1968 Cougar Build Ideas-OT

If it weren't a Cougar, it would be a pretty valuable car. It is being built with my students at work. I think I am going to do a sequential build on it.

Start with the engine:

Good oil pump, oil pump drive, and timing components as well as headgaskets in prep for boost.

Drivetrain:

c4, rebuilt with a good convertor -2500ish

8.8 Explorer rear with 3.73's for now, and then 3.27's when I turbo it.

Subframe connectors and suspension work on the back as well as moving the battery to the trunk.

The idea being that I can build it every year and use it every summer.

Something like year one:

Carbed, but with the above work done-this would be next summer.

Year two:

EFI and nice tank etc.

Year three:

Turbo etc.

Here are some pics. It will be fun. The kids are chomping to get on it, but we are currently finishing the Yota in the pics at the bottom.