Military Mustang Part II

On this edition of Search and restore an old rundown pony car to sum is this war veteran's dream machine, Tim and the team are lending a hand to Sergeant Paul Caylor, a man who answered the call of duty for the love of country today. The volunteer spirit thrives when his mustang gets grown up power and the full body treatment

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on the last episode, the first day alone with all the guys, we put 100 man hours, 100 man hours in one day. We've been doing that ever since.

So the plan is for this week to try to get this baby actually painted. I know that sounds like a tall order.

We've got seven top shelf body guys over here just wailing away in this prep station. I think we can do it.

Also, the engine's supposed to be here. So the guys from horsepower are gonna be putting that thing together and running it on the

dyno.

But for now it's seven guys in a booth. Sounds like a bad movie. It's kind of like working in the middle of an ant hill with like dudes running all over the place. All these guys are my buddies and I know they all kind of look like they're on the work release program from the local prison.

I'm not too sure, but I don't care. As long as they keep working, hopefully by lunch, have it in the booth getting ready for primer.

So

we'll see.

This is a tall order. Very tall order, slinging a lot of mud.

We're gonna be like blowing Bondo boogers out of our nose for the next two days. This is Mitch Henderson. He brought his Texas chain gang

that is Mike Coy,

Mike for a long time. Just like a total ninja.

I brought my business partner um Kenny

Murphy and he's like Opie Taylor

Rob's, our resident funny man, Jim told me we needed to get this thing done this week. And

so I put a, you know, a good team of guys together in the shop and brought them out.

We're gonna sand a little more. We're gonna get it in the booth,

spray some primer on it

and go back to sand in again

while

I sing this

song when the

sand

is gonna make it shine.

It does get redundant. It does get old. Your hands are all dry from lacquer thinner and your fingertips are worn out from San in and this and that. But all you gotta do is think about who this car is for and what it's about.

Now, it goes away.

So many servicemen out there

that have served in the past and are currently serving that really deserve something like this.

So I look at this more like a, a representative type person, not so much as this guy deserves this. I'm looking at it more like

this is representative of how we feel about the armed forces and, and

how we really want to show our appreciation for them.

And crews from Henderson's Hudson's Mustang Central all showed their appreciation by shutting down their businesses to volunteer here.

Seeing the look on the guy's face when he gets a car and

being able to work with some good friends and good buddies. I think that's what's nice and getting to see something

come back to life,

you know, they may not have.

Did you just call me a good buddy?

Definitely, one of our good buddies is Jessi Kershaw of Ford racing.

It's such a neat project. It's a, it's an iconic Mustang 6768 body style

and the opportunity to build this for one of our, our wounded veterans and contribute to this program is just something we're very proud to be part of. And what did he bring

guys? This is a new little 363 Ford Racing is doing out of the Boss 302. We wanted to incorporate that spirit of that original Boss 302 by putting in screw in freeze plugs in four bolt maine and add the extra cubic inches to step up from a 347 to a 363. This thing is strong enough to take nitrous

blowers, turbo chargers, pro chargers, whatever you want to throw at this block, it'll take, we're not gonna go for the racing motor today. We're gonna give this guy a reliable power plant with no leaks, strong bottom in great heads and intake and carburetor combination

that he can actually use.

Edelbrock stepped up with the entire top end.

The cam operates between 15 and 6500 RPM. Perfect for the street.

These E 205 heads with 60 cc combustion chambers offer the right amount of compression

and the exhaust port is in the stock location for off the shelf headers.

Before they went on,

we checked for valve clearance.

Looks good to me and measured for push rods,

set them on roller lifters, topped off with Edel Brock's best roller rockers

and finally with a canton pump pick up and pan.

We dyno

bound. It's got to be a daily driver, but it's also gotta be strong enough that when he wants to get in it and drive it like he stole it. He can't,

I think it's gonna come out well on the

dyno

and I think this guy's gonna absolutely love it.

Probably an hour

cars looking good. Now, if they could just control their dust

next, more prep before it heads into the paint booth, plus everyone hopes Mike's tune is music to their ears. Stay tuned.

We're gonna start body work in the engine compartment

and finished

body work in the engine compartment so we can get it primer tonight,

man. We got a lot of work done yesterday, didn't? We? We've done prime and fit and block and all the panels are on block across all the panels. So they all line up nice and pretty when you're all done.

So now it's all blown apart and ready to start putting colors us in the industry. We just call that jamming it. Let's start welding up some holes in here that we don't need to make the engine compartment look a little prettier.

I'll start welding somebody else. Can weld somebody needs to weld those uh seat risers in there.

Tim works fast. A lot happening. A

lot happening.

