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

nitroram33 · Feb 3, 2016

Shocks showed up right as I was leaving for work today. Hopefully I can get the coilover assembly put together tonight so I can get them on in the morning when I wake up.

nitroram33 · Feb 4, 2016

Got the shocks assembled other than the lower bushings/crush sleeves because I didn't feel like getting that stupid Prothane grease on my hands tonight. The circlips and spirolocks are a pain in the ass.

nitroram33 · Feb 8, 2016

Having to go back to work sucks, but I've made a lot of progress in the little time I've had since my vacation time ran out. IRS is finished except for torquing the half shaft nuts down, filling the diff with fluid, and tightening the jam nuts now that the end links were set to eliminate preload at ride height. Forgot to take a picture of the MM upper shock mounts, but I'll snap one tomorrow. Driveshaft is back in, pads/calipers are on and ebrake is hooked up, and the brakes are bled with no leaks to far. Also got the short shifter in and the interior put back together more or less. Going to throw the trunk stuff back in as well as the back seat tomorrow and scale it to see what the final weight difference was before I pull that back out for some more weight reduction. Also decided to modify the stock strut tower brace while I've got it here so it'll clear the MM caster/camber plates. Then it'll be alignment time and it'll be ready for it's maiden voyage with the new suspension. Anybody wanna buy a SRA? :tongue3: Pics:

Fitting I needed to adapt the factory brake line to metric bubble flare:

Adapter in place in the stock location with the line ran to the distribution block above the differential:

Coilovers and tie rod ends on:

Ride height for now, may go lower in the future but he's wanting to put some 315s on in the near future so I'll probably leave it for now until I can see how much clearance there is:

Budget AM short throw:

Interior back together:

neverenuff · Feb 9, 2016

Great work on that swap! You did it with a quickness too

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nitroram33 · Feb 9, 2016

It would have been much quicker had it not been for that one fitting and waiting on the shocks to get here. Plus, being a little lazy during my week off from work lol...

ElrodKTPQ_89 · Feb 9, 2016

Sweet dude! I'm jealous of those brakes!

nitroram33 · Feb 9, 2016

Technically you've got the same calipers lol, the Cobras just had a taller bracket to fit a bigger rotor. Needs MOAR GT350 brakes up front now though...

ElrodKTPQ_89 · Feb 9, 2016

nitroram33 said:
Technically you've got the same calipers lol, the Cobras just had a taller bracket to fit a bigger rotor. Needs MOAR GT350 brakes up front now though...

Yea that's true with the calipers, but those bigger rotors always look better plus they're vented too. I'm READY to see that project get started. Those brakes look so sweet on the S550's.

nitroram33 · Feb 9, 2016

Gotta get another set of wheels first, 19" is the bare minimum for the GT350s and '13-'14 GT500 setups.

nitroram33 · Feb 13, 2016

It's been too cold to work on the car this week. I work swing shift and don't get up until 11-12 or so and have to leave for work by 2 so it would be a waste of kerosene to only have half an hour or forty five minutes to work by the time I got the shop warm. However, I should have it all buttoned up Sunday and ready for an alignment on Monday. In the mean time, I snapped a pic of one of the MM upper shock mounts while I was out there getting a tire pressure gauge and forgot to post it until now:

nitroram33 · Feb 15, 2016

Finished up today (other than tweaking the strut tower brace and welding in one in the back that I got from American Muscle) and assuming it doesn't snow over night I'm going to take it and get it aligned tomorrow. Also scaled the car. For got to take a pic of the before, though it's stored in the scales, but it was 3193 with a 57.4/42.6 F/R split. Here's what it weighed with the interior back in the car and the swap complete:

And here's what it weighed after removing the trunk plastics and spare as well as the back seat:

So basically we're almost back to where we were before (only up 16 pounds), but with hell of a lot better suspension.

nitroram33 · Feb 16, 2016

Didn't get the car aligned yesterday like I'd have liked because it took forever to get the tires swapped over on my Neon and I didn't have time to get the car back over and actually have time to do it before the alignment shop closed. That's the bad news. The good news is I drug myself out of bed this morning and got the car over to the alignment shop. Holy hell is this thing on rails now. :handz: Needs moar six speed though lol...

nitroram33 · Jun 30, 2017

Photobucket nerfed my pictures, I'll repost at some point after rehosting elsewhere.

ElrodKTPQ_89 · Apr 15, 2018

Still waiting on that repost lol

nitroram33 · Apr 15, 2018

Me too lol... Sooo many pictures to go through, just haven't had the motivation to do it. My friend that own's the car switched jobs a couple times and didn't really have a lot of time for the car last year. Hopefully things are a little better this year and we can make some more progress on it.