I picked up one of those E-Brake handles off a fox body and am going to install it in my Comet if I ever get there, after having to use the under dash handle twice to stop my car (when I blew the front wheel cylinders) I wanted something more convenient and with a bit more leverage.Rocket989 wrote:Daze has a write-up on using a Fox 'Stang lever, etc. that looks promising.
I had 3" side pipes that exited just in front of the rear wheels on my first 65 Cyclone. It sounded great (I was 19 and the more drone the betterpoboyjo65 wrote:Hindsight; If I had it to do again I'd have it exit in front of the back wheel.
). but the problem was the impact of the products of combustion on my rear wheels. I had American mags all around, and over a period of months, the rear mags would start to look dull and discolored. They were the dickens to get clean again. My current car has the pipes exiting just BEHIND the rear wheels, but I think I'll eventually reroute them to the rear due to concern for long term impact on the rear quarters.
Finished welding up the trunk floor, then removed my bumper brackets from my old beat up bumpers to fit the fiberglass bumper up. Blasted the brackets then shot a little paint. Lower camber kit showed up from Opentracker, so I'll tackle that tomorrow and hopefully get the rear bumper fitted as well. More too come. 
John - it would be pretty simple to stitch weld the brackets and add a gusset for reinforcement. Kind of silly I missed it; both aprons have been stitched inside and out at the firewall, both shock towers stitched inside and out, and any other place I could think of or find a spot welded seam. Thanks for the adding to the listpoboyjo65 wrote:Someone said after installing a big 1'' sway bar & some spirited driving that their sway bar mounts started to detach or tear. I only wish I would have read it while mine was all apart, but it'd be a good time to beef them up for you.
- Ill get right on it. I agree wholeheartedly! I'd never thought of the sway bar deal so thanks for the tip. I'm using the 63 style strut rod to keep it simple on me and save on the endless fabricationpoboyjo65 wrote:Dan it's better to have something on the ''to do'' list than the ''wished I'd done it'' list. I used the vario centric kit too. It made alignments easier with the 2 adjustments separated. I also made adjustable strut rods that really helped make fine tuning the final caster adjustments easy.
. All in all, making progress. Camber kit is complete, going back together. Moving along. The current plan, which hasn't changed in a few years, is a gunmetal grey body, all factory trim, with gloss black steel wheels with chrome spiders/rings. Thanks for checking it out.pro64 wrote:Hey big dan that's some nice work,going to be a sweet ride. Do you have any ideas on a color combination