Jeff Dunham used to run an off road shop

and now he's known for custom paint and fabrication and metal skills back in the Midwest when they're still in primer, they still have uh potential once you put color on, that's it.

So it either makes it or breaks it.

We're exfoliating the car

given its new skin, but nothing is done till Tim says. So Mitch has assembled a whole bunch of awesome dudes, hard, hard workers. If they didn't come this week, we wouldn't even probably have this thing in primary yet.

Down in horsepower. Mike and John have some help as well from Bill Holden of Holden automotive machine

to Steve Mank of Conestoga Motors.

Steve was part of the team that turned this empty shell into the road. Ready favorite weapon of Batman.

But

I also have got to do stuff with the Generales, the night riders, the 18 bands, not to mention Fred's Gravel Crusher.

And if you ever saw a personal appearance of Robocop, yeah,

that was Steve. It was just another one of those crazy things too that happens because you're in the car industry,

you know, Robocop in his police car and the movie and everything else and it was uh it was good.

But today the star is this new Ford racing 363 short block firing with E three plugs topped off with the auto

Brock intake and their 800 CFM car

might be a little carburetor just needed a little bit of adjustment. The air fuel was out a little bit. We played with our 02 sensors. You still need to go up a little bit.

We got it in, we had to chase it for just a little bit and figure out where we were.

And then once we got it going, Mike, I mean, Mike's a super T

so as soon as he got a hold of it, it wasn't 20 minutes later, we had some jets in it and we were making pools

414,

4, 31 and after several runs

up to 34 34.5, a couple of timing changes.

Mike finds the optimum two.

All right, here we go. Let's see what we got.

4 44 18. Did you say they were putting eight inch tires on this thing?

Probably 353 175 horse. It's a real number. But when that thing came out over 400 horsepower,

it got my attention.

I'm stoked with this motor build. This is gonna be more than enough for what this guy needs, but Joy can be short lived. And after Tim finished jamming with the green,

he had some left over. Tim painted it

as long as you don't have no leaks. It should stay nice and green for a long time.

If not, it's gonna turn brown

and it won't matter anyways.

We'll see what the owner thinks of his new painted power maker.

Plus these Wyotech Grads make their presence known in the tech center. That's all next.

We're nearing the end of week two and more volunteers arrived to showcase their skills. We're gonna build a console

that kind of flows from the front to the back. Something simple. Yeah, it's just gonna slope down as it comes through here. Jamie came in from handmade seat company. I've seen his work for years. It is amazing. I've known lots of my buddies with hot rod shops. It's hired him to build his bomber style traditional hot rod seats with all the holes and rivets.

That dude is an artist with aluminum. It blows my mind. What he can do. Turn it on the music. That's what I do. I always turn it on the

zone out while I while IB roll every day,

Jamie Jordan possesses a very rare skill set.

After all. How many people do you know who can draw you a picture

with a bead rolling?

That's it

for this project. He'll design a center console and custom door panel. Inserts

just a nice little simple console that kind of flows from the front to the back. Something simple. It's just gonna look like the rivets are actually riveted into the fabric. So it should look really, really nice. We're gonna try to lay them both together and clamp them up and then we're gonna grind them down. So if they match up real nicely

for now, we drill some holes and

clio it together.

Jamie is as much an artist as he is a fabricator.

And the experience he learned as a student at Wyotech gave him the skills and work ethic needed to be successful in business.

Went to

tech in Lar

Me proud to say I went to school there. The approach that I saw when I was there and what I learned from the instructors was really,

it was professional. It was, it was exactly how they would want you to be in the job site.

I tell anyone if they're really interested in going go. It's a great school and

I love it.

We got the sides done the top, done everything Clio in place thinking we'll run back to the house, uh, finish everything up and button it up real nice and neat for the car. And then we'll be back

when the interior guys get here while one Wyotech grad leaves. Thanks for coming. Two more. Take his place.

Got here today. We automatically started getting parts in the paint booth, got doors and fenders trimmed in, so you'll seal it. We'll clean these up really good. Wipe them down, spray sealer on it and then spray color on it.

Yeah, I probably look a little nervous watching somebody else in their paint and all after we put all this work into it, but things look like they know what they're doing

with the engine completed and painted. It's about time we check in with the Mustang's owner, Paul Taylor and his family from their home in Colorado.

So, how you guys doing today?

Good. How's it going? Good.

We've been working so hard. All these guys doing body work on your car. We've got body dust all over this place. Has anybody been asking you what was going on? Yeah, we've had a few people ask about it. Uh,

my next door neighbor wanted to know if I was getting my car repoed

and the idea was that I was gonna tear it apart and restore the whole thing myself. But, uh,

I guess, you know, I can live with you guys doing it for me. You still don't sound like you're total confident in our ability here.

