Great video and car. It looks like your family was enjoying the first drive also. With your pictures getting cut off have you tried resizing them? I usually resize mine before posting. I use MS paint because its easy and on just about every computer I use. I go to the image tab and then click stretch and skew. I use even numbers on both so the picture does not distort. After I am done I save the image as a jpeg then post it. Not sure if that will help with your pictures, just a thought.
Steven
Thanks for the tip on the pics, Steven. Have always just saved them “as-is” on photobucket, and [img] linked them onto sites, never had any issues before. Even have them posted over on The Curb, same pics, same method, and they all show up fine. Weird. I’m no IT guy, though, so…shrug.
Yeah, the whole clan was having a hoot with it finally moving under it’s own power. The little one running through the vid, before I built/moved the car into the shop, when he would walk through the attached garage, would point at it, and say, “My car!”…LMAO. The older one, not shown in the vid, is ready for the Cougar to be set aside, so we can move on to “much more fun to a ten year old” projects. Read that as, rockets, r/c planes, boats, etc…LOL. Quite frankly, so am I. Very ready to just be able to go out, jump in, and drive, rather than have a “complete for today” list! Close, very close now.
Car delivered to exhaust shop this morning, via trailer, due to alignment being way more out of whack than I want to fight for the drive…picked it up from them at 1, and drove it to alignment guy(only 2-3 blocks apart, I could fight it that far!). Should be “street-safe” by Thursday!!!
Pic of the tips I chose:
BTW, those trunk/ext trims are WCCC’s “blemished” sets…got those, and the fronts as blemishes…Lin did me good picking out “just dandy” examples!!! Saved lots of money, and look fantastic!
Looking good with the quad tips. I used quad tips on my Cougar. What mufflers are you going to use? I want to change my mufflers to Flowmasters for a more agressive sound but I dont want it to be to much.
Steven
Well, I wanted to do turbo-style Flowies, or similar, but, didn’t want to pay the price, so, chanced it with Magnaflow 20" x 2.25" glass packs…the pair was less than ONE regular style. Pretty pleased with it, the little I’ve heard it so far. I figure if I get a year or two out of them, then that’s fine, I’ll “upgrade” then. Besides, rumor has it, EVERYONES first hot-rod gets glass packs! LOL. Just took me longer to GET my first hot-rod!
Y’all seen the “Secretariat” movie?? Remember at the end, coming out of the last turn at Belmont, and the choir starts singing?..yeah, that’s me…“Ohhhhh happy day!!!”…LOL!
Picked up from alignment, drove it back here to work, a whole whopping 4 miles!! Longest drive yet, and, OH, so worth all the effort!!! How FUN is this stuff??? Have an 18 mile voyage from work to home, leaving the DD here! Father in law is going to play chase car, just in case.
Super stoked day, gents!!!
Well, the drive home was eventful. Left work, with plans to take surface streets home. Well, I should have done my homework better, seems there was a stinking HOMECOMING parade in Owasso, OK, the suburb between Tulsa, and where I live in Collinsville. Cooling system got a great test, as it was rather warm(around the 90* mark). Stop, go, stop, go…sat like that for about 20 minutes. Temp up to that point had hovered at about 1/4 scale. During the sit, it crept up to half scale, and once under way again, promptly dropped back down to a quarter. I replaced my stock rad with an aluminum 3-row of roughly the same size, cross-flow. I have the engine driven fan, with NO shroud(yet). Planning on switching to electric fan(s).
So, had to stop for gas. Did that, jump back in, and NO start! Cliiiiick-click-click…run inside and p/u a set of jumpers, father in law gives me a jump, and we proceed on our way. Made it home with no other issues. Put the meter on the battery, engine running, and only reading 11.9v(this was after one day, and sitting on the charger until it said “complete”)…that should read 13.5-14.5 if the alternator were working, yes? I had the alt tested before putting it back in, but, I suppose it could have given up the ghost since then.
Anyway, for your viewing pleasure(actually, more like your hearing pleasure), this is how it sounds now, with the mufflers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmsMoDC4Ahg
Still like the sound of Magnaflows… they just have that ‘understated’ sound of a thoroughbred patiently explaining that “You just picked on the wrong ‘old car’, Tuner-Boyee”
I work with a guy that is using Magnaflows on his 67 Chevelle 396 SS. They do sound good.
