Lining up the Hood and grilles – More drama!

Well we’ve had a lot of issues with the hood and it’s beginning to become a major headache. It seems the front nose is not square to start with and being perfectionists we’d like to get it straight on. But as you can see from the above image she’s beginning to come together!

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Own a Mustang? Send me your pictures

I’ve had a few people contacting me regarding tips or information for their own projects so I though I may as well feature their cars on the site for everyone to see.

So if your reading this and own a Mustang of any kind, preferably a 1967 and 1968 (but will post others) send some photos and a little write up of your project, how you got it, what you’ve done and what it’s going to be like. If all goes well I’ll post them up in a series.

Get sending

Nissan RB26 Powered Mustang

Some of you rev heads may have seen The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift from a few years back and some of you may have missed it all together, but one of the most intriguing things in the movie was a 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback powered by a Nissan RB26DETT which is originally found in the holy grail of all Japanese performance cars, the Nissan Skyline GT-R. The twin-turbocharged inline six delivers about 320-330 horsepower….

Pics after the jump

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Fabrication of functional brake vents

So as you all know the car is going to have functional upper scoops and lower scoops. Early on the scoops were functional but as costs got higher and higher they had to cut back and in 1967 the lower brake cooling vents were not functional as Carrol Shelby said on TLC’s “Rides”

In 65′ everything was functional……air scoops, all that stuff was functional. 66′ semi functional. 67′ and 8, not so functional anymore.

I’m doing it a bit differently and opening them up, not that they will need cooling though!

Anyway we’ve made some progress and here are two pictures showing the tub cut through the side and into the wheel arch from the inside.

Another local car show

Well Sydney threw up another beautiful hot and sunny day today. I was just cruising around with my friend when he told me about a vintage car show around the corner at a local park! I was completely shocked I didn’t know about it. Anyway we drove down and had a look around.

Lots of pics after the jump

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Glueing the upper scoops – More progress!

Good news! The upper scoops are now glued into place. We’ve opened them up and had them glued into their final location. They’re looking great.

The other two photos are of the front end where we’re still working on making it all fit up nicely. Another issue we’re having is deciding how to fit the front grille. I’m told there are several ways that can be used to fit this but i still need to investigate. For now here are the update pictures, enjoy.

Toby’s Eleanor project

Well I thought I would show you all my friend Toby’s project. Toby is a friend of mine who also lives in Sydney and owns a 1968 Fastback. It was converted to RHD some time ago but upon sending it to the guys to have it turned into an Eleanor it became apparent there was a lot of work that needed doing or re-doing.

The car is currently with the conversion guys (where mine is headed after the body is fitted) There was a lot of work to do with his conversion as it appeared it was done very shabbily originally. The car is set to go to the body guys soon where they will work on it along with mine.

I don’t have Toby’s car particulars with me but I will get them and post them up. But for now here are some progress pics to keep you busy.

RRS to distribute Dynacorn body shells in Australia

That’s right! Sydney based company RRS is set to become Australia’s sole distributor for the much hyped Dynacorn body shells.

But what’s most exciting is that it appears RRS will be releasing a complete 1967 Fastback ‘kit’ at the Sema Show in the USA in October/November 2007 comprising of the NEW 67 Mustang Dynacorn shell, RRS complete under body products, CDC interior and Ford big block engine. So all eyes will be on Sema.

Apart from that, they seem to have some nice new products about to hit the shelves such as:

Eleanor gets her nose!

Another week and another updated on the fitting of the kit. Having finished fitting just about everything to the rear we’ve now turned our attention to the front of the car.

You can see from the above the we now have the front facade on and you can see the black hood pin brackets I purchased from Unique Performance. Now it’s not all roses up front with things far from lining up. You can see that below.

Now those with a keen eye will notice the hood we are using is a GT style hood and not the Eleanor one. This is just while we are trying to get it to line up. When looking at the hood fitting pay NO attention to how out of line it is long-ways, this is because the GT hood is shorter than what the Eleanor hood is. With the Eleanor front kit it pushes the car out a bit longer.

What we are looking at is how the corner tip of the hood is sitting on the nose and not falling into the groove. See below for circled versions.

So all in all it’s looking great, but there are lots of man hours going into getting it right. But we can’t rush these things. It’s been nearly three years… what’s a few more months…or years.