[91 gt 5.0]

Here are some pics of my project. I'm in 19 and in college so crazy power or handling is not my end goal, I just wanted a decent, fun driver. The car is an 89 LX hatch. I got the roller from my buddy who bought it as a project for his roomate who then left the picture. I stepped in and purchased it so I could build it to replace my crapped out daily driver. He paid $1500, so I gave him $1500 and let him keep the 5 lug setup and rims that came with the car. This stuff came with the car, I didn't buy it separately: UPR tubual k member kit and caster camber plates, aluminum driveshaft, 3:73s, boxed non-ajustable control arms, subframe connectors. I already had a flaming river manual steering setup, draglites, and other misc things from my old car. We took the engine and t-5 from my car, freshened it up, slapped in a tfs stage 1 (I plan on doing new heads and probably an explorer intake later on but I just don't have that cash flow right now). I relocated the battery to the hatch. His new roomate wanted to help out and is a welder, so he did the smoothing in the engine bay. My girlfriend did all of the engine painting (she wanted to help out too). The engine is basically just a stock rebuild, put on new clutch, shorty headers I got for 50 bucks. I have way more but I can't find my other card that all of the pictures are on. These are mostly just putting the engine in. Thanks for all of the help I've recieved here.

[91 gt 5.0]

pics of the engine in, the sweet battery powered hoist, and my painter

[91 gt 5.0]

a pic of my buddy's saleen for good measure

[The Novice]

Nice, its coming along well, keep it up. how long did this all take you to get it back together so far? looking good though.

Btw if your GF works on the car with you and wants to, shes a keeper,lol.

[89lx]

looks good, keep up the work

[91 gt 5.0]

Yes, she is definately a keeper (except when she takes me away from the stang and makes me work on her wrangler). I took my car off the road 2 weeks ago so we could take the spindles, engine, 5 speed setup, and transmission from it. I would like to say we've been working on the car for about two months or so, though. We didn't sack up and work in the cold until about the beginning of February. We took out the rear end to work on it and change them back to 4 lug axles, striped every wire out of the car to do the engine bay, stripped all the sound deadener and paint the inside with this vibration dampening paint his Dad makes. We took out the K-member and rebolted it in for piece of mind. I'm pretty happy with how fast we have been working and how much time he has spent helping me out. He works for beer, not actual money, so it's relatively cheap to keep him working.

[Mlx50man]

nice man, its looking good. what color blue is that motor? is it a ford blue?

[ViperblueGT]

im not sure i'm a fan of the baby blue upper intake manifold but hey......are you gonna be takin this to the track or anything or is it a street warrior

[91 gt 5.0]

I would love to take it to the track, that's been my dream since I bought my other 5.0. In reality, I probably won't this year though. I mostly just drive it on the street, I will never street race though. I get on it if the highway entrance if it is straight, but I also get made fun of for driving like a grandmother.

[91 gt 5.0]

And we painted the intake the same color as the engine because it looked bad before and we had extra blue paint. I don't know what the color is; it is the engine paint from the auto parts store.

[ViperblueGT]

from the look of things you have done a lot of work to make the underside of the hood nice and neat props on that

[fatoeknee]

Nice project, although I would be worried about not getting enough belt contact on that water pump pulley...

[1slo5.0]

Originally Posted by 91 gt 5.0 pics of the engine in, the sweet battery powered hoist, and my painter

I hope she is using a scotchbrite pad and not a disc on that EGR spacer...

[1slo5.0]

Originally Posted by fatoeknee Nice project, although I would be worried about not getting enough belt contact on that water pump pulley...

Its fine. I've been running Mustangs with bypassed accesories like that for many many years.

[91 gt 5.0]

she wasn't actually working on the spacer...she just wanted me to take a picture of her. I did infact get the belt routing and length from a post Darrell had made a while ago, it was very helpful.
And yes I know i spelt PROJECT wrong in the title, but I don't know how to change it.

[89Domindart]

nice man. like that saleen too.

[91 gt 5.0]

I got the belt routing and legnth in one of Darrell's old posts. The post is still out there, but for those wondering it is a 44.5" belt. You have to take the top bolt out of the alternator, slip the belt on, and use a pry bar to move the alternator back it place. I personally had to loosen my tensioner pulley so the locating dowel in the back was out and the pulley could be moved. (It no longer functions as a spring tensionser.) It is super easy on an engine stand, and the belt is a perfect fit. Hopefully this post helps someone.

Update: got the engine running tonight; I was pumped. Now we just need to button up a few things before the test drive. It may not be the prettiest, definately not the fastest, but it's mine.

[93mustank]

Whats springs did you install with that tfs 1 cam?

[91 gt 5.0]

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