Steven
I’m enjoying their sound, so far. Sound even better now that the header bolts have been snugged up…what a PITA those are to get to with a wrench! Can only imagine how hard they are with a big block!
You know, I’m thinking the Mags are the way to go on 'packs. I haven’t gotten a whole lot of the snap-crackle-pop so common with them. Maybe it’s pipe length, maybe it’s the material they pack them with, maybe it’s that they are still so new. Whatever it is, after 100 or so miles on the clicker, I’m loving it.
Thanks to Mark, I picked up a new “Full Power” wiring kit from www.madelectrical.com , comes with all the material needed to install a 10SI alt as a “three wire”, and simple instructions, plus, relay packs, distribution blocks, and all wiring to divert juice from the switches directly to the accessories(lights, horns, fans, whatever). I probably described that incorrectly…wiring is not my thing. Anyway, did my first “read thru” of the directions, and, so far, so good. He recommends soldering the terminals…ugh. Not sure about that one! I suck at soldering! Good thing I’ve a neighbor that is an electric whiz, he’s about to “pay up” for the smoked pork butt and smoked turkey I gave them a few weeks ago! LMAO!!!
Yup, Maggie’s can grow on you in a very short time. Looking forward to hearing them on my Cleveland behind an H-pipe; as opposed to the no-name “Turbo” mufflers I had on my Gran Torino -also with a Cleveland. The Turbo’s were only quiet at idle, anything over 1/2 throttle and they were getting obnoxious; and at freeway speeds, well, let’s just say that “the Flowmaster DRONE” was around before Flowmasters!
We need the 
smilie for me to adequately express my interest in how things work out for you with the MAD Electric 10SI alternator mod. I was looking at that somewhat seriously, but then RJM came out with a 150 AMP 7-1/2" mount 3G alternator and cable kit for roughly the same price as when you go with a “Premium Super-Rebuilt” 10SI from O’Reilly or Auto-Stoned. Mize-well stick with Fox-body stuff in a Ford.
Wow, haven’t updated here in some time…took some new pikkie-chers o’er the weekend…enjoy!
A little closer…
Went bug-smashing Saturday afternoon…
As you can see, I’ve had the winders tinted, and gotten front and rear markers installed since last pics. I’ve cracked no less than two front marker lenses in the process!!! GAAAAH!!! “Gentle Ben” seems to be the key word for installing those. Have some more on the way, thanks to Frank/Rarecat!
You sure picked the colors. They sure do come up nice in the sun. 
Great looking cat!
Nice Todd!
Marker lights and everything! Now, since your car is a 67/68 vintage, shouldn’t it be draggin’ a$$ like they usually do? Guess you have new springs all around? Looks a little high, but the stance is real nice!
Congrats on a real nice job.
Bob
Very nice… and it looks like spring came early this year. Those pear trees are completely green.
Yup, new springs/shocks on the back, new shocks up front. Re-used my old springs, minus a full coil, thinking that would drop it “enough”…Nope. Debating whether to do the Shelby drop, cut another coil, different springs, or ??? Regardless, I’ll take it back to the alignment man, as he has an “original Ford” style spring compressor…NO WAY am I attempting THAT again.
Also working on a custom console(not quite as intensive as SeanD’s!), and a custom dash fascia…but have no pics of those yet.
Thanks for the comments, and yes, Spring came pretty early here this year…no complaints from me! Though I did kind of want to try out the new snow-pusher…pity. Next winter!
Seems it’s a trade-off…it’s been so mild here this winter, I’ve been able to drive the no-heat having Cougar on occasion, but missed out on the snow pushing…I think I can live with that trade!
Love the color! very nice… I agree, lower the Cougar about 2" - 3" and that should improve the handling some as well. I think the lower profile blackwall tires makes it appear higher then it actually is…
Thanks!
, getting her hunkered down a bit is in the works, but…truth be told…ahem…the L/H side actually IS a tiny bit lower than the pass. side already…just a skosh, mind you…
LMAO. I need a passenger more often, or, to go on a diet.