66 Mustang - Techstang

[crestronwizard]

Hi Everyone. This has been a 5 year build. Going to post a quickie build thread as requested :).

[crestronwizard]

This is what I started with.

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Stripped it down with straightforward plans to put a 4.6 in and some suspension mods

When I started the build I only had two kids. Now I have 4!

[crestronwizard]

Project creep went into a full sprint as I got an AME Chassis and suspension goodies

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[crestronwizard]

On the welding table. Fitting the Coyote engine and building the floor, body mounts, etc

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[crestronwizard]

Flushed the glass

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Custom Headers

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[crestronwizard]

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I'm in the south. Gotta have AC!

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Figuring out the tailpipes

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Flushing the rear and mounting LED tail lights

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Built the grille

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Custom tank

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[crestronwizard]

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Big Bertha

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[crestronwizard]

Need more power. If only I had known how many headaches this had in store for me...............

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Finishing the smoothing

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Through the deck lid gas fill

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Let's just cut the hood to fit around the supercharger

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Body back off to head to paint prison

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[DBasher]

Patiently waiting for the rest....In the mean time, what's going on at the back of the car in the picture? I see the bumpers been molded into the body, is the trunk extended and the taillight panel recessed?

[crestronwizard]

Patiently waiting for the rest....In the mean time, what's going on at the back of the car in the picture? I see the bumpers been molded into the body, is the trunk extended and the taillight panel recessed?

It was an unexpected by product. Once the bumper and all was welded and molded in, the tail light pan appears recessed but I think we actually left it in the factory position. We added some metal to the trunk lid lip. I'd honestly have to have it next to a factory one to point out all the differences. Would make for a good "Hocus Pocus" in the newspaper, if you remember that strip. Lol

[crestronwizard]

At the body shop

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[crestronwizard]

Re-Assembly

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[crestronwizard]

Paint!

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[crestronwizard]

Put all this in there..........

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[Evan Iroc-Z]

That car is gorgeous!

[WSSix]

Love everything you've done with this car. It looks fantastic!

[hifi875]

Thats the knarliest coupe ive ever seen. great everything!!

[65 347]

I have been following your build on the mustang forum, nice to see you on here. Love the build , looks great!

Mike

[66fury]

what are the solenoids in front for, hood?

[MtotheIKEo]

Beautiful car. Looks great in that color with the black panels.

what are the solenoids in front for, hood?
I'm curious as well...

[crestronwizard]

Thanks everyone! The solenoids are for popping the hood :).

[crestronwizard]

Interior

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[crestronwizard]

Some more progress on the interior

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[syborg tt]

Incredible build and I can't wait to see more updates


Marty-MJ
www.garagescene.net

[tubbed69]

Incredible build and I can't wait to see more updates


Marty-MJ
www.garagescene.net

Marty I agree 100%,very nice work:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Joey stang]

What did you use for tail light lenses? I'd like to flush mount mine, and did you use the stock housing?

[crestronwizard]

What did you use for tail light lenses? I'd like to flush mount mine, and did you use the stock housing?

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone.

Had to make the housings. There may be an easier way now, but at the time we had to build everything. Got the parts from http://www.watsons-streetworks.com/index.php?route=common/home

[Jay Hilliard]

I saw your car at Jean-Noel's. Car looks great and you did a very nice build. Let me know when you go to pick it up and we can meet since I live in Pittsboro.

[crestronwizard]

I saw your car at Jean-Noel's. Car looks great and you did a very nice build. Let me know when you go to pick it up and we can meet since I live in Pittsboro.

Awesome. I will. Thanks

[John510]

Wow!!!!

[Vince@Meanstreets]

great build!!

[crestronwizard]

Carpet

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Quarter side panel finished

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[Frankenstine]

Nice Mustang build, What are your plans for it ? Drag Race, Auto Cross, Show Car, ? are you doing the work your self ?
Thanks
Keith

[preston]

On the backseat panel and the console you have some "chrome" strips.
What are those made of ? is it polished aluminum rod or something else ?
I'm interested in making something like that.

[crestronwizard]

Nice Mustang build, What are your plans for it ? Drag Race, Auto Cross, Show Car, ? are you doing the work your self ?
Thanks
Keith

Originally built to autocross. It's looking more and more like it's going to be for cruising and shows.

It's been a collaborative effort. About a year after I started the build I opened a shop. The design, drivetrain setup, electrical and assembly have been done by me. The metal work was done by Kelly Murphy and the paint was done by Larry Woodall. Jean-Noel at J-N-G Customs is doing the interior work.

