My 72 Comet Build.....

I 2nd this!!!!! Top notch work though.

 

Thanks..... They are really not that bad to adjust, really just need an extra set of hands that know how to take instructions.....

I just hope to see it run again, even with the 6 at this point.....

I don't even know what to say to that.....

Thanks.....

 

It just means, I have a lot of learning ahead of me. Oh but if I was living close to you, I would be over there working with you (for free). So those skills would rub off on me. I love Your craftsmanship.

 

nice line between the 2 colors, I expected nothing less from you. can't believe how bad some are from the factory.

 

Today I got the new seals, bumpers and hole plugs in the doors..... I put the grommets and window wiring harnesses in the doors..... I cleaned all the old grease out of the door latches, then put some new grease in the and installed them..... I also put the new satin chrome door handles I bought on the doors and got the doors back on the car.....

Look how nice the door latches look cleaned up.....





Here is the doors ready to go back on.....







Here the doors are back on the car.....





Here the freshly paint interior panel of the door look good with the dash now that it all matches.....

 

Sweet, I have a set of those handles, I've been saving.

 

Thanks, I really like the look of the satin chrome..... The mirrors I am going to use are 67/68 Mustang style in satin chrome( I sold the sport mirrors I had because I didn't think they were going to look right on the car with all the trim).....

 

Are the new door latches Mustang reproductions? If so, what year and where did you get them?

 

Those are not new reproductions, they are the original ones off this car with the old grease washed off.....

 

Today I got the inside door release handle assemblies modified and installed..... Then I put a small clearance notch in the power window regulators and made 3/16" thick aluminum spacers for them to clear the 73 up door release handle assembly..... I installed the window regulators and windows..... I hooked up the power window harness to the battery charger and the windows are working great..... Next week I can start the under dash wiring.....

Here the inside door releases are installed.....





and for the first time in over a year the car has all the windows in it.....

 

Did a little cleaning up this morning, then got out my wiring stuff..... First thing I did is change out my dome light housing, the old one was dull and deformed..... Then I zip tied the feed cable for my overhead console to the cage..... Then I wired the rest of the overhead console and zip tied that harness to the cage too..... After that I got the stock harness out and stripped all the tape off it, then separated the heater harness and wiper harnesses out of it.....

Here is the new(left) and old(right) dome light housings on the bench.....




Here is the overhead console and wiring.....







Here is the factory dash harness as it came out, then with all the tape stripped off.....





Here is the heater and wiper harnesses on the bench.....

 

Worked on the wiring some more today..... Got the courtesy light, power window, wiper wiring all in, just need to hook the power feeds up to them..... Also got the last of the speaker wires in place..... Put the heater controls in too..... Not much to take pic's of, but here's one of the dash.....




Oh yeah, I printed out and assembled a blown up wiring diagram for the entire car last night to use.....

 

Went down this morning and remove the wiring from the drivers side of the cage, just decided I didn't like it at all..... Then I ran wires down the pass side of the cage along with the power feed cable..... I made a harness for the Autometer gauges..... The last thing I did was trim the excess stuff out of the cruise control harness and routed everything through the instrument cluster hole.....

I had to leave for a while, I was stating to hurt from all the wonderful positions I had to get into under the dash..... I am going back in a while to get some more done.....

Not much to take pictures of, but here's a couple(one shows the wiring running on the right side of the cage and the other shows all the wiring hanging out of the instrument cluster hole).....

 

Would have been so clean ran in the tubing. But that would be a task and probably not acceptable.

 

I am sure the NHRA tech guy would not appreciate hole that big in the tubing when the certify the cage.....