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!


Here's the IRS that is going in the car.

[hotford]

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,



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


sittin pretty waiting for the next step....lol


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


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.

[machdude]

Sweet! Looks like fun!


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[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.

[hotford]

Originally Posted by DSG2003Mach1

nice save! That should be a blast!

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

[hotford]

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.

[hotford]

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.
only took me 4 hrs...lol

[Jester]

Nice write up. I'll be following!

[hotford]

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..........






still need to button up the electrical, hydra boost lines cooling system.....etc..
feeling pretty good on how far its come in a short time....

[hotford]

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.....

[hotford]

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



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


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..



Here a quick back shot....

[ab_mach1]

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.

[hotford]

update
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

[hotford]

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.

[hotford]

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!


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 .



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....

[ab_mach1]

Nice!

[311-420]

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.

[hotford]

Originally Posted by 311-420

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.

Thanks!

[HAEG]

Nice work, nice write up. Waiting to see it running down the road once again.

[FalkenXC]

This is sick man, please keep the photos and progress coming! Love it when people hot rod these things. Nice work!

[machdude]

Coming along nicely!


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