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Posted by Daze
on October 5, 2008, 1:51 pm
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I have made a few mistakes with my Galaxie but most of mine were on my Mustang because it was the first car I restored.
Galaxie:
I welded closed the trim mounting holes on the D-side which was fine but I didn't protect the glass from weld splatter so now my windows have little pock marks.
I bought my welder part way through the work on the Galaxie so the trim holes on the P-side were filled with filler rather then weld and I did not brake the filler out and re do them with welds before I painted the car so at some point I may have issues with the filler comeing loose.
Sense the molded carpet was about $150.00 and I could get 6 yards of unmolded carpet for about $50.00 I decided to make my own. I was able to cut a hand stitch together part of the carpet and it was looking really good, BUT after putting 20 hours in to it and only having one section done I decided that it was worth the $150.00 to buy some
Mustang:
Now on my Mustang I made lots of mistakes
I put really stiff front and rear springs on the car because I wanted supper handling but at the time didn't realize how bad that would make the ride quality.
When I first installed the 4-speed in my car I put in the used throw out bearing rather than replacing it, and had to replace it 1 month later.
used an original bellhousing with adapter when I upgraded to a T5. Had to replace it later with T5 bell
Put in a high volume oil pump when I rebuilt the 289
invested in overpriced accessories like embroidered floor mats when I didn't even have the car on the road or all the other parts I needed to get it there.
These are just a few mistakes I have made. There are many more. and I here about other mistakes from other all the time.
The best idea is to have a really good understanding of what you want to use the car for. I have seen so many times where a person wants a good streetable car, but then they put on supper stiff suspension and then in the pursuit of tones of HP and torque they over cam the motor and install a really low geared rear end which makes the car a screamer off the line but on the highway it would be horrible to drive.
Also don't take every ones word for it. Just because I like my cars one way doesn't make it the right choice for every one else, and a lot of people forget that.
