68 Mustang Memorial Day Weekend Thrash

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By the way, has anyone come up with a good alternative to Photobucket yet?  It sucks that all of the sudden they want to extort a bunch of money from their customers.  Is Supermotors.org still around?  That was a pretty good site...

Jay, take a look at Postimage.org

I've been using that site for a couple of years, and I've been very satisfied with it.  I recommend creating an account, that way you can control the settings for your photos.  For example, you may want to have them private, so that they can't be randomly viewed by anyone and everyone, except in the case of when you post a direct link to a particular photo or album.  One can still upload without an account, but then the photos will always be public and can never be erased.

An account is free, and it allows you to create public or private albums.  I have no association with the site, other than being a satisfied user.

Giovanni

Does this site allow you to post images, or can you only provide a link to the picture? It would be a huge pain to have to click on a link to see every picture of a thread.

Doug, it all depends on which code you use for the particular board you happen to be posting on, but it's no problem to have the photos show up in a thread.  If someone preferred to have hotlinks, it could be done that way too.  Postimage gives you a variety of codes for your photo after upload:  Each code is suited for different board software.

I post on several different boards that all run different software, the first time I post a photo in a thread on any given board, it just takes a little trial and error to figure out which code format is correct to embed the photo for that board, then it's easy street after that.  You can always access all of the different codes for your photos, as long as you've uploaded the photo to your account.  I, unfortunately, may make it sound more complicated than it really is.  Believe me it's pretty easy.

Also, they don't purge photos that aren't accessed for a long time, like some sites do.  Good luck.

Giovanni

[Heo]

I did a few Mustangs (smallblock) with Shelbydrop in the 80s with 1 inch
swaybar TCM springs think 600 lbs if memory is right Koni shocks and a
45 degree reinforcement plate under the upper a arm boltholes
Think i used 4 degree caster
it was like driving a totally different car
Sliding around on the vinylseats was what limited the handlig after that

[jayb]

For anyone interested, the code required to post a photo in your message is shown in the informational link below.  You have to use what are called "image" tags, which are square brackets around the text "img" before the internet file location, and square brackets around the text "/img" after the file location. 

http://fepower.net/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=2.0

Heo, I remember when I did the Shelby drop on my 68 Shelby convertible back in the early 1980s.  I set up the alignment for over 1 degree of negative camber, and used BF Goodrich Comp T/A tires on some wide rims.  Burned up the front tires in no time, but that would car would outhandle most of the small block cars out there.  I was tired of hearing about how big block cars don't handle, and proved to myself that was a myth with that setup.  I ended up installing Recaro seats out of a 79 Mustang pace car to address the issue with sliding on the seat that you pointed out. 

I have a much more conventional alignment setup on this Mustang, and tires and wheels that are nowhere near as good, but it still really handles well.  In fact, I'm thinking about installing a shoulder harness to supplement the factory seat belts...

[Heo]

with -4 degree camber you had to do....sporty driving as the
Ford shopmanual says . To wear the tire even   with girly driving
the inner side of the tire wear prematurly had a couple of owners
complaining about that so we set it back to -0.5-1
I tried to find a power stearing box to adapt to the  Mustangs then
but no luck with that long sector shaft. The stock Tractor power stearing
leave a lot to wish for but as you say you get used to it

[427Fastback]

Well done...I like it.I see you even went as far as putting a 67 grille in the car.My 68 is a deluxe interior car but I do prefer the 67 stuff...
I noticed the 6cyl (no cid) running horse emblems on the fenders as well..

Thanks.  I really like the 67s better, probably because my first car was a 67 fastback.  That brushed aluminum interior and grill design stuck with me.  Right after I bought this car I found a ratted out 67 coupe with the deluxe interior, so I bought it, restored the interior and swapped it into this car.  Also kept the grille from that car and put it on during the revamp of this one. 

Non GT's got the running horse emblems and the Mustang script..plain emblems were for 6cyl cars.They were also made with 289,302 and 390 cast in them..When I switched my 68 to the 427 I pulled off the 289 emblems and put the 6cyl ones on...I have since welded all the holes up...









Its a J code car, so it came with a 302, and that's what it had when I bought it.  Was it supposed to have different front fender emblems?  I'm afraid I don't know much about that stuff...