The boss

[BOS-94-003]

1. Introduction

History of the car, 1994 mustang gt (automatic) with Boss Shinoda package. Badge number BOS-94-003. I've owned the car since 97 and daily drove it in Indiana weather up to 06. Basically my build is to upgrade or replace everything from bumper to bumper. This is a slow build so dont hold your breathe. My plan is to have it driving on the new engine and tranny by summer of 2013 and then add the supercharger during the winter. Basically, Im not planning on being 100% done with it till 2014. Expensive and time consuming, both of which im short on.
The car is just being built for weekend fun and some passes at the dragstrip but nothing competitive.
Found some pics of the exterior work for those not familiar.

 

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2. Rearend

Threads are useless without pics, so let's begin......

Removed the tank and rearend

Remember, I daily drove this through many Indiana winters and heres the proof.

Cut out the cancer area and welded in a section from my donor car.

Scrubbed the wheel wells and rattle canned them with rubberized paint

Sandblasted the underside up to where the rearseat floor mats would set. Heres before and after pics of one area to give you an idea. This is where the filler neck comes in from the trunk area for those not familiar.

Sandblasted the rear and powder coated the cover, axle ends, and anything else that would unbolt. The main housing is just blasted, primered and painted.

Underside of the car received 2 coats of por-15 (cellphone pic)

Blasted and powdercoated everything i could unbolt from the underside.

Didn't like my springs black so they were also powdercoated.

Now I have too much black. Didn't like the fact that my hardwork of sandblasting and powdercoating every piece turned out looking lke I drove the car over a black paint sprayer. I needed seperation and decided to put a topcoat of grey on the underside.

This is a picture of the same area referenced above with the final coat.

During the removal process I found some pieces that were in pretty bad shape.

Replaced the stock upper control arms with new stock ones that I powdercoated. Lower control arms were upgraded to maximum motorsport ones. Shocks were upgraded to bilstein. Brakes will be upgraded to Cobra brakes (already have the larger mounting bracket and moan braces installed on the rear). Sway bar went from stock to a hotchkis with matching front swaybar. I had already upgraded the rear with 4.10 ring and pinion, pro auburn 31 spline diff, T/A performance girdle,and 31 spline superior axles.

Junk pile

Was expecting some fuel fittings to be on my porch today so i could start setting up the fuel but no packages. Got the tank installed but that was it.

 

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Tranny...

 

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motor

I don't know enough about the internals of a motor to build one so I outsourced my motor build to Woody from Fordstrokers. Here's what we came up with.

331 Boss Block Short Block -
Machined Boss 302 Block
Scat 4340 Forged Steel Crank 3.250
Scat 4340 Forged Steel H Beam Rods
Probe SRS 2618 Forged Piston 14.2cc TFS
Perfect Circle Moly File Fit Rings
Clevite 77 Main Bearings
Clevite 77 Rod Bearings
Durabond Coated Cam Bearings
Fel Pro Rear Main Seal
Custom Ground HYD Roller Camshaft
Comp Cams Billet Timing Chain
7qt Oil Pan
Moroso Oil Pump Pickup
Melling M-68 Oil Pump
Billet Oil Pump Shaft
Fel Pro 1 Piece Oil Pan Gasket
TFS Twisted Wedge fast as cast 190cc Cylinder Heads
Head Bolts
Head Gaskets
Comp Cams Lifters
Scorpion Racing 1.6 Rocker Arms
4130 Chromemoly .080 Wall 1 Piece Formed End Pushrods

Brackets before

After

Fox valve covers

I had chrome BBKs on the original motor, ceramic ones on the new motor

Holley lower

Company while sorting bolts. It's hard to tell from the pics but most of the bolts have been converted to 12 points stainless. The kit knocks out about 50% but then you have to measure and order the rest. Downside is that it sucks and most of the time you have to order a 5 pack of bolts for $30 when u just need the one.

New alternator, P/S pump and Stewart water pump

 

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supercharger

 

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dyno

 

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extra

 

[1bad95]

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looks great man!! ill def be following this one!

 

[ryeguy2006a]

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Nice looking car.

 

[JonBeast]

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SICK build so far man...I love the attention to detail on the underside...I am definitely going to be refinishing everything on my car once I get my own place and a garage.

 

[US Soldier(stang 98)]

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thats killer work man. keep the updates coming

 

[got5.0]

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man this is gonna be top notch! Love all the details man. The only thing I don't like are the wheels.

 

[DropTopPony]

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Nice job, I dream of detailing and coating everything on the underside one day but I can't even keep up with whats on top.

 

[white95]

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That's quite the extensive project bro, keep up the good work!!

 

[JonBeast]

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man this is gonna be top notch! Love all the details man. The only thing I don't like are the wheels.

I'm assuming those are just his beater wheels that he put on while the body work was done. The 18" chrome bullitts look sick.

 

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Thanks for all the comments. This will be a slow build but as the weather starts cooling off i'll start working on it again and posting updates. Plenty of parts are showing up but trying to finish up some house projects first.

 

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Almost been 2 yrs and I've made little to no progress but I did add some motor pics with more to come shortly.

 

[slow90coupe]

WOW man that undercarriage looks amazing!!! Very nice job bringing the car back to life.

 

[quickstang_1994]

i love that car

 

[Gregor185]

Badass!!!!