Full 12 Point Cage Help

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 16, 2010

Well I have a 1996 Mustang... its got a pushrod in it and a C4 with a brake and a little bit of smack now... Full race car with license plates... At sea level it would run south of 9.99s... it went 10.76 at a DA of 8364...

So I have the car where it is wired on switches and my own gauge panels and everything, but its using the stock fuse box for power and fuseable links. My question is how have you guys who have caged the car done with the fuse box? Is the bar going to get in the way?

Its a wolferacecraft cage BTW. If anybody has pictures that would be great.

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 18, 2010

Got most of the cage in today!!!! Tig welding sucks.... but i got the rear down bars, the main hoop, the a pillar and the windshield bar in, and the subframe bars in... all welded up. I clearanced the dash, but I will need some more space to find how to move the fuse box... The dash will not go back in until i do that. Is it easy to move the fuse box? I have not been able to unhook my switch panel in the dash so I have not been able to roll it too far forward yet, to see if I can just unbolt the fuse box and let it hang til i can figure out how to mount it.

Tommorow I got to fix the dash so it will go back in, and finish a few bars. I got to do both door bars, the harness bar, the rocker bar on the drivers side and the dash bar... other than that its done... decided against doing the x bars at the moment, same with the through the dash bars to the firewall...

Here are some pictures... Exhaust will be here tomorrow as well.

And how closely we got to the a pillars...

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 18, 2010

Dash is in... just got a few more bars to weld in place.... Oh and im missing the harness bar... LOL so wolferacecraft is sending me that.

But thats what she looks like as of now...

94-427 · Mar 19, 2010

Nice job Just done the cage on my 94 I managed to save room for Evaporator case and fuse panel by changing location of front bars
want to send pics but I am new and don't know how to post pics

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 20, 2010

Its done but one bar.... the harness bar didnt come today.... so all I got to finish up is the harness bar and the harnesses.... but good lord this thing is sick!!!! I cant wait to actually drive it! thing is so solid... its kinda hard to drive since the windshield bar is there and the door bar get in the way.... either way i will get used to it!!! here are some pictures til i get it home.

Javi · Mar 20, 2010

Oh man, you did a 351 swap? Carb?
any pics under the hood? :icon_rr:

i havent seen you here in awhile.

Car looks good thou, great work with the cage.

mikey94gt · Mar 20, 2010

Matt, you gotta post pics of the underhood... and it does look sick with the 351w and the big ass carb there.

duff daddy · Mar 20, 2010

Wow welcome back man I was wondering if we would ever see you again. Car looks awesome, Do you even have your torque boxes welded ?? ever though of making this a full frame car?? Good job on the cage though..

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 20, 2010

BEFORE THE NITROUS PLATE WAS ON

1996 351w mustang gt (idle video)
Ten Second Mustang (ten second pass)

mikey94gt · Mar 20, 2010

Man I miss that car.... lol!

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 20, 2010

Me too sometimes... sure is going to be fun street driving it this year...

mikey94gt · Mar 20, 2010

Hellz ya.. we gotta go cruizin man.

duff daddy · Mar 21, 2010

as much as i hate green cars and as much as i hate pushrods, Im inlove with that car :thumbsup:

1bad95 · Mar 21, 2010

that thing is bad!!! :headbang:

mikey94gt · Mar 21, 2010

Duff Daddy said:
as much as i hate green cars and as much as i hate pushrods, Im inlove with that car :thumbsup:

are you saying you like a pushrod motivated car for once, duffy?

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 22, 2010

Duff Daddy said:
as much as i hate green cars and as much as i hate pushrods, Im inlove with that car :thumbsup:

I seen the light... after playing with those modulars... this thing is much quicker for so much cheaper... if it were a DD i still would have done the exact same thing, but I would of rather done it EFI with a 94/95 computer... thing is so much quicker than the 2v ever would have been... even with a blower...

Now dont get me wrong if you wanna go slow, stay with the 2v... lol but being 18 I don't have much money so I had to go the cheapr route... after 2 modulars I decided it was too expensive, they just are not built as strong as the pushrods... atleast my pushrod... should be good to over 800 using stock block and crank... with some new rods and pistons in there that should hold up... not only that, but i paid less for my whole engine parts than a set of heads would have cost me for a 2v... my heads are world windsor heads, so if i spent another 1000 bucks on heads, i would see another 50-60 HP... try that with a 2v.

duff daddy · Mar 22, 2010

This is true you do have some cheaper parts and def faster then most na 2v's we had a Boosted 2v running NMRA MM clas last year at 10.02 all year nad last pass was a 9.8 lol that was T trim, now its YSI and should be deep 9's but money ways is out of this world.

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 22, 2010

Duff Daddy said:
This is true you do have some cheaper parts and def faster then most na 2v's we had a Boosted 2v running NMRA MM clas last year at 10.02 all year nad last pass was a 9.8 lol that was T trim, now its YSI and should be deep 9's but money ways is out of this world.

Yes at sealevel.... but guess what my 10.76 pass will convert down to using, a few different altitude correctors? 9.74-9.86s... depends on which one you use... I did all that on a High School budget, building it my self... I have not paid anybody to work on my car... I have lots of good friends because of it too! Wouldnt change a thing.

The 2V just does not have the head flow, even with the new trick flow heads, the motor doesnt have the CI to be a GREAT motor IMO and thus why it requires a blower to make any good power...

mikey94gt · Mar 22, 2010

I do have to say... it was way fun to build your car. wait till you see what I got brewing...... we will have even more fun this summer!

MustangMatt96GT · Mar 28, 2010

It will be getting new slicks and front tires some time in the next two weeks, same with a new drivers side harness (SFI Expired) Mufflers are going on too, Tried to put some on that I had, but they would not fit the new X pipe I fabbed up... True 3 inch too!

I think im going to try for some Mac Flow dumps... Not sure yet.