My 1966 Coyote Swapped Mustang Finally Rolls Off The Lift !

What's happening guys? Welcome back to the channel. In today's video, we're going to go back to work on our

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Ford Mustang. It's basically a new car. We have since gotten rid of the old one and in today's video I want to try it. Mount the body to the frame, so let's move on. Let's start by removing all of these old pieces. We just lined them all up just to make a mockup, just to see how all the free spaces are and we figured we're going to do that. I have to trim the hood section a little bit, which is fine, but now let's go ahead and remove all of these parts, so we remove all of the body panels from the Mustang and we're going to lower the body a little bit. and we have a really good idea of ​​how we're going to do these frame rails, we're going to redesign them a little bit over here and what we're going to do is lower the body and then send another rail over here. and it's going to slide perfectly into the body of the

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just like that and it's going to be welded right there and we're probably even going to drill some spots in here and weld that whole thing together nicely, so let's go ahead and start lowering this body.

We go down and see how we're going to do these frame rails, so we go ahead and lower the whole body a couple of inches and we go ahead and try the fender, everything lines up beautifully there and we also attach the rear subframe to the actual frame rails , everything is nice and tight and I'm pretty sure the wheelbase is correct. We'll check that out in a second, but what we're going to do now is start planning how we're going to do this. new frame rails, what we're going to do is we have this frame right here, which is going to slide into the body, so this is basically what's going to weld the body to the actual frame and then we'll probably pop out somewhere maybe. maybe attach it like this and then this one will go over there and then what we can do is also have another frame rail come in here and make it go like this somehow and then back up so we can lower the seat. down just a little bit and we're not going to cut this frame rail until we have all the other frame rails welded in place and then we can trim it down and weld it all together so let's go ahead and start taking some measurements and start cutting.

So we cut our frame rail to size and we actually have to remove this little reinforcement bracket that they have from the factory because our frame rail doesn't slide in there and this is going to be a lot stronger than that little bracket. we have a drill, let's go ahead and drill it so that we have the right side frame roll installed under the rocker panel and it fits in there nice and perfect. Now what we're going to do is exactly the same thing here. On the driver's side, we need to remove this bracket that slides in there, so we're going to remove this side and cut another piece of frame rail for this side, so we put both frame rail rocker panels inside the rocker on the

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and we go ahead and Measured the distances that are supposed to be 55 and a half from this little piece to here, so we have everything set up correctly.

Now what we need to do is work on connecting this frame rail here and the strange thing is the mustang. up here it's actually 54 and three quarters, so it goes in a little bit, so we're going to cut two pieces, one for the back here and then one for here, so let's take all of this out and start cutting again so we have all of our pieces cut out, we have one for the back that's going to slide in just like that and then we're going to weld them all up there and then we also have our front piece here and what that's going to do is we're basically going to connect our entire body to our frame and then we'll weld this seam right here and then we'll drill holes and weld that up there so that the whole body is connected to the frame, so let's go. go ahead and clean these pieces, clean the frame and weld them together so we have all the pieces clean, we just tapped them with a little flap, this left them all ready to weld, but we also went ahead and set the wheelbase correctly. at 108 inches from front to rear on the 2015 mustang, it has 107 points as one, so we lengthened it a little and will probably get a custom driveshaft, but now that it's done, the body is also located in the area perfect, let's go ahead and put these frame rails back in there and weld them together, so basically we have the body now attached to the frame.

We actually removed all the jack stands holding the body up and everything is fine. holding up pretty well, we're not going to weld the body to the actual frame but we just have it there and it slid along nicely so once we're ready after we build the roll cage and build the bulk of it then we can weld the actual body to the frame, but for now it just stays there nice and secure. Now what we are going to do is go to the front. We need to build these front shock towers. I have a good idea how exactly. we'll do it so let's go ahead and start building them so the first thing we're going to need to do is trim this a little bit because if you notice that this shock doesn't sit perfectly straight it sits sort of like this here so it's a little bit of an angle strange.

I don't know why they did it like that, but what we're going to do is trim these sides and slide this in there like this so we can have it. at an angle so let's go ahead and cut this so we have both brackets right and cut now what we need to do is take the grinder and go ahead and clean up all this metal over here and also clean up all the metal on these. tubes and go ahead and tackle them so we have everything lined up now we're going to go ahead and start welding it all together so we have both shock towers welded together, everything lined up beautifully, we

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got it done, probably one of the hardest. things I have to do just find everything now what we're going to do is start working on the back because I really want to get this car off the frame.

