Hackster's F100 #2 CV Swap 6 speed manual and Coyote

[Wojo]

Man this is amazing work. I'm a huge fan of this one AND the other one. Not sure what one I like better. As asked before, any chance of getting the cad file or printed diagrams?

[hackster]

Man this is amazing work. I'm a huge fan of this one AND the other one. Not sure what one I like better. As asked before, any chance of getting the cad file or printed diagrams?

Its available online, let me see if I can get a link to it and toss it here in the build thread.

Photobucket is acting up so please bare with me on the update.....some of my photos will not upload and others just upload three or four times and drop in the wrong place.

Took a little bit of time to work on the beat to #*(& hood that I got off the parts truck. It is very much not straight but its not all rusted out either. Not too sure I can live with all of the dents and stuff on it but it will have to work till I can find a straight one.

Scrubbed it up first of all, hit it with some 800 then 1500 and several passes with the buffer and it doesnt look terrible. Kind of funny seeing how different years or different models of truck have different paints on them. This one appears to just have a black primer over the metal and then color over that. Appears to be original paint as well.



It is just sitting on there, no hinges to bolt on yet.

Yesterday was like Christmas at my office.



Shorter front shocks from Mike Naake (Guy is awesome to work with if you ever need coilovers for a crown vic setup he is the guy to call.)



Inner door handles....will be wrapped in same material as seats.



Seatbelts from Seatbeltplanet showed up yesterday. They look great so far and should go well with the interior theme I am working on.





Carpet from LMC showed up as well. Its not as dark as I had hoped but I think it will look good in there. I might see if the upholstery guy can order up some Brown BMW or Mercedes tight weave carpet and sew up a carpet kit in the future. Their carpet is amazing, if you have never felt it you should.





My buddy Jeff took my hinges and ran them through his blaster and got them all good and clean for me (I have got to get one of those) I shot them with some etch primer and then some cast aluminum paint. Pretty happy with how they came out.....I took pics of the whole process but cannot get those to upload either....



Got the second TMI foam for the seats. They look amazing until you sit in them. The foam is waaaayyyy too thick. It raises you up a good 2" from the stock seat and pushes you forward even more. I would not order them again if I had it to do over again. I would just build the foams from scratch. For $335.00 for the two foams I could have spent money somewhere else.



Met with an upholstery guy locally last night who can do the work in the time frame that I need it in. We are doing a high end leather looking vinyl. Dark Brown with light tan colored stitching. It should look awesome when its all done.....going to be pushing to get the truck done by the Optima Event though =(

[ahawks9er]

Any chance those foams will break in a bit and put you more where you'd like to be?

Sorry if I missed this Sean, but what Optima Event are you racing the clock on?

[hackster]

Any chance those foams will break in a bit and put you more where you'd like to be?

Sorry if I missed this Sean, but what Optima Event are you racing the clock on?

I doubt it, they are super thick. We are going to cut them down to about half the thickness they are now, I want them thin.

Thunder Hill Streetcar Shootout Feb 28 and 29.

[sargentrs]

Great work, Hackster! Which, exactly, is that seat foam? I'm putting '66 Mustang buckets in my truck and I was going to go with '68 Sport Seat foam from TMI. http://www.tmiproducts.com/products/196 ... -back.html That's not what you got is it?

[Monkey-1]

Got the frontend under it again......and started on the mounting plates for the trailing arm. Going to keep them rotated on a 45 this time. I think its a little better packaging and I can get better alignment with them mounted correctly....the things you learn by building something a second time.

Since its a race car, its going to have to keep up with the speed holes and dimple dies =)



Little bit of paint on the old girl.



Hope to get the frontend cleaned up and bolted on maybe for good later this evening, but needed a break from the shop for a bit.

Sean,
I really like the look of the trailing arm brackets. I see where you say you learn so much from the first to make the second better (I totally agree). What are the advantages of the rear brackets to be angled like this?

[crazyhorse]

Mr Hackster, that sure is good work.

I look forward to your posts each night.

I hope everything goes good for you.

Thank you for taking your time to post all the pictures and information.

[hackster]

Great work, Hackster! Which, exactly, is that seat foam? I'm putting '66 Mustang buckets in my truck and I was going to go with '68 Sport Seat foam from TMI. http://www.tmiproducts.com/products/196 ... -back.html That's not what you got is it?

These are the R foams, the only difference is the bolsters, center foam is the same on all three seats from what I have heard and read.

I hope yours are not as thick.

Got the frontend under it again......and started on the mounting plates for the trailing arm. Going to keep them rotated on a 45 this time. I think its a little better packaging and I can get better alignment with them mounted correctly....the things you learn by building something a second time.

Since its a race car, its going to have to keep up with the speed holes and dimple dies =)



Little bit of paint on the old girl.



Hope to get the frontend cleaned up and bolted on maybe for good later this evening, but needed a break from the shop for a bit.

Sean,
I really like the look of the trailing arm brackets. I see where you say you learn so much from the first to make the second better (I totally agree). What are the advantages of the rear brackets to be angled like this?

