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skunk

skunk

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Yep, Finally got it this weekend. Bought me a 1991 fox body mustang gt hatchback. 2 owner 102,000 miles comes out to about 6,300 miles a year driven. always garaged by both owners.last owner had it for 12yrs and wants a new stang. car is mint, interior is mint underneath looks like my contour. has a 302 H.O., 5spd t-5, 3.73 rear end. bbk shorties, king cobra clutch, bbk qaudrant/cable with firewall adjuster, clutch and cable all recent. I just ordered from 50resto 1993 cobra wheels(always loved the looks of them) 17x8.5" wrapped in 255/40-17 rubber some nice big meats. It's oxford white/ grey. I took some pics on my sons camera and I'll figure out how to post them.

This thing hauls the mail and I can't wait to do some more work to it. I'll be spending some time joining some mustang sites and getting some more info.It will be a drive restore project, it's going to need paint and some minor refreshing outside after all it's 16yrs old and some miner interior trim stuff to get it up to snuff but nothing major. It's going to spend the winters inside my parents garage, although it's in my garage right now so the contour is outside :shocked: . I thought I would never do it myself but I ordered a new cover from cover craft and I'm trying to keep the mustang preserved, gotta do it.

I'll probally be meeting up with mike and kim soon so I'll bring you guys some pics if I don't get any up by then. I'm so excited, there is so much crap to buy for these things I'm going nuts already :crazy: :help: :laugh: .
 
congrats! sounds like a nice ride, look forward to some pics. i have owned 7 fox body stangs, loved them all. have to say my mystique makes me forget all about my old stangs.
 
The main reason I bought it was the limited amount of mods, it wasn't beat. I wanted a solid foundation to restore the exterior (minus wheels), and interior to stock. the places you can't really see like underneath will get subframe connectors, upper/lower arms in the rear etc. down the road the motor will be pulled for a rebuild, heads intake, etc will be done, but again trying to remain stock looking, like porting, gt 40 heads, extrude hone upper intake etc. the car will be streetable, no turbo or supercharger.

I don't care if an svt, or a vw can take it, the same way I felt with my contour, I don't race. I bought for me, I don't need tickets or to get killed in it. my goal is to restore it not wreck it and maybe get it in a magazine one day who knows, there aren't many fox bodies around so you never know.
 
skunk said:
The main reason I bought it was the limited amount of mods, it wasn't beat. I wanted a solid foundation to restore the exterior (minus wheels), and interior to stock. the places you can't really see like underneath will get subframe connectors, upper/lower arms in the rear etc. down the road the motor will be pulled for a rebuild, heads intake, etc will be done, but again trying to remain stock looking, like porting, gt 40 heads, extrude hone upper intake etc. the car will be streetable, no turbo or supercharger.

I don't care if an svt, or a vw can take it, the same way I felt with my contour, I don't race. I bought for me, I don't need tickets or to get killed in it. my goal is to restore it not wreck it and maybe get it in a magazine one day who knows, there aren't many fox bodies around so you never know.
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gotta love a clean fox. Im jealous. mine was not clean at all when i bought it, but then again I was seventeen and just wanted one real bad. 6 years later, its still in the garage. 3 engines, 2 trannys, and 2 rear ends later....

do yourself a favor, and get rid of that piece of junk bbk clutch quadrant. I had one in mine and i hated it. It changes the length of the lever arm, causing an increase in the force needed on the pedal, plus it has a larger diameter hole to account for fords poor tolerance on the shafts location. I switched my bbk out to a Maximum motorsports with a maximum motorsports cable. WOW, night and day. better pedal feel, lighter pedal, and a smoother cable. trust me, you will thank yourself to switch it.

check this out from maximum motorsports website:

Not all clutch quadrants are created equal!

Maximum Motorsports raises the bar by manufacturing a clutch quadrant to replace the brittle plastic factory quadrant. The strong, yet lightweight (only 4.4 oz.) CNC aluminum quadrant was our engineering department's answer to the shortcomings of all other clutch quadrants. It allows the use of a durable stock style cable, not requiring an adjustable cable. A firewall adjuster is required.

It is the details that seperates the Maximum Motorsports Clutch Quadrant from all others.

