Well I thought the 65 was a great video series, but I believe the 66 will be as good or better. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge & all the tricks and tips with the rest of us, and don’t forget to give Daisy some head scratches from me 👍
Great work once again very cleaver leaving the extra metal on the wheel arch to mate up to the Fox body arch you do make it all look easy and I have done some welding but I wouldn't tackle that big a job however I would bring the job to you and just pay for it done right Daisy looks like she has her Winter coat.
Like the short intro,and as always great video, rule of thumb measure 5 times cut once,when we were kids 16 or so my dad would shake his head at us and say 'well there's a pile of scrap out back throw in and start over' we learned still make mistakes but that's what makes a good project great,and this one will be one of those looking for the next one,God bless and peace out
This channel WILL hit 100k, 200k+ subs if you keep this up, EASILY. I sub to many of the usual suspects car channels that many of your users likely watch as well. Many of them have 100-300k+ subs, and while I find them all entertaining for different reasons, your content blows them all away, it isn't even close. Thanks again for sharing your incredible knowledge! ALL VIEWERS, please drop a comment whenever you watch one of Russ's videos, and while you're there, like the video, and other's comments - all of this will help feed the algorithm to suggest Russ's channel to others to allow it to grow. Let's ensure we keep Russ sharing his incredible skills and knowledge. Setting up the shots, moving the camera dozens of times, explaining things in great detail, editing, etc....all this costs Russ tons of time ($) - he deserves to be rewarded for his efforts. Can you imaging the loss if he stopped filming and uploading???
I've been talking this channel and Russ up on a few FB car groups that I follow, these Mustang builds could draw in some new subs over here. Kentucky Mustang's gotten some mentions on those groups since I started doing that, I hope I've done a little to help.
I'm not sure that the section modulus calculations would work out for the larger frame rail vs. the standard tubing with the thicker wall. Without doing the measurements and calculations the larger size of the frame rail despite the thinner wall may ultimately be stiffer/stronger. Thicker walls contribute less than larger size. However the standard tubing should be more than strong enough for the application. Without needing to hold the back end of the leaf springs it should be just fine.
I figured reduced size by half with double the thickness should do about anything this is the same tube I use for most frame connectors and custom race car stuff for structure
@@HotRodGuyGarage It's certainly fine for all of that, no argument there. It's that the rule of thumb of cutting down the outside size but thickening the wall could get one into trouble. Generally speaking the load carrying capability will go down doing that. (higher stress for the same load) Which means it will deflect more, twist more, etc. Unless going to a race car cage/truss type design where it's all braced to get rigidity. It's all moot for this car since no suspension loads go into it. It's only holding a bumper and a gas tank in place. It's more than strong enough for that.
I have never done anything like you are doing, and looking as a layman, would it have been viable, more work, less work to have just cut the tops off of the fox rails to line up with the 65 floor pan? It would just make the channels a smaller rectangle which might even add strength? And Daisy did not look happy you waking her up from her cat nap! As cat people, we know they never get enough sleep...LOL 🐱
I figured by the time I split them, then added to the back, I was better off just cutting as much as I could to get the drop. There is about 50 different ways I could had went just trying to pick the easiest way
Great work buddy, can you please please please put on some welding gloves you know better bud that UV light and heat will screw your skin up then you won't be building anything plus daisy still needs fussy time.
Regarding welding that square tubing into that factory frame rail. You used a technique where you squeezed the rail down onto the square tubing. Instead, could you have plated the end of the frame rail with some flat stock, say 1/4”, and then welded your square tubing to that, with or without a hole cut into the plate for the square tube to slide into? Just curious as the latter method is what would have been my first guess as to how to do it, but I’ve never done it before, so maybe my guess is a bad idea?
Probably fairly close sometimes, lots of time both on and off making sure everything is safe and goes well! Hopefully have another Cleveland video soon
@ Sweet! I’m pissed, I sold all my Cleveland stuff a decade ago. Now I’m regretting it!Any updates you can release early? Saw the short with the intake chopped up, so that looks like it could suck for sure.
I had a customer with a Hennessy LT truck that had an oil consumption issue that turned out to be a porous section in a port because the CNC got the wall paper thin. Something to watch.
Very interesting video. My 1966 coupe was back halfed and the isn’t even enough trunk depth for a NOS bottle after the fuel cell and dual battery boxes. I wish they had lowered the frame rails but there is no free lunch. Since I have 33x19.5 Micky,s under the quarters ….not much luggage space.
Hey Russ. A Happy New Year to you. Awesome video, lots of fabrication and lots of progress. Don't those slicks just change the whole character of that car just sitting there! Steve (New Zealand)
Drive and drag car. I like it you are making it street legal and a lot lighter. You may need a roll cage too if you make this car too fast. I like the video always ready for the next one
Russ did you ever think of doing the Auto Rama in Detroit to show case your work and for exposure. I think it is around March. It is big show for hot rod enthusiasts.
