The only "purple" offered from ford for the new edge mustang was Mystichrome, and that ish is expensive, considering it's a chameleon paint. Besides, that requires painting the door jambs and such. I'm actually thinking about having it re-sprayed the factory Performance Red (with gold flake in the clear... gotta have flake ) instead of that HoK orange; it'll be cheaper, and I'll still be able to confuse people by telling people it's red when they call it orange

Another pic of the same paint code from a different angle (in direct sunlight):

 

So today was another slow day, so I got bored and messed around with my car a little (the perks of working at a dealership). After trying to get the latch off the rear seat bench, I finally said f*ck it and disassembled the entire latch... so my car is effectively a 2-seater again (which works since I have racing seats and you can't even get into the back seats anyway), which certainly matches well with the racing seats IMO. Also, I finally got around to untangling the seat belts and re-routing them through the harness slots in the seats. They look a lot better, seem to tangle a little less, and the best part, they actually feel like they're holding me in place instead of just being there. Obviously not as good as 5-points, but they'll do until I get the new seats, harnesses, and a cage. Anyway, pictures:










Also, like I said... next month I should be able to start saving up for the suspension. By late December or early January, the car should be slammed on its nuts. And by that, I mean dropped 2.5" since at that drop I'll be scraping my headers everywhere since they'll have 1.5" of ground clearance.

 

lookin good man! wait.... i mean the car. i dont know if u look good or not. nice helmet tho! but seriously, i have the same seats as u, but mine have grey (yuck!) in the middle. i also have sabelt 4 point harnesses. they just bolt to the seat frame. no harness bar or cage required. also, a company makes a really nice rear seat delete kit for a 2nd gen sn95 stang like yours. didnt know if u wanted to get rid of the rear seats. it saves a few pounds, and looks saWEET!

 

Thanks man... my friend had the seats sitting in his shed for a few years and eventually sold 'em to me for $300 for the pair. Next year I'm planning on getting a set of Corbeau FX-1 Pro seats as well as a Maximum Motorsports 6-point cage and a pair of Corbeau 5-point harnesses. As far as the rear seat delete, I'm eventually (in the next few months probably) going to get some 1/4" ABS plastic sheeting and some carpet and make my own. I'm thinking I can get the entire delete down to something like 2lbs if I use plastic. Obviously it won't be able to hold much weight, but I don't really plan on sitting anything on it anyway.


(and is it bad that about 75% of the reason I bought that helmet was because I liked the visor color? )

 

Just placed an order at Oznium for a blue LED dome light and two green 4.7" flexible strips. The dome light will be a dome light (duh) and the 4.7" strips will be used as courtesy lights (lights that shine down in the footwells when you open the doors). I was in a buying mood but didn't want to spend too much, so I figured I might as well knock out a little interior lighting. I'll probably add more courtesy lights as needed (meaning after the car gets its 6-point cage... I might have to add more lights if you can't see exactly where the door bars are at night. 6-point cage + aggressive seats + darkness... yeah, I can see bad things happening when people try to get into the car at night if they're not familiar with it).

Anyway, I don't know if I mentioned it, but I'm going to be doing an HID retrofit into my stock headlights when I have the money for OEM HID projectors (probably BMW or Infinity projectors).

*edit: and completely unrelated, but next week I think I'll probably order some ABS plastic to fabricate my rear-seat delete and the V1.0 rear diffuser. I'd like to source a stock rear bumper to practice on just in case I don't like the look, but oh well.

*edit #2: Holy sh*t. Dude at oznium wastes no time at all... I just got an e-mail about the ish I ordered this morning. It's been shipped already... so hopefully next weekend I can have the lighting in the car

 

o ya oznium doesnt play! they ship very fast and if you got a problem they make it right!
to bad you dont want green... i got like two 6footers from my old civic.LOL i think i got a few small blue ones also tho id have to search for em.... i was going to put em in my 96civic but of course sold it before i ever did. and my truck im going with red most likely EVENTUALLY or maybe just white. im still up in the air with my trucks color lighting, tho i got the stereo to worry about first.
ill see if i got some blue 9inch ones if youd be interested in a few more. i never used them. i know for sure i got at least one blue.

you should check out there High Intensity LED Floods! they are very bright output! im highly impressed with them! you should buy at least one and try em out! i got 2 of the white ones myself that i still havent decided where to put em.

