Noob Questions!! Help, please?

if you look in the for sale section, you might be able to find someone that has a parts car so that you can get some of the items you are looking for

as far as the gas tank goes, if you know how to weld, you can remove the lowered section of the trunk floor and weld in a new floor and attach a tank to where it is supposed to go..

the reason for the drop in tank, this is what the mustangs were doing back then, so the genious engineer thought it would be better to do it that way, and then they determined it was not smart to have the gas tank inside the car with people in case of a tank rupture.

 

That being said is there a mustang tank with the same demensions?

Anyone have dimensions on this part?

 

We're in North Central Florida, a few miles north of Gainesville.

 

No Mustang tank thats the same.

 

you can always measure the width and length from bolt hole to bolt hole side to side, etc.. and call mustangs unlimited. they will usually have dimensions that they can look at.

 

You can do a search for the 69.5-70 gas tanks and read what was done by others. You have a lot of work ahead of you if you don't use a 69.5 tank. It is so easy to just say put in a new floor and make the Mustang tank work or use a larter model one. It is not as easy as it sounds. It never is.

 

Nope, it isn't.

This will take a while before the car is running, so I have no problem waiting for the correct tank.

Since the car is going to be fuel injected anyway, I may just build a custom fuel tank for the car.

*edit* err... this is Doward posting

 

...that and with...year...make and model.
without that they don't have a clue.

...Frank...

 

Could always just throw a fuel cell in there, too..

 

Doward is thinking of just custom-making a fuel tank for me.

Made some decisions on what I want to do with the car....331, 5-speed manual tranny, independent rear suspension on it. I'm thinking of going with the 50th anniversary Corvette dark red paint job, with the black Grabber stripes on the hood and trunk, with a (possibly) cream and charcoal grey interior. Got a ways to go before we get there, but at least I know where I'm heading.

 

Sounds like some nice plans.
If your going with independent rear suspension you will modify most of the factory rear structure. In which case a custom fuel tank or fuel cell will likely be required anyhow.

 

Almost verbatim what went through my head

I'll most likely adapt a 1986.5-1992 Toyota Supra rear IRS setup into the Mav.