Vulcan 1968 SOHC 427 Mustang

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Rusty Gillis
I started this as an Eleanor project a few years ago and stopped working on it and decided to sell and finish the project the way the customer wants.

This is how Vulcan will be built:

Robert Pond SOHC 427 +++ cubic inch block
Hilborn EFI
TKO 600 5 speed
Strange 9” rear with 31 spline axles
Rod & Custom front suspension
TCP subframe connectors with G-bar rear suspension
Fab 9 narrowed housing
Wilwood 14" brakes
18” wheels in the front 19” in the rear

Body modifications:

Fender flares
Mini tubbed
Eleanor side scoops
Drip rails removed
1967 Shelby style hood and deck lid
Cowl vents filled
Custom front valance with spoiler
Custom side exhaust
Custom interior

This is how Vulcan looks at the start of the project

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I will start back in the beginning when we were building an Eleanor for the first customer.

This is what we started with back on 12/05

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Rod & Custom front suspension that I would later use on my 1968 Coupe project

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All the sheetmetal was removed and the skeleton was stripped to bare metal and epoxy primed and we took it to a car show 10/06.

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This had been a slow build because of lack of funds so the owner sold it back to me and it had been sitting until 1/09

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I was not happy with the way the end caps or taillight panel fit from the original Eleanor kit so I ordered new end caps and taillight panel from Mustangs to Fear. The fit was good except now the deck lid did not line up.

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We cut the end of the deck lid off and lowered it

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Now you are caught up how the car looks now after being in storage for a couple of years.

The first thing we did was order a lot of parts.

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I have never seen a rear housing packaged like this Fab 9 before

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Awesome! Rusty when I opened the package on my FAB-9 I was like oh man this is gonna be a mess :) What trans is that? A TKO-600?
 
We had installed subframe connectors along time ago and since we were going with Total Control rear suspension we decided to cut them off.

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Brian welded in the TCP subframe connectors

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Center brace bolted in place

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Sprayed two coats of SPI black epoxy on the Fab 9 housing



When we did the rust repair years ago the A pillar was not available. There were a few pits in the pillar so Brian decided to replace both of them. We did not feel right about giving it to the customer this way so we are fixing it at our expense.





The welds still need to be ground

 
You and I both! I look at them as one would look at one of them big city art shows, only these are for car nuts. beautiful work Rusty.
 
We block sanded the body than sprayed two coats of SPI epoxy



Brian cleaned the Rod & Custom crossmember getting ready to weld motor mounts.



Getting ready to test fit the FE block with the Canton pan and TKO 600



Making sure the block is in the center, level and has a 4 degree angle so Brian can weld the motor mounts.

 
Brian welded the motor mounts in place. Now when you order a kit from Rod & Custom the motor mounts are already welded.









 
The new owner did not like the Eleanor non functional quarter scoops so we cut them off and installed Shelby scoops.





 
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