MustangSteveGT's 00 GT Vert

[MustangSteveGT]

Performance Engine/Transmission: 2v 4.6L V8, 4r70w AODE
Engine-
P1SC Procharger kit, 2 core inter cooler, 3.40" pulley
JBA shorty headers
Fox Lake P-51 Intake Manifold with billet fuel rails
Ford Racing 42lb fuel injectors
Ford SVT Focus fuel pump
Pypes catted x-pipe
SCT MAF
B&M Hammer shifter
AEM Wideband 02 kit
Autometer boost gauge
Borla side exit exhaust kit
Maximum Motorsports low profile subframe connectors
Motvie 3.73 gears
BBK 75mm throttle body
Granitelli Coil Packs
BKU Motorsports (ebay) oil separator
Braille 17 lb mini battery
replaced auto trans radiator with 03 Cobra radiator and manual transmission cooler
Anderson Ford Motorsports Power Pipe
Powermaster 200A alternator
PA Performance Alternator Premium Power Wire

4R70W auto transmission-
Assembly set, Red Eagle racing clutches & updated steel plates .069
TransStar upgraded overdrive band
new Ford solenoids
TransStar clutch drum,
TransStar thrust washers and bushing kit
Baumann Engineering recalibration kit
TransStar 2500 stall w/ balloon plate

Brakes/Suspension:
Red 03 Cobra front calipers
13" drilled slotted front rotors
steel front brake lines
Fox body red Eibach sport line springs
Tokiko Fox body front struts
Tokiko rear shocks
Roush rear lower control arms with poly bushings
StangSuspension solid rear upper control arms with poly bushings
Steeda polyurethane front a-arm bushings
Energy suspension poly rack & pinion bushings
Nitto 555R drag radials 245/45/17's
Ford Racing Rear End Girdle
Red 03 cobra rear calipers w/ drilled slotted rotors

Maintenance items of choice:
Motor-
5w-20 Mobile Synthetic
Ford Racing Oil Filter CM-6731-FL820
Motorcraft AGSF 22 C spark plugs
Transmission-
Motorcraft ATF Mercon IV
Rear Differential-
Motorcraft whatever w/ fords friction modifier

Cosmetic:
03 Cobra front bumper
Steeda (Kaenon) Q400 Hood
V6 mustang rear bumper
Roush side skirts
Custom made billet upper & lower grille
Honeycomb taillight covers
Smoked headlights
Smoked LED 3rd brake light
bullet door locks
10th Anniversary cobra seats and door panel inserts
black carpet with mass black insulation undercoat
Silver/Black paint that has 200+ chips and scratches on it.
billet trunk key hole piece
03 Mach 1 flat black rear spoiler
03 Mach 1 wheels
Bullitt Floor Pedals
red/black e-brake leather boot

Coming soon, need to install:
Snow methanol injection kit (maybe not)
Flowmaster 80 series mufflers to replace the exotic Borla mufflers that came with my current exhaust
Braille battery power protector
03 cobra side skirts (maybe not)

[MustangSteveGT]

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[SuperSonic05]

Car looks great, you can tell you put in a lot of work into this beauty

[SC.Vitamin.C]

Very nice

[dark horse]

Steve,

The car looks great. It looks detailed.

Now one thing..... am I reading this correct? your plugs are Motorcraft AGSF 22 FM spark plugs. Aren't these platinums? If so, please remove it from your car at your earliest convenience. Do not boost the car.
Go get cheap copper plugs with one heat range lower (i.e. I prefer NGK TR-55(stock) or TR-6(colder)) and gap them at 0.035 and put them in.
Do not go to drag strip with that set up. It WILL burn the platinum tips and you will misfire.

Steve

[MustangSteveGT]

Steve,

The car looks great. It looks detailed.

Now one thing..... am I reading this correct? your plugs are Motorcraft AGSF 22 FM spark plugs. Aren't these platinums? If so, please remove it from your car at your earliest convenience. Do not boost the car.
Go get cheap copper plugs with one heat range lower (i.e. I prefer NGK TR-5) and gap them at 0.035 and put them in.
Do not go to drag strip with that set up. It WILL burn the platinum tips and you will misfire.

Steve
thats the plugs for the 03/04 cobras so i thought they would be fine with boost?
i had a bad experience with some NGK plugs a couple years back. i switched to these after a bad experience i had a couple years back with some ngk's.
does motorcraft make a copper plug that's 1 heat range cooler?

[dark horse]

PM replied.

[MustangSteveGT]

replaced platinum motorcraft AGSF 22 FM plugs, with AGSF 22 C copper plugs. still 1 heat range cooler but copper.

[MustangSteveGT]

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e brake boot to match the red/black color scheme i have going.

[mot250]

Looks great! And with those mods it shoud run great too.:up:

[GoMareGo]

Wow, This car is Hot. Can't wait to hear it run.