I wondered if it would be worth the time, cost, extra weight to lay that square tube on its side inside the stub of the Fox frame rail and stack a second one on top of it, welded together and then joined to the OE frame rail. That would be really stout. It's hard for me to judge this because the frame rail extension is visually so much smaller, though more than twice the metal thickness.
Your not only a car detective also a car doctor.
Skills are next level, boss. 😎👍
Appreciate that!
Watching your videos are more entertaining and informative as compared to what's on TV these days. Can't wait for the next action packed episode.
Appreciate the kind words! Thanks for watching
Excellent daisy & Russ cheers 🥂 😊
Cheers back to you! Thanks Dave!
🔥😎
Wow 6 hours that’s nuts but time is needed for quality work
Sometimes these videos are over a course of a day to a week
So close to 10k, it's been fun watching it happen. I wish I had a place to share
I appreciate you watching!
Interesting to see what you had planned and how you go about it. Always good to see Daisy, too. Best wishes for 2025.
We got a lot of cool stuff planned this year!
You make this work look so easy. It is going to be a great build once finished. I can't wait to see the front suspension!
Thanks, and the first front suspension one should be coming up next Monday
Well I thought the 65 was a great video series, but I believe the 66 will be as good or better. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge & all the tricks and tips with the rest of us, and don’t forget to give Daisy some head scratches from me 👍
Thanks for watching! And I'll give daisy some extra pets!
Great work once again very cleaver leaving the extra metal on the wheel arch to mate up to the Fox body arch you do make it all look easy and I have done some welding but I wouldn't tackle that big a job however I would bring the job to you and just pay for it done right Daisy looks like she has her Winter coat.
Thanks, it's always better cut a little less for happy accidents like the extra metal to tie the housings together
I also like the short intro.👍
I appreciate it, I've been working on another new one
Like the short intro,and as always great video, rule of thumb measure 5 times cut once,when we were kids 16 or so my dad would shake his head at us and say 'well there's a pile of scrap out back throw in and start over' we learned still make mistakes but that's what makes a good project great,and this one will be one of those looking for the next one,God bless and peace out
Absolutely it's always easier to trim than to add!
Dang it. I thought it was measure once cut twice 😂😎🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Sometimes it's measure 30 times cut 50 and then still screw up 😆
You have excellent critical thinking skills. Very methodical work. Awesome vid. I enjoy watching your progress on both the 65 and 66. Thank you.
Appreciate the kind words, thanks for watching!
Hi Russ, great video on the rear floors and rear frame rails. Very detailed. Can't wait to see the next video. Great job Russ
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it
This channel WILL hit 100k, 200k+ subs if you keep this up, EASILY. I sub to many of the usual suspects car channels that many of your users likely watch as well. Many of them have 100-300k+ subs, and while I find them all entertaining for different reasons, your content blows them all away, it isn't even close. Thanks again for sharing your incredible knowledge! ALL VIEWERS, please drop a comment whenever you watch one of Russ's videos, and while you're there, like the video, and other's comments - all of this will help feed the algorithm to suggest Russ's channel to others to allow it to grow. Let's ensure we keep Russ sharing his incredible skills and knowledge. Setting up the shots, moving the camera dozens of times, explaining things in great detail, editing, etc....all this costs Russ tons of time ($) - he deserves to be rewarded for his efforts. Can you imaging the loss if he stopped filming and uploading???
Thanks for the support, I hope to keep making content for a long time and hopefully one day we will grow huge!
I've been talking this channel and Russ up on a few FB car groups that I follow, these Mustang builds could draw in some new subs over here. Kentucky Mustang's gotten some mentions on those groups since I started doing that, I hope I've done a little to help.
Like the work you are doing on the 66 mustang. Going to be a lot of work.
It will be a lot of work, but it'll be worth it or I hope so anyway
I am impressed. I didn't think it would be moving along this fast. Doing great work too.
Thank you! It's moving along as long as the budget allows
Coming along nicely buddy
Been a bit of a process but it's almost there
You're doing a fine job!!! Cant wait to see the next video.
Appreciate it! The next one will be soon.
I'm not sure that the section modulus calculations would work out for the larger frame rail vs. the standard tubing with the thicker wall. Without doing the measurements and calculations the larger size of the frame rail despite the thinner wall may ultimately be stiffer/stronger. Thicker walls contribute less than larger size. However the standard tubing should be more than strong enough for the application. Without needing to hold the back end of the leaf springs it should be just fine.
I figured reduced size by half with double the thickness should do about anything this is the same tube I use for most frame connectors and custom race car stuff for structure
@@HotRodGuyGarage It's certainly fine for all of that, no argument there.
It's that the rule of thumb of cutting down the outside size but thickening the wall could get one into trouble. Generally speaking the load carrying capability will go down doing that. (higher stress for the same load) Which means it will deflect more, twist more, etc. Unless going to a race car cage/truss type design where it's all braced to get rigidity.
It's all moot for this car since no suspension loads go into it. It's only holding a bumper and a gas tank in place. It's more than strong enough for that.
