Joe Ruggirello, Gapp and Roush Mustang II

[svopro]

Keep up the GREAT work Tom !

[ZR terry]

Very cool that your restoring this piece of detroit street racing history! I wonder whatever happened to the blown hemi volarie, I always heard roush built that too?

[SuddenDeath]

Thanks Guys!

Spent another 8 hours on it today. Fabricated and welded up repair panels on the engine compartment aprons and in the back side at the firewall. I'm off again tomorrow, so another 8 hours should get the cowl notch repair completed. We're ordering up some paint to do the inner cowl area, so that will be the first silver paint back on the car in 35 years! Once I get that cowl notch repair in place, I'll get a couple more pics posted up before and after. Its taken much more work than I expected to get those areas cleaned up, but its all worth it.

[black88coupe]

Nice job!

[SuddenDeath]

8 more hours on the car today. Fabricated a repair panel for the notch area and got that trimmed up and welded in. Also completed trimming the upper cowl section to fit as originally built. I still have a lot of grinding to do, but at least the repair panels are in place. Next is sealing up and painting the inner cowl area before welding up the top half for good.

Here's a before pic of the engine compartment right after we pulled the engine. Note the gaping holes in the aprons and the rounded out cut in the center of the upper cowl:



Here is is today after completing the cowl repairs:

[black88coupe]

Nice!

[SuddenDeath]

8 more hours today on the car. Completed weld cleanup, fabricated and welded up repairs to the rear drivers side spark plug access hole (you have to change it from inside the car above the gas pedal) and the master cylinder hole (they had moved it up to clear the turbo manifolds). Also finished up some small screw hole repairs and general clean up around the engine compartment. Next weekend we plan on sealing up the cowl area and get that painted, so we can weld it back together for good.

More to come!!

[Pwraddr]

Pics?

[SuddenDeath]

Forgot to take my camera this past weekend, but will get more pics posted up next week!

Besides, it looks much the same as above, other than welds cleaned up and those 2 additional small repairs made. Hoping we'll get some paint on that cowl!

[svopro]

Sounds Good Tom your rolling right along ! Keep up the good work !