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So I recently purchased a Mach 1 roller with approx. 42xxx klms on the car, the car was with the previous owner since 2005....A turn of bad luck with a local speed shop left the car less a complete drive train....luckily the body and specific Mach stuff was all there....moving forward I have a complete drive train and suspension for the car...........so lets resurrect this bad boy!
I will update with pics as we go along...... need to upload them..lol First I started by cleaning out the engine bay of the dirt as it sat for almost two years...... before this the car was garage kept and as you can see it amazing condition! Attachment 67190 Attachment 67191 Here's the IRS that is going in the car. Attachment 67192 Attachment 67194 Attachment 67193 |
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Here's the motor with the front suspension ready for install, cobra motor with 2.9 whipple with crusher set up, 80 lbs , metco lower mid length headers, Attachment 67196 Yup its going auto!!, built 4R70W trans with circle D convertor Attachment 67197 sittin pretty waiting for the next step....lol Attachment 67198 Divison X hat with twin 465 walbros, yes return style... Attachment 67199 IRS installed along with the tank and fuel lines..... |
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Coming right along. How's the interior?
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Awesome! Got yourself a great project. I'd love an IRS lol. Also...always wondered where the horn was. :31:
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nice save! That should be a blast!
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Nice! Good luck.
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Sweet! Looks like fun!
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So if any you have done the auto swap you"ll know that the floor is slightly different from the auto version, here's the additional trans tunnel that Ford installs as its need for the standard trans as it sits higher up.....drill the spot welds out and clean away the seem sealer and she come out, clean up the tunnel around the opening and used self edging primer to seal it up, gotta get the template made up for the auto and gonna weld her back in and paint Azura blue once in....here's what she looks like so far.
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well started the temp plate for the floor for the auto shifter, I used a stainless steel plate and decided on using speed clip to secure it down, once the final shape was a nice tight over lay I used a paper temp plate from auto car to locate the hole for the auto shifter, test fit it first with the console and its a perfect match, remove the shift and seem sealed it, then placed the plate down and bolted in place, what ya see is the finished product.
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Nice write up. I'll be following!
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well had a chance today to get about 4 hrs work done and installed the front suspension with motor and trans....she's coming along ok.......here's some shots..........
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Well another productive evening, installed the auto pedal, and shifter cable to the steering column, not as bad as I thought pretty easy just hard getting under the dash....lol, check and shifter works like OEM... d/s, hydra boost and all brakes lines attached and bleed, next up will be the front rad, condenser, trans cooler and killer chiller...... ILL update more pics as I go along.....
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well waiting for the power distribution harness I purchased to arrive to complete the electrical, I decided to tackle the auto portion of the build, since I have a manual pcm harness I needed to intergrade the auto wires into the harness and into its pin locations into the factory connector at the pcm, I have a auto pcm just in case your wondering
Attachment 67217 here's a pic of the Mid pipe I made for this set up a few years back as The haeders I'm running are mid length and required a custom one, believe it or not that mid pipe is two Dodge ram tail pipes modified...lol Attachment 67218 Finally the car is off the hoist and I can finish off the wiring on ground level as all the underneath is complete. those wheels are temporary as I have a set of 18X9 Mach wheels coming for it, think I might just have the rear widened to 10.5 from weld craft, just wanna see the turn around time.. Attachment 67219 Here a quick back shot.... Attachment 67220 |
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Custom midpipe looks good. I've always wondered that about certain manufacturers out there that sell 'mid length' headers. Always wondered if you had to buy the midpipe that THEY sell for it to work.
