It has been close to 2 years since I posted any pictures of my project. The car spent at least a year at the body shop. Anyway it is now back, and final assembly is progressing. Hope to have it done in another month or two.
A couple more pictures. Yeah I know the wiring looks like a mess, but 24 or the wires are power, ground, and reference signals for the coils. Most of the rest are the other sensor grounds.
Awesome!!!!!
i like the pipes. who did 'em?
YES!!! Very COOL!!!
Very nice job so far....get er done!!!
OMG thats the most over the top Pinto TECH wise that ive ever seen!! Plus its going to be Awesome looking as well!! how many years (and dare i ask $$$) do you have in it?
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I don't know??? 78Pinto isn't spreading just cream cheese on his bagal either. Both these gents are certainly Titans in my opinion.
High_Horse
Quote from: High_Horse on April 08, 2007, 11:37:44 AM
I don't know??? 78Pinto isn't spreading just cream cheese on his bagal either. Both these gents are certainly Titans in my opinion.
High_Horse
Oh not to take anything away from 78 at all, he's also a TITAN as well. Its just that with the engine setback and the distributor-less ignition, prostreet is just slightly in the "lead" per-se.
IMO
I hope im not stepping on anyones toes? Cause im not meaning to.
Honestly when you take the time to do this kind of work to a car (prostreet,78 and yourself High), the time, money and sacrifice that it takes, Your a bad butt no matter what!
Definatly some hi teck going on on this car. My car is more geared towards streetability...this is more prostreet/race setup. No offence taken at all, i'm glad to see different powerplants and setups in these cars, that's what hotrodding is all about IMHO. Up here in the great white north, you can't get insurance for a streetcar with a cage....otherwise i might have taken the same appearance route (tubs, suspension ect)
Thanks everyone.
The car has turned out much more radical then what I originally planned, but it is easy to get carried away. It won't be as streetable as I would like. The current engine is a 12.5:1 compression 408. I basically only used it because I had 95% of the parts left over from a latemodel stock car we sponsored for a number of years. All we did was tig weld the injector bungs into the intake, change from a carb to the throttle body, and change the oil pan. In the future I would like to build another short block, lower the compression, and run a procharger. In fact that is why the engine is set back 8", to have plenty of room for a blower and drive.
78Pinto:
Yeah insurance is a problem. Right now all I have is PLPD insurance (in other words they have no idea what modifications have been done). My previous insurance agent talked me into letting him take pictures of the car, and applying for a stated value policy. That lasted all of about 3 weeks, before the company cancelled my policy. I was not happy and found a new agent, and insurance compay. The new one has never seen the car, and didn't ask, and I didn't offer any info. I think I'll try and get a collector/show car policy with Grundy Insurance when it is done.
71HotrodPinto:
I've owned the car for just over 20 years now. During that time I've put less than 3000 miles on it. Pretty much everyting other than bodywork and paint has been done by me and a friend of mine. We back halfed the car and installed the cage about 10 years ago. At that time the car had a 289 in it. Then 2 1/2 years ago I decided to do the front clip, and upgrade the engine. The first year was spent on fabrication, the second was spent at a body shop, and the last 6 months have been final assembly. I have no idea how much I've spent on the car over the years, and I'm sure it would scare me if I did.
SRT:
We made the headers from a Stahl SBF pro gas header kit. The tubes come prebent. They are long on the flange side, and the collector side. It is just a matter of cutting them to length and welding the flanges, and collectors on.
i spent many years laying pipe under all kinds of vehicles and the set up that you have is very nice. my hats off to you
one thing i can say about this hobby....its subjective. Ive been at car shows/cruises and have overheard people talking about my car....not knowing i was the owner. "why a pinto" or "it's still just a piece of sh*t pinto no matter what you do to it" and then the next person comes by and says " thats the coolest wildest car ive ever seen" go figure.
