Mustang on the Endangered List (Cap)

[Shuffler]

I am a Co-Owner of a Fabrication & Machine Shop with my younger brother.


My secondary position is taunter of CAP1   

[CAP1]

I am a Co-Owner of a Fabrication & Machine Shop with my younger brother.


My secondary position is taunter of CAP1   

 at least i know someone on these boards likes me. 

[Shuffler]

 

[Babalonian]

i did that in a co-workers honda civic si a couple years ago. 

I miss punching it in with the third gear in my ol' Hondas.   

[CAP1]

I miss punching it in with the third gear in my ol' Hondas.   

well...to be honest.....and i think you guys get the point, that i say what i experience in here, concerning cars......

 the kid wanted to see what the car would do. he was afraid to do hammer on it himself the first time.

 i pulled out of the shop lot, lined the tires up straight, brought the engine to about 6k rpm, and dumped the clutch. rolled smoke all of first gear, broke em loose again in second, and got a little spin in third. i was too fast for the upcoming turn.....had i been driving a mustang or camaro.....that little pos stayed glued to the road, and went around the bend like a slot car.

 it really did impress me. i didn't expect that acceleration, or the power to be so smooth through the band.

 like i mentioned earlier, he ran a mid/low 14 second 1/4 mile with it, and that was his first time driving it that way. i feel safe to say that i could have easily gotten it into the 13.9's, which again i think is mighty impressive for that car. 

[icepac]

im not saying your customers. im asking what your profession is. Along with like Shuffler and the others who have nicely set up newer model Muscle Cars.

Nissan, toyota, and Lexus dealership technician....... but I now work for a shop that does high performance work on corvettes, ford GT, some mustangs, challengers, camaros, new caddy supercharged....etc.

We stay away from audi, mercedes, most porsches, and bmw but we will do performance work on the diesels of these brands as well as american truck diesel performance.

We are able to do honda, nissan, toyota, lexus performance but are very careful to only take on big projects as the smaller projects with these cars usually nets you 10 hondas and nissans in various stages of completion parked in the parking lot with liens on them.

I also do vintage nissan restoration (from roadster to 300zx tt) and porsche restoration and performance from 356 to 934RSR to 914s to the last years of air cooled 911 based cars.

[CAP1]

Nissan, toyota, and Lexus dealership technician....... but I now work for a shop that does high performance work on corvettes, ford GT, some mustangs, challengers, camaros, new caddy supercharged....etc.

We stay away from audi, mercedes, most porsches, and bmw but we will do performance work on the diesels of these brands as well as american truck diesel performance.

We are able to do honda, nissan, toyota, lexus performance but are very careful to only take on big projects as the smaller projects with these cars usually nets you 10 hondas and nissans in various stages of completion parked in the parking lot with liens on them.

I also do vintage nissan restoration (from roadster to 300zx tt) and porsche restoration and performance from 356 to 934RSR to 914s to the last years of air cooled 911 based cars.

 when i get anyone wanting me to do performance work.....i'll gladly do ford, chevy, and chrysler.  i won't touch any asian imports, as i've found that 90% of the people that want their mitsubishis, hondas, etc. done, are pretty much "fast and furious" rejects.
 i won't touch audis, 'cept for general repair, as i don't like em......and i've never really had anyone ask me to do performance work on any of the other euro cars.

[MaSonZ]

Nissan, toyota, and Lexus dealership technician....... but I now work for a shop that does high performance work on corvettes, ford GT, some mustangs, challengers, camaros, new caddy supercharged....etc.

We stay away from audi, mercedes, most porsches, and bmw but we will do performance work on the diesels of these brands as well as american truck diesel performance.

We are able to do honda, nissan, toyota, lexus performance but are very careful to only take on big projects as the smaller projects with these cars usually nets you 10 hondas and nissans in various stages of completion parked in the parking lot with liens on them.

I also do vintage nissan restoration (from roadster to 300zx tt) and porsche restoration and performance from 356 to 934RSR to 914s to the last years of air cooled 911 based cars.

interesting.

when i get anyone wanting me to do performance work.....i'll gladly do ford, chevy, and chrysler.  i won't touch any asian imports, as i've found that 90% of the people that want their mitsubishis, hondas, etc. done, are pretty much "fast and furious" rejects.
 i won't touch audis, 'cept for general repair, as i don't like em......and i've never really had anyone ask me to do performance work on any of the other euro cars.

to both of you: What college dfid yo uattend? lookin to go for automotive, primarily Cummins Turbo Diesel.