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haven't had too much time lately but managed to get a little more progress installed the trans cooler and lines, heat exchanger and killer chiller Attachment 67236 Attachment 67237 Attachment 67238 |
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So I had purchased a Auto Mach CCRM Harness which ended up being a GT one, today I got the right one, thank god... I decided since Im waiting for the harness I put the interior back in...... I will update the harness pics, for now the new CCRM auto harness is in along with the engine auto harness and auto mach PCM..., since im running a 03 cobra distribution harness I have to move some wires around in the connectors, mainly the blue with orange tracer needs to get to the CCRM.. The Front seat is still out as I have new seat foam for the seat to install. Also mocked up the PNR tank in the trunk, that's all wired and ready to go. Attachment 67283 Attachment 67284 Attachment 67285 |
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well getting one step closer: needed to modify the distribution harness at the connectors on the passenger side that connect to the CCRM harness, since I used a Cobra distribution harness the power supply for the CCRM to FPDM( blue with orange tracer) is not in the 16 pin grey connector but is in the large round 4 pin connector on a cobra, Gt and Mach only use 3 of the 4, easy enough just added it, checked when done and we have fuel prime!
Attachment 67291 Next was to check for crank, since this was a stick car and now and auto needed to verify all is good, went to crank and had nothing, closer look and the safety switch was in the clutch switch, but auto doesn't look at that, it looks at trans range selector, also the manual ccrm harness at the grey connector has a loop from white/pink and blur with red, on an auto these are not looped, but are suppose to under the dash on the drivers side left, is a harness that runs up and you will see the same colour wires with a open connector if it's stick, but auto has the wires looped, here's what the connectors needs to look like . Attachment 67290 Now that I have prime and crank, car is ready to fire up, just need to finsh off the harness connection to the circ pump and i'm going to run that to the cobra relay on the passenger fire wall via the grey connector and make it look all factory....more pics when that done.... |
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Nice!
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Your skills are impressive! This thing will be breaking hearts in no time.
Really like how you mounted the tank in the trunk. Very clean. :thumbsup: |
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Nice work, nice write up. Waiting to see it running down the road once again.
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This is sick man, please keep the photos and progress coming! Love it when people hot rod these things. Nice work!
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Coming along nicely!
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More progress, so you can see that the relay's are different from Cobra to Mach, from the original connector I removed the pins out of the factory two plug and lucky me I had other harness that would match up to the cobra relay harness, pins for the fan plugged in factory like. Attachment 67297 Attachment 67301 The fan power wires are the same colour code, now for the circ pump, it has 4 wires, white from the power distribution via the sliver connector, I drilled and added the wire to the other side of the terminal block and routed though the loom to the relay which power supply, Orange with yellow tracer is power to the circ pump, red is 12 volt ignition power which I tapped into the 12 V that supplies the maf, white with red tracer is suppose to go to the PCM pin 83 as the cobra computer monitors it, by way of grounding it no need to hook up as the mach would know as its not programmed for it. I just wired it into the harness on a ground circuit and when ignition is turn on the pump will run, gonna make a toggle switch so when at the track I can jump it in the pits. Attachment 67298 The IAT is also not used in the Maf location so I used the Cobra Map/IAT2 sensor located in the manifold and made up my own wiring harness using ford connectors and even used the exact colour codes grey/ red and grey wiring, many may ask why, well when adding in a PD blower timing is controlled by IAT and if it see the incoming air which is a lot cooler it can add to much, this way it only see it after the cooler in the manifold which is the one you want. Attachment 67299 here is it all cleaned up. Attachment 67300 |
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well little further along...got the inlet all mounted and even relocated the maf in the fender area, coolant tank on.
Attachment 67308 Attachment 67309 Attachment 67310 Only thing I don't like is the IAC hose, gonna try and make that look neater and have it go around the other way and under the TB.. also gonna hook up the stock reservoir bottle for the inner cooler temporarily, car has to go to the Body shop for the front and rear bumpers to be painted, also needs alignment,once that's done I can put it up on the hoist and run the coolant hoses under the car to the rear PNR tank in the trunk. with all the wiring in play I started to mount the panels back on, this is far as I got, family function stopped any further assembly...lol Attachment 67307 |
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Bang-up job. That blower is massive and looks awesome under there.
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that looks awesome!