[crestronwizard]

On the backseat panel and the console you have some "chrome" strips.
What are those made of ? is it polished aluminum rod or something else ?
I'm interested in making something like that.

Brushed Aluminum. http://www.claytonmachine.com/

[crestronwizard]

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[Try2paz]

simply amazing! great work

[crestronwizard]

simply amazing! great work

Thanks. Been very happy with Jean-Noel. This is one of the seats:

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[crestronwizard]

Sad day in my household. Those that have followed my build since the beginning know that I went out and purchased this car as a project to busy myself after my father passed from cancer. His twin brother, my uncle Wally, went with me when I got the project and has encouraged me the whole build. I had planned for him to come up next month and take the first ride.

On January 4th he was hit head on by a driver going the wrong way down Interstate 295 in Jacksonville, Fla. He passed away on the 8th. His entire adult life was dedicated to helping others, from being a medic in Vietnam to running the tissue donor bank (he was returning from performing a case), he always had a good joke to tell and tried to help whenever possible. Life is short, make the best of it and if you're out drinking and having a good time.........think about this post and take a cab home.

[glassman]

Sad day in my household. Those that have followed my build since the beginning know that I went out and purchased this car as a project to busy myself after my father passed from cancer. His twin brother, my uncle Wally, went with me when I got the project and has encouraged me the whole build. I had planned for him to come up next month and take the first ride.

On January 4th he was hit head on by a driver going the wrong way down Interstate 295 in Jacksonville, Fla. He passed away on the 8th. His entire adult life was dedicated to helping others, from being a medic in Vietnam to running the tissue donor bank (he was returning from performing a case), he always had a good joke to tell and tried to help whenever possible. Life is short, make the best of it and if you're out drinking and having a good time.........think about this post and take a cab home.


so sorry to hear that. Life is short, and precious.

On another note, i just saw/noticed your build. Love it. the car, the lines, the color selections etc....cant' wait to see it done. Very nice!!1

[DBasher]

Sorry to hear about your uncle. It's never easy and when it's something as irresponsible as a drunk driver it almost makes it worse.

The car is looking great and I'm sure they'd both be proud of what you've done.

:thumbsup:

[Jay Hilliard]

Sorry to hear about your uncles passing. My cousin went with me to Nebraska to get my wife's project a few years ago. He passed away 6 months later. I will always remember the time spent on the road with him and the talks/fun we had during that trip.

His wife later told me he cherished the time and had a great time. I'm sure your uncle had a great time and enjoyed every minute spending it with you.

God bless you and your family!

Jay

[rickpaw]

Sorry to hear about your uncle. You're right, life is short. Too bad he did not have a chance to ride in the Mustang, which is turning out killer.

[GregWeld]

Very sorry to hear this sad news. Such a needless tragedy. I haven't had a drink for almost 32 years now... and I'm always the DD in our "group". As we've all aged - my friends are responsible enough now to start to drink water an hour or more before they know they're hitting the road. So there is "improvement" on drunk driving, just not enough.

Both our kids have our Uber account so they can use that when they need it - and I know they do use it!

[crestronwizard]

Thank you everyone

Made my way to the interior shop today. Snapped some pics of the door. Coming together nicely.

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[crestronwizard]

Insert for the passenger door

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[preston]

My condolences on your Uncle. Sounds like a great guy.

Interior looks killer.

I"ve struggled with the doors on these cars, I can't use the aftermarket full door panels that are sold because the roll bar hits the extended arm rest, and its way down on the project list to build one myself, but the bare metal part of the door always bothered me - I never thought of just upholstering the metal directly and then using a somewhat standard inner panel, great stuff there.

But beyond that the panel looks positively Bentley-ish. Was never really sure how a speaker would fit in there either, that's pretty amazing.

Do you have a picture of the inner door metal before mounting the speaker baffle ? I"m curious how much of a hole you cut there.

BTW, I'm a big mobile audio guy, can you detail out your system for us ?

[crestronwizard]

The panel all together.......

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[crestronwizard]

My condolences on your Uncle. Sounds like a great guy.

Interior looks killer.

I"ve struggled with the doors on these cars, I can't use the aftermarket full door panels that are sold because the roll bar hits the extended arm rest, and its way down on the project list to build one myself, but the bare metal part of the door always bothered me - I never thought of just upholstering the metal directly and then using a somewhat standard inner panel, great stuff there.

But beyond that the panel looks positively Bentley-ish. Was never really sure how a speaker would fit in there either, that's pretty amazing.

