38stang
Active Member
Some of you may know that I totaled my 96 from over on v6power. So I've started building a new to me 96 mustang that looks just like my original car with the exception that my old car was fully loaded and this one has no options. This one is also dented up and needs paint bad and the engine was bad. But it was fine for a $450 car that is now going to be a race car. The old car was a street car first and a race car second, this one will be a race car first.
To get every one up to speed with were it is now:
The plan was to pull the entire drivetrain from the wrecked car and transfer it to the new one. Well I found out the crank was bent so I ordered a scat crank after going through a bunch of re-man cranks. Got it balanced and didn't realize scat made there cranks with larger counter weights (and yes they hit the pistons) so I had to send it back to the shop and have it cut down and rebalanced. So after that I started installing the pistons and damn it wouldn't you know I broke a ring installing the 3rd piston so I ordered all new rings and re-honed the cylinders. That is were I'm at with the engine right now. Waiting on the new rings to come it.
I'm going with a water to air intercooler this time around and have moved the blower up to were the A/C used to sit and in doing that I was able to keep the factory tensioner, this should give me better grip on the blower pulley than the cheap one procharger provides.
This was my old car
The old engine set up
And what happened
To get every one up to speed with were it is now:
The plan was to pull the entire drivetrain from the wrecked car and transfer it to the new one. Well I found out the crank was bent so I ordered a scat crank after going through a bunch of re-man cranks. Got it balanced and didn't realize scat made there cranks with larger counter weights (and yes they hit the pistons) so I had to send it back to the shop and have it cut down and rebalanced. So after that I started installing the pistons and damn it wouldn't you know I broke a ring installing the 3rd piston so I ordered all new rings and re-honed the cylinders. That is were I'm at with the engine right now. Waiting on the new rings to come it.
I'm going with a water to air intercooler this time around and have moved the blower up to were the A/C used to sit and in doing that I was able to keep the factory tensioner, this should give me better grip on the blower pulley than the cheap one procharger provides.
This was my old car

The old engine set up

And what happened
