Looks like you are starting with a really nice car!
'69 427 Pro Touring Wolf
I wanted to start a build thread. I just bought the car and I haven't completely gone through it to see what needs to be done. It's a Bench seat car that was originally Yellow. Someone already swapped in '69 copo 427 engine. Seems like it's got a big street cam. It's my first Big Block car but I have had a couple other Novas. I'm coming directly from a 2021 GT500. I love that car but I needed something to tear into with both hands. I can't do anything to the Shelby without lowering it's value.
I want Fuel Injection, Air Conditioning, the right stances/suspension and insulation/sound deadening.
The rear of the car has 15x8 Rally wheels but for some reason, only a 235 tire with Air Shocks so I'm betting there is something strange going on with the Multileaf and Air shocks. The front alignment is also a little out of spec so that's where I'm going to start.
I don't care about being different or Original.
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I want Fuel Injection, Air Conditioning, the right stances/suspension and insulation/sound deadening.
The rear of the car has 15x8 Rally wheels but for some reason, only a 235 tire with Air Shocks so I'm betting there is something strange going on with the Multileaf and Air shocks. The front alignment is also a little out of spec so that's where I'm going to start.
I don't care about being different or Original.
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Thanks,
I really wanted a car I could get in and enjoy with the family right away. I know there are going to be thing I find as I go. I'd say it's an 80% car. It's all there but eventually, everything is going to have to be pulled out and redone. I have done the ground up stuff before and it still leads to the same place. Usually, driving is the last thing you get to do before selling.
I got 275/60/15 on back of my 70. Welds with 5 1/5 bs with a 3/8 spacer. No rubbing on anything . Stock shock mounts no trimmed wheel openings etc. Jus sayin
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I started ordering parts for the '69. I should be buying things to bullet proof the daily driving ability, like a radiator, electric fan and alternator but I couldn't resist the fun stuff. I'm not going to drive the car until spring I'll probably have that stuff by then anyway.
I wanted to order the entire TVS kits but I haven't sold my Shelby yet and this is what I consider my Christmas budget for the car.
I left off on my last Nova with my Hotchkis springs in the trunk when I sold it so this sort of feels like a redemption. I should have never sold that car.
- Hotchkis 2" drop springs for the front
- Hotchkis 1.5" drop leaf springs
- KYB gas-a-just shocks
- Proform solid subframe bushings.
I wanted to order the entire TVS kits but I haven't sold my Shelby yet and this is what I consider my Christmas budget for the car.
I left off on my last Nova with my Hotchkis springs in the trunk when I sold it so this sort of feels like a redemption. I should have never sold that car.
Had to play musical cars and came out to another dead Battery. lol
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Today, I realized the PO already lowered the front of my '69 somehow. I thought I had looked at all 4 wheels and they were 235/70/15's. By a glance the wheel well to tire ratio looked the same. Someone yesterday told me they "liked my cars stance and its eactly what they wanted theirs to look like." I thought it was weird since I thought it was either stock or maybe just sagging a little. lol
I went out this morning and seen it's just a 27" tire (215/70) with a 28" (235/70) in back. It's certainly lowered already and I can barely fit a pinky finger up between the sidewall and fender. I'm going to have to rethink everything on the car AFTER I pull it apart. I haven't been able to get the car in the garage to start the tear down since my Shelby is still there.
It seems silly now that I couldn't tell the car was lowered but for the last 15 years I have had new Mustangs and it must have reset my brain.
Hopefully I can move the Shelby out of the garage in the next couple days. I just don't want anything to happen to it before someone picks it up.
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Hotchkis springs on my 73 and 72.. Trigger warning for the Potato cam circa 2004.
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I wish I knew the specs on those Craigslist welds. I loved those things.
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I went out this morning and seen it's just a 27" tire (215/70) with a 28" (235/70) in back. It's certainly lowered already and I can barely fit a pinky finger up between the sidewall and fender. I'm going to have to rethink everything on the car AFTER I pull it apart. I haven't been able to get the car in the garage to start the tear down since my Shelby is still there.
It seems silly now that I couldn't tell the car was lowered but for the last 15 years I have had new Mustangs and it must have reset my brain.
Hopefully I can move the Shelby out of the garage in the next couple days. I just don't want anything to happen to it before someone picks it up.
Hotchkis springs on my 73 and 72.. Trigger warning for the Potato cam circa 2004.
I wish I knew the specs on those Craigslist welds. I loved those things.
Off topic, what is that building your Shelby is parked in front of in the first pictures? I love old buildings.
PS, my wife has a hard time forgetting the price when it comes to parts for my Nova regardless of quality
PS, my wife has a hard time forgetting the price when it comes to parts for my Nova regardless of quality
Well, well, I just spotted this little spring helper gem tucked into the spring and look how close that snubber is to the sub-frame, lol. Those can't be Big Block springs.
Eastern State Mental Institution. It's the original building on the property. They kicked me out, lol. (That's where until recently they kept John Hinkley)Off topic, what is that building your Shelby is parked in front of in the first pictures? I love old buildings.
PS, my wife has a hard time forgetting the price when it comes to parts for my Nova regardless of quality
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