Do you have a picture of the inner door metal before mounting the speaker baffle ? I"m curious how much of a hole you cut there.

BTW, I'm a big mobile audio guy, can you detail out your system for us ?

TY. I used to do 12 volt audio for a living back in the 90's. To answer your questions:

Not too big a hole. Just slightly bigger than the magnet. It sits about an eighth inch away from the window frame. I was going to use waveguides to begin with but went away from that because of space concerns and making it look right. So, I am running a JL C5 3-way setup in the front. It's a 6 1/2 in the door and a 4 in and tweeter in the kickpanel. They get ran off of a JL HD600/4 which I ended up bridging to two channels. The subs are JL 13TW5v2-2 13" shallow mount subwoofers. They get driven by a JL HD1200/1. I used a Pioneer headunit that's mounted in the trunk. I control it with the Crestron system and will mostly just bluetooth to it. I am signed up for the Goodguys show in April (Raleigh, NC) and hopefully it will be all done :).

[preston]

Sounds good.

Horns would look really cool and different and the EJS mini-horns would fit nice under the dash, but I put them in my truck and while the imaging is superb (especially compared to other options in a truck) I don't think they sound nearly as nice as the normal Hybrid Audio 3 way in my Cadillac. I"ve eq'ed the bright spots but they just don't have that soft smooth sound. Lots of other factors between the 2 vehicles but its like the difference between a tube and a solid state amp.

I really like what you've done with the interior, very inspiring for me.

[crestronwizard]

Seats in! Should be all done with the interior this week. Then install the front and back glass, headlights and front grille. Couple of other loose ends and all done! (for now)

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[crestronwizard]

Thanks Everyone.

Trunk coming together. Should be all done tomorrow :).

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[crestronwizard]

Almost.................

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[crestronwizard]

Interior is done! Now I will spend the next 2 weeks finishing up the other odds and ends then back to the body shop for final alignments, buffing , etc.

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[gnx7]

Sorry to hear about your uncle passing....

That is one hell of an incredible build. The interior is ridiculously nice! I love seeing it being build in stages with the wood base progressing from there. That interior guy is pretty incredible.

[crestronwizard]

Sorry to hear about your uncle passing....

That is one hell of an incredible build. The interior is ridiculously nice! I love seeing it being build in stages with the wood base progressing from there. That interior guy is pretty incredible.

Thanks. He is unreal. Said it was the most difficult car he's ever done (because of all the panels and working around the cage, etc). The car is way beyond what I had planned but hope to enjoy it.

[curleysracecars]

What wheels are those if you dont mind me asking? I notice two different offsets front to back. I am noticing that on the car I am building, the front wheels seem to have to have alot of backspace...otherwise the control arms get really short. Ive spent too many hours looking for wheels...lol
Great looking car! Keep it up.

[Try2paz]

beautiful car! The interior is simply amazing! enjoy it!

What are the details on your gauge setup? Is that a mini ipad?

[crestronwizard]

What wheels are those if you dont mind me asking? I notice two different offsets front to back. I am noticing that on the car I am building, the front wheels seem to have to have alot of backspace...otherwise the control arms get really short. Ive spent too many hours looking for wheels...lol
Great looking car! Keep it up.

They are from Rushforth Wheels. Jason Rushforth is great to work with.

[crestronwizard]

beautiful car! The interior is simply amazing! enjoy it!

What are the details on your gauge setup? Is that a mini ipad?

Thanks. The Touchscreens are from Crestron. Automation systems is what I do for a living so I incorporated it into the build. I am going to do a write up once I finish everything.

[crestronwizard]

The girls checking out the interior. They came along since I've been working on the project, lol.

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Test fitting the windshield

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[crestronwizard]

Some pics of the LED Headlights and Grille Installed

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[preston]

Which headlights are you using ?

Let us know how you like them. Might be awhile before you actually drive it in the dark though !

[waynieZ]

Beautiful job on the car! The inspectors look happy.

[crestronwizard]

Which headlights are you using ?

Let us know how you like them. Might be awhile before you actually drive it in the dark though !

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They seem super bright. Loaded the car up in the dark to take for glass. Had to cut out about 3/8" on one side of the windshield. Tinting this week then installing. Hoping the flush glass turns out nice.

[crestronwizard]

Beautiful job on the car! The inspectors look happy.

Thank you. They're mad at me right now because I haven't taken them on a ride. They enjoy the "monkey bars" though.

[crestronwizard]

Parking lights complete. This was something that should not have been as much of a pita as it turned out to be.

