Rusty 66 Coupe

[Rayatswan]

Thanks Dwayne,
I got out of hospital yesterday and I am keen to get stuck back into the Mustang, posting here was the next best thing.

[Nuts]

Nice work. Good to see another major build..

[Ausjacko]

Nice welding there. Re the heads, not sure the exhaust valve is big enough ;-)

[Rayatswan]

Thanks Nuts, Jacko I'm sure the heads will help scare the snot out of me haha.

[Nuts]

Those heads are awesome. They make huge power.

[Rayatswan]

Has anyone removed the roof skin and drip rails on a coupe and managed to do so without destroying them, I want to reuse mine as I dont think you can buy drip rails for the coupe. Cheers.... Ray

[hybrid]

Has anyone removed the roof skin and drip rails on a coupe and managed to do so without destroying them, I want to reuse mine as I dont think you can buy drip rails for the coupe. Cheers.... Ray

You can't. I had to buy fastback ones and cut/shut to repair mine.

[Dwayne]

You'd have to drill out all of the spot welds from the drip rails, including all the ones under the roof skin.

Kerry's probably done it before

[ozbilt]

You'd have to drill out all of the spot welds from the drip rails, including all the ones under the roof skin.

Kerry's probably done it before

Quite a few actually

Reality, the fastback drip rails are easy to modify to suit. Hardest bit is the terrible roof panel as the last one I saw was in 3 pieces, the roof skin and the 2 rear pillars.

[Rayatswan]

WTB 2 pair of these braces from the bottom of a 69 70 mustang shock tower in good condition,
I need both sides, Cheers

[Edz66Vert]

Nice build. When I saw the fully floating 9" with 31 spline axles I figured you were going for big horsepower as they can comfortably handle 1500 hp. That will be a wicked motor at 427 cubes with those nice heads. What are you hoping for 600+ hp?

[Rayatswan]

Hey EdzVert, Around 600hp would be good. Hope to get back into it soon. Long way to go.

[Rayatswan]

Finally well enough to start doing a little work on the car, have built up over the last few days to an hour and a half today.
Decided after talking to Kerry a few weeks ago to check under the front section of drip rail, I think I will rebuild this section at least.











Doesnt look too bad under the roof skin.



I will save the outer section where the drip rail cover clips on and weld a new piece where the spot welds go thru to the window pillar.

[hybrid]

You can possibly graft some of the new fastback drip rails on to that section if needed.

[ozbilt]

You can possibly graft some of the new fastback drip rails on to that section if needed.

Exactly. Only the rear section where it drops down is different on the fastbacks to the hardtop.