OK... more pics for today...

I'm gonna stop workin a bit earlier for fathers day... my brother came over w/ my neice and sister in law...

so heres the work til now...

I marked off for ya'll to see where she needs to be cut...

frame is fine you bitchs... its fixable...

 

Wow you really are a neck with those jack stands you got there You always amaze me Greg.

 

welp...

Thats all for now...

Now I'm in the process of finding something to pull parts off of...

The plan... find a car with rear or side damage...

Gonna start calling junk yards and salvage yards to find a car...

will be lookin for a cobra... If I can find an SN95 cobra, (94-98) I'll yank the engine and tranny out as well... if not I'll pick up a 94-95 gt for the engine parts I need...

Also gonna get a cobra R hood (no vents)
and a nice front bumper cover... (haven't decided on which yet)

So... don't be surprised if the next group of pics has a nifty lil 281 DOHC 32V in em

wish me luck...
This car is easily fixable...

The frame damage is ALL in front of the front struts... so it WILL ride just like it did before... I'm excited...

 

So nothing bounced up into your undercarrage?

 

i had that same bumper on my 95GT and got if from abcexclusive.com. I can't remember what it was called but it's basically a cobra front bumper with a ground effect peice molded onto it. bad thing it was fiberglass and it cracked on the first small bump that i hit, 2 days after i installed it and had it painted... i was pissed. I wouldn't buy it.

Good luck on the rebuild, can't wait to see how it looks when your done!!

 

lol...dukes of hazard...damn fine...i would bounce up into jessica's undercarrage any time

and man greg you are really gettin goin on that baby...

i would love to see a cobra engine put in her!!

glad to see no major frame damage...good luck!

 

Yah... She's all done... I tore it down in 3 days...

So... I gotta find the parts car next...

Then tear that down...

And the rest depends on my parts car

 

hmm sn95 cobra sounds good!

 

Dude, were you in the car when that happened? Keep those pics coming there really cool, but do you thinkthat you could size them down a tad bit? Thanks!

 

Good job so far, Greg.

 

As for finding a bumper cover for your car... some company makes an 03 cobra bumper for the SN95... some love it others hate it...

 

Yes... surprising I'm still alive eh? I wasn't buckled either... very lucky... came out unharmed... except for a sore back... but its always sore

thanks... still looking for a decent parts car... could take awhile

hmmm... 03 cobra on an SN95... thats a negatory... yuck... I saw that on the abc website... just doesnt fit IMO

 

Wow Greg. Nice work. You really got right to it. Cant wait to see it running again.

 

thanks...

very good news...

although there is more then a considerable ammount of damage... my pops and I measured several parts of the frame so that we were 100% posative that it aint bent... yah... all measurements matched...

so...

Looking for a parts car... this could take awhile...

but I'll keep ya'll updated!

I really like stuff like this... even though I am heart broken that my car was killed... Its so much fun restoring it... I'll be working on my car as much as humanly possible... I cant wait to git r done!

 

ok... gotta part list...

1. abc GT bumper with spoiler
2. cobra R hood 3in over stock
3. those wheels (thats a given)
4. gotta find stock tails...

everything else will come off the parts car that I find... So basicly... thats what I am waiting on... might have a 281 DOHC32V in my car in a month or 2... or might have a cobra 5.0... or just what I got now...

 

Used cobra motor FTW!

 

Ok...

I drew up a quick drawing of the look I am going for... maybe I'll add color or something... idk...

basicly a cobra R hood and saleen front bumper cover...

This only took ten minutes... sooooooo much easier then photo ****in shop...

lemme know what ya'll think

 

i think it will look sick btw your a good artist!

 

thanks

later tonight I might put some detail into it... That takes me awhile though and I am very lazy... the sketching is easy... but after 20 minutes I get bored and move on to something else... lol

 

the saleen bumper doesnt look that agressive unless you get the 99-04 style.

 

agressive?

its wayyyy more agressive then stock GT and cobra (which is somewhat aggressive)

but not as ricy as the cobra R or black widow

and not ugly like the roush...

so...

perfect chioce IMO!

 

That's all that matters......

 

Looks good but....don't get hoodpins. =\

 

I would never buy an aftermarket hood without pins!!
Here is mine, goes in for paint next week....

 

Well if you're just getting the non functional ones then it's a waste, but then again even with the actual functional hood pins..when are ya gonna need em. The hood flying up isn't 1/8th as much as a problem on SN95+ as it is those old fox bodies
BTW: if you get a new part and paint it, how do you get it to match your car? Do you just tell them the name of your paint and they can mix it to match or something? Because just saying "It's white" probably won't work since Ford has it's on special colors..like every other car company. And after it's painted, will the fresh paint really stand out from the weathered paint on the car?

 

Well the shop that is doing mine will paint the hood and the top of the fenders and then blend the rest of the fenders and then clear the hood and fenders. Then he will buff and polish the car for me... so it will match. The front bumper was painted 3 months ago and cant tell any difference.
Also why take the chance of it popping up on you...it cost 30.00 for the pins and thousands if you have it lift off...Mines are functional pins.

 

lol cobra r is soo ricey it comes off a mustang. Your future hood is gonna be ricey then. I'm just saying it doesnt stand out as much as its drawn in that pic. It is a supererb drawing though.

 

heres one w/ a tad more detail

 

too ricy for me...

too low to the ground and it juts out to far for my taste... the thing that kills the gt bumpers is how they angle down and back so that you can see the bottem of the bumper... once that is eliminated then the bumper looks fantastic

 

oh yah...

I will need hood pins... look at it this way... hood will cost a few hundred, the pins will cost a few bucks and will prevent 300 hundred bucks from flying down the road...

paint... You go to a painter... they have a machine that matches the paint exactly... if its a stock color then you just buy that... easy...