Tuesday 20 April 2010

Retiring the 289


Well, here's the old donk!
A sweet genuine old school 289 ci Windsor. I was told by an American dude we met at a drag race meet in Alice Springs, that these old blocks are great for stroking because they are stronger.

Hmmm my new stroker is a '93 block . . . hope he is wrong. LOL

austang is getting a new heart (and lungs, liver and other organs)


We put the car into the hands of George May of Racecraft in Kunda Park. He was straight about the prices and didn't want me to write him a blank cheque like the other crowd (who shall remain nameless)!

The motor was pulled out, C4 and Mustang diff all removed without ceremony. Now they are all living in my garage, while I think about what to do with them.

In their place is a great new 3.5:1 9" diff, AOD tranny and of course the awesome 347 from the Engine Factory.

Today I bought a new B&M Megashifter to give some racing control over the AOD.

Geo suggested I get the engine bay painted the same colour as the body and have all the wiring hidden. I agreed, so he has filled all the holes, taken out the piece of crap alarm installed by a mob insisted on by Shannons Insurance. You should have seen the quality of the connections they made!

On top of it, I scored a set of HID lights for it, so we will now be able to see at night!

Oh yeah, also have bought an RSS rack and pinion power steering set up, to replace the hybrid falcon/mustang set up. It looks like this . . .