Hello to you all hope this forum will help me build my mav

Totaly motivating!

 

That is a factory floor pan My dad had 16 mavs in Brazil along his life I had 3 myself my uncle is anther mavmaniaq and they all had this floor pan
Why they made it that way? I don't know

 

Thanks!! 7 months of weekends and holidays + $$

 

The place of your wheel is squared?! On mine it's round!

You have wheels square in the US...

 

yeah yours is round because it was made in Brazil

Like your dome light it is round right? "the one on the roof"
here's square

 

What a difference. I really like the outcome. Damn nice looking Maverick....

 

yes, it's round

 

I test drove my MAv today for the first time in months of restoration. on my way home I noticed a few things to be corrected, 1st the Carbon fiber grabber hood lifts at the back like air is pushing it to open at the cowl (scary) that happens at 60 or plus MPH. 2nd, Sometimes out of the blue the engine starts to missfire like if you give gas it puffs in the intake (sound like it's coming from the intake) for a few seconds and then it clears. 3rd my rear end is way too high 3:00 driven by an 302 H.0 EFI and a T5 for trans at 60 Mph if my speedometer is right the RPM is only around at 1300 1400's. 4rth It needs wheel aligment but that's no big deal, and for last but not least my headers gets caught in my sidewalk going in the drive way.
Oh, almost forgot i need a BIGGER Cooling fan in traffic mine goes on and won't go off keeping the temp at 220F-210F untill i start driving again then the temp drops to 185F. today's temp in Boston was around the 90's or more and humid too! so it was warm.
Ok so any suggestions will be welcome

 

Sounds great! I cant wait to drive mine...
Do you have a fan shroud?

 

No I don't have one but tomorrow i'll go to the local junk yard to see if i can get a fan with shroud from a taurus

 

Just installed a bigger fan with shroud from a 94 caravan that worked great! also installed new o2 sensors an adjusted timing a little bit and now runs good. Now I just need to do wheel aligments and install an alarm I need that on my neighborhood `

 

Oh,, I also re adjusted the hood and it didn't move @ 80 MPH so that should be solved.

 

Chirt,
Fantastic restoration and totally stunning!

 

Thanks!!

 

DOn't know if this was posted already, but I came across this video of the same carin this thread. Amazing job all the way.