intake elbow, 75mm throttle body from bbk, bbk cold air intake, and bbk 76 mm maf for the new injectors.

Puttting up the old cold air intake, and the Edelbrock performer 5.0 intake manifold for sale PM if you are interested. Machine shop went through it and hot tanked it and blasted the lower, ran taps through all the threads. I have the gaskets. You would need to order the hardware kit its a few bucks from summit.

 

[Chenn2389]

11/23/2020

Bored, so I pulled the engine harness out and went through all the wires and fixed cracks, cleaned the plugs, wrapped in new flex tubing and electrical tape. Looks clean, not perfect but at least its no longer crumbling into dust in my hands.

 

[Chenn2389]

11/27/2020

The JY had a Black Friday sale, went and dug around from some goodies. Got the original power sport buckets out of a 95. They are in horrible shape, but not a big deal. I am going to order the TMI foam with black and charcoal cloth tweed upholstery to get in interior looking nice. Also found the the better center console out of a 2001 with the usable cup holders. I am gonna paint match it to the midnight black interior using sem midnight black 17013.

 

[Chenn2389]

11/28/2020 morning

Decided to start working on the interior since I don’t have anything else to do while the motor is at the machine shop. Got the seats disassembled. Started to take apart the steering column to figure out why my horn, cruise, and airbag don’t work. Clock spring was dust. Fun fact, the clock spring for a 94 was only a one year production run. Ford switched it the following year for the 95-98. This has been discontinued for over a decade and no secondary company’s make a replacement. There is no work around for this. Gonna order a after market hub, quick release and leather wheel. I also plan to pull the airbag control module, all the cruise control hardware, and th passenger air bag. Going to get a harness bar and 4 points for safety.

11/28/2020 evening.

Taking advantage of cyber week deals. Ordered rear seat delete kit from American muscle. Ordered Corbeau harness bar and 4 points with the tmi upholstery kit from CJ pony parts, and a NRG short hub, quick release 2.0, and Wheel from redline 360. Dropped a little money but it had to be done and I got some sweet deals.

 

[Chenn2389]

11/29/2020

Took the seats and center console out. Need to mess with the console harness and figure out why the fog lamp switch and the two aux power points don’t work. Taking a look at the harness the ash tray bulb is not in the socket, maybe that needs to be in there to close the circuit, the new console wont have the need for it, might splice a resistor in in place of the plug to close the circuit. It also looks like the aux power ports have been replaced. The ground wire for the fog lamps, and bot aux ports are all spliced together not sure if that is correct. Hopefully I can find the wire diagram for this harness and get it right.

let me know if anyone local in phx wants a full set of seats, not powered, and not the sport buckets , but in really good shape.

If anyone knows what size resistor to replace that ashtray bulb with let me know.

 

[Chenn2389]

12/6/2020

Got the hub on, Its got an ugly gap. I made a proto type “DIY” clock spring out of cardboard. On the back side there is a plate that matches the colum shape, on the front side there is a short cylinder that slide into the back of the hub to enclose it. I took 16 ga wire and wrapped it around a cylinder roughly the same size as the hub, coiled it as tight as I could and took a heat gun to it got it super hot and then let it come back to room temp. This gave the wire a spring effect. I coiled it up in the hub and slid it into the make shift adapter and wired up the horn. It works and I can turn the wheel to full lock in both directions with no issues. The prototype is cardboard and very weak, when I took it apart to start measuring it up to program it in cad it got messed up and I don’t have a picture. I am gonna move on to other crap for now, but I plan to get this into a cad model and will 3D print it with a nice liquid feed 3D printer that wont have the ugly grain lines and weakness that a cheap hobby 3D printer has. I will keep everyone posted on the progress on this and will make a few extras to sell/ship to other members that have a 94 and no way to get a working horn.

 

[Frank.JD.Perez]

OMFG THE PUPPY

also i feel like ive seen this car for sale before

 

[98snakehorse]

That color is amazing

 

[Chenn2389]

That color is amazing

Thank dude! It's actually Nissan B17 Blue it was the closest color to the Ford OEM Bright Blue from 94-95. I couldn't get the paint code ford the OEM color at Napa. It's surprisingly close, but it does have a much deeper color when its not in direct sun light.

 

[joe65]

good build! i like the car. you got right to it! I'm jealous of the year round warm days to dig around at the junkyards. I think a lot of cars with good parts get crushed during the winter months here.

 

[DKblue98GT]

Nice! Your car is coming right along. That puppy is super cute, how old?

 

[Chenn2389]

Nice! Your car is coming right along. That puppy is super cute, how old?

Thanks! Hope to have the car running by March.... we shall see how long the machine shop takes to build my short block! She is a little over 5 months now, I think she was just under 3 months in that picture.

 

[Chenn2389]

good build! i like the car. you got right to it! I'm jealous of the year round warm days to dig around at the junkyards. I think a lot of cars with good parts get crushed during the winter months here.

Thanks dude! its nice to not be freezing here in the winter, but its scorching here in the summer. I bet they crush cars here in the summer months haha.

 

[joemomma]

Great looking build!

 

[ttocs]

Thanks dude! its nice to not be freezing here in the winter, but its scorching here in the summer. I bet they crush cars here in the summer months haha.

I lived in the chandler/gilbert area from 2000-2009 and loved it out there.

 

[Chenn2389]

I lived in the chandler/gilbert area from 2000-2009 and loved it out there.

Nice! my wife and I just bought our first house out here in Gilbert. We’re both from the Midwest.