That was before I totaled my white fc. I'm actually keeping it now. Lol people bs too much. Plus I've got my friend who's going help me work on welding up the body. You should roll over sometime man or we can meet up. Good to meet some people in my neck of the woods

 

Here is a little update.

I was able to smooth out the huge chunk that was taken out from the control arm. Other than that it got up pretty nice and I should be able to get my red fc down sometime this weekend

 

Something before I take it in the shop and put it on the rotisserie

 

well my white fc is currently chillin until I get my list of part that I am "keeping" off of it and parts I will be selling, but if anyone is interested in some parts pm me and I'll let you know if I will be selling them or keepin them














need to get a new mirror piece for the side mirror






going to finish clearing everything out of there and put all my parts in boxes so I can start wire brushing the entire inside of the car to remove the tar and do some welding this winter

 

work bench is messy but it will be getting cleared off in time

 

For those who took the same route as me and decided to use a heat gun to remove the sound deadening material please pay attention..

before








after





With just 5 minutes of letting the 3m stuff sit. I was able to remove a majority of that black tar crap left over from my brilliant heat gun/scrapper idea

good stuff. I plan on using more to remove all the tar then I can start welding up some holes and stuff then prep then paint

 

Wow, that worked well! Keep the pics coming man, looks like your making good progress! So fresh and so clean!

 

A question...
It seems de rigueur to remove the factory sound damping material, how come?

 

Well I intend on painting the entire car. So IMO it is required to remove the sound material to "do it the right way." Even though the factory obviously painted the interior after they placed the material on the floor of the car.

 

OK, after paint what kind of sound deadening will you put back in?

 

Depends on if I want to track this car or not. If I decide to track it I won't put any back in. But if I decide not to track it ill put the dynamat on it.

 

That's not a late 60's Mustang under that cover, is it?
Looks like a great project you have going on! Looking forward to see where you are headed with it.

 

Maybe......lol

And thanks long process but will be worth it in the end. I think once I start getting into the motor more people will tune in. Lol

 

Good work man, keep it up

 

Thanks.
Right now I'm in the process of dismantling the s5 and separating the parts I'm keeping and parts I'm either selling or throwing away.

Long process but I'm labeling each part putting them in bags (nuts, bolts, screws, etc.) to make sure I know what to do with them as I get my s4 ready for the parts to be swapped

 

I thought you can use aftermarket lug nuts on the oem wheels...

 

So...Today I felt like putting the three new lugs that MAX sent out for me since the others seemed to be cut wrong or wrong threading (not to mention F*##ed up one of my ARP studs) and came to find a very disturbing thing....




notice the color difference...


thats because one is not even aluminum



since when does aluminum hold a magnet?



and if it is supposed to be "aluminum" then why did I not get "aluminum" lugs the first time!!!!

 

 

Leaning to paint it this color now....live the color

 

^ Yes!

 

I like it. Go for it

 

Please man, just maybe get a better job of it. Lol <3

 

I will obviously paint it better. Adobe only allows me to do so much ahha. I've actually grown fond of this bay color...

 

Little update.

Nothing special...just starting to strip my s5 now. Saw the extent of the damage from before....and just test fitted the s5 bumpers

 

Looks like you've made awesome progress so far! I'm a local MN guy as well, will be keeping tabs