Works with a durable stock cable because we designed the quadrant and the firewall adjuster around the stock cable. All other quadrants require aftermarket adjustable cables which stretch, break, collapse and melt much easier than the factory cable.

The mounting hole diameters are critical. Too loose and the quadrant will "wobble" side to side adding slop to the pedal feel. Too tight and it wont fit. We hold a very tight tolerance during manufacture to ensure the proper fit.

The slotted second hole is Maximum Motorsports' solution to Ford's loose tolerance on the distance between the two shafts that hold the quadrant. To deal with this problem, some manufactures make the second hole extra large to fit all cars. Others do not use a hole at all and allow the quadrant to rest on top of the second shaft. Both methods result in a loose, rattling pedal.

A stock quadrant radius is used on the MM Clutch Quadrant. A larger radius is not necessary and will cause three problems. It increases pedal effort, causes the clutch cable to rub on the cable housing at the firewall, prematurely wearing it out, and it overstrokes the pressure plate. A smaller radius won't allow the clutch to fully disengage.

A machined flat to allow the cable end to sit square. Other companies use too large a radius thus bending the end of cable. This unnecessary stress leads to broken clutch cables.

We machine the correct side of quadrant to make installation easier. One end of the clutch quadrant is machined thinner than the rest. This is to make installation much easier on pre 1994 cars that have a support bracket which complicates quadrant access. Most manufacturers machine the wrong side of the quadrant, which makes installation difficult and frustrating. This makes it easy to see who copies problems and who solves problems. The MM Clutch Quadrant is machined correctly, thus solving the installation problem.
 
Congrats on the Fox! :drool:

I wish I never sold mine. I had an 88 LX 5.0 Notchback 5 speed in perfect condition, bone stock, and ran like a dream.

We have a 93 GT Vert in my family now. Black with black leather, but its automatic. :cry: It's parked in the garage now wasting space. It needs a tranny, convertible top and headlights won't turn on. I want to convert to a manual tranny instead of fixing the POS auto tranny, but I have no idea what kinda work is involved with that.
 
cannondalemtb said:
Are you kidding me?
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I miss qouted myself, I ment one day and probally not to far in the future, mint clean foxes are going to be far and few and stock ones even fewer. but nice comment anyway's.

turbo fox I was already on maximum motorsports website, funny you mentioned them. I noticed my clutch petal is a little higher than the brake and is very stiff, is still grabs good though. I didn't think much about the pedal effort thought it was more the clutch and typical cable vs hydraulic. I also read on the mustang sites that they recommend staying with the oem cable since so many have had problems with the others and mms only sells the oem cable with there qauds, hmm I'll look into this.
 
I took turbo foxes advice and picked up the a new clutch cable and quad. I think this will be a better set up and give better shifts, the pedal is a little to high now and stiff. thanks again for the info. They are sending me a catolog they have a nice strut brace and and tons of chassis stuff. man this is going to be fun. I can't forget about the contour though and I have to find time to ride the motorcycle, uhh oh to many toys :laugh: .
 
yeah me to but had to make a decision at the time. The contour can handle some rain until the new cover comes and I want to keep the mustang body in good shape. down the road we are building a car port of the side of the house thats why I had the driveway wrap around. then when I take the mustang out of winter storage at my parents, one will be in the garage and the other under a car cover under the port.
 
Installed the new clutch cable setup, much better. also put on the 93 cobra replica wheels with the sumitomo htrz's 255/40/17 serious grip, took her out ripping through the gears fun oh fun :drool: . I'm still going through the resto catologs making lists and such, funny I was reading a post about car painting and reading a replay by brian, I'm with him the two shops by me and one being my freinds wasn't under 3grand for a full color shoot on the stang and it's white, one of the cheapest colors. you have to pay for the prep it's all in the prep!
 
skunk said:
Installed the new clutch cable setup, much better. also put on the 93 cobra replica wheels with the sumitomo htrz's 255/40/17 serious grip, took her out ripping through the gears fun oh fun :drool: . I'm still going through the resto catologs making lists and such, funny I was reading a post about car painting and reading a replay by brian, I'm with him the two shops by me and one being my freinds wasn't under 3grand for a full color shoot on the stang and it's white, one of the cheapest colors. you have to pay for the prep it's all in the prep!
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good to hear, glad you like the setup. i cant wait to check it out.
 
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