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Very cool!

Looking good Kevin!

Very cool!! Looks like a perfect candidate for a set of my 180 deg headers!!! ;-)


Ron McCall

Kevin -

You have to be careful posting up pictures of "Group-5 like" cars...

Some might call it "Hideous Butchery" (you have probably seen the thread)....



Your car looks good, good luck with the build!

PS.... I'm just joking... I don't want anyone to get upset....

Rocky

That Pantera race car looks cool! I like the paint, 100% improvement over the white and blue.
Glad to see you getting back in the game.

Yes it does have a group 5 look to it. As I understand it the car was a stock bodied car running at riverside and slammed in to the wall. after that it definitely had some hideous Butchery going on.(Yes I saw the thread. I love the stock bodied cars, but I also love many of the other looks also) So now you know why the fiberglass on the front and rear.

Another one

Les had found a 351 Cleveland for sale and we bought it for $300. Supposedly had been rebuilt and came as extra motor with the guys Pantera. We pulled a valve cover and it looked rebuilt and still had assembly lube showing. Took it apart and found out it was a Boss 351, 4-bolt main, Boss Crank, boss rods,but with milder pistons and 4V heads. Standard bore! We pulled it apart and went through it and had it checked out, cleaned and gone through. Block is ready!

Also one of our club members had a set of CHI aluminum heads he had pulled out of his car when he had blown his motor. Bought them after having them checked out to make sure they were not hurt.
Had them reworked and all rebuilt with a little massaging. The heads are done.

We had ordered a custom set of Ross racing pistons, with dome especially made for the heads. They just came in, but I have not taken a photo yet. Everything getting balanced. Just received cam. Les had a brand new set of Boss lifters still in Ford boxes.

My wife Wendy bought me a surprise for Christmas.

Nice! You got some great stuff for your build!

Rocky

Looking good Kevin. Are you Lone Star? Great paint scheme---Phoenix area?---all of the wife's family live in the area.

Good luck with the engine build and finished product.

Kirk

Hi Kirk, Yes Lone Star is my business in the phoenix area. My family mostly lives in southwest, but Wendys family is in Pennsylvania.

WOW LOOKS LIKE A TON OF FUN!

Kevin I can volunteer for the test pilot duties if you need!
Jeff

Holy Cow Kevin. That baby looks sweet!

Kevin,

Car looks great! I recall running alongside your car at Riverside in 1989. The body had already been modified at that point so the conversion was done sometime before that.

The removable front/rear body clips are nice. My own GT-5 has a similar arrangement, and it really simplifies access:



If you ever want to change to a GT-5 style body, I have all the molds and can have more clips made. Or you can have an assortment and change them as the mood dictates :-)

Hope to see you on the track soon!

Dave

Yes Dave, the car did run at riverside. I believe that is where it hit the wall and then had the body modified.I also like the Gt-5 body style.

here is some of the dry sump equipment.

Very Cool!

here is my engine

I have had it back for a while but no time to do anything with it

I now need to get it over to put on the engine dyno and get it broken in

Now I am ready to start working on frontend

I think this has calipers and rotors from an older lincoln

Need to redo all this

have pulled most of it off

Also getting rid of brake booster

Have it out now , but need to clean this up

I ordered new assembly from Dennis Q.

another view

Also just received my new Aluminum Koni shocks

The new springs have been cut down by Dennis for the race cars lower stance

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Originally posted by Rapid:
I think this has calipers and rotors from an older lincoln

67 Big Ford/Tbird/Lincoln. For all intents and purposes the same front brakes as the 67 Shelby Trans-Am Mustangs, the coupes.

The rotor bolts up to the Pantera hub. The only issue I see with them is that they have a US 5"-ish bolt to bolt spacing and the Girlings are 3" as most Euro brakes are. (3.3" -ish)

The Rear of the Pantera is strange. 2.4"ish. The 65-7 Mustang front calipers will fit with elongating the mounting holes. You can use the stock Pantera rear rotor or change it to the vented 65 Mustang front rotor, if you can find some? Those have been discontinued.

They are a massive setup. It would be great if they were available in aluminum (but aren't). Similar in weight to the big iron Girlings the Gp3 & 4 cars had installed on the race Panteras.

So you need to make adapters for them. Not a big deal at all.

If you aren't going to use them,
do you want to sell me would you consider selling me the adapters? Please?



I have these on my Shelby. I'm thinking this would not be a bad solution for my Pantera?

Would you happen to know if an 8"x 15" Campi will fit over that assembly?



Really nice shocks. I'm envious.