Did some work today

Well I started at 8:00 am this morning, had to go to UPS and get the air cleaner I ordered from Classic Ford and run by the parts store to get a riser for it and do a few more car part searches. I came back home and installed the air cleaner, washed and cleaned my engine bay for the 2nd time this week (lots o' rain) and while I was at the auto parts I picked up a nice set of triple gauges and in stalled them.....but the thing I am most proud of is the white face gauges I finally got around to doing. They really turned out nice and I also remembered I had some small Ford stickers from a model I put together last year and added those to the gauges for a factory look.

 

looking good

 

Nice....very nice.

 

looks good. are those the same white pieces that they sell on ebay all the time?

 

nice.. you got any pics of your FSP header? and also how did it fit over all and what about the starter?

 

Re: Header and Gauges

I installed the header a few weeks ago just to see how it sounded......very unique with no pipes! I took it back off because I have an A/C compressor clearance issue. I need to set the compressor away from the block 2 inches and have made some spacers with those round alternator spacers but still need to extend a flat bracket on the front of the engine. It's still warm here and I like my A/C better than the header right now, but it fit great around the starter. I have the high mounted one. I ordered the Pacemaker Aussie dual outlet header. About the gauges, yes those are the ones from Whitegaugeguy on e-bay picked them up for 14.00 with shipping.

 

Lookin' great!

 

Some very nice work, nice touch with the ford logo...your color sheme is how my car came...do you have the plaid seats?

 

It did have but I replaced the plaid with cloth. Heres a few pics
http://community.webshots.com/user/jberryhill

 

is this the header you have on your car.. or should i say had?

http://cquesttechnologies.com/fspp/proddetail.asp?prod=PM%2D200%2DDOP

did you get it from this company?

 

Very nice, BTW, Where did you get the Maverick 200cid decal from?

 

Re:Header

Yes, that's the same one although I didn't spend the extra for the jet hot coating, I don't know if this inline 6 will satisfy my need for power enough. I've had some really fast cars before and have been away from the muscle cars for about 12 years now, got married, had a kid, bought the family cars....you know. The only reason I bought this Maverick was I had one when I was in High School and it was stolen and wreaked and I remember really liking that car for some strange reason. I've done the 5.0 Mustangs thing and some 65's and 67's but something just clicked when I saw this car, plus it's in great shape and was cheap. BTW I know a 460 will go into a fox body Mustang and the 67's came with 390's but will they fit into a Maverick without cutting the shock towers, I put a 460 into an 86 stang by using the shorty style headers with no other major mods.

 

Re:Maverick decal

E-bay.......nhpony has anything you need I got a whole under hood set for 24.00, havent installed all of them yet.

 

On those guages... how hard was it to install the required senders? I have never done it before and don't know what it involves

Also I noticed the vent above the guages... I could have swore I have seen pics of dashes with no vents there? Also what does that sticker say?

 

Re:Gauge install

Good news, no senders to install these were mechanical. you remove the exsisting dummy light senders from the engine and replace with a temp probe, and an oil fitting with a small plastic hose to the oil pressure gauge and for the volts a ground wire and a positive to a switched source. very simple it took 45 mins. 39.95 at Summit Racing. On the dash: This early Maverick came with factory A/C and it blows COLD I was always told the 69.5 had dealer add on air only. The sticker is a warning label to set the parking brake, buckle up,bla bla bla.

Later, Jerry