Kharp

Bought myself an early Black Friday rear disc brake kit


One side close to done - unfortunately the other side has an axle that doesn't want to cooperate




HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO MY GEARHEAD BUDDIES!

Kharp

Time to finish the exhaust. I started collecting parts a while back but soon realized I needed to nail few more things down like the frame notches, battery location, rear calipers, sway bar, etc.
The car has stock exhaust manifolds and with these parts shown I'm aiming for a quite sound for cruising and highway driving. Quite????? I know I'm getting old


Brand new Mustang mufflers with a handful of miles. Some kid couldn't wait to get some loud mufflers on his brand new car, and I was proud to get them
Carefully peeled out the factory pipes.



Probably the hardest section right here jogging around the brake booster and leaving room near the frame.


Fast forward to a few weeks ago with body on frame. Located O2 sensors.


Made some body templates so I could do the rest of the exhaust without the body.


Temporarily located the mufflers - these are pretty heavy duty OEM mufflers. In other words heavy!!


Found these rubber pieces online and the "Fab Director" built a muffler mount around them. These support the front of the muffler.


Also found these pieces online and Fab Director came through on these as well. These support the rear of the muffler.


The system has sections that are flanged to allow for disassembly to be welded up by a real welder and get ceramic coated. Thank you Bill Arnold for this idea!!


Exhaust now roughed in. Ready to move on to the next items on the list

kwhizz

Fantastic !!!!!!

Kharp

Ken and Eric - thanks for encouraging me to build a new rear crossmember. It has provided more benefits than I I bargained for. It made a little more room for the exhaust, created a mounting place for the exhaust hangers, and my latest idea is to mount the Estopp emergency brake actuator up inside it. More soon....

Kharp

A little more fab work. The center piece that ties everything together. It is only roughed in. I'm holding off until I have a driveshaft in hand and know how it fits the tunnel in the car before I weld everything together. It has a 3/8 plate on the backside for some good strength. The whole piece can be taken out if the trans ever needs to be pulled.

Kharp

I searched the globe for this "universal" rear sway bar and it actually fit perfect. And it cleared everything! A true Christmas miracle Here is how I mounted it....

Kharp

I must have been good this year because Santa brought me an electric emergency brake .....it's actually a little slow so I'm just calling it a park brake, but it should do the job just fine. Now to start making brackets and routing the cables to the rear brakes. I'm laying out the actuator and hardware on top of the rear cross member, but ultimately it will land underneath the cross member and be hidden nicely. I will probably check into eliminating the annoying sound that it makes when in motion!

Motown 454

iTrader: (15)

Nice! that's the one I got, but I wasn't so good I had to buy my own. lol

ls1nova71

iTrader: (4)

Wait a minute.... Wasn't there a sway bar on it back in the rear brake pics? Are you holding out on us?

Kharp

Excellent catch it WAS in that pic, but look closely there are no bolts holding it on. It was just propped up there because I wanted to make sure it cleared the calipers. At that point I wasn't really sure how to mount it. Yeah I wish I was holding out on you and I could post a video of it running down the road !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kwhizz

lol !!!...…………..

Bkh10

ls1nova71

iTrader: (4)

Aw man, I was hoping for an update.....

Kharp

I did the layout for the emergency brake system on top of the rear cross member to make it easier. The actuator had a metric stud for a hookup point so I had to get a little block made where the cables attach (thanks Tony!). Made several brackets/guides/etc.


Here it is underneath the cross member where it will live. I left the cables long for now until they stretch out. I wired it to a temporary battery and got the shoes adjusted out to the hats. Besides the annoying noise it makes when it is moving it seems to work like a charm. Going to really clean up the inside of the car with just a button to operate the brake. Eric and Ken thanks for the cross member idea it has REALLY came in handy so far !

Kharp

I had to decide on some sort of engine cover/coil covers so I could make sure my fuel line would clear. I really like these I found from Roto Fab. Not sure on a paint scheme yet but my bride is working on that

Kharp

Close to having all parts in hand for plumbing the fuel system from the tank to the fuel rail. If anyone has any suggestions for keeping the fuel cool let me know.

Project GatTagO

iTrader: (7)

If your fuel pump is not oversized, you shouldn't have any issues with fuel heat buildup.

Andrew

ls1nova71

iTrader: (4)

You could always move out of Texas, somewhere more north, that should keep the fuel cooler! But like Andrew said, you shouldn't have an issue with it..

aggie91

I was finally able to get back on here! It was good to run into you the other day. You have been busy since I was last on here, Just about a year ago.

Here is an idea for keeping you fuel cool, how about a length of 3/8" spine fin tubing? Do y'all even still make that stuff?

Once I get this divorce finalized and have some sense of what I can afford to do, I hope to get back on my '65.

cookseyb

Mount the penny in your gear shifter ****....