i've had this car for a while now, and like many other daydreamers thought it would be awesome to go rwd. i also fully intend on retaining power steering, a/c ect. a while back i ran upon this site and here we go >
this is before.....the last awd race session for a while
car was already down due to a broken t-belt which bent a bunch of valves, so i decided to pull everything, motor+trans, t-case, axles, front suspension. rebuilt the head with new stainless valves, seals
my car is an hour and a half away from where i live, sitting in my parents garage, and the thought of hauling the block back and forth for mock up was killing me, so i took a bunch of measurements and built this beauty
i'll be using a d50 trans for now. as many might be thinking already, there's a big fat k-member in the way of any rwd trans in a dsm. i'm in the middle of working that out now.....
i got a d50 driveshaft with the trans i bought(thanks Hill), so i slapped it in just to get a rough idea of clearance........not only does it bolt straight up to my factory rear end, i might not even need to get the length modified
even with the trans this far forward, there's still a ton of room up front for everything, but i havent made any final decisions yet on placement. one thing to note is that if i shorten the driveshaft about 2-2.5" the shifter will line up in my console right where it needs to be. that also obviously gets my weight that much farther back. i'm waiting to see what the steering is going to look like. here's the 'motor' bolted up to the trans at factory d50 driveshaft length. clears the hood, CAS, and the front cross brace(that prolly won't stay anyways)
i'm going to lift the trans up into the tunnel about another 3/4" if space works out. i'm also thinking that a powered mustang rack is what will be handling the steering duties, but i need to get out to the scrapyard to take some measurements. it would move the rack from being encased by the k-member to in front of the axle(or where the axles would have been anyways
) i sent my intake mani out to a friend to have a plate tig'd onto the other end of the plenum for the TB. going up to work on the revised k-member design this weekend
current setup is koni's in agx bodies with suspension technics springs(which haven't been produced for a while a far as i know) i really like the springs, but want to drop about another 1", maybe more. unfortunatly i think i'm going to need coilovers to do that.
