New stuff on the Mustang

Hey everyone!
My union had been on strike for the last two weeks (we went back to work today). I worked on the car a little bit and got a couple of things done. Here are the pics....





Thump RRR billet aluminum belt tensioner. I was having some belt squealing problems and did some research. This is supposed to be the best one on the market and it is definitely heavy duty. It seems to have fixed the intermitent squealing that I was having. I did a little polishing on it before I installed it too. I got the Saleen extension arm/pulley that they make also, but it would not fit with the current supercharger pulley. The blower pulley is too large diameter to fit. I was kinda disappointed, but I didn't really need it until I got the smaller pulley anyway (belt wrap on the pulley). No pics of it installed....






Finally got the MT's (ET street radials) on the Jegs rims and trial fitted. I had to do a TON of caliper grinding to get these to fit with no spacers.
I drove it a little with them on and they've got grip...unlike the little pirellis on the stocker rims. Now I've got to get the skinnys to fit the front and that looks like some grinding there too.

Looking good!

Very Nice, Looks like your ready for Racing

looks good! how bout a little wider view with those things on there?

fst06stg wrote:looks good! how bout a little wider view with those things on there?

I kinda messed up and didn't think to take pics until it was in the shop and up on the jack to remove them so I don't have a good wide view. I'll get some better pics the next time I put them on. It won't be that long---heehee.

how much grinding are we talking about???

fst06stg wrote:how much grinding are we talking about???

I would say it was pretty substantial. I had to grind awhile, then trial fit the wheel, then grind more etc. Over and over. I'm a slow worker, but it seems like I spent around 5-6hours on each side taking lots of breaks to rest etc.
I had read though that there was a change in back calipers somewhere (i can't remember exactly) and they got bigger from what they were in 05 and 06 and maybe 07 too. If yours is an 06 you might have it a little easier. On my car (08), there was a notch in the top part of the caliper on the outboard edge and it is completely ground down past that. The notch is no longer there now. I got it a little thin (small hole!) in one spot on each side too. It hasn't affected the brakes so far, but I almost got sick when I saw that they ground through.

I like the Jegs wheels better than the Weld Draglites that I have for one key reason. The Jeg's uses the stock type lug nuts. The Welds use the long shank style and they kinda suck to change out very often.
I'll try to find the pics I took and post them later.
Phil

One more thing. Don't do what I did. After grinding on it that much it had a lot of dust on the car. I left it in the shop for awhile and didn't really think about it. The next time I drove it, we had a little light sprinkle of rain. When it dried out I knew that it looked like dirty spots on it, but no big deal. The spots turned out to be rust from the iron dust all over the car. Made a nice mess of spots/freckles all over the car. Washing it did very little to help. So it took a pretty serious amount of elbow grease and wax to get them to come out. I'm glad it had a fairly fresh wax job on it or it could have been worse.