Its kind of hard to explain on paper and I do not have a good photo of it. The rear trailing arm bracket is mounted on a 45 on the crown vic. so the opening to adjust the castor on the frontend is adjustable but a horizontal slot in the back trailing arm mount. When the mount is in the 45 degree position that is in the photo attached, that adjustment slot will be horizontal. If the mount were mounted to the bottom of the frame, as you pull the back of the trailing arm in to adjust the castor, the back of the trailing arm is actually going to not only go in and out but up and down as you can imagine, it will now be going in and out at a 45 degree angle. Does it matter for most building these trucks and keeping them as cruisers? I seriously doubt it. Trying to make a pretty fast street truck that will see its fair share of track time with sticky tires.....getting a proper alignment and being able to adjust it to dial in castor, camber and toe is crucial for excellent turn in.

Mr Hackster, that sure is good work.

I look forward to your posts each night.

I hope everything goes good for you.

Thank you for taking your time to post all the pictures and information.

Thanks Crazyhorse!! I hope so too.


Looooong day at work today only got a little bit of time in on the truck. Managed to get the truck up in the air and swap out the coilovers for the shorter ones. For those of you that are running a crown vic setup, how low is the front of your truck? Tire/ wheel size and crossmember to ground clearance.

Hood hinges, while they look cool on the bench, the silver in the engine bay looks terrible. Looks like I am going to reshoot them black tomorrow.

Thanks for keeping up with the build thread.

Sean

[sargentrs]

Thanks, Hackster! Tremendous job you're doing with the build and the write up!

[hackster]

Thanks, Hackster! Tremendous job you're doing with the build and the write up!

Thank you!! I enjoy the build threads a lot.

Seat Tracks from mustangs unlimited showed up today along with the hardware to bolt the seats to the tracks and the tracks to the brackets. Its a lot of crap to order all this stuff from scratch.

Got the seats out, bolted the rails to the seats and figured out the latching mechanism. Amazingly enough my hacked together seat brackets from a set of downloaded drawings on the internet bolted right to the truck and the seats bolted right to the brackets.

I had to get these bolted in and see how they fit in the truck.



Look great in there, sit at the right height, arm to window is great as well.



Also managed to spend a few minutes on the seatbelts and got them mocked up in there. They fit great....the cable end near the console might need to be a touch longer but they look great.



The silver looked terrible on these so I painted them black. I am not really sold on the black but it looks a hell of a lot better than the silver did. They go great with the stuff on the firewall. Need to pickup some washers for the hood bolts and I can get the hood bolted down.





I really hope that the weather stays dry and I can get a few road miles on it this weekend.

Sean

[BossGB385]

The center console looks like it's gonna turn out very nice. Have you thought about what you're gonna cover it in? (If you haven't already said?)

[rollercam1]

Hey, where did you get your cup holders from? I am going to do some on the shifter mount I have to fabricate. Those look nicer than what I have in my head.
Thanks!

[hackster]

The center console looks like it's gonna turn out very nice. Have you thought about what you're gonna cover it in? (If you haven't already said?)

Console will be covered in dark brown letherette.....I just could not swing the real leather $$$. It should look really good with some nice details in it. WIll have a center stitch just like the dash right down the middle of it., center panel is removable to access the inside of the console for future changes, wiring and upgrades.

Hey, where did you get your cup holders from? I am going to do some on the shifter mount I have to fabricate. Those look nicer than what I have in my head.
Thanks!

Funny story, I had seen a bunch of people running the black plastic ones and they were not really what I was looking for. So when I googled it, not much came up until I googles Stainless Cup Holder and about a billion of them popped up.....for BOATS.

West Marine is where I go these. They are also all over the place on EBAY.

Sean

[hackster]

Spent a little bit of time yesterday evening cleaning up the shop. It was long overdue for some cleaning and organizing. I even gathered up all the manuals, paperwork, receipts and anything coyote F100 related 3 hole punched them and got them all into a binder. I know I have a problem...I know.



Although I found a little bit more rust than anticipated in the drivers floor board, I made due with it, a little rust mort and a little aluminum panel to reinforce it for now will have to work.

Managed to get 22 sheets of Hush Mat installed on the floor, firewall and back wall of the cab. I think it turned out really good. It was a pain in the ass. Sorry for the poor photos, the phone seems to be taking worse and worse pics with the update.





I had the carpet laying out for the past week or so to try and get the wrinkles out and it payed off. Carpet pretty much laid right in there. Needed some trimming and was a lot of work but I think it looks awesome.





I tucked the carpet under the firewall panel for the steering column as well as under the gas pedal and behind the reinforcement plate for the clutch pedal.



I also got the holes burned in for the seat mounting brackets and the seat mounting brackets bolted in place. Seatbelt on the drivers side is in.

I need a tap for the seatbelt holes in the center and some proper sized washers for mounting the hood. If its dry enough tomorrow I might get the truck out for a few minutes.

Sean

[Monkey-1]

Every updated gets you that much closer and I look forward to each one.

Thanks for taking the time to explain the rear trailing arm mounts on the CV front end. I never knew they mounted like that and have done lots of googling about it since then and understand what you were talking about. I do not recall anyone else mounting them as they came out of the car as you did, but I will when I do mine.

Keep the pics coming!