Mach ! Resurrection

[hotford]

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!
mach 1.jpg
mach 2.jpg
Here's the IRS that is going in the car.
mach 3.jpg
mach 4.jpg
mach 5.jpg

[hotford]

mach 6.jpg

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,

mach 7.jpg

Yup its going auto!!, built 4R70W trans with circle D convertor

mach 8.jpg
sittin pretty waiting for the next step....lol

mach 9.jpg
Divison X hat with twin 465 walbros, yes return style...

mach 10.jpg
IRS installed along with the tank and fuel lines.....

[311-420]

Coming right along. How's the interior?

[ab_mach1]

Awesome! Got yourself a great project. I'd love an IRS lol. Also...always wondered where the horn was.

[DSG2003Mach1]

nice save! That should be a blast!

[rcodemach1]

Nice! Good luck.

[hotford]

Originally Posted by DSG2003Mach1

nice save! That should be a blast!

Thanks......save them not crush them I always say!!

[hotford]

Originally Posted by 311-420

Coming right along. How's the interior?

Interior is all inside the house.......once the car is done she'll go back in.

[machdude]

Sweet! Looks like fun!


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[machdude]

Coming along nicely!


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[hotford]

Ok
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.
comparing both relays.jpg
old relay.jpg
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.
power supply to circ pump.jpg
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.
New IAT connector.jpg
here is it all cleaned up.
all in its place stock looking.jpg

[hotford]

well little further along...got the inlet all mounted and even relocated the maf in the fender area, coolant tank on.
CAI back on.jpg
Maf pic.jpg
Maf pic2.jpg
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
fender back on.jpg

[311-420]

Bang-up job. That blower is massive and looks awesome under there.

[ab_mach1]

Originally Posted by 311-420

Bang-up job. That blower is massive and looks awesome under there.

IKR?! The intake piping looks like 6” DIA. I’m sure it’s not, but it all looks huge in there lol.


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[DSG2003Mach1]

that looks awesome!

[hotford]

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....

[BONESTOCK]

Awesome!!

[DSG2003Mach1]

One of the best feelings in the world is hitting the key on a new build and having it fire right up.

[BONESTOCK]

Originally Posted by DSG2003Mach1

One of the best feelings in the world is hitting the key on a new build and having it fire right up.

haha!! One of the best feelings after the nerve racking tension before the initial start up!

[hotford]

Originally Posted by dsg2003mach1

one of the best feelings in the world is hitting the key on a new build and having it fire right up.

amend to that brother!!

[ab_mach1]

She sure is lookin’ good!

[hotford]

One thing for the Mach......new rear kicks....AFS 17X10.5.who hoo!!

AFS 10.5 Mach 1 wheel.jpg

[hotford]

AHHHH
Mounted with a fresh set of 315/35/17 NT05 R, another item checked off the list.

AFS with Nitto 1.jpg

AFS with Nitto 2.jpg

[311-420]

Man I'm jealous of those tires! Wish nitto made them in a 305 35 18.

[falcongtho3]

Nice!! Keep up the good work.
Mine's in the shop getting plugs, front end freshening and some other mechanical attention that I've neglected of late. After that, I'll go after more cosmetics.