{"id":51044,"date":"2020-09-14T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/?p=51044"},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:23:11","slug":"mustang-ii-t5-upgrade-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/mustang-ii-t5-upgrade-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustang II-T5 Upgrade Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1976 Mustang Project<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> <\/strong><strong>The second owner, purchased it