37 Ford build--IE: old Header issues thread /37 Ford/5.0/GT40P heads

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Thanks for that vote of confidence I'm trying!

10-4 on the opinions, you DO know what they say right? Sure you do!

I can't offer any opinion about Eastwood except for the premium price. But, usually what they sell works good! My 2 cents there!

The rear seam? I'd say leave it if it's in good shape! Don't "fix" what ain't broke!

The lower door, I don't know why you would go through the work of making the inner rear wheel well cover then ask about the lower door?!?!? DUH????
Self explanatory - I think!

I tried to work on mine both Saturday and Sunday, I did about an hour or so each day and just melted into the floor! Thermometer said 91 or 92 but it felt like 1000 or so! I hope the temps come back to normal soon, the summers almost over!

[randyr]

So here's a little more progress on my rear disc brake conversion. I bought the bracket conversion kit from Ultrastang.com to adapt SN-95 Mustang Cobra rear discs to the small-bearing 9" Ford rearend. I found some good used rotors & calipers on Craigslist, cleaned them up & painted them with caliper paint. I'm waiting for the new seal kit to arrive so I can put them back together.

In the meantime, I temporarily mounted the brackets & calipers and brake hoses so I can fabricate the hard lines to them. I still have to weld a nut to the housing on each side so I can bolt the hose brackets on. I'll also trim the hose bracket down once I figure out exactly how I'm going to mount it.

I've also mounted the rear sway bar on the housing. It's much easier to mount on the bench than under the car....

Still more details to work out but that's where I am today.

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Randy - that is a real nice looking disc setup. Nice work!!! (Is that an 8" rear with the 2 dimples in the housing? If I recall we've talked about it before, but CRS......)

That sure is a stout looking sway bar. You shouldn't have much wander from that rear end - mine sure is solid and my sway bar isn't that big.

.....and speaking of rear ends - I just had to go buy a new jack as my little 2T Crapsman trolley blew this morning while putting my car on jack stands for me to move the rear forward. Harbor Freight had a visit and I bought a 3 Ton that will at least lift one end of my truck (and probably the reason the other 'died')

[randyr]

Randy - that is a real nice looking disc setup. Nice work!!! (Is that an 8" rear with the 2 dimples in the housing? If I recall we've talked about it before, but CRS......)

That sure is a stout looking sway bar. You shouldn't have much wander from that rear end - mine sure is solid and my sway bar isn't that big.

Thanks, Dave! It's a 9" housing from a '58 Ford car. I got the rear sway bar thru SAC Hotrods in Orange County, CA (no longer in business). They got these kits thru Chassis Engineering but had them tweaked to their own specs.

Sorry your trolley crapped out on you....