project dirty horse, working on bluecelicawifes first car Options

[kurt95gt]

Well since the 1mz has been giving me trouble an i needed a break from it before i just threw a stick of tnt in an walked away i desided it was time to start fixing lizs old car



Little bit of a backstory. Shes been a big mustang fan since forever thanks to her mom the loves them too
so when she finished basic training for the army the first thing she bought was this mustang that a friend of mine

She paid 2000 for it (witch looking back was probably about 500 to much)
it was in fairly desent shape other than a slipping tranny
ok before i go any farther
Car specs
91 mustang lx hatchback
2.3l 4cyl nonturbo
Auto trans

When she bought it the stang was bone stock.
The first big thing that was done was the rims were changed to the ones in the above pic
I traded my old 90 ford festiva for them an 3 radios.

[kurt95gt]

So she was parked yet again. Fast forward to last summer. While looking on Craigslist liz found a guy selling a 2.3l motor an auto trans with only 86,000 mile on them for 300 bucks!! So she contacted him an got the pair for 250
Me an 2 of my buddys that were home on leave( one from iraq the other from Afghanistan both in the army) dropped in the motor an trans in. Got it in an the powersteering wasnt working an the trans shifts hard an only wants to shift at certain rpms so being annoyed with it we quit working on it again till today

Today we gave her a good bath for the first time since she broke down the first time!
The paint shows the neglect
Heres some more pics


The pics dont show how bad the dirt an bird poo was caked on the car from setting outside
But under the wing shows how the whole car looked
Took 2 buckets of water with dawn dish soap to clean it up
Got the 3 flat tires pumped up the hood pulled of an the fiberglass one i got from her stepdad put on.
Put the battery in hit the key an nothing happen so i jumped it with the coupe. She fired up an ran for about 10 minutes then just died hit the key an nothing happen fml
So i took the battery out of the yellow celi an had her hit the key an she started right back up
An all the lights started working. Witch was nice since that was on the list of things to fix
So now we know we need a new battery witch made us feel stupid since the light were the main reason we stopped the last time but the trans still shifts hard so im going to pick up a new trans filter an see if that helps if not going to see how much a trans rebuild is going to cost