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SinCityFX4 Tue, January 27th, 2009 09:28 AM

66 Mustang
 
Man, a 66 Mustang. A project car from a while back. It was a little putter, had the 250 Straight 6 in it, no power ANYTHING. That had to the easiest vehicle I have ever worked on, those days are long gone for sure. Just felt good cruising around in it.

:thisjustin:Man, not enough :nitenite: is leaving me a little :notallthere:

No more flashbacks today....

Power Hungry Tue, January 27th, 2009 11:35 AM

One of the first full engine swaps I ever did was a mildly built 289 4bbl & C4 into a 65 Mustang that had a 250 & 3spd. For anyone that has ever done a swap in a Mustang, you can understand my surprise when the engine wouldn't fit with the headers on it! :doh: As it was, we had to shoehorn the little bugger in with the headers in place and 1 guy on each side holding them up. Plus, because we didn't have the front end lifted up, we couldn't get the engine and trans lifted in at the same time so we just threw the trans in place on the ground and dropped the engine in.

Outside of those few snags, everything else went super smoothly. Scammed a factory automatic shifter out of an old junker for the trans and we were good to go.

The Christening drive was about 2 in the morning with the headers still open. Made a LOT of "friends" that night, but fortunately it was a Saturday. :o It's interesting to me just how light those little pony cars are. It takes nothing to blow the tires off of them! There really is an art to handling a car like that when launching so you don't end up looking into oncoming traffic. :yikes2:

Fun days, fer sure!

SinCityFX4 Tue, January 27th, 2009 11:18 PM

God that 289 was a great hunk of metal. That is a great visual of you guys trying to get that in there.:smiley_roll1:

As for the test drive:yikes2:

Bet people heard you guys from across the county:hehe:

johnnyd Sun, March 8th, 2009 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Power Hungry (Post 2290)
One of the first full engine swaps I ever did was a mildly built 289 4bbl & C4 into a 65 Mustang that had a 250 & 3spd. For anyone that has ever done a swap in a Mustang, you can understand my surprise when the engine wouldn't fit with the headers on it! :doh: As it was, we had to shoehorn the little bugger in with the headers in place and 1 guy on each side holding them up. Plus, because we didn't have the front end lifted up, we couldn't get the engine and trans lifted in at the same time so we just threw the trans in place on the ground and dropped the engine in.

Outside of those few snags, everything else went super smoothly. Scammed a factory automatic shifter out of an old junker for the trans and we were good to go.

The Christening drive was about 2 in the morning with the headers still open. Made a LOT of "friends" that night, but fortunately it was a Saturday. :o It's interesting to me just how light those little pony cars are. It takes nothing to blow the tires off of them! There really is an art to handling a car like that when launching so you don't end up looking into oncoming traffic. :yikes2:

Fun days, fer sure!

Too funny. I know exactly what you mean with the headers and the trans. :cool_beans: I loved my 66

For some reason I dont have the "upload picture" option in my gallerys. I scanned some pics from when I had my stang in HS (20+ yrs ago) but I can't upload it, hmmm :help:

johnnyd Thu, March 12th, 2009 04:56 PM

Here we go.

These are pics from around 86. Sitting in the yard is at my parents house. We pulled the motor out at my friends house which is behind the blue Chevy.

http://dygytalworld.ehost-services13...&pictureid=251

SinCityFX4 Fri, March 13th, 2009 10:09 PM

Yum..thanx for that. Took me back for a minute.

johnnyd Fri, March 13th, 2009 10:11 PM

I need to figure out how to enlarge scanned images :shrug:

Power Hungry Wed, March 18th, 2009 02:00 PM

Scan 'em at 1200x1200, or at least 600x600. That'll make 'em plenty big. Most scanners default to 150x150 which is generally good for web stuff, but that's about it. Anything else you try to do to expand the smaller images will just make them look pixellated and blocky.

Take care.

johnnyd Wed, March 18th, 2009 07:26 PM

Thanks Bill:thumbs up yellow:

EddiesF150 Thu, March 19th, 2009 01:29 AM

Funny ya'll should be talking about '66 Mustangs, I'm getting ready to get back to work on MY restoration (resto-mod) as soon as I'm able to get around in the garage a little better. If ya want to see pics and a lil' history about my '66, then follow this link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eddies6...7600823609150/


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