1993 2.3 mustang lx

[P72Ford]

Love the shifter mang!

I was thinking about building a more "shapely" unit for my truck.

[Andypot1985]

+1 on that shifter, i have driven stangs before what a pain!

[rick99601]

xwhatever on the shifter being off the heezy!

[1980c10]

P72ford your gonna be happy lol. I finally washed my engine bay. It still needs alot of attention, but its much better than it was. I am getting exhaust put on tomorrow, getting it tucked up nice and tight to the car so I can finally lower this thing. It will be
2 1/4'' all the way out the back, but I am using a 2 1/2'' super turbo muffler from summit. Hoping the 2.5'' muff will flow a few more cfm and wont hurt power much. I dont have alot to spare lol. I also sprayed all my suspension bolts with PB blaster in prep for lowering it soon. So hopefully everything comes out easy. Oh yeah and I picked up a master hinge pin and bushing kit with new rollers and I got new strikers as well. Pics

dirty engine bay







All soaking in purple power



nice and clean







New muffler





Random side shot



I will get some pics of the new exhaust tomorrow

[87gtVIC]

Big difference within the engine bay!

What will you be doing to lower the car?

[LTDMan83]

That belt tensioner is gonna shred your main drive belt soon, because it isn't fully on the belt. See the grove it is already wearing into the top of it? I've had that happen to me 2 times now on my 2.3T engine. Even the stock Dayco replacement Belt Tensioner piece had the same problem. Ended up having to install a Shim between the bracket and tensioner mounting point to make it line up correctly, and solve the issue. Works perfectly now, and I don't have to worry about the belt breaking on me at a bad time. Not sure why they couldn't make one that lined up correctly on it's own.

[1980c10]

Big difference within the engine bay!

What will you be doing to lower the car?

For now. Cutting the springs to desired height and making upper mounts extensions for the shocks and struts to keep them in their "good" area instead of bottomed out. Eventually coil overs all around, drop spindles in the front and a small tube notch I. The back to allow more clearance. Possibly upper and lower rear control arms with spherical ends if I have a binding issue. I want this thing to be extremly low but I want to still have a few inches of travel and shocks that are happy to keep it from bouncing. My old one was really low with just cut springs and nothing else. It rode bad only had maybe 0.5-0.75" before it hit the bump stops, the shocks where almost bottomed out so they didn't work correctly. I still drove it 20,000 miles like that but hey I was 19 lol. I want this one to be just as low and still maintain descent ride quality and some suspension travel.

On the belt. I know I have been meaning to put a spacer behind the tensioner but haven't yet. I plan on switching to a non power steering ranger alternator bracket anyway. It's manual tension and alot smaller and nicer looking instead of a giant cast aluminum bracket.

[87gtVIC]

Cool! Dying to see the drop. Can you show how much you cut?

[1980c10]

Sure thing man. It will probably look goofy until I get wheels on it lol oh well. I am having trouble choosing a wheel. If I keep it 4 lug it will get thunderbird turbo coupe snowflakes, if I go 5 lug (more than likely) it's either stock svo wheels or the 94-95 gt premium wheels the tri bars, it's a double 3 spoke design. I am leaning the most toward the tri bars I have always had a crush on those wheels for some reason, and they look really good on a fox. Any opinions?

[87gtVIC]

Tri bars looks good but so do 96 -98 gt wheels imo. if you go 5 lug either ones will look really really nice on foxes.

Tribars on a local guys fox:

http://newyorkmustangs.com/forums/at...8&d=1240200367

98 gt wheels on some other guys 4 eye:

http://vb.foureyedpride.com/picture....pictureid=6033

[packman]

Wait.........did you just spray the entire engine down with Purple Power w/o covering the distributor or the coils? Let me know how that turns out because I might try that with the CV. I have always been afraid to use engine degreaser on an EFI vehicle.



Packman

[1980c10]

Sure did. Soaked everything with purple power. Didn't cover anything up. Then pressure washed the whole thing. No proplems it stared right up and went not even 30 secs after I stopped spraying water.

[1980c10]

exhaust pictures. Tucked up nice and high, so I can go really low lol.

From the front



from the side



From the back



I will have to have the tailpipe redone when I get new wheels and tires. They put it close to the tire, so it will definetly hit the tire with any wider wheel. But other than that I am tickled with it.

[87gtVIC]

Where is the other pipe?

Looks good.

[1980c10]

Shit they must have forgot it. I thought it was missing something.