03yellowstang's 2003 zinc yellow GT

03yellowstang

So Much Work
Dec 13, 2010
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2003 Mustang GT



I bought this mustang in early 2008 my senior year in high school, but it was not my first mustang. I had a green 1998 for a few years in high school untill I hit 150000 miles and traded it in on this one. The new mustang is a work in progress. There is so much I want to do with it but it will all come in time. Ive always been around mustangs growing up and my parents had them as their first cars so its in my blood.


Engine
  • JLT Intake
  • UPR X-pipe
  • Mac Cat-back
  • Steeda Spacer
  • Mobil 1 5W-20
  • Motorsports Sparkplugs
Drivetrain
  • Steeda Clutch Quadrant
  • MM Clutch Adjuster
  • MM Firewall Adjuster
  • MGW OrangeShort Throw
  • 4.10 Gear
  • Moser 28 Spline Axles
  • Royal Purple 75W-140
Suspension
  • Kenny Brown Subframe Connectors (Installed by Hollywood Motors Inc.)
  • Tokico Blue Struts
  • Tokico Blue Shocks
  • 1 Coil Removed Rear
  • 1.25 Coil Removed Front
  • ISOs Removed
  • UPR Elite Lower Control Arms
Brakes
  • EBC Slotted and Dimpled Rear GT rotors
  • EBC Slotted and Dimpled Front Cobra rotors
  • 2003 Cobra Calibers
  • Brembo Braded Steel Brake Lines
  • Kenny Brown Style Brake Ducts

Exterior
  • Mach 1 Chin Spoiler
  • Tinted taillights
  • Tinted Headlights
  • 18x10 Rear Saleen Black Wheels (BFG KDW 295s)
  • 18x9 Front Saleen Black Wheels (BFG KDW 245s)
  • Sequence Taillights
  • "Fast" Overlay Emblem
  • 4.6 L V8 Sticker
  • CMC Window Sticker
  • Grand Am "GT" Emblems
  • Windows tinted by Jeff at Tint to U (20% rear window, 35% side windows)
  • DDM Tuning HIDs Headlights and Fogs (35W 5000k)
  • 01 Cobra Front Bumper
  • 03 Cobra Side Skirts
  • Fobra Mirrors
  • Shorty Antenna
Interior
  • Pioneer Headunit
  • Rorkford Fosgate Amp
  • Rockford Fosgate Sub
  • Blue Lights
  • White Face Gauges (SpeedHut)
  • White Hurst Shift Knob
  • Custom Rear Seat Delete with Storage
  • Bullitt Shift Bezel
  • Sparco Torino Seats
  • Auto Meter Shift Light


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03yellowstang

So Much Work
Dec 13, 2010
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Nice car, looking good. Hope one of next mods is some springs, would really help the stance and overall look even better.


That is actually at the top of my list the parts are even in my shopping cart on latemodelresto.com. I was going to do it this winter but school comes first so Im probably not going to get to it for a while.

so probably the only thing I am going to get done is have the windows tinted this spring.
 

03yellowstang

So Much Work
Dec 13, 2010
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Updated first post and this what I have been doing to the car the past few months.

After changing the brackets from my bumper to the new one (they were both broken) I did a test fit.
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I sanded down the side skirts and bumper, fixed any scratchs or holes and primed them.
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The side skirts were in really bad shap when I first got them after sanding them down, filling in scatchs and holes, more sanding, more filler, more sanding, primer, then more primer. They came out pretty nice and I am very pleased with them. If you had seen them before you wouldnt think they were the same.
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Also I picked up a new rear axle it has Moser Axles and a 4.10 already in it. All I got to figure out is if there is a leak or just WD40 on the flange before I install it.
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03yellowstang

So Much Work
Dec 13, 2010
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I got the axle ready to put into the car. Changed out the oil and painted the housing. Nothing fancy but it looks a lot better then the old rusted one.
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Also the flog lights that came with the 01 cobra bumper are not in the best shape so I went a head and tinted them. The picture was taken in a dark room so they are a little lighter in person. In the future I plan to do 03/04 fogs, but this will work for now.
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03yellowstang

So Much Work
Dec 13, 2010
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SHE MOVED!!!!
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After getting out of class early and the girlfriend off Christmas shopping I decided it was too nice out not to work on the car. I ended up getting the axle back in the car and running. Drove it around the neigborhood just to make sure nothing was going to fall off. All I have to say is WOW! I use to have a shake in the steering wheel that is gone now (I thinking a bent axle was shaking the car and I felt it in the steering wheel). Also I feel the the 4.10 makes the 5 speed a lot easier to drive. If I am driving 25 mph I can put the car in a higher gear and it rides nice dosnt sound like its going to die like when the stock 3.27 was in it.
By the time I got the stock LCA out they where shot so I ordered some from UPR. Everything went in nice and smoothly. Which kinda bothered me.....lol....Either I did everthing right or something really wrong. Here is all the goods going back into the car.
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Also next year I plan on upgrading the suspension (was going to be this year until I realized how bad my axle was). So for the time being I just cut a coil off the back two springs and Ill get to the front ones when I get the C/C plates. I figured it wouldnt hurt the car to go one summer on stock sturts/shocks and cut springs.
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It came out just how I wanted it, but at first I forgot I had cut them and when I put it back on the ground it was so low I thought I screwed something up.
Now here is the crazy thing when I was unhooking the ABS under the rear seat I found broken glass all on the passanger side. All I can guess is the first owner (I am the secound owner) must have broken the passanger quarter window at some time. I dont care I am just thought it was wierd and would like to know why or how it happend.
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Next step for this winter.
MM C/C Plates
1 Coil off front springs
New Rear Tires
SpeedCal (For the 4.10)
 

03yellowstang

So Much Work
Dec 13, 2010
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Got some painting done on the last warm day we had. So it was pretty easy to heat the garage to what I needed to paint.
I rigged up a paint booth and went at it.
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The color came out great. With this being my first attempt at painted it came out pretty good but with that said it is still about a 5-10 foot paint job. There is a few spots I am really going to have to work hard to fix but nothing bigger then a dime.
 

03yellowstang

So Much Work
Dec 13, 2010
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16
Well the body is all back together. I still need to do some touch ups here and there and install Mach 1 chin spoiler. Also I will be lower the front to match the back and get the correct drivers side foglight so they all match.
The paint came about pretty good but there are some bad spots so its about a 10 foot paint job.
Here are some pics from tonight.
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Here is one that kinda shows the reflection in the new sideskirts from the blanket on the ground.
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