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Its alive...…
Had to get a start up base file from my buddy Lidio and upload it into the X cal 3 with the Pats turned off for now as I only received one key for the car, plus the PCM isn't the original as I switch the car to Auto, I will get another key and program them to the car later with the IDS. Started up first crank....Who Hoo... ran pretty good for a start up file, this will get me going for now...next steps.. attach the front clip and get it to the alignment shop and then to the body shop for the bumpers to be painted. I tried to upload the video but it wouldn't take......sorry guys one more issue to deal with, when I came into the garage the cluster had dash lines where the OD was and the ABS and Service engine light was on...Hmm after a little investigating found the abs module was back feeding and causing the issue, has a spare ABS module and just quickly plugged her in and verify all was good, I will switch out the unit and bleed the brakes which should only take a couple of hours. I'll update with more pics from the alignment and body shop.... |
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Awesome!!
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One of the best feelings in the world is hitting the key on a new build and having it fire right up.
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Attachment 67330 Attachment 67331 Well little more progress... engine bay wiring and ABS module all done... both fenders are on.... went to adjust the hood striker to align... ran into a slight snag.. the shaker liner rests on the crusher inlet not allowing the hood to close all the way.....:Flame: options are to remove and just mount the shaker to the underside of the hood as many have done.....:notsure: Nah I like things the hard way.....lol gonna drop the K-member down as much as 1/2 inch if need be to clear and allow hood closure...also this will help with the shaker mounting too.... |
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Is it hard to get the elbow off the blower to get to the spark plugs? |
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Attachment 67343 Well I installed the lights and slid in the bumper and attached loosely and didn't brother to attach the chip spoiler as the bumpers are coming off for paint anyways....looks so much better with the clip on...lol. ran into a snag...went to get gas and found I only had first gear..:anger: came back with 3 codes...gear selector range out and speed sensor.... well fixed the gear selector one as I had a spare new one and adjusted it... :24:but the speedo is inop...ran out of time to look at it as family life takes over.... should have time in the next couple days..... I will update with my findings and pics when at the Body shop... |
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Looks good. Glad everything fit behind the bumper without modification. Really amazing what the chin spoiler does for the front end too. Hope your prob is just connections or something simple.
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Well after several hours of diagnosis..... all the wring checks out, even ran a scanner on and determined the speed sensor is actually working but way off, in second gear at 4500 RPM the speedo reads maybe 15 MPH...this all lead back to the tune file.... SCT actually confirmed it...just waiting for a new start up file and go from there...
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Attachment 67345 New file up loaded and all is fixed test drove last night and it has all gears What we found was that Ford changed out the reluctor ring in 2004 up all 4r75w trans from 24 to 6 counts ... 2003 down has 24, drove real nice Pic are me leaving in the morning and in the body shop I’ll be there Tuesday to help remove items needing paint,I’ll make sure take lot of pics ... Thanks to who have posted your feed back is much appreciated |
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Wow. I am saving my money to hopefully do the same exact build. Motor still blown on mine. ☹️
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Awesome Build!
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Well my dent doctor buddy Matt got 90 % of the dings out, man I can't say enough about this field of work these guys can do miracles!
toughest one was the one under the gas cap where the body panel meets the bumper cover, he did his best but because of the location, heck I can live with that, I Installed the Black Gas cap and must say I think it looks great! Attachment 67352 My OCD is driving me nuts so I'm usually at the B/shop every other day...so I had to wash her up and get most of the dust off...lol Attachment 67353 Here's some shots of the rear bumper in prep... Attachment 67354 Attachment 67355 Attachment 67356 The front clip we are going to align up first them remove the front bumper and R/front fender for paint. more pics when that happens...maybe Fri/ Sat. |
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Well had some time since the car's at the B/shop...so I took out my Shelby for a date night...…
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Well some more progress...just real busy last bit finding it hard to get over to the B/shop, but the hood shocks are on...must say a lot nicer without that prop rod..lol
Attachment 67359 The Front fender has had the dent taken out and primed, still needs to be completely sanded but this is as far as I got yesterday, had plans to be there today...but **** happens, tomorrow if I get more time....front bumper should be prepped. Attachment 67360 more pics to follow... |
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Love watching this come together for you! Looks fantastic!
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