Dam its lookin good reaper

 

^^ +1 ... Lookin good as always.

 

wow! so nike how's the new sig for reaper coming along?

 

Thanks guys


Having the bumper on the car and finished makes me wish it was slammed... hopefully I'll have money for the suspension in the next few months =/

It'll look even sexier once I get the cobra side skirts, cobra mirrors, and steeda spoiler. I'm still debating on whether or not I should get a 2000 Cobra R splitter or not. It'd look sexy, but it'll be way too low to DD (I'm guessing about an inch of ground clearance), so I'd only be able to put it on to cruise, and $400+paint is a little expensive for something that'll be on the car maybe 10% of the time. Maybe once I get the suspension, brakes, wheels, and body/paint done, I'll get the splitter; I don't really consider a high-priority body part right now though lol.

For reference, '03/'04 cobra skirts:



And yeah, I changed my spoiler idea again... the Steeda spoiler's a toned-down compromise between the Saleen and Cobra R spoilers yet still (supposedly) functional. For reference:

 

hey reaper... you want a throttle body
was around junk yard today and found a kn filter and a bbk 75mm throttlebody, figured i could make afew bucks on the throttlebody. you interested? or you saving all your money for the new motor.
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ustang96-7.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ustang96-5.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ustang96-1.jpg

my junk yards been getting quite a few mustangs lately. most cash for clunkers or front end wrecks.

 

Nah, not really worried about the engine right now...

When I had the car in the shop installing the fogs and chin last week, I noticed my front calipers are hanging up like it's their job; I had to force the passenger side wheel to turn and the driver's side would spin for about half a rotation before it came to a stop. I've known the brakes have been dragging for a while now, but I didn't realize to what extent. Also, one of the belts in one of my tires decided to break, so now around 55mph the car tries to shake bolts loose.

Basically, my priorities have gone from:

suspension-->body-->wheels-->brakes

to:

front brakes & 17's to clear said brakes-->suspension-->body-->nice wheels-->rear brakes



So basically, I plan on getting stock 17" GT "starfish" wheels to clear the Cobra brakes I'm getting (if I need to replace something, I might as well upgrade). After I get the body parts on the car, I'll probably get those 10th anniversary Cobra wheels and keep the GTs for winter wheels.



Thanks for the offer though.

 

no problem. ill just slap it up on ebay like i was going to do anyways. figured you might be interested for alittle better performance. my starting bid will only be 20bucks
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

 

All right, another quick little change, as well as tossing a few ideas around.

First, the change. After thinking about the car from an aero standpoint, the Cobra skirts will actually have a negative effect on performance and will render belly pans and the rear diffuser completely pointless. Basically, there's no point in trying to control the airflow under the car if the controlled airflow is just going to "leak" out under the (relatively) high side skirts. Unfortunately, since I need something that looks good not only with the 2000 Cobra R splitter, but with my Cobra bumper without the splitter also. So basically, that takes out the option of a fairly low side skirt (Roush, Stalker). Fortunately, I've found an extremely cheap alternative that looks amazingly good and lets me keep my stock skirts (saving me $300+ and the cost of paint over buying cobra skirts). Basically, I learned that if you take the skirts from a mid-90's Oldsmobile Achieva and do some light trimming, they fit under the mustang's side skirts perfectly. It won't help as much as an ultra-low skirt would, but it's better than nothing and I won't destroy them DD'ing the car.

Pics of what it looks like:




So basically, I just have to wait until someone starts parting out an Achieva. I can't see someone wanting too much for the skirts.



Second thing is I'm thinking about how I'm going to lay the turbo system out (yeah, I'm thinking that far down the road). I'm not worried about the hot piping (use the stock headers, flipped side-to-side so they exit towards the front of the car, fab up about a foot of piping add flanges, fab up downpipes and wastegate dumps and I'm done), but with a turbo on either side of the car, I'm in a bit of a pickle as far as how the charge piping is going to work. Unfortunately, 2-in-1-out intercoolers are expensive, so that's pretty much going to eliminate that option. What I'm thinking is get a windstar intake manifold (bolts right on to my lower intake manifold), which puts the throttle body dead-center on the engine right at the front. Then, get two separate (albeit smaller) intercoolers and mount them side-by-side, run the outlet charge piping across the car, around the radiator, to a "Y" behind the radiator, up into the throttle body. Basically, I'm thinking it'd break it down into more of "two turbo setups on one engine" than a twin turbo setup (if that makes any sense). Basically, instead of looking at twins on a 4.2L V6, I'd be thinking of it more as a single turbo setup on a 2.1L I3, then multiply the whole thing by two.

Basically, here's what I'm talking about with the intercooler setups:


Also, since I'm thinking of it more as two small-displacement engines, each with a turbo, it's made me realize I can use smaller turbos and intercoolers than the ones I'd originally planned on, also lowering costs (T3/T4 .57 trim turbos, haven't shopped for cheap FMICs yet), yet still meeting the same 600rwhp goal.

 

^ thats pretty sick. have fun making room for that behind the bumper

 

what year range ya want the skirts from? i regularly go to my local cheap junk yard....
id have to ask them how much next time im there next. im sure i can find ya a set!
show me what they look like and ill keep an eye out for ya.