Sleazy's Garage
I bought a 3D printer and have become completely addicted. I also bought a fauxwalt (Diytoolifz brand) grease gun so I lubed the front suspension on the 89 project car. While running the car and idling it for a bit I noticed a couple of problems that I will likely need to backtrack tremendously to investigate. But that's hot roddin', baby!
This is a compilation video when I went into the garage over the winter and did some stuff. This particular video is a bit cursed because everything I tried to do was a fail. But you gotta push through failures and search for the... least worst of them to turn into a ... I dunno, I'm hoping the warmer weather puts my brain back on the right track. I did want to get this out though because once spring hits no one will want to see a video with snow in it. 😅 Oh! I did get the fuel pressure dialed in correctly, so I have that going for me I guess.
This is just an extended cold start and idling video of my 1989 Mustang GT with a gen 2 coyote swap. It's a Flowmaster American Thunder exhaust with a custom X-pipe. I was testing the coolant circulation here and everything seemed to be great. Fuel pressure was about 10psi too high though. A couple of revs, one up to 5k rpm at 7:06
I'm graduating past the "doodads and what nots" phase of having a 3D printer. Started learning some CAD and decided I needed a cap to keep junk out of my intake while I have the filter and plumbing disconnected. I'm still learning but what a fantastic tool to have. Not sponsored by the 3D printer manufacturer!
My 1989 Mustang GT Gen 2 Coyote swap has speed engineering long tubes, a custom built x-pipe, and Flowmaster American Thunder mufflers. Let me know what you think, you can be honest.
In this video I'm building a custom X-pipe to fit my speed engineering coyote swap foxbody headers (model number 25-1084). It wasn't easy but it came out better than it had any right to. Not only was this fun welding and metal fab practice but it basically completed my exhaust installation and it looks and sounds great imo! Let me know what you think in the comments.
Speedometer Cable Install - Foxbody Restomod Part 129 - Happy New Year! Now that we know she runs and drives, lets continue installing stuff and getting her closer to hitting the streets. In this video we install the speedometer cable, the hood latch cable, fix some dangerous wiring, clean stuff up, and attempt to burp the radiator.
Quick recap of the last year in progress on my 1989 Mustang GT coyote swap restomod. We've come a long way. This has been a really challenging year. Working on this car, sharing it, and being in this community has been therapy for me. Huge thanks to all of you, your positivity, advice, and feedback has been like E85. Our goal for next year is a legal drive on the street.
It's been 25 years since I last drove this car. I've been restoring and coyote swapping it for 6 years in my garage. This is the first time I've been able to drive it since I started the restoration!! It's a tiny baby step but it drove on its own power in and out of the garage.
First Drive! - Foxbody Restomod Part 128 - 25 years ago this car turned over for the last time. 6 years ago I towed it up here and pushed it into my garage. Last year it finally roared to life again with a modern power plant. Today (well last week really), we'll see if it DRIVES ON ITS OWN POWER FOR THE FIRST TIME! This was my goal for the year, can we tick this off today?