Well it’s probably time for an update. I’m not as far along with the Mustang as I figured I’d be by now. I’ve been top coating the roofs, installed a couple of skylights in the office, getting the swamp coolers going etc etc.

I got the Mustang out and did a final drive with the good parts.....man it’s a fun little car with the 4 speed and the way it is (was) set up.

I got the heads back from the machine shop and they are currently sitting on the shelf waiting to go on in place of the Edelbrocks. I had a few sets of stock heads laying around including some that would probably make almost as much power as the heads I’ll be taking off, but as this is for the wife I settled on a pair a 77 castings with the smaller valves and larger chambers as I’m thinking those might be a bit better for mileage (her concern, not mine LOL).

I got the Posi out and the open differential back in it. Of course it was a good excuse for another road test while the 4 speed was still in it (LOL)...... man did it ever turned into a peg leg wonder. As I have no immediate plans to build anything with an 8” and the shelf with the differentials and gears etc is already pretty full, I took the Posi to the swap meet and sold it last weekend to help cover some of the costs of converting the car.

The C4 is built and ready to go in. I didn’t have any luck finding a working used unit so I talked to by buddy at the tranny shop and he had good 1965 C4 core he built for me. The 65 was still a “Green Dot” tranny so in order not have to explain to the wife why she would need to drive in the D2 position instead of D, I just had him put in a 67 valve body so it would have the normal shift pattern.

Having fought building new cooler lines and installing them in car before, I decided to make it easy on myself this time and build a short pair of lines with couplers to put on the transmission before it goes up in the transmission tunnel.



I spent the last couple of days getting all the 4 speed stuff out..... and I’m glad I thought ahead when I built the exhaust and put a ball and socket joint in the head pipe when I built it as the pipe had to come out to get the bellhousing out. Changing out the pedals and pulling the clutch cable wasn’t a lot of fun 10 years ago and even less so now......but I did manage to still fit under the dash one more time.

I’m currently waiting on a new transmission mount to come in so it will probably be next week before it’s moving under its own power again.