2005 Ford Mustang dash cluster

[Mango]

Originally posted by PyRo
Hmm, can I have a ride?

I'd be happy to take any AOer for a ride if they are ever in south jersey.

[1stdeadeye]

LOL Mango!

Wait till I post pictures of the rest. He also has a 71 big block that rocks the house!

Your engine looks sweet, but I still like the ZR-1 the best. Before my brother and I took it out to play Sunday, Dad gave us the valet key so that we could run it at full power! Very scary fast!!

[Mango]

Heck yeah, ZR-1's are so nice. All that modern suspesion components and such. That is a great collection. I'd love to see it sometime. I've never been inside a ZR-1.

[1stdeadeye]

My Dad is real cool about them.

You would just have to tag along with me to MD sometime. Maybe to play at a Pev's AG game or something.

My only problem with the ZR-1 is the seats. They have more controls then a rocket ship. Getting my fat butt comfy is not easy in that car. For comfort, his 2001 is the bomb. It is like riding in a normal car.

Downside to the ZR-1: Custom tires that are uber-expensive, lighting them up usually ends the day of joy riding if my Dad catches us doing it!

When I come back from Thanksgiving down there, I'll post the whole collection. Except the 77 vette, that one is actually in Mays Landing, NJ getting a frame off paint job. New Gel coat and everything.

JT who does your body work on your vette? The guy in Mays Landing is incredible. He is a few miles from the rest stop exit off the AC Expressway. He did my Dad's 58 to perfection. When the 77 is done, the 64 goes up.

[Mango]

Wow I would kill to see this collection! A guy in Maryland actually did the paint on our vette. He does lots of NCRS vettes so we wanted it done to spec for that. It cost my dad a rediculous amount but we think it was worth it. This guy knows all the tricks. But it's good to know there is someone close!

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by SprayingMango
Wow I would kill to see this collection! A guy in Maryland actually did the paint on our vette. He does lots of NCRS vettes so we wanted it done to spec for that. It cost my dad a rediculous amount but we think it was worth it. This guy knows all the tricks. But it's good to know there is someone close!

Was it Tony's Corvettes in Gaithersburg, MD?

He is good, but I have to give you the guy in Mays Landings info. He is awesome! Unfortunatly he is also very slow!

[Mango]

No not Tonys. This guy just does one car at a time. He is not really a business. Just does it in his backyard shop that he built for himself and gets business by word of mouth. This guy took almost 8 months too. Very slow. LOL

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by SprayingMango
No not Tonys. This guy just does one car at a time. He is not really a business. Just does it in his backyard shop that he built for himself and gets business by word of mouth. This guy took almost 8 months too. Very slow. LOL

OMG!! LOL!!

So is the Mays Landing guy!

He has a steel building behind his home where he does all the work. He did a full frame off on the 58. He even rebuilt the 58's automatic tranny.

[animal]

Originally posted by BlackVCG
Just another thing about Ford engineering that annoys me.

You anti-ford guys sure do find some stupid things to complain about. I realize in alot of newer cars the gauges are merely a dummy light in analog gauge form, but geez man, picky picky. The difference in those gauges is 2 letters versus a number or three. I guarantee that most the other brand new cars with numbers instead of letters are inaccurate as far as the ACTUAL value of the number versus that which is indicated on the gauge. So really what's the point of numbers instead of letters.

If you have such a high performance finnicky setup that these dummy gauges don't do it for you, then you know as well as I do that you should be running some high price aftermarket gauges and sending units to get some real numbers. For just about any car off the showroom floor, this is just not needed. Besides, they did it to go retro with the cluster. my 66 has letters as well. Ohhhhhh noooo.


I suppose you'd like "actual gallons remaining" on your fuel gauge as well?

[Mango]

Originally posted by animal


You anti-ford guys sure do find some stupid things to complain about. I realize in alot of newer cars the gauges are merely a dummy light in analog gauge form, but geez man, picky picky. The difference in those gauges is 2 letters versus a number or three. I guarantee that most the other brand new cars with numbers instead of letters are inaccurate as far as the ACTUAL value of the number versus that which is indicated on the gauge. So really what's the point of numbers instead of letters.

If you have such a high performance finnicky setup that these dummy gauges don't do it for you, then you know as well as I do that you should be running some high price aftermarket gauges and sending units to get some real numbers. For just about any car off the showroom floor, this is just not needed. Besides, they did it to go retro with the cluster. my 66 has letters as well. Ohhhhhh noooo.


I suppose you'd like "actual gallons remaining" on your fuel gauge as well?

AMEN! The oil guage in our 67 vette has pressure numbers, but it is pretty useless because it changes by what the motor is doing (obviously) so it flys all over the place. My dad installed an oil temp guage (which is much more useful) but we had to take it out because it was not stock or an option.

scott: haha thats great! I definetly need his info just in case we need something touched up or what have you. We had no idea someone so close did such a thing.

[PyRo]

Originally posted by animal

I suppose you'd like "actual gallons remaining" on your fuel gauge as well?

My jeep had one of those I think, also calculated the MPG, a miles to empty tank It was kind of nice.

[animal]

I have seen these in some cadillacs too.

But it's an issue of him complaining that there's no numbers on the sweep gauges when they really aren't accurate to begin with. This example goes a little further than I was trying to point out with my reference to the fuel gauges.

[PyRo]

Screw it, numbers are cooler than letters
My gauges are pretty accurate, although I don't really have a way of testing the oil pressure gauge. I know for a fact that the fuel gauges in these cars (3rd gen camaros) arn't worth a damn.

[animal]

Originally posted by PyRo
fact that its in the middle most of the time makes me think there has to be some accuracy.

So then why the heck have numbers?! If there were an L and an H instead of the numbers, would it really make a difference if it's always in the middle and only moving "to a certain degree" ?

What I'm saying is that if you REALLY need to know the actual numbers, you need an aftermarket gauge and sending unit anyways. Otherwise, who cares if the needle sits between 2 numbers or 2 letters?

[1stdeadeye]

Hey Mango,

I just chatted with my Dad. The 66 is the L-36 4 barrel carbs putting out a rated 390 hp. It also has factory side pipes! The 71 is a 454 big block also with 4 barrel carbs.