Well Friday we had a day for sure. Me and the old man wrapped up the front suspension, got the front brakes on and started chipping away at the IRS. Cutting the piece off of the rear spindle had me stressing leading up to it but went surprising smooth. Used 10 tpi metal sawzall blades and they made a nice accurate cut through. We got all the mustang lugs replaced with the supplied lugs, spindles cut and drilled for install including the extra lobe for the brakes. My step son helped us install the center section, which was a huge help having the extra set of hands. After the pumpkin was in place we installed the vent and ran the vent line up the frame.

I’ve gotta say, being someone who has never really messed with cars before I am loving every bit of doing this build. It is so rewarding and fun watching the frame grow and start to come to life. My father said with the time we’ve spent building, we are light years ahead of where he was compared to when he did his builds years ago. He is very impressed with how smooth everything has been able to get installed compared to all the redrilling and retrofitting he had to do back in the day with his. We put in about 6-7 hour of work together. He planned on sleeping over for the night so we capped it off with a couple large glasses of whiskey and a cigar together mulling over how much fun it’s been.

For anyone that hasn’t watched it, Random Werks on YouTube has some amazing advise watching his build. One of the biggest takeaways I got from watching his videos was to cut the addition lobe off the rear spindle to install the 11.65” IRS brakes. For those putting in an IRS that haven’t gotten to that point, it doesn’t reflect that additional cut in the manual until the spindle is completely installed on the car. It’s only mentioned in the additional instructions for the 11.65” 2015 IRS Brakes. This will either cause you to have to cut it while on the car or do much disassembly to take it off and cut it.