Interesting Documentation

Interesting Documentation,

Documantation about Clevor builds for street and for track use.
These images are printed from PDF's. please contact me ( see start )  if you are interested in these PDF's in more readable formats.

 

  

These articles I do not have in PDF or larger !

The 1970 MACH1

The "old" 1970 Mach1

Although this blog is about the plain jane sleeper mustang, I would like to share my first love also with you. I bought this 1970 Mustang from Geevers Classic Cars in Asten, here in Holland.
A beautiful Mach1 in the color Deep Lava Red.
It has a 351C (Cleveland) engine with an FMX Cruise O Matic followed by a 3.00 open 9" rear and a deluxe interior.
This car was a real killer, a beauty queen with all the bells and whistles you expect from a Mach1 from this era ! I sold this car in 2012 to focus on the plain Jane project.

 

Wheel / Rim choise

 The wheel and rim choise,

The wheels are in my opinion the most important part of the car concerning its look and drive-ability
Of cource, with out the wheels the car won't get far, fair enough... thats true !
But the looks of the rims make the difference between a mwah and a whah. Ofcource, my plain jane won't be fitted with a pair of ( safe played ) magnum 500's. How beautiful they are and classic looking on a 69 and 70 Mustangs this just won't cut it.
No, nothing is more sleeper then a pair of good old stock steelys. In the first place I got a set of 1970 -  14" wheels from a good friend.
Of cource, there are lots and lots of cool rims thats are lighter and provide better road feel.
The wheels where changed to 7J for the front and 8J for the rear. I fitted these rims with 225/60/14 for the front and for the rear I bought a set of 245/60/14's from BF Goodrich tires.

the rims after powdercoating in RAL9001 at velgenverbreden.nl 

  The 14" look

 
They sure looked great ! But something in me told me it could be better... in my opinion the filling of the wheel wells are minimum at best and as they say bigger is better.
After a while I found a set of 15" Torino steels and wide nth them also to 7 & 8 and fitted them with 235/60/15 in front and 255/60/15 in the rear. Well, this looked just Great !

In between changing...

 

The 15" look

[note: the front springs are cut but not at this picture... )

And the result ! :

The Hurst shifter boot

The Hurst shifter boot,

From the factory, our 1970 Mustangs where fitted with an rubber shifter boot. Most of them are damaged after all those years and are rare, hard to find and very expensive to say the least.

For a couple of bucks, you can get a reproduction shifter boot that looks good and makes a good replacement. 

I'm sorry to say the quality of these boots suck, big time !

For starters the boot are way to stiff and in the first couple of weeks it can pull the shifter out of 3th gear when driving... not what you want. 

The first boot I placed did 1,5 month before it ripped, superb ! 

 Ripped...

The fact is that the shifter presses on one place on the boot, and that is the place where the mold of the shiffer is attached. 

This brought me on the idea to spread the area where the shifter presses inside the booth instead only the middle of the booth.

 you see a line over the middle of the booth, this is where the shifter wears the most.

I made a small aluminium plate that fits exactly in the top section of the boot so the entire top is reenforced. Because the shifter moves from front to back but also side ways I made a 0,5 inch wall on the side of the plate to force the plate to move with the shifter stick. [ not on the picture ]