Agreed, alot has to be considered for sure
Very helpful info, thanks!
You bet! Thanks for watching
Another fantastic installment. Thanks for the excellent content.
Appreciate you watching!
I have never done anything like you are doing, and looking as a layman, would it have been viable, more work, less work to have just cut the tops off of the fox rails to line up with the 65 floor pan? It would just make the channels a smaller rectangle which might even add strength?
And Daisy did not look happy you waking her up from her cat nap! As cat people, we know they never get enough sleep...LOL 🐱
I figured by the time I split them, then added to the back, I was better off just cutting as much as I could to get the drop. There is about 50 different ways I could had went just trying to pick the easiest way
I certainly admire your fab skills. This is coming along nicely.
Appreciate you saying that! It's moving along
Impressive as always.😎❤️
Thanks Ron!
Interesting project. But i still thing there would be the same or less work just doing a back half kit. But i get your point, a budget build .
I agree for sure
I’ve used Kentucky mustang with my 1971 Mach 1 great company
They definitely have been great to deal with
Love the progress
Thanks! Moving forward as fast as feasible
Awesome! Russ deserves the support, what a gem
Appreciate you
Russ watch gone in 60 seconds he’s you tube video on using original roof roof rails on coupe to fastback
I'll check it out
You make it look easy but we know better
It's only as hard as one makes it. Hopefully it will inspire someone
Good morning. I'm first. 🤗
Morning, glad to seen ya here :)
Great work buddy, can you please please please put on some welding gloves you know better bud that UV light and heat will screw your skin up then you won't be building anything plus daisy still needs fussy time.
I have absolutely no feeling in my hands to the point I can't wear gloves
Regarding welding that square tubing into that factory frame rail. You used a technique where you squeezed the rail down onto the square tubing. Instead, could you have plated the end of the frame rail with some flat stock, say 1/4”, and then welded your square tubing to that, with or without a hole cut into the plate for the square tube to slide into? Just curious as the latter method is what would have been my first guess as to how to do it, but I’ve never done it before, so maybe my guess is a bad idea?
I done it that way in hopes it would just slide in the factory rail if hit
Russ, what cutting wheels have you had good luck with?
The cheapest and thinnest ones harbor freight sells (the more expensive ones are not better they sell )
14 minutes = 6 hours so a 48 minute video covers over 20 hours! Thanks for all the effort! Watching for the LT headed Cleveland to emerge! 😊
Probably fairly close sometimes, lots of time both on and off making sure everything is safe and goes well! Hopefully have another Cleveland video soon
@ Sweet! I’m pissed, I sold all my Cleveland stuff a decade ago. Now I’m regretting it!Any updates you can release early? Saw the short with the intake chopped up, so that looks like it could suck for sure.
Ive been trying to find some more budget friendly options to keep my solid roller cam and planning the intake mods
@@HotRodGuyGarage Oh dang, something came up with the valve train? I’ll wait to see the video unless you want to elaborate.
I had a customer with a Hennessy LT truck that had an oil consumption issue that turned out to be a porous section in a port because the CNC got the wall paper thin. Something to watch.
Enjoyed the video, will there be an autopsy update on what happened to the 300 six? Has it been resurrected? Just curious...Can wait.
It's going to come back around sooner than later. It's first stop is going to be in this car
Good video, good explanation of your process
Appreciate that! I try to make it as easy as I can to understand
Very interesting video. My 1966 coupe was back halfed and the isn’t even enough trunk depth for a NOS bottle after the fuel cell and dual battery boxes. I wish they had lowered the frame rails but there is no free lunch. Since I have 33x19.5 Micky,s under the quarters ….not much luggage space.
Definitely always an afterthought when doing this kind of work, i wanted to get as much as I could for later activities
Hey Russ. A Happy New Year to you. Awesome video, lots of fabrication and lots of progress. Don't those slicks just change the whole character of that car just sitting there! Steve (New Zealand)
Happy New Year Steve! It's amazing what a difference a set of shiny wheels make!
Drive and drag car. I like it you are making it street legal and a lot lighter. You may need a roll cage too if you make this car too fast. I like the video always ready for the next one
I'm saving for the cage or hoping to win the lottery without playing
Russ did you ever think of doing the Auto Rama in Detroit to show case your work and for exposure. I think it is around March. It is big show for hot rod enthusiasts.
My problem with traveling most of the time is I don't have a truck or trailer
I wondered if it would be worth the time, cost, extra weight to lay that square tube on its side inside the stub of the Fox frame rail and stack a second one on top of it, welded together and then joined to the OE frame rail. That would be really stout. It's hard for me to judge this because the frame rail extension is visually so much smaller, though more than twice the metal thickness.
It’s always a balancing act between strength and weight when working on these projects!
"A rat's nest." Daisy appears.
Absolutely
where's the 396CI Chevy engine at?
I mean I could literally do anything
Off the rails
For sure
Your intro is very short now! LOL
When the video is long I try to cut some down where I can
Second. Lol
Awesome
Real hodrodding.
Absolutely