T5 Project Coming Up

**pbrown** · June 29th, 2014, 09:30 PM

I made some progress today. The the clutch is installed and the bellhousing. And yes, that is burgundy powder coating on the back of the engine block in case anyone was wondering.

**pbrown** · July 12th, 2014, 11:29 PM

The tranny is in. I need to get my drive shaft shortened a bit. I also need to make a small mod near the cross member to allow the electric speedo connector to fit without binding.

It's a very tight fit. I had to cut off a 1/4" tab on the left side of the top cover in order to allow the transmission to clear the tunnel.

**BadBird** · July 13th, 2014, 09:48 PM

Keep it up. Drive it to the meeting Wednesday?

Looking really good and I know you are going to love it. Larry

**pbrown** · July 13th, 2014, 10:09 PM

I need to get my pedal parts back from Steve before I can do anything.

I'll drop the driveshaft off at Drivelines NW on Tuesday.

**pbrown** · July 20th, 2014, 04:46 PM

I managed to do a a little work this weekend.

The newly shortened driveshaft is installed and has a perfect 3/4" of exposed yoke on the slip joint.

I had to grind away a small amount of material in the cross brace to make room for the speedometer sending unit plug. The new tranny is has an electronic sending unit instead of a cable. It's in the same place as the cable would be and the plug would not allow the tranny to go high enough to sit on the new T5 crossmember.

Speaking of crossmembers, this new T5 crossmember has the parking brake pivot welded on too high. The parking brake parts touch the driveshaft. I'll need to cut that off and weld it back on one inch lower.

I'm also fiddling around with the exhaust. I have some 2 1/4" mandrel bent pieces from Summit Racing and I'm trying to figure out how to best go about fitting them in. There is a boss on the left side of the Ford Mustang T5 bellhousing for use with cable operated clutches. I'll be using a hydraulic clutch and might just cut this thing off. It would make the exhaust routing much easier.