68 Mustang from the Philippines

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I retired 5 years ago. So I have sometime doing cars that I would like.

It was then the height of the Eleanor craze so I tried to do one. I found a good body that cost me about $1000. Since buying the Eleanor kit and shipping it to the Philippines will be very expensive so I did everything in steel.

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I wanted to put the largest Ford engine and I found a 460 for $500. To ease installation I opted to remove the shock towers and move the engine 10 inches to the rear.

And since moving the engine 10 inches to the rear will live a large void in front so I tried fitting 4 small turbos.



Please understand that this project will be done using 2nd hand parts to be cheap, since performance parts are very expensive in the Philippines.

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Another shot of the engine bay with 4 turbos, 2 intercoolers , pipes are custom built. Oil and water supply for the turbos will be a dedicated system and separate from the engine.







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I also found a complete C4 Corvette suspension and adapted it to the Mustang.
Surprisingly, it was a fit!

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Here are the steel conversion photos.

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looks good, but why are there pics of 2 different cars?

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Since everything south of the engine will be moved 10 inches also, I did a six point roll bar and made a custom dash.









Dash being painted.

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The floors are all rusted up so I decided to remove the floor boards and do a space frame backbone.

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The car has been turned to a true 2-seater.

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Overhead console mounted on the roll cage.