Dr. Fresh wrote:
Yeah, I like to be on the good side of the law, especially when it comes to guns. That is, unless they try to take them. Haha..
Niice. Is it an automatic or a 4-speed? I love the '71-'73 Mustangs.
FMX auto. Top gear is 1:1, no overdrive. I took out the 1:2.75 gear in the 9" rear end and put a 1:3.25 gear in. Man, that made an obvious difference in how it felt power-wise. But they were both non-posi.
I have a 1:4.11 gear that's got posi-trac, but there's no way I'm going to put that in without first switching out the FMX for an AOD so I have overdrive. In overdrive, the AOD has a gear ratio of 0.67, which makes the 4.11 gear act like the 2.75 gear without the overdrive in 1:1. I'll probably be forced to get street-slicks just to keep the tires from chirping in first gear.... gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
Before all of that, though, I have some cowl corrosion that has to be repaired before I can get it back on the road. The dash is all stripped-out to get access to it, so it's undrivable... not because the engine doesn't run (because it runs well), but because for the last 3 years, I haven't been able to find the parts to fix the cowl and only in the last 8 months did I find a front end to scavenge. *sigh* I miss driving it on pretty sunny days. Even though it was running rich (you could smell unburnt gas in the exhaust) it was still getting 14MPG... out of a 5.7L carbureted engine.