Newly aquired 67 Mustang

[Phillyfanfrombirth]

First of all, congrats!!!

You can make 289's hum pretty good with few mods.... though they hum pretty good by keeping them stock as well.

You need to know what your final plans for this car are. I'm partial to keeping solid Mustangs as close to stock as possible, I like leaving the mods to cars that won't keep their value such as Mavericks or Falcons. Modify accordingly.

As far as the flexplate, is there a vibration or a problem with the starter making contact?

As far as the engine, overall... you may have some uneven wear in the valve springs, but I doubt that would be noticed under normal driving conditions. I would suggest picking up an oil pump primer attachment for a drill. Make sure you are getting proper oil pressure, preferably with a mechanical guage that you can hook up and watch as you prime the engine... be sure to note the exact location of the distributor prior to doing that... The next step would be to give the engine a couple cranks, manually... unless the engine was exposed to moisture, there shouldn't be anything that is locked up (though some of your valve stem seals may be dried). At that point, I'd unhook the coil wire and try giving the thing a crank for a while. This should lube things up as the parts are slowly moved.

Next would be to start her up and see what things look like and how it sounds. I'd treat the start up as a new engine start up and go through the same procedure... and change the oil afterwards.

I'm not an expert on this... and others are welcome to give you other suggestions, but I think that this would cover your bases pretty well.

Again, congrats on the good fortune.

[95GTS]

Well I don't really know a whole lot about the car's history. The motor has been rebuilt but never run. My father-in-law said that they couldn't get it to start and thought it was a problem with the flexplate. I need to talk to him some more about that problem.

There shouldn't be any wear on the valve springs because they are new.

I haven't got a complete plan for the drivetrain. I had been looking for a shell or 6 cyl to get real cheap build from the ground up with a Tremec 5-speed, 351W bored and stroked to maybe a 393, along with either a 8.8 or 9 inch rear with around a 3.55. BUT, lol, out of the blue he gives me his pride and joy. Since it already has a V8 and an automatic that has really good potential I'm thinking about just keeping that set up but still wanting to get some more hp/torque out of the motor. At minimum I want to be in the mid to low 13s. BUT as you could tell from what my previous goal was I was shooting for considerably lower ETs.

The interior will be going back to pretty much completely original Aqua.

The exterior will be Black on top from front to back (edge of hood to edge of trunk)/side to side (fender edge to fender edge) and then the original Clearwater Aqua around the rest of the car.

The brakes aren't currently working so I gotta figure out what to do. It's 4 wheel drums. I'd ideally like to have 4 wheel discs as well as with 5 lug pattern like the SN95s so I can run better wheels.