🔧 BUILD FESTER665's 1993 Foxbody Cobra build - Coyote/Tremec incoming - 22 years in the making.

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Of course as with most things, it's a slow build in progress. I will usually get comments ranging from "it looks great!" to "You're ruining that car!" but since you'll never make everyone happy, I just do what I want to do to it. :headbang:

Year: 1993
Make/Model: Mustang Cobra #235
Specs: Teal/Opal Gray leather
Numbers: 310 RWHP/308 RWTQ
1/4 mile time: 13.04 @ 104.6


I bought the car in 1998 with 24k miles on it. It now has 54k on it. It's a slow work of progress that I hope to have done in the next three years. I'm hoping I'll actually get to have it out this summer with the new motor in it, but it's depending on finances at this point.

Here's the car before I had any work done on it:
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Some people hate this, but it's been on so long I just leave it on:
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Put in white faced gauges and a 5" tach.... Debating going to a white faced tach, or changing the gauges back to black though..... Also ditched the horse on the dash and put a cobra there instead....
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Then I slowly made my way under the hood doing a few bolt-ons here and there.... My A/C compressor locked up so instead of replacing it I just moved the P/S to where it used to be.
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FESTER665

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Sounds like things are going to be starting.....

Hydratech hydraboost is in, he is going to use stainless lines to put in the proportioning valve and run lines to the brakes...
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Nasty ass subframe connectors that Ive hated since I bought the car in 1997 have been cut out. New MM full subframes will be welded in once the drivetrain is in and weight is on the wheels....
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Sounds like things are going to be starting.....

Hydratech hydraboost is in, he is going to use stainless lines to put in the proportioning valve and run lines to the brakes...
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Nasty ass subframe connectors that Ive hated since I bought the car in 1997 have been cut out. New MM full subframes will be welded in once the drivetrain is in and weight is on the wheels....
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Brakes are about a days worth of work, unless he is custom bending the lines himself.
What has he been doing the last 3 months?
 

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Sounds like things are going to be starting.....

Hydratech hydraboost is in, he is going to use stainless lines to put in the proportioning valve and run lines to the brakes...
View attachment 139916

Nasty ass subframe connectors that Ive hated since I bought the car in 1997 have been cut out. New MM full subframes will be welded in once the drivetrain is in and weight is on the wheels....
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Oh hell yeah!!
 

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Brakes are about a days worth of work, unless he is custom bending the lines himself.
What has he been doing the last 3 months?
I was behind a few other projects.

My car is finally up, so that was just my car finally getting started.

He will be custom bending all the lines to keep them as hidden as possible.
 
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Definitely the goal. Basically am saying to take his time, just want it in spring.

Going to be getting the engine and transmission to him in early December to get that started.

I didn't know they were the one's doing your car, hopefully it all works out time line wise. He definitely gets in over his head on what he can do and take it, have seen and gotten feedback from a few guys.
 

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