[SuperSonic05]

Looks great

[Wldmstg]

Sweet!....thats alot of love in that Stang.

[MustangSteveGT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eJKqRzG350
most recent run. 12.4 second 1/4 mile...

[MustangSteveGT]

used the wheel buffer drill attachment and mag polish to shine up the supercharger and the upper grille.
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[GoMareGo]

Looks great. Nice job.

[MustangSteveGT]

finally got around to wiring in the cobra style fog light connections for the bulbs that the cobra fog lights accept. i cut the old connections off, saudered the new ones in and taped over the wire. these are great for this application and can be bought through 50resto for about $20 for both.
the old GT style connection:
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b45/MustangSteveGT/DSC02637.jpg
the new 03 cobra pig tail connection from 50resto:
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and now i have functional cobra 03 cobra fog lights:
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[SuperSonic05]

sweet

[MustangSteveGT]

in addition to installing the correct cobra fog light connections i also replaced the burnt out trunk light bulb and license plate bulb this week. a lot of small things i never was able to take care of because of all the bigger things going on with the car.

[MustangSteveGT]

I installed the power pipe today. In the process I remove the other tubing from my high mileage pro charger kit and grinded off all of the rust and re-coated it black. no more of that foil coating junk that flakes off and harbors rust underneath it.

before
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taking everything apart.
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the power pipe installed and black pro charger tubing.
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i destroyed what was left of my generic dremel tool and cut my damn hand installing this but got it done as soon as the UPS guy dropped it off.

[SuperSonic05]

looks good

[MustangSteveGT]

My old digital boost gauge was scrambled. The boost evidently had faulty LED's in it or whatever from what the company said when i called them. All it was displaying was gibberish. I recently bought an AutoMeter boost gauge from darkhorse steve and installed it the other day.
before: old boost gauge displaying random gibberish instead of numbers.(right side gauge)
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during: after i wired in the new gauge's light source, with the boost line hanging out the hole. right before the new gauge went in.
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a dark pic of the new setup, with the analog boost gauge replacing the old faulty digital one.
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[Badrobot]

nice looks good

[MustangSteveGT]

the newest additions. red 10th anniversary cobra rear calipers, larger drilled/ slotted rear rotors and a ford racing rear end girdle for some cheap insurance on the rear end. this'll probably be the last thing i do this season.
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[MustangSteveGT]

removed supercharger and alternator to change out blown out vacuum line that runs to the underside of the intake manifold.
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procharger off. i went ahead and changed the procharger oil and polished it a little more. i had a new alternator sitting around already, so i used this as a chance to upgrade. you can see the old & new next to each other.
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i ended up degreasing some of the many years' worth of daily driven belt dust and road grime on the front timing cover.
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then, with the new vacuum line in place I put the new alternator in, supercharger back on and even changed the belt.
today, it's onto the blown side gasket on the intake manifold.
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side piece unbolted. ready to change gasket.
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[ShowCarDetail]

Nice freshening up. I like the pile of junk parts on the floor too. :up:

[MustangSteveGT]

everything is back together. i fired it up and it's running very strong. had to jump the battery cause the car was sitting while i was taking my time doing this stuff.
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this is the 4 gauge wire from PA Performance that i was talking about, for use with the upgraded 200 amp alternator.
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framed of the big hole i had to cut in the sidewall for the anderson power pipe with some weather stripping. makes it look slightly less crappy.
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[SuperSonic05]

looking good

[MustangSteveGT]

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I've been driving the car again off and on for a couple of weeks now. Dark Horse did a tune for me. It's running great. Very smooth. The intake is painted to match like the two-tone ones Fox Lake makes available now. The EGR valve junk was deleted from the intake during the process of the rebuild.

[MustangSteveGT]

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representin

[SuperSonic05]

very nice

[GtoLord]

That is what owning a car is all about. Looks great:up:

[MustangSteveGT]

Classic Touch in Libertyville just started putting everything together today. I went with a Steeda Q400 hood which is actually made by Kanean. It is a very high quality piece. Had to move the front bumper to position since it was positioned for the 03 cobra hood vs. a 99-04 v6/GT hood. Other than that, he want 100% happy with how the side fenders were positioned but that didnt have so much to do with the hood. You can tell this is a very high quality piece. The contour of the hood that slipes down the front top aspect lines up pretty damn good with the stock fenders for an aftermarket hood. Other than positioning the 03 cobra bumper it all matches up pretty good when the hood is closed all the way. He's going to get it to the point where it lines up even better with the front bumper than what the hood was even designed for. There will be no notable gap and the lines of the hood will mimic the rest of the body perfectly after what he has shown me today.
Here's a few pics without the hood all the way closed, headlight out and bumper hanging. Still not 100% sure how I'm doing the stripes.
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the opening in the back of it to help extract the heat.
This hood would actually "fit" the car right out of the box. but.. this guy is very meticulous and wants to rearrange the front end to where the front bumper meets the hood comes close to the hood, almost tucks under with no gap but no touching and the slant of the bumper curves with the angle of the hood looking at it from the side. Basically exceeding how clean the hood was originally designed to look. All that without even making one cut or grinding into the hood.

