Wife's DFG Convertible GT

Win · Mar 18, 2014

Awesome man! I love rocking my DFG Vert!

86svo9l · Mar 18, 2014

Win said:
Awesome man! I love rocking my DFG Vert!

Thanks!

Looking forward to getting out and teaching my wife how to drive it. She is under the impression once she masters driving the 5 speed that she will be able to take the RX7 out too. We shall see how that one plays out.

Win · Mar 19, 2014

Well I guess it all depends on how much ya love her (rx7) haha kidding. Well kinda.

86svo9l · Mar 20, 2014

Took it out for the maiden voyage since fixing all the BS issues. Car runs quite a bit stronger than expected, I would say it is faster than my old vert was when it was a virgin. Still has a small lope at idle once it drops from high idle, so it either had a small cam installed in its past(which would explain why everything was so clean under the neglect), or a couple holes have lower compression than the rest. Will bust out the compression tester once my finger heals to confirm.

86svo9l · Mar 20, 2014

Slowly getting it cleaned up! Cleaning wax is really doing wonders on this thing.

Win · Mar 21, 2014

Ah the good ole days of tri bars

i still love em. A ton of people hate them, but that's the first wheel that made me like the new 94GT when i first saw it.

Btw those tailpipes will come to literally a mirror shine will some wet sanding and metal polish.

86svo9l · Mar 24, 2014

Aside from a few more clean up items progress on this is going to slow for a while. Going to enjoy it as is until next winter.

The problem maker came out of storage. Have a lot of stuff to get ready for tech inspection before autox events begin. Needs a nice bath too!

MustangChris · Mar 24, 2014

is that an RX7?

Win · Mar 25, 2014

MustangChris said:
is that an RX7?

Noooooooo it's a reliant robin.

Firefighter181 · Mar 25, 2014

Win said:
Noooooooo it's a reliant robin.

Ha, I about died laughing when the Top Gear guys were rolling the Robin over.

86svo9l, that is a good looking DFG vert, hell of a clean up job also! I agree with Win also, the Tri Bars are not generally liked however probably one of my favorite factory wheels on the GT. I think I may need to track down, or make a set of the tan bumper inserts also. I think they would look good on my DFGV as well.

86svo9l · Mar 25, 2014

Firefighter181 said:
Ha, I about died laughing when the Top Gear guys were rolling the Robin over.

86svo9l, that is a good looking DFG vert, hell of a clean up job also! I agree with Win also, the Tri Bars are not generally liked however probably one of my favorite factory wheels on the GT. I think I may need to track down, or make a set of the tan bumper inserts also. I think they would look good on my DFGV as well.

The tan inserts have really grown on me. My wife hates them, so I was going to remove them for her. I discovered when doing the back bumper that the tan is actually painted on redneck style :deeplist:...

86svo9l · Mar 25, 2014

MustangChris said:
is that an RX7?

Yea. It hides a secret though

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d1mike41 · Mar 25, 2014

Good job on cleaning that dirty engine. Looking good. Hope that knuckle is doing better. Looks like that RX7 is a beast.

DropTopPony · Mar 25, 2014

Win said:
Ah the good ole days of tri bars

i still love em. A ton of people hate them, but that's the first wheel that made me like the new 94GT when i first saw it.

Btw those tailpipes will come to literally a mirror shine will some wet sanding and metal polish.

I always liked the tribars better than the split 5 spoke on my 96. Almost bought a chrome set back when I first bought it.

MustangChris · Mar 25, 2014

86svo9l said:
Yea. It hides a secret though .

omgerd.

damn, man. how's that thing do on the track?

86svo9l · Mar 25, 2014

MustangChris said:
omgerd.

damn, man. how's that thing do on the track?

No idea. I sold my previous Mustangs to build this monstrosity. Took me over a year to get it in driving condition, finally fired it up two days before snow flew. So I did the test drive and then the drove to storage.

On the way home from storage on Sunday I decided to roll into the throttle a little bit. In 5th gear at 55mph I gave it about half throttle and it slid out on me so I let off. Scared the shit out of me, but I also had a giant grin on my face. Hopefully the spinning at those speeds can be halted with new tires, the ones on there now are the stock 16's and are terrible. Plus side of these cars is that they share the same offset as the 94-04 Mustangs so I can get a nice set of rims for a decent price.

Maybe drop the tri bars onto it once I convince the wife she needs a rim and tire upgrade on her vert.

MustangChris · Mar 26, 2014

86svo9l said:
No idea. I sold my previous Mustangs to build this monstrosity. Took me over a year to get it in driving condition, finally fired it up two days before snow flew. So I did the test drive and then the drove to storage.

golly. that's rough!

86svo9l · Apr 6, 2014

Well went and picked up new to me rims and tires today. I did not take it out of the garage yet due to it starting to sprinkle, but got them installed. I will try to get some pictures here in the near future. I took the time to clean up and paint the brake calipers and rotors too.

While installing the rims I discovered why the rear end was sitting so high. Jokingly a while back I mentioned it being so high because it was probably some redneck bs going on. Well come to find out I was right :slowclap: .