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The Tangerine Dream

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Purchased: November 30 2010

Thread Title: Knuckles

1996 Mustang GT
5 speed
Bright Tangerine w/ black interior


Brakes:
- Drilled and slotted rotors
- '98 Cobra calipers

Transmission:
- Hurst short throw shifter
- 4.10 gears
- Centerforce clutch kit
- Aluminum flywheel

Engine:
- p/i heads
- p/i TFS cams
- p/i intake manifold
- bosch fuel pump and filter
- Manley internals

Exhaust:
- off-road h-pipe
- flowmasters
- BBK shorty headers

Exterior:
- stock cobra headlights
- smoked taillights
- stock cobra foglights
- 20% tint
- cobra front bumper
- cobra hood

Interior:
- gt floormats
- new radio
- bullitt pedals
- #13 pool ball shift knob
- '98 cobra white face gauges
- '04 cobra center console

Suspension:
- Nitto 555 255/40/17 & 315/35/17
- 17" deep dish machined 03/04 cobra wheels
- BBK lowering springs
- Maximum Motorsport Caster Camber Plates

Goals:
- Make around 300HP
- Sound/look good
- Be an overall bad ass daily driver

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First day I bought it.

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After cleaning it up.

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Lowered.

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Sold my wheels.

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Borrowed 10th annys.

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Rear ended someone.

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Got new wheels and ditched the bumper.

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I've got a bumper cover, 5mph bumper, headlight panel, two fenders, hood, radiator support, rocker panels and headlights for it. It'll all be getting put together and painted after the 4th of July. I've also got a motor for it, and pi h/c/i for the motor. The motor's gonna take a bit longer though. I think when I've got the motor out, I'm gonna paint the engine bay black. I'm also gonna try and get an s281 spoiler for it before it goes to get painted. That's basically what its like right now...

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The wheels look awesome! Kind of wish you would have gone with the chrome but either way. They still look awesome. Sorry to hear with your recent accident... but at least when it's done it will be in a lot better shape!

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Thanks yall! I'm thinking it's gonna look way better when I'm done since it needed a paint job regardless and the cobra bumper will look a lot better, even though it wasn't my first choice lol.

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Can't wait to see it all done! those wheels look great on there!

Thanks! I love them more everytime I see them!

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After I painted the rotors, before I painted the calipers

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Rear, everything is dirty lol

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Using the heat gun to speed things up lol. The caliper bolt on one side was stripped so I ended up buying an entire kit with new bolts, slides and pins. It took us way too long to do what little bit we did lol.

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Didn't have time to take pics at school after we painted the calipers

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Soooo much better.

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Doing the body work this Saturday!! I'm gonna have a half green car but whatever haha.

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You drive it around with all that missing? Awesome haha.

Hell yeah haha. I have to crawl through the window too cause I can't open the door. I don't care what anybody thinks of my little car. I love it and that's all that matters. I don't drive it at night or in the rain though.

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Aaaahahahaha. That's just great. The wheels look great by the way... Should look even better with nice new orange paint.

Thanks!! I can't wait to see it put back together and all one color!

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Liz is so awesome :) Great work on the calipers dear :)

Thanks! I gotta touch them up a little lol. Brake fluid went everywhere when I was putting the calipers back on.

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Hell yeah haha. I have to crawl through the window too cause I can't open the door. I don't care what anybody thinks of my little car. I love it and that's all that matters. I don't drive it at night or in the rain though.

Thats awesome. Don't find many people like you around now days. Now-days pretty much everyone cares what other people think about them or there stuff.

Slowly, but surely the orange machine will be back on track.

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Thats awesome. Don't find many people like you around now days. Now-days pretty much everyone cares what other people think about them or there stuff.

Slowly, but surely the orange machine will be back on track.

haha thanks!! I try to stay laid back about most things. What other people think is not a huge concern of mine lol. Yah one day my car will be where I want it, but I'm enjoying the journey getting there lol.

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I can't believe I haven't seen your build thread yet. Very nice liz I like the simple black brakes. Your phone does take some very nice pics.

haha thanks! I thought red would clash and the silver paint looked cheap. Someone said do them orange but I thought that would look ricey lol. I looooove my new phone! It's awesome!

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Before

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After

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Before

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After

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Before (wet spot is where we started cleaning)

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After

Left the gas tank in the car, sanded it down, sprayed it. lol It looks a million times better.

Gonna work on the front end this Saturday!

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Looks Great Liz, Its the little things that make a difference.

Thanks! Seems like all the little things eat up a lot of time! lol

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Wonderful! Now do somethin about that red pumpkin lol

hahah It's metallic orange! I'm gonna repaint it and a couple other things but that'll be another day lol.

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haha I'm gonna paint everything black so it looks new again...

Oh and I'm getting interior parts Saturday tooooo. (:

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I love your wheels!! And i also like how you painted the gas tank makes it look so much better!

Thanks!! I loveee my wheels too! haha I'm glad I spent the extra money to get the deep dish!

Well if nothing else right now Liz your car has a really nice ass. It looks great from behind.

Thank you lol that's what I was going for! I was walking to my car after work today and thought "damn my car's ass looks amazing!" hahah.

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Liz, would you be able to take more pictures of your wheels for me? Still debating.

Sure, give me a couple of days for the rain to pass and so I can clean them up a bit. Any specific angles/etc?

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day 1

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The parts car.

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the stopping point.

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the parts

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Literally did this all by myself. I was there alone and it was super boring. I sliced two of my fingers open so my car officially has been built with blood, sweat and tears... though I didn't cry lol. There were a few things I needed help with, like the hoods, so I'm going back today to finish. I had to leave my car there over night, it was so sad. :( haha anyway, just wanted to share the pics.

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