Just received a few more parts in for the 1973 Mustang project.
Check out the video.
Thanks for reading. Keep checking on #ProjectSportsRoof.
Tim
So after inspecting the head further, I noticed a few more reasons to have them reconditioned. Take a look:
Gonna Need some touching up.
As you can see there a lot of rust and old stuff plugging up some of the water passages.
The heads were sent out to a local machine shop run by an old hot rodder.
Here’s a quick video of the valves that were removed. You can see the build up as the oil (from the tappet hole) and the gas was continually ignited by the spark plug.
The good news the heads are back and installed. The bad news in my haste to get the car back together, I forget to get some shots of the completed heads. By the time I realized it was too late to go back.
The Cleveland is running strong, but needs a lot of work on the vacuum system and – I’m thinking of replacing the carb. Send me your on what to replace it with.
Motorcraft? Holly?
Thanks for reading.
Tim
#ProjectSportsRoof
I love it when a fellow car enthusiast shares their projects.
This is Lisa’s 1973 Mach 1
1973 Mach I
Saved after sitting in a junk yard for 21 years. WAY TO GO LISA!!! Daunting project to be sure…but you GOT THIS!!!
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Lisa wrote:
“Thank you. That is the stock engine out of the original car. The car sat in a junk yard for 21 year before I got it, I thought for sure that it would be too far gone to do anything with but I was completely wrong. The fluids still looked new and once we had the engine out and sitting on a pallet, we rigged it so we could see if it would turn over and sure enough it did. Mine is also a 2v with a 4brl intake. ”
“I wanted to rebuild the engine as affordably as possible so the cam and lifters and the valve guides and seals are the only thing new other than the valve covers which I had to get because sand blasting the factory ones was pointless. The oil pan a friend of mine bought for me after I helped him install his transmission.”
My husband and I own a performance shop that also does machining and I was able to learn how to do the machining on my heads and block to save money on labor. I’ll definitely keep you posted as I progress. I hope you decide to get that mustang and restore it. I would love to see pictures.
You can definitely use my pictures on your blog.”
Here is the engine for Lisa Mach I.
Getting ready for some paint!!
So nicely done!!
Lisa, we are looking forward to seeing the progress on this beauty!!!
Oh…and google #ProjectSportsRoof or just stop by http://www.agcarrestoration.com/ and you can follow the progress on my 1973 Sports Roof.
Thanks again for sharing your project.
Tim
#ProjectSportsRoof
1973 Mustang Project SportsRoof – Exterior Walk-Around
1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Compression, Rods and Heads
1973 Mustang Project Sportsroof – Engine Walk-Through.
Thanks for check in on #ProjectSportsRoof.
If you remember a of couple months back, shortly after bringing the ’73 Mustang home, I conducted a compression test on all the cylinders. The 351C was running rough (to put it mildly) and smoked like a pile of tires on fire (only the smoke was blue). Clearly there were some issues.
Here are the links to the posts were you can view the compression tests – RIGHT BANK – LEFT BANK.
To summarize, the cylinders topped out like this:
Cylinder 1 (Left Bank) – 130
Cylinder 2 – 25, 35, 60, 90 (Fail!!!)
Cylinder 3 – 140
Cylinder 4 – 135
Cylinder 5 (Right Bank) – 160
Cylinder 6 – 155
Cylinder 7 – 160
Cylinder 8 – 140
Clearly cylinder 2 has a serious problem and it could a host of things. Since it was so bad, I didn’t feel it necessary to conduct a wet test and just planned out pulling the heads.
Well the time came to get take care of that and it wasn’t long to disassembling that it was clear what was wrong with cylinder 2.
What the….?
At first we thought…”Hey Cool!!! Extra parts!!” But of course that’s just not the case!!
No extra parts.
It couldn’t be that the tappet just rolled there. Something else has to be an issue.
Oh…maybe…one of these was the problem?
Ya Think???!!!
Close inspection of the piston in cylinder 2 showed no signs of impact. As it appears thus far, that the bottom end of the engine is in good shape and the compression numbers for all the other cylinders and we bolstered that assumption with a visual inspection.
Think the heads need to be rebuilt and machined?
That’s coming up.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
#ProjectSportsRoof
With still some adjustments need on the fenders, I need to tackle the fender extensions. If you recall the first video at the beginning of the fender fitment series of post you can see that the there’s no way it will fit (view the link HERE).
As I fitted them up here is what the left site looked like (this is after the altering the hole):
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 Pretty large gap. |
The right side was better with almost no adjustments to the holes.
 Not to bad right out of the box. |
 Almost acceptably gap. |
This video clearly shows the difference in quality of the fenders. Quality control measures are that great.
Clearly the right side was much better formed then the left.
With a little more adjustments with a body dolly I was able to close the gaps.
Thanks for reading. Next up “What caused the compression issue?”
Tim
#ProjectSportsRoof
1973 Mustang – Project Sports Roof – Fender Fitment Part I
1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Fender Removal
Welcome back to #ProjectSportsRoof – the fender edition (:^o). Here is the next set videos that show the fenders on the 1973 Mustang.
There’s more coming up on the fender extensions but here is how the other fender fit.
The gaps need to be addressed with some shims and a little persuasion, but these are going to be near perfect!!!!
Thanks for checking back in with the project. Don’t forget to drop me a note.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
#ProjectSportsRoof.
The Automobile and American Life: Cars in Film: A List
In these next two videos, you’ll see just how ‘off’ these fenders are in some areas and surprisingly how well they fit in other areas.
If you have an experience or a hit for anyone taking on this part of a restoration – drop a comment here and we’ll share them.
Thanks for reading. Lot more coming up.
Tim
1973 Mustang – Project Sports Roof – Fender Fitment Part I
1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Fender Removal
1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Money!!
Just before heading off on vacation, I sources a set of used gauges for the Mustang (#ProjectSportsRoof). These are out of a 1973 Mustang and fit in to the dash. If you recall there is a current set of gauges in the Mustang, however they are a newer connected set wedge into the slot where the original single gauges go.
Here is the current configuration.
Here is the current set of gauges. The individual units will look much better.
Drop me a note if you’ve had to clean out the hose for oil pressure gauges.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
Ok so these were suppose to kick off while I’m over here in Italy, but they failed to post up, so I’m taking a few minutes to fix that.
Oh well as long as I’m typing, here is my favorite Italian road sign:
Welcome back to Project Sports Roof (#ProjectSportsRoof). We stripped the old fender and retained all the usable parts. Next we are going to fit the new fenders up to the Mustang. Here is the first video.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
#ProjectSportsRoof
1973 Mustang Project SportsRoom – This Just In #1
1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Front Valance and Old …
Thanks for check back with #ProjectSportsRoof. While I’m headed off on vacation I’ve scheduled a few post to get published while I’m out.
As a note the progress is moving well and I’m posting these in order, but they are delayed by a couple of weeks. I’ve nearly completed the fender install – still have a few adjustments to make and you’ll see these posts coming up. Taking advantage of various opportunity in the course of a project some times has you stop on task so to take an opening to get another task done. This is the case here with the 351C engine. I had a chance to get the some engine work done at a great price so I’ve jumped to that task and put the others on hold. Those post will be coming up soon.
To remove the fenders you, of course have to pull off the front valance. This one happened to be a new after-market piece.
When you swapping out any original parts or components, you want to try to salvage any sub-components or parts that are still functional and look good. Stripping these old fenders included saving the fender extensions, side makers, bolts, badging etc.
When I’ve capturing these on my Android, I trying to keep them short and often use the wrong name for some of the parts, hence Fender Ends = Fender Extensions.
🙂
Here is a look at the fender extensions.
If you’ve seen any of my other project you’ll notice that I try to keep things – organized – some what.
There’s more coming up on the fenders and the cause of the low compression on cylinder #2 – it’s not what I thought!!!
Thanks for reading.
Tim
#ProjectSportsRoof
