Thread: Taking The Wife's Car for a Spin

Originally Posted by cheetahmeatpheonix

Post more pics of that '65 man. I want to see it lowered, front bumper removed and replaced with the racing apron, disc brakes all around, side scoops, roll cage, Lincoln rear, braided hose, battery located in the trunk, 289 small block with 351 Cleveland Heads, lots of powder coating and candy coated paint with 30 coats of clear. I 'll let you pic rims and tires..LOL Just kidding. Beautiful car. Let me know if you have a '65 fastback for sale.

Hah! Well, I asked the wife what she wanted before we started: Concours original, full custom, "day-two", sleeper, etc. She said, "What's a 'sleeper'"? I said, "Well, nobody knows - until it blows by them!" So, basically, she wants all original-looking on the outside and original Pony interior, since it was one of the first Mustangs to get it (March of '65 was when the car was built and the same month when the GT and Pony options first became available), and she said I can do what I want with the engine as long as it's all chromed out. I'm also free to do what I want with the suspension as long as it doesn't severely alter the look of the car. I've got 1" lift springs in the rear, thicker sway bars and will be doing a Shelby drop in the front, but that won't lower it much more than a half inch. The more important result is better steering geometry and the ability to introduce a positive caster angle for better cornering and tracking. (Those old Mustangs castered at 0 from the factory, believe it or not). If I can get at least two degrees without binding the lower control arm, I'll be content, but I'm looking to get 3.5 degrees if I can. (race cars will run custom tubular control arms with 5 degrees or more). Probably not going to do much more to the engine than what you see for now: That's a Holley 570 Steet Avenger 4-barrel with vacuum secondaries (It's a C4 automatic still set up with the factory big-dot/little-dot "select-shift") sitting on a Weiand Street Warrior dual-plane intake, fed by a Holley Street Performance fuel pump. It'll get Tri-Y Shelby headers and I'm debating on whether to keep the Blue Streak glass packs that are on it. They aren't made anymore and are illegal as hell here in Hawaii, but they sure sound good!