I want to get a rolling chassis, so let's go ahead and get started. at the rear, so now we're going to start working on the rear subframe supports. We've already built both brackets on the side so all we have to do now is clean them all up and weld them together because we've already set the wheelbase, it's 108 inches front to rear, exactly what the original mustang is probably We're going to have to make a custom driveshaft because the older mustang or the newer mustang is actually 107 inches, so let's go ahead and start cleaning everything up. these supports and weld them so that we have all the supports good and clean.

Now what we're going to do is basically use this frame rail here as a template and then we'll probably weld them all together and then we'll transfer it over there and weld it all the way up so that we have these nice, welded brackets. Let's go ahead and put them on the car and weld them so that we have the rear subframe welded to the frame roads where we got the brackets. everything there too, so now what we're going to do is put the wheels on this thing and try to get it off the

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, so let's go ahead and put the wheels here and see if we can get this rolling.

This is fine, so let's use these wheels here. These are our old tires. My friend actually painted them, but they didn't fit his car, so we're going to go ahead and put them in the car and take them out. We put all four wheels on the car and we went ahead and lowered it, we also went ahead and vented these air bags and we just put a clamp in there because obviously we don't have the whole system in there, but that all looks pretty good. It looks like it's going to stay pretty tight and in the back we just put some metal rods in place of the airbags because we're still going to find a way to do that, but now we're just going to move on. and get this completely off the

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so we lowered the whole car and we had to inflate the airbags in the front here, we basically just vented it and then held it down because we don't have all the lines yet. but we'll set all that up later and everything looks pretty good, all the clearances are going well, it looks like it's going to stay pretty tight and on the back we had to put these s2000 rims here because the other ones don't fit, they're a little too big , but the offset of this tire actually lines up pretty well, so we may have to take the dimensions from that and it will stick out a little bit from the back and then from the top. here we welded just these two brackets here and we still have to build the brackets over there, but it will be a lot easier now that it's on the ground, we have everything lined up pretty good now what we're going to do is move the car to this area here and then start building the front end, so now that we have the car here, what we're going to do is start working on putting everything back together, we have the fenders. so let's grab the fenders and start putting everything back together.

Now what we need to do is cut this whole lip right here because this is exactly where our wide body is going to go like this, so let's remove the grinding tape and Cut it out so that we have both front fenders cut and ready for the wide body flares. We're going to go ahead and put them on the front and then we're also going to go ahead and put the rear quarter panels back on and start lining everything. because this is the most crucial part of the build, we want to make sure the body is perfectly aligned with all the panels before doing any welding, so let's go ahead and put these fenders on and then put the quarter panels on the back to We have all the sheet metal pieces on the Mustang and we just put them in there just to see how everything lines up and looks good and in the next video we'll start building the actual cross members to hold the fenders. right, if they're not all the way in, we've got a little gap here, they just need to be adjusted, but we've got almost everything together, we put the doors in and we're still having some trouble, uh, fitting everything together. but that's to be expected, especially with all these new body panels.

We have almost everything here now. This is me, the easiest part of this build because the suspension and the frame were the hardest part because I had to redo a lot of things. you know, cutting and welding because that's the most important part now, most of these things are basically collisions, that's what I normally specialize in, it's just putting pieces together like on the frame machine, it's not very good at working on Marcos, but hey, we did it. It works, we're still working on it, learning as we go, it's kind of cool and then we'll do the widebody flares, as you can see, these feathers, these wheels actually float pretty well, that's exactly what I wanted was. just a little bit of willpower so we don't have to be too aggressive with the wide body because we don't want it to look weird or ugly and that'll be it, let's give me a recap of today's video, we've done a lot of work, we finally got the car off the lift.

I'm really excited to continue working on it because now it's just going to be the easy parts of lining up the body panels, but if you enjoyed today's video. video, go ahead and smash the like button, hit subscribe and also go to vtune.com. We only have a limited supply of these t-shirts. These are the oldest notched tees we have. We're releasing some new ones, so grab one of those. before they sell out and also follow me on instagram vtune thanks for watching