Is that, what is that? What the rest of you are all getting here?

We got one more volunteer build team member that wants to come on camera and meet you.

Here he is.

Ok.

I

called Jennifer.

This is Tom

Freelove. Paul's stepdad that he actually hasn't seen for six years.

Nice to see you even at the Tom Camera guys.

Hi.

So what brought you to the area here in Nashville? Uh, my job relocated me here about six years ago.

Not a bad place.

No, I like it here

but we can't wait to come out and see you dad. I can't wait to see you guys. So, since he's actually seen the car,

is there any questions you got for him?

Yeah. What color is it?

Well, they swore me to secrecy here. I'm not allowed to say a word guard.

We got one little thing we're gonna tease you with.

Here we go.

Oh my God.

There it is.

Yeah. What we have here is, um, Ford is phasing out the old 347 and they're going to a 363 small block Ford based off of the 302.

So that's what you got on the bottom end. We've got some Edelbrock E 205, which is a new cylinder head. They have out Victor Junior intake and an 800 A V Ss carburetor

and if you wanna look a little harder, you can kinda get a taste of some things to come of. Maybe possibly one of the colors that might be on it.

It's gonna be split pea green.

I guarantee you this isn't the only color going on it. And I really think you're gonna like it a lot.

I just wanna

say thank you guys for coming out. I really appreciate you. You coming out and, and putting in all that hard work and stuff and I wanna show my appreciation by coming out and, and helping you guys out on the next build too.

Well, we're gonna take this thing and throw it in the car and get back to it. We'll see you shortly.

All right, you guys, you gotta take care. Thank you. Thank

you.

Bye.

Can two burly guys make beautiful music together in the paint booth? Find out next when search and restore continues

with most of the body work completed, it's time for the engine and transmission to find a permanent home. If you got this thing painted and shiny and all the paint work's done, you got all these grease monkeys leaning over this thing, you're gonna get dense. Timmy's not gonna be very happy if that happens. So you put the heavy stuff in that can really do some damage if a chain breaks, start pumping it. Big boy, at

least that's the idea.

But things are never easy when it comes to building a custom hot rod, you're

half

inch

off, that

ain't gonna

work. The bolts aren't even lined up for the starter.

The motor plate that goes in between the block and the transmission has to be trimmed a little bit. The newer model transmission we're using puts the starter location further down towards the bottom and none of the bolts would line up.

Ok. Go back

with all the panels refitted. Say goodbye to the awful orange primer. It's going into the booth and it'll be there a while about 15 hours

to end this day.

A coat of Sealer and she'll be ready for the morning.

I've never seen anything come together quite this quickly with this much quality. It's, it's, it's great and every, everyone is having so much fun.

I

think Rob, he does music producing into some kind of other wizardry. I don't know. I think he plays the violin or

the organ at the hockey games or something. I don't know. He does all kinds of music stuff.

I did commercial music for a number of years and there's always creativity, there's creativity in music and there's creativity in

building in the car and, and, and coming up with modifications and design, Rob's pretty good at everything. He just asks a lot of questions and worries way too much about everything when we have a mission and the mission is perfection. Why would I spend two hours making a, a

bracket that is never seen and everything that we fabricate.

Not only does it have to be safe and dr

we need to be proud of it as if it's a piece of art.

Got the car and Sealer.

We got graphics and two tones and some Pinstripe colors that are gonna go on it. So now we gotta take the time to lay it all out, make sure it's right on both sides. Mask some colors

be a long day of masking and spraying, run it up, start running this up a little bit here. I think it's gonna look pretty cool. Luckily we've had all these hard working guys here all week to help us get to this point. I'm gonna mix up some of this color. We got some Dupont Chrome or Premier base coat. It's gonna have a little shiny black, some satin black, some burn orange

and a really cool green color. That's kind of a traditionally green mustang color almost.

We'll go in

and lay down where we want the burn orange to stay

unmasked. Spray the green,

let that dry mask that off. Come in. Spray the black.

The time has come to create a composition that relates to the pace at which both of our painters paint on the vehicle. Mike Coy being a very intense and slow individual is gonna be painting at a very slow rate whereas Tim is gonna be screaming through moving at a massive rate. So let's see what we can't come up with, shall we?

Ok.

And cut.

So here it is. End of the week, I had a projected goal. Luckily the crew we had here felt the same way. These dudes hung right with me the whole week. It's pretty awesome. Week, two painted and cleared motor and tranny in it.

I think I'm gonna go to the beach this weekend

or Mike and I will stay and lay down six more coats of clear

next time on search and restore out of the booth and onto the floor for axles suspension and one amazing interior. Plus more volunteers arrive to pitch in and showcase their talents.