Thread: What is the best undercoating??

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Dave, no idea which is better but I did the bottom of Don's Capri about 10 years ago and Don just bought the car back. It had been driven in Ohio for a few years and the underside still looks like the day I did it. We sold a lot of that product when I worked for West Marine, some people even did boat trailers with it that get submerged in salt water often.

Gary, you will have to let us know how that stuff works on your car.

Kurt, I knew a guy who had a 56 Ford and he worked at a gas station. Everytime he changed oil he put the old oil in a pressure pot and shot the whole underside of the car with it. The car smelled like old oil but it was as clean underneath as the day it was made, and that was on Pennsylvania roads with salt in the winter. I've had oil leakers like the one you describe and it sure does protect the metal.

Today I scored a 1994 Ford 351 roller cam engine for the Mustang. It is a Ford reman engine with about 50,000 miles on it. Don found it on Craigslist (he was hellbent on me not putting a Chevy in that car ) Today Dan and I drove about an hour and I bought it. I was pretty happy to see it was the roller cam version.

We tore it down to a short block and everything looks pretty good, but I am going to have it machined anyway. I am not sure what the overbore is now, so we will see what needs to be done to clean it up. My plan is to just put a little more compression in it, maybe an E303 cam (I'll be running a C4 so I don't think I want the same X303 that is in my 27), a single four barrel on an aluminum intake, a decent distributor, have the E7TE heads I have gone through, and then use some swap headers to get in in the Mustang.

I want this one to be a daily driver so it will be on the mild side, just dependable. I think I am going to repaint the car in the white it was originally, and clean up the interior with some new seats and carpeting. I am also going to hook up the ac, power steering, and power brakes to make it more usable on a daily basis.

Don