hi my name is Kevin Tate's new watching kevin's corner and this project created
jade is in 1966 mustang coupe were rescued from the junkyard
it's got a late-model fuel-injected supercharged drivetrain world-class
suspension giant brakes on all four corners and custom body months
everywhere you look the only panels that original or the door skins and the roof
and as cool as it looks it's just as fast and we hatched the plan a while ago
to do all Eastwood products from the bare steel right on up to the clear coat
on this car and I think it's a home run and everything that i'm going to show
you on this car you can get from these two a catalog so let's start talking
about color this is jade green base coat i was very lucky and very fortunate to
be able to work with the eastwood engineers and we came up with a color
that everybody just dies over it's really deep it's got a dark side tone
loc some metallic and it really pops in the Sun and right beside we've got a
couple of other colors separating the two tone is boulevard black another base
coat clear coat and we've got tunnel ram gray on the insert as well as under the
hood which you'll see it a little bit but the cool thing is that this is the
the rat rod flat clear it's very consistent very easy to use and it lays
out dead flat gives a really nice accent now this is the focal point of the whole
front of the car the 2009 headlight grafted seamlessly into the 1966 fender
which was done with basic sheetmetal skills and stuff that you can get like i
said from the eastwood catalog bonding adhesives mig welders fillers fiberglass
repair materials that make this very doable
all you gotta do is put the time and energy into it and have a plan for the
interior it's got the 2004 Cobra dash center console and seats that have all
been recovered in custom upholstery so it brings you back into the old for
cobra that came from but it still doesn't look at a place in the old car
now the other thing its functional as well as beautiful is the stainless steel
tiger cage which looks great it makes it safer and it ties in the rigidity of the
unibody into the full frame chassis function now the whole back end of the
car is a blackout kit Shelby taillights and a bunch of fiberglass work which
disappears to hit the brakes and then
it comes alive when the trunk is kind of like a typical old Mustang until you
look a little closer the supercharger cooling tank is on the left the fuel
tank is now a fuel cell which is baffled and house with the modern fuel delivery
system and the battery is on the right and everything's therefore function it's
not real pretty but it's all there
speaking of custom stuff take a little closer look to the two-tone lines in the
paint
if you look closely it looks like two different green colors but it's exactly
the same base color sprayed exactly the same time I just use the eastwood flat
clear on the truck jam and the tail light housing has the gloss clear on the
euro clear and it gives a really cool customer pick it changes the color but
it doesn't it changes the refraction and it changes the depth of the color that
you can see that back mask off with the boulevard black on the taillight panel
well it gives a really cool custom effect is a very classy look with very
little effort involved a lot of time was spent on body prep multiple blockings
using the eastwood contour polyester body filler to get these panels laser
straight the panel gaps well they're perfectly spent a lot of time on them
getting them right getting them even getting a symmetrical and along with all
the custom cues there's some things that we left the same for instance i left the
drip rails on there i wanted that look I like the look of a sixties card drip
rails were part of the design at that time as well as door handles
now granted these are ring brothers custom door handles but i wanted that
tactile sensation of grabbing something to open the door instead of a key fob a
custom stuff is cool for me or jaded we wanted handles one of the things we
changed was the bright trim around the doorframes course we took it off of the
drip rails painted body color but we took the door frames in the window
frames and painted them with por-15 paint we know it's going to stick and it
gives us a cool custom look now as fun as it is to look at all the other custom
body mods on this vehicle the thing that really stands out in this car is under
the hood
let's take a look
under the hood is a 32-valve 4.6 liter engine from the old for cobra that
donated it it's got a factory eaten supercharger that's been aggressively
ported and has a 2.76 upper pulley to make a little extra boost its got an
aftermarket throttle body and inlet tube it features the hydro boost brake system
from the Cobra it is cooled by a Griffin radiator holding the hood up are the
custom ring brothers hood hinges and everything under the hood the firewall
the aprons the radiator support the cam covers the blower you name it has been
bathed in eastwood polyester primer blocked and then painted with tunnel ram
gray base code followed by the flat clear for really cool custom look for
some of the accents on the engine block and the accessory drive i used a lumen
blast spray-paint it gives a nice accent it's low gloss and it fits right in with
the detail under the hood the master cylinder is spray painted with
Eastwood's break gray spray paint which is resistant to brake fluid and hold up
very well even though it's only 291 cubic inches it kicks out about 640
horse at the crank which puts down nearly 500 horsepower and 500 pounds at
the wheels
I'm not kidding
you can get your car results
DIY prices makes me
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