Coyote Powered 1955 Ford Fairlane

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Hey guys,

Thought i would introduce what i am currently working on. My Grandpa and I are currently building a 1955 Ford 2dr Customline. We bought the car from someone who started a full restoration on it and decided not to finish it after painting everything. Were going for a very subtle look on the outside with 18x8 fronts and 20x10 rears otherwise stock appearing. Killer engine compartment, interior, and hanlding


Few specs:

- Custom Art Morrison 2x4 Profile chassis with 5" Ride height build into the frame
- Art Morrison Mustang II Style independent Front suspension
- Triangulated 4 Bar Rear Suspension
- Strange Single Adjustable Shocks
- 13" Wilwood 6 Piston Front Brakes with Wilwood Pro spindle
- 13" Wilwood 4 Piston Rear Brakes with internal parking brake
- 18x8 Schott GT front wheels
- 20x10 Shott GT rear wheels

- 2011 Mustang GT "COYOTE" with 1297.5 Miles Bought from Cleveland Pick A Part
- Tremec TKO-600 Close Ratio
- Centerforce Clutch kit
- Mecloud Through out bearing
- Scotts Hotrod shop custom Engine mounts
- Turn key engines Power Steering kit

As for the body we are shaving the hood ordiment, emblems, trunk emblems, Tucking Bumpers, and a few other things
Repaint Black

Take a look at the rendering,

Tyler

 

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This is how she looked when we first got her home from pennsylvania and in the shop.

Scrap 272 Y Block that came with and a box of junk parts

 

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after a few days of having it at home we couldnt stand looking at the car sitting so high we pulled her down a bit!

 

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Some outside pictures:

 

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First Arival of the chassis parts!

Strange 31 spline S/S Axel package with the bearings.

 

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I was so excited to get it uncrated that i didnt even take any pictures of it in the crate when it came!

Oh well!

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Got the Toyo Proxes 4 Tires mounted and balanced

On the chassis!

 

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Finished up the first assembly of the chassis. everything except the front swaybar.

Welded some tubing on the chassis so its eaiser to move the body and get it square on the body but didnt work like we hoped so we cut them off right way

 

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Picked the body off the old 1955 technology chassis

Thought this was a cool pictures

 

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Got the body down on the chassis finally! Put 5/16" body rubbers on the chassis like it will have when we bolt it down for the final time.

 

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Very nice project!!

 

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These mounts look killer!

Mocked up the 56 dash to start measuring for the wilwood pedal assembly and see what kind of braces were going to need. Might have to change the firewall a little to get the motor farther back but we will know once we get the motor.

Welded the driver side tub in

 

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Finished trunk floor:

 

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Mcleod Throwout bearing came the other day.

First test fit! (Sorry for the bad pics)

 

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impressive

 

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This is where we currently are

Started getting the front cores support on and the stone shield. We are leaving the original inner fender panels in for added support and fabbing some new panels to go over them. The make nice places to mount the computer too and run hoses and wire through!

somewhat see the mounts

Firewall roughly cut out for now. Will clean it up and build new firewall when were done mocking up the front end.

Tight fit but just enough