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I myself would probably cut out the rust areas and cut up a new panel and graft the pieces in. If these mustangs are like other cars I've been around, changing the panel involves a lot of quarter panel work also. Look into it first.

And keep me posted please.

Why thank you Frank !

Good deal. Let me know how the efi swap goes. Thanks for watching

That's good info. I didn't even think of that !!

You are welcome. Keep up the good work also ! Love your hot rods !!!

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Thanks !

It was a little bit of work doing this. I'm getting ready to do the Mach 1 Mustang real soon also.

I agree. I'm hoping Bev will contact Chip Foose to come and build it for us !!!! LoL

Thanks for watching the builds Andrew ! This one should be a little easier, I'm hoping. LoL

Thank you. You have an awesome fleet yourself ! Very impressive !!

Thank you. It was heaven sent for sure.

Awesome. Send pics. All feedback greatly appreciated

Thank you. It's getting tougher and tougher because it's all small things now. But I'll get er

I had all intentions of puling it out. And your right, so lucky I didn't have to. It would have been the 4th time !!! LoL

Yes is surely was. My angels were looking down on me for sure. Exactly what I needed !!! At prices you would not believe !!!

I'm sure I probably will be lowering it. But whatever wheels I decide to run on it will play a big part on the final stance. I am still undecided on which ones.

Thank you my friend. I'll keep the videos coming!

For now, I just did the el cheapo hei. Later, I will do a pertronix style. The hei is too big I can't use my air cleaner, I have to get an oval one for now.

The majority of the work I had to do on my mustang floor pans was my own fault. 1st time doing a maverick ! Some of the pie cuts were necessary, some were just me being lazy and not preparing ahead of time. My floors were GONE.... it was so frustrating because I was trying to save all of the maverick integrity. My brackets were made with 3" channel cut as pedestals. Holes drilled in them. It worked out pretty good. But no where near factory settings.

If I had to do it again, (it all depends how bad my floor was). I would do the full mustang floor pan with the seat mounts and the hump. Why you say ? You have to think about the carpet,,, I used a maverick carpet.....I had to glue it down. Nowhere near a good fit, I chopped it up also. That is something else to think about. I wish you good luck my friend, in any direction you go.

@@rockinrongarage exactly on the carpet fitting the floor. I would do the same thing and match them to each other as well. My floors are bad right at the bottom of the toe pads, both front feet pans, and both rear feet pans. It is originally a bench seat car, and the seat "humps" are in decent shape. There's a fair amount of welding that would need to be done no matter if I used the patch panels. Also, if I used the patch panels, I would still need to weld in the bucket seat mounts that were used on the Maverick floors. This decision is driving me nuts because I could spend the money on the patches and not have any issues with the seats sitting too low. The full length mustang pans are the route that I want to go because I know those are stronger and thicker stamped out steel as opposed to metal sheets that have been bead rolled to match the Maverick floor pattern. Really, the only thing holding me back is the seat height and how I'm going to resolve that problem. I appreciate the info and super quick reply. I like what you have done with your Maverick, and it sounds great! I have grown up around these cars, literally. They are so dang fun to drive.

You know the bad part about.... I just cut up a 72 4 door and the floor pan is solid as hell !!! I wish I had it when I was doing mine. They say it is 10 inches longer behind the front seat....that ain't shit to shrink !!! If you live close to northwest Indiana, I have it on marketplace for 200 measly dollars. LOL it's complete with full rockers attached.

@@rockinrongarage I have a '74 Grabber for parts, but the floor is also gone in it. I'm in Northeast Arkansas. I have been known to make 24 hour trips though. I had to buy the parts car if I wanted the '72 Grabber. The '72 is so damn solid! It had to have sat in a field or yard on flats because that's the only rust on the car. Every single panel, both torque boxes, rockers, quarters, etc are all solid. I will be ready to start working on it soon. Keep up the good work. Yours is well done. Tastefully modified.

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Thank you friend ! I really appreciate it.

Yes it was. I still have the a/c system out of it. Will ship it. facebook.com/marketplace/item/1234010341064335/?mibextid=dXMIcH

It was a decent deal. I got a lot of parts I didn't know I needed !

Thank you hot rod, I ain't gonna lie, it's been a challenge. LoL

Thank you Robert ! It's getting there.

Thanks for checking out the channel ! I first wrapped mine with a header wrap. When I installed them, one pipe hit the passenger side shock tower, so I dented in 1 tube and tore up my wrap. Then I realized that wasn't enough and did a quick notch on that tower also. Then.....lol, I got them all installed and moved on to other parts of the build. When it came time to install the mufflers and pipes, I realized the header dumps were aimed at the firewall on the pass side. So I removed it again, pie cut it to aim it down. Fixed it. I run the column shift linkage on my c4. I didn't have to pie cut the drivers side header, but I did pie cut the pipe adapter to it to miss the linkage. Other than all of that !!!! It was fine lmao

No to add more to this dilemma, I bought maverick motor mounts off of rockauto. Installed no problem. If you look at my engine,it sits kinda high. I did more research, the mounts they make nowadays are frickin higher than factory maverick v8 mounts. Unbelievable. So I don't know if the factory mounts would've solved the problems I had ! Good luck my friend. After you install them, look at where the dump aims.

I don't know about the looks side, but it will run good !!! Lol.

@rockinrongarage oh I know it's going to look good my friend painted his red and trim it in black it looked good.

They are pretty cool cars. Pretty easy to work on. Once you figure them out.

I would check the solenoid by the battery. Or your ignition switch.

@rockinrongarage ok. My maverick is the same yours, but I have 351w motor. If u have a number we can be in touch

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Your car is a nice one. Good paintwork !

They are cool. All you have to do is stare at the shape of them ! The Pantera has a great look also ! Thanks for that tidbit of info !

Oh yes they are. Lol. I haven't adjusted anything yet. I was just so excited to move it around.

Thank you. It wasn't much of a drive, but very encouraging.

Looks great! That’s Awesome seeing that car moving under its own power!