I have insurance through Custom wheels, if i have a cage in it....no insurance would touch it. Its insured for $18500. and i could live with that if something bad were to happen. Going through regular insurance...i'd have to lie to them to get it, and its only worth what it says in there little book, not cool with me!
Do they consider a "cage" and a "roll bar" the same thing I wonder? I have a roll bar in mine, I hope I can get it insured. :-\
Quote from: mrpinto on April 09, 2007, 12:19:10 PM
Do they consider a "cage" and a "roll bar" the same thing I wonder? I have a roll bar in mine, I hope I can get it insured. :-\
yes...one and the same. I said well it should be safer with a cage/rollbar so what gives. There response was "how often do you wear a helmet driving on the street" i said never...they said well...the rollbar will leave a nasty dent in your scull if you hit your head on it in an accident! Its a valid point looking at it that way!
All the policies I have ever had state that I am not covered for "racing". If there is a cage or roll bar in the car it would not make a difference.
I would have told them I had roll bar padding. I mean come on now, if I hit my head on the roof (or if the roof colapses onto my head) it will do damage.
Bill
Unbelievably it has been almost 4 months since my last update. I just can't believe the number of hours it has taken to wire the whole car, and do the thousands of other little things that needed to be done. The car has been running for about a week now, and we spent all of last weekend wet sanding and buffing the paint. Still need to do the roof of the car, and then the glass can go back in. It has been running for about a week now, and since Sunday was nice I backed it outside took a couple of new pictures.
Craig
You can be proud of your car, it is beautiful in a well engineered way. I am impressed. Maybe some day when my Pinto grows up it can look half as good as yours.
BTW: So what's the story on the Cougar in the background. That looks like an old style A/FX style car. I like it!
jim
awesome just awesome No other words. The stance is incredible. However, are your expensive headers and exhaust going to be ok on the street? Or do you have air bags in the front?
I'm soo green with envy i would disappear in with some grass if i fell on it.
You have to post some idling and running videos somehow.
You and 78 are the badasses of Fordpintos period that Ive seen.
SEXY :hypno: :hypno:
Of course it makes my 5 years of late nights ,fights with the wife, and money spent (near 6000????? :wow: and still no paint!) seem like a effort in futility!
Prostreet,
Ya!!! I was wondering if you fell in cause we havn't seen your progess in quite some time.....those details are endless especially wiring but your result is fabuless. That car looks good...I mean really good. The stance is tough...just plain tough. Like 71HotRodPinto says...Videos are good!!!! Nice car!!!!
High_Horse
Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the encouragement. It has been hard the last few months. Everything on the car seems to take 2 or 3 times longer to do than I think it should take, and everyday it isn't done, is another day of summer gone. There are still a lot of small details and things to do, but for the first time in months I'm actually excited about working on it. Now to answer a few questions:
Jim: The cougar in the background is actually an original 67 funny car, which belongs to a good friend of mine. It was sitting in front of the door at the shop so had to be moved outside to get my car out. The cougar was originally built by Bill Sontag out of Joliet, IL. and campaigned under the name Turncoat. My friend bought the car over 20 years ago, and spent over 5 years restoring it. I've attached a couple more pictures of it, hopefully the mods won't mind. It really is an impressive car.
Hotrod: No, there are no airbags in the front. Just coilover shocks on all four corners. It does look low in the pictures, but in actuality the lowest point is the header flanges at 4.5 inches. Most of the rest of the exhaust is around 5 inches off the ground. The springs have probably settled some now that the car is sitting on the ground. I'll have to crawl back under it and check the frame heights, and give the coilovers a few turns.
Horse: Video! That is a good idea. I'll have to see what I can do there.
First thank you for the pictures, I love that style of car. I grew up with those things the first time around....
I recognize that pintos look better with the front end lowered, but not really sure why. My guess is all the drag racng Pintos I have sesn and thought they looked neat with the front lowered.
Sometimes it does get frustrating when it takes forever and you can see the summer slipping away but in your case you have got to take a minute and step back to look at what you have accomplished. That is a sweet piece....
jim