 

Well I'm going with two 4.7" green strips for the courtesy lights (the stock gauge lighting is green and my head unit is blue and green).

Anyway, Oznium apparently does not play. I ordered the dome light and two strips saturday around noon EST. Around 2PM EST everything shipped out, and when I got home from work everything had already arrived. I have the dome light in (holy f*ck it's bright), but the courtesy lights are going to have to wait until this weekend when I have some time to mount and wire everything up. Anyway, pics of the dome light:





(that's in daylight, too)



At night, from about 20' away. Needless to say, it lights up the entire interior about 10x better than the stock dome light. I actually can't wait to see what the interior looks like in a few years when I have the new seats, cage, and harnesses in, as well as the new gauges.


Anyway, a little bit of a change in the project... I'm (for the time being) pulling the whole 'compound-boost' idea out of the project. I'm going to stick with just twin GT3076r turbos and the hood I have now for a while. If I can hit 600-650rwhp with the twins alone, I'll eventually put a roots-style supercharger on it and aim for 750-800rwhp. But I'm thinking doing everything at once and going from a 300rwhp car to a 700rwhp is pretty much just asking to wrap it around a tree. Also, as soon as I can find a cheap stock hood, I'll be pulling the hood I have on now off to cut it apart to deepen the heat extractor and add louvers.

 

that looks sick, i think im going to have to do it as well

 

Yeah, it's definitely worth it. It's like $17 for the large light, and it comes with like 10 different adapters to fit different sized bulbs. I didn't expect it to make the difference it did... like I said, it lights up the entire interior by itself... you can't even look at the light directly without hurting your eyes.

 

So it's been a while, and I've been going through the selling the car/not selling the car thing and whatnot, but f*ck it. At this point, I may or may not be keeping the car, but as usual, I'm making plans for various situations.

At any rate, if I keep the mustang, here's what I plan on doing to it before calling it quits for a while (TT's or a blower or both would still be in the plans but not in the immediate future):

-Bronze 10th Anniversary Cobra wheels (17x9 up front, 18x10 in back) and (most likely) KDW2 tires (245 wide up front, 295 out back)
-Terminator front bumper
-Steeda front splitter
-Terminator side skirts
-10th Anniversary Cobra front calipers
-Cobra 13" front rotors (cross-drilled and slotted)
-MMR Tubular K-member
-MMR Tubular A-arms
-MMR front coilover conversion
-H&R race springs (well, the rear will be anyway)
-Tokico D-spec struts/shocks (fox-body parts... they're shorter than their sn95 counterparts)
-Corbeau FX-1 Pro seat (black cloth with inflatable lumbar support)
-Corbeau CR1 seat (black cloth with inflatable lumber support and a submarine slot)
-Maximum Motorsports 4-point roll bar with a harness bar
-Corbeau 5-point camlock harnesses (red with black shoulder pads)
-RCI 15-gallon fuel cell (trunk-mounted), -8AN feed/return lines
-Custom rear diffuser
-Reinforced frame/pinch-welds (I eventually might do a full belly pan)


Yes, that's right, I'll have two different seats. Personally, I want a fixed-back seat since I like an upright driving position, but I'm thinking some passengers* may not appreciate the inability to recline... so I figure I might as well make passengers* happy.

Also, sometime in the near future (next week-ish probably) I plan on starting the whole "cut my hood to pieces and fiberglass it back together for sh*ts with a chance of giggles" thing. Okay, so I'm going to be cutting out the heat extractor and fiberglassing a new one that goes deeper into the engine bay behind the radiator with louvers along the length of the extractor. Either way, it'll be fun, it'll be original, it'll look mean as hell, and it'll aid in removing heat from under the hood. Next custom project after that: ABS plastic rear seat delete.


*by "passengers", I mean "females"