[SuperSonic05]

can't wait to see it complete

[MustangSteveGT]

Oh yeah, the overall plan is to paint the top exterior surface silver with the black stripes and the under side will be painted the semi-gloss black, like the mach 1 rear spoiler.
This Kaenon hood came painted white on the top and the under surface is crudely gel-coated black. So if you were really cheap you would only technically have to paint to exterior surface and get away without painting the underside.
The quality of this hood is amazing! You pay a lot more with these than you do the eBay no name hoods but their fitment and cosmetic design really plays off the design cues from the rest of the car quite nicely. Even with out the body guy going into detail on this project you can tell beforehand that this is a very high quality piece.
edit: and of course is clears the massive intake manifold i have, which is more or less the whole point of all this trouble.

[SuperSonic05]

sounds sweet

[GO Turtle]

Lookin' Good

[Ambenz]

Steve, you gotta do these mods during the winter!!!
We're missing seeing you and your ride at the events.
That hood is gonna look mean when all painted and keep all those internal fixes last a lot longer.
Nice vision brother!!!

[MustangSteveGT]

I need ideas on how to do the stripes on the hood. I have a couple of my own but I do not know for sure what route to go.

[GO Turtle]

I need ideas on how to do the stripes on the hood. I have a couple of my own but I do not know for sure what route to go.

Get some painters tape and layout on the hood what you are thinking and see how it looks. You can play with different dimensions that way and get the look you want. Just a thought.

[Wldmstg]

Steve you can play around with it on Photo Shop too.

[MustangSteveGT]

Get some painters tape and layout on the hood what you are thinking and see how it looks. You can play with different dimensions that way and get the look you want. Just a thought.

We should be doing that here in the next couple days.
I could post some ms paint modded pics of the car to show a few of the concepts I have and get input and maybe get some new ideas.

[MustangSteveGT]

Steve you can play around with it on Photo Shop too.

Ah yes. some with photoshop. I was using ms paint and mine sucked. I cant even see pics at work but i want to post some pics from ms paint i changed later.

[MustangSteveGT]

I've been getting the car ready for the Volo show. Trying to do a few minor things to help my 100,000 mile 2v new edge junk box get some attention.
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I polished the supercharger, power pipe, grille and other shinny things. Removed some of the blue stuff from under hood. Someone over the years over-sprayed silver on the hood latch release all over the yellow handle and the rest of it which looked like sh-t IMO. Sanded all that down and repainted black. No more silver over spray. Same with the radiator mounts which had rust from daily driving winters and tools sitting on them over the years.
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This past winter, before I deployed I had the supercharger intake tubing off the car. I sanded the rust off and just did a crappy rustoleum paint job to keep the rust away. I'm revisiting that area and doing it right now that it isnt 25 degrees in my garage and I can concentrate on this stuff.
This would namely be the intake tubing that runs right into the manifold. To me, this a like a centerpiece of the engine bay and the temporary job I sprayed on it look like sh-t. So I spent yesterday sandblasting and sanding what was left of the pro charger foil coating and paint I sprayed on it down to the metal. Sprayed it with much better primer. Today it is colored black, outside baking in the sun before I go further with it.
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You can see I've been practicing on a cardboard box. Practice is important in this case because I need to play with the masking tape and the flame colors/fade. The pin striping framing the edges of the flames (which I alsopracticed with) is Ford silver metallic just like the car. The yellow you see is dupli color "chrome yellow" and the vibrant red is laser red which is the metallic you see on the sn95 cars. Hopefully the vibrant red in the flames will play into the red interior and brake rotors a little bit.

I also ordered one of these radiator covers to clean up the front of then engine bay without adding an overload of reflective bling. This piece covers the top of the radiator which is also what I wanted. http://www.rearseatdelete.com/products/radcover/rad_wl_1.jpg

[SexySadie]

Lookin good Steve! Keep up the good work!

[MustangSteveGT]

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Got the intake tube flames painted on. The pinstriping on the flames looks junky but oh well. That's what I get for not paying someone $200 to do it for me.
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My new radiator support cover came in today and I'm fitting it up. Still waiting for one of the radiator supports clearcoat to dry before I completely tighten it down.
old cover, that doesnt cover everything. Looks very unfinished with my aftermarket grille and 03 cobra bumper.
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and here's the new cover being put on.
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[VENOMOUS98]

I like it Steve. Looks cool!

Chris

[MustangSteveGT]

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Flame intake pipe and radiator cover installed. Radiator supports and hood latch repainted. In this process I hid and consolidated some under-hood wiring also.

[SexySadie]

Nice work you're doing there! It looks awesome!