Another Q45 saved!!!!!!!!

[HeavyDuty]

Good job fellas! Like a weight lifted off your shoulders.

[louiegz]

Jesda, good to see you got the guides done. Long live your Q! Now we don't have to see your sad face asking for guide money.

[elwesso]

Now he needs money to do the rack bushings, plugs, and things like that..

[ScottJackson]

OMG I demand more pics of that Stang!

you got some neat cars Mista Jackson, I am for real!

so are the metal backed guides a near permanent fix on this problem?

and that looks almost like a DIY job coming from a TN idiot like myself, how hard is it?

Outkast rocks my ***!:ylsuper One of the few hip hop/rap bands I enjoy. Yup, the new guides are a permanent fix. It is a DIY job, BUT there are some areas that would be easy to mess it up if you don't pay attention. I had to grind one of the puller claws really thin to get behind the crank pulley at the bottom. Honestly, I wouldn't really recommend the job to anyone that hasn't had prior experience building motors and such. Not saying a newbie couldn't do it, you should probably have a person that's done it before helping though at least. When I did my car, I spent about 7 hours taking it apart while being very careful and thinking every step thru carefully. I now know what order to take out the old guides and tensioners and the order of installing the new guides and tensioners. As for the 69 mach1, I'm not gonna post pics of it until I start making progress. When I get the firewall moved back 6" and the 88 C4 corvette front suspension in, I'll post a couple pics. When I get my 460 block back from the machine shop and I start getting it built into the 1100hp twin turbo 514, I'll post a couple more picks, then the 4 link rear and so on. No pics until I have something to show:rolleyes I'm also going to use a Viper 6 speed with McLeod bellhousing adapter. Should be able to smoke up the tires at 80mph on the interstate. Is the 1100hp and 1200+ft/lbs necessary, probably not, fun? Heck yeah.

[Mr1der]

those are scary plans, normally I'd be saddened by such extreme work to a classic like that, but in this case I think I'll let it slide;)

what's the viper use, a beefy T 56?

[ScottJackson]

I agree, don't butcher classics... unless they've already been butchered! Mine has a very poorly installed mustang II front susp in it now. It's been mini tubbed, and has very little of the original interior. Believe me, if it was original I wouldn't do anything to it performance wise that couldn't be easily reversed. Yeah, the 26 spline input shaft of the Viper T56 makes it stronger than the F body one.

[Mr1der]

a mustang II suspension....

seems so so wrong!

atleast it's got a promising future though!

[bobotech]

Mustang II and Pinto front ends were really popular "upgrades" back in the 70's for old steering box cars.