[CAP1]

interesting.

to both of you: What college dfid yo uattend? lookin to go for automotive, primarily Cummins Turbo Diesel.

 while i think schools have changed.......i went to penco tech for basics, back when i was 19. to be honest, i learned more at atco dragway, than i did there.
 i got my first job at a shop called borcher auto and towing. privatly owned, 3 bay shop. we fixed anything, and everything. my learning was there. mitchells manuals, and broken cars.
 the owner was good about sending me to classes, and seminars, which helped. i learned a LOT by doing. i still do. i worked for him for nearly 10 years. he's a good guy, but he used to be wound tighter than a drum.

 i left there, to go to a limo dealer for a short period, where i got good training on a/c systems, but didn't like the dealer atmosphere. there's too much politics involved in that kind of atmosphere, and.....try to not act too shocked about this.......i totally SUCK at kissing arse, which is how you get the good paying jobs at any kind of dealership.
 went back to borchers for a couple years, then went to work for the guy that used to own the shop i now own. worked for him for around 10 years or so. same thing......learned by doing.
 most of the people i used to ask for advice, now ask me for advice.

 check with your local colleges. i'm in contact right now with camden county community college, trying to get an apprentice, as i'd been there for a couple of seminars, and was seriously impressed with their program, and the quality of their training/teaching, and their facility.

[Shane]

I used to be fairly clueless about car repairs, but had a friend who knew a lot and got me covered on the basics, starting with a simple brake change.

eventually I was able to replace a horked heater core on my '89 chevy S10, replace the shocks (took me 3 hrs to i figured i needed some deep socket wrenches, lol).  Also recently replaced the upper intake manifold gasket on my f-150 (took a lot of research to narrow down the issue, and only after hitting windstar engine tech issues - shared 4.2l engine with my truck)... it was a beeeech to remove the manifold with evry little room.. I can only imagine the difficulties that would be encountered by someone who was bigger than myself in getting tehir hands/arms in that area.

but... my bestest macguyver moment was with my friends '81 capri.  i had <cough> scraped my stang and it was in the shop.  we needed to be there by 5pm.  as we were getting ready to hit the highway his gas pedal went totally slack... pulled over... figured the cable/lever broke (it did).  because my other friend had once showed me how a throttle works i decided that we should rip out the speaker wires (addon) from the trunk and tie it to the throttle, run it thru the drivers window and go "manual."  it worked, we got to the dealer and the mechs were impressed with our ingenuity.  be harder to pull off this kind of stuff with so much electronics these days.

[icepac]

Replacing a heater core in a S10 successfully should net you master technician status as with most any japanese car.

I started on cars by reading everything on them as far back as 7 years old when I also was given a transparent plastic rotary engine that actually turned and had extensive documentation.

Because of this reading, I built a steam turbine in the 5th grade for the science fair that was exceedingly dangerous that they only let it sit static.

At that time, I was already fixing lawnmower, edger, and pump engines for usage on GoKarts and graduated to outboards and two stroke kart engines.

By the time I was 16, I had already spent 8 years reading most every publication and technical manual on vehicles that interested me and had already collected parts for what I thought my intended car would be.

I still do that now and will search out a car just because I acquired a rare option for it........yes, I will build a car around a rare clutch pedal or another equally rare option and still collect parts for cars I don't end up owning until 5 or more years down the line.

I'm sure Cap also read HotRod and other car magazines in class instead of school books and this reading is a fast ticket to knowledge of performance.

The rest is hands on which will yield more than a few failures.......this is where youth and lack of responsibilities in life comes in which gives you time to do this experimentation.

After that, I attended Southern Illinois University, Carbondale to get my Airframe and Powerplant license but only used that knowledge working for the smithsonian on a volunteer basis restoring planes and engines.

I still spend hours researching and reading every single day whether a manual or via the internet where you can add a minus sign after your search terms in google searches (with offending phrase in quotes) that you know to be incorrect to filter out bad information that seems to get parroted to multiple sites.

[MaSonZ]

Replacing a heater core in a S10 successfully should net you master technician status as with most any japanese car.

I started on cars by reading everything on them as far back as 7 years old when I also was given a transparent plastic rotary engine that actually turned and had extensive documentation.

Because of this reading, I built a steam turbine in the 5th grade for the science fair that was exceedingly dangerous that they only let it sit static.

