Frame repair and new go fast goodies

Started patching up the frame on the Squire.

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It still needs a bunch of pieces replaced, I ran out of time on it. And since I totalled my protege, I can't have the squire in pieces. I am currently daily driving the country squire. It's killing me with 40-50 dollar a DAY fillups.

On the happier side of things, I recieved my Eaton M90 earlier this week. That's destined for my squire. Going to build the setup from scratch. Should be a fun project.

 

Good luck with the patching, seems like you have some work to do there. I am really curious what setup you will go for with the M90. Please keep us posted!

 

Ah yes! The old framing adventure. Looks like major progress though.

 

I drive 150 miles a day from the md/pa border to dc. Its killer. Another fun thing I did friday night was to tune the car a bit more. I added a bunch of part throttle timing and changed all of the injector timing. The car is running much stronger and smoother.

 

I'll use mine to see if I can help you pass more gas stations and drop a 427 Eleanor mill in it. If the fuel is free, who cares about HP and MPG!!!

 

all the pounding you give her.!!...and she was rusty??....
nice work....wierd rust

 

the spot is a common place for rust to breed. The ac drain drips on the frame and fills it up since there arent any drain holes in the frame. i had known there was a small spot that needed patching. It grew quite large once I started poking around. Eventually Id like to swap the frame for a full custom bagged one designed for handling.

 

My AC drain was doing that too, but it had a bit of swivel slack (after cleaning off the body sealer) and I directed it away from the frame by about 3 inches. The other trick was the emergency brake plastic flap on the outer cowl. I made up a PVC flap to keep the AC drain away from the cowl too.

You want frame sources?

I like his 'catalog' style page design:
http://www.fatmanfab.com/products.htm

This guy has neat Frame/Suspension goodies too!
http://www.hotpart.com/index.php?p=products

Stiffer suspension (needed on a real Lampoon movie set, but who knows?)

Anyway some good INSTALL info.

http://www.man-a-fre.com/technical_info/ti.htm

 

Some nice goodies there. I'd love a restomod car. So expensive though

 

I've got these links, because I'm planning on building my own Real Woody (Pre-40's Wood). With suspension goodies like those, you could have a low-rider do grasshopper stunts!

 

Nice!

I want to make a nice all around car that rides and handles a bit better than my car currently does. I just want a stock super clean paintjob and a redone stock interior, with some gauges and a console added. (gotta have some cupholders!)

 

Oh, yeah... mockup pics....

 

No Chrome Billet curb feelers?

After seeing HandyAndy's stock map light, I could even be persuaded to not build a custom roof console. Real sweet, that map light.

What's that blue box under the hood for?

 

Nope, no curb feelers. Too new of a car to look good. Well, if everything else is custom, why not go all out custom I like stock, that's why pretty much anything I do is all stock ford parts. Heck, even the blue box (which is just tape and styrofoam for mockup clearance purposes) is off a ford thunderbird. It's for melting tires.