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[crestronwizard]

Doing some detail work

Clamped the upper hoses. More on order for the other hoses

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Power Steering has been one of the top 5 PITA's of this build. When I started this build Turn-Key was the only option. They send a plastic reservoir and it just hasn't worked well. Got two of these nice metal ones in with -AN fittings. 1 for the mustang and 1 for the truck. Works way better.

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No more wire ties :)

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[crestronwizard]

Fixed the exhaust tips.

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[Josh@Ridetech]

Fixed the exhaust tips.

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[crestronwizard]

Finally got around to making the radiator look better. These are the stages of progression

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[crestronwizard]

Spent a lot of time this week getting the windows adjusted correctly. Note for any future builds, stick with factory doors.

Painted the headlight trims black. Feel it looks a lot better

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[crestronwizard]

Anyone ever used Bayer Plexi? I have a couple of questions. Thanks

[F'in mine]

Fixed the exhaust tips.

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Awesome fab work on the whole car! Nice touch on the blacked out tail panel.

[crestronwizard]

Thanks!

[preston]

>Note for any future builds, stick with factory doors

You are using re-pop doors ?

I used a door from NPD (I think it was dynacorn) and it was actually very nice. Of course after splitting it in half and widening it 2", maybe tweaking things to fit the glass didn't seem like a big deal. But really, everything fit pretty good I was impressed with it.

I love how you can build these cars out of a catalog now.

[crestronwizard]

>Note for any future builds, stick with factory doors

You are using re-pop doors ?

I used a door from NPD (I think it was dynacorn) and it was actually very nice. Of course after splitting it in half and widening it 2", maybe tweaking things to fit the glass didn't seem like a big deal. But really, everything fit pretty good I was impressed with it.

I love how you can build these cars out of a catalog now.

Turns out the issue is the glass. None of the glass was correct.

[crestronwizard]

Testing the parking light LED's

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[crestronwizard]

Tint is complete. Windshield in Monday. Ready for next weekends show.

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[67greengt]

right on! looks awesome, you must be stoked to start raking up the miles on it..

[crestronwizard]

right on! looks awesome, you must be stoked to start raking up the miles on it..

Yes! Been a long time coming.

[crestronwizard]

Flushmount Glass is in!!!

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[crestronwizard]

My first car show. Goodguys Show in Raleigh. Met a ton of great people. Overall a successful show.

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[Centerforce]

Congratulations on the award! We're really liking the color scheme on this. It seems that most mustangs these days are in brighter colors, so its nice to be reminded of how good dark colors can look as well!

[MSTSFabbed]

Congrats!! Its looking great!

[ZMAN1969]

Wow Crestronwizard amazing! only thing I would of altered was to make it a fastback -nice work!

[crestronwizard]

Wow Crestronwizard amazing! only thing I would of altered was to make it a fastback -nice work!

Thanks!

Everyone does fastbacks :)

[crestronwizard]

Custom GUI up and running

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[crestronwizard]

Pictures from the Cars and Coffee in Greensboro this past weekend. Photo Credit to William Hall McGee

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[preston]

Looking good !

did you wrap some thin leather around the inner door outside of the panels ? That's not just brown paint right ? I think I saw a picture of that, just wondering how you trimmed/rolled/cleaned up the outside edges including int the window jam.

I think I said this before but great job on the door panels those look really nice.

(ha ha you are thinking "all the work I did on this car and he's gushing about the door panels")

[crestronwizard]

Looking good !

did you wrap some thin leather around the inner door outside of the panels ? That's not just brown paint right ? I think I saw a picture of that, just wondering how you trimmed/rolled/cleaned up the outside edges including int the window jam.

I think I said this before but great job on the door panels those look really nice.

(ha ha you are thinking "all the work I did on this car and he's gushing about the door panels")

lol. It's all leather. Wrapped around. I am proud of how the door panels turned out too. It was my plan for awhile and I am glad it turned out great.

Something that didn't occur to me until someone brought it up this weekend............the car is entirely locally built. Obviously all the stuff I did but also the paint guy, Interior guy and part of the metal work that I farmed out was to local guys. Kinda proud of that :)

[crestronwizard]

Photo Shoot. Photos by http://arielperezphotography.pixieset.com/ Model https://www.facebook.com/alicia.fields.752

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[crestronwizard]

Finally put a garage at the house

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[sanddan]

It's a shame the pictures are gone.

[crestronwizard]

It's a shame the pictures are gone.

Yeah. Phanfare got bought out. If I get some time I may try to post what I think the picture was, they are all uploaded to Smug Mug now.