Post by FullTimeHobbiest on May 31, 2014 13:03:47 GMT -8
Hello everyone!
I picked up this kit as a partially clipped and painted kit that was never finished. Sort of a restore, but its mostly just paint stripping and fixing the poor detail on the kit itself. I LOVE the 2.3L powered Mustangs just because of it severe underdog situation when compared directly to the 5.0L. This build is getting a custom manifold, turbo, intercooler and plumping. Aiming for a sleeper of a street car with a lot of extra details.
The box
First order of business was relieving this kit of its 4x4 status. The rear was easy, just clipped down the "spring" posts on the rear axel and make a little extra clearance on the chassis for the wheels to clear.
Had to raise the front cross-member up about 1mm to get any significant drop. Was also able to shave some embelishment off of the cross-member section attached to the chassis to get about .3 of a mm.
Only downside to raising the cross-member was raising the engine and giving it about a degree of rearward tilt.
One of the things I didn't like much in this kit was the box-stock exhaust system. So here are the many stages of modifying and fitting until I got it just right.
First I made a new tip.
A little bit of fitting and notching the bumper.
Next to go was the catalytic converter / Heat shield
All painted and ready to go, just awaiting a down-pipe to be made.
I mounted a Model Meister steering wheel to the factory column and made a custom shift knob.
Scavenged some more Meister resin stuff for this project.
And then some painting and test fitting got done.
Exterior wise, I simply opened up the fog light holes.
Now I'm going to close this opening post with the final stance of this project.
Thanks for looking!
I picked up this kit as a partially clipped and painted kit that was never finished. Sort of a restore, but its mostly just paint stripping and fixing the poor detail on the kit itself. I LOVE the 2.3L powered Mustangs just because of it severe underdog situation when compared directly to the 5.0L. This build is getting a custom manifold, turbo, intercooler and plumping. Aiming for a sleeper of a street car with a lot of extra details.
The box
First order of business was relieving this kit of its 4x4 status. The rear was easy, just clipped down the "spring" posts on the rear axel and make a little extra clearance on the chassis for the wheels to clear.
Had to raise the front cross-member up about 1mm to get any significant drop. Was also able to shave some embelishment off of the cross-member section attached to the chassis to get about .3 of a mm.
Only downside to raising the cross-member was raising the engine and giving it about a degree of rearward tilt.
One of the things I didn't like much in this kit was the box-stock exhaust system. So here are the many stages of modifying and fitting until I got it just right.
First I made a new tip.
A little bit of fitting and notching the bumper.
Next to go was the catalytic converter / Heat shield
All painted and ready to go, just awaiting a down-pipe to be made.
I mounted a Model Meister steering wheel to the factory column and made a custom shift knob.
Scavenged some more Meister resin stuff for this project.
And then some painting and test fitting got done.
Exterior wise, I simply opened up the fog light holes.
Now I'm going to close this opening post with the final stance of this project.
Thanks for looking!