At that time, I was already fixing lawnmower, edger, and pump engines for usage on GoKarts and graduated to outboards and two stroke kart engines.

By the time I was 16, I had already spent 8 years reading most every publication and technical manual on vehicles that interested me and had already collected parts for what I thought my intended car would be.

I still do that now and will search out a car just because I acquired a rare option for it........yes, I will build a car around a rare clutch pedal or another equally rare option and still collect parts for cars I don't end up owning until 5 or more years down the line.

I'm sure Cap also read HotRod and other car magazines in class instead of school books and this reading is a fast ticket to knowledge of performance.

The rest is hands on which will yield more than a few failures.......this is where youth and lack of responsibilities in life comes in which gives you time to do this experimentation.

After that, I attended Southern Illinois University, Carbondale to get my Airframe and Powerplant license but only used that knowledge working for the smithsonian on a volunteer basis restoring planes and engines.

I still spend hours researching and reading every single day whether a manual or via the internet where you can add a minus sign after your search terms in google searches (with offending phrase in quotes) that you know to be incorrect to filter out bad information that seems to get parroted to multiple sites.

got my fair share of stuff to do based on the bold... broke a head stud (thought i had a bad head gasket, but my told me to check all my head studs were tight... got one too tight and snapped it. hit a big bumb wayyy to fast [it was never that big in the past though] and screwed my exhaust up.) got shocks to replace, dents to fix.

done brakes on a friends truck, my dads truck and my moms truck. oil changes, the normal...

lookin on doin UTI or UNOH. anyone know anything about em? my brother has a few buddies who attended each. sound pretty good.

[CAP1]

Replacing a heater core in a S10 successfully should net you master technician status as with most any japanese car.

I started on cars by reading everything on them as far back as 7 years old when I also was given a transparent plastic rotary engine that actually turned and had extensive documentation.

Because of this reading, I built a steam turbine in the 5th grade for the science fair that was exceedingly dangerous that they only let it sit static.

At that time, I was already fixing lawnmower, edger, and pump engines for usage on GoKarts and graduated to outboards and two stroke kart engines.

By the time I was 16, I had already spent 8 years reading most every publication and technical manual on vehicles that interested me and had already collected parts for what I thought my intended car would be.

I still do that now and will search out a car just because I acquired a rare option for it........yes, I will build a car around a rare clutch pedal or another equally rare option and still collect parts for cars I don't end up owning until 5 or more years down the line.

I'm sure Cap also read HotRod and other car magazines in class instead of school books and this reading is a fast ticket to knowledge of performance.

The rest is hands on which will yield more than a few failures.......this is where youth and lack of responsibilities in life comes in which gives you time to do this experimentation.

After that, I attended Southern Illinois University, Carbondale to get my Airframe and Powerplant license but only used that knowledge working for the smithsonian on a volunteer basis restoring planes and engines.

I still spend hours researching and reading every single day whether a manual or via the internet where you can add a minus sign after your search terms in google searches (with offending phrase in quotes) that you know to be incorrect to filter out bad information that seems to get parroted to multiple sites.

i did used to read hot rod, car craft, and there was one other. to a point, you can learn from them. but once again, i learned a boatload actually going to the track, and racing.

 i also stopped reading those mags, at about the time i realized that my grandmothers 71 ford ranch wagon 390 2bbl could more than handle pretty much everyone's hot rods(in the school), with the execption of one kids hemi gtx. that, and hot rod was endlessly hammering us with camaros, novas, and 57 chevys back then. is it any wonder that kids think chevys are better? 

[CAP1]

got my fair share of stuff to do based on the bold... broke a head stud (thought i had a bad head gasket, but my told me to check all my head studs were tight... got one too tight and snapped it. hit a big bumb wayyy to fast [it was never that big in the past though] and screwed my exhaust up.) got shocks to replace, dents to fix.

done brakes on a friends truck, my dads truck and my moms truck. oil changes, the normal...

lookin on doin UTI or UNOH. anyone know anything about em? my brother has a few buddies who attended each. sound pretty good.

one of my ex-civil air patrol cadets just got out of the marines. he's starting at uti i think. i'll call him tomorrow, and see what he has to say about em.

BTW.....HOW FRIGGIN HARD WERE YOU PULLIN ON THE RATCHET???? to break a head bolt?

[MaSonZ]

one of my ex-civil air patrol cadets just got out of the marines. he's starting at uti i think. i'll call him tomorrow, and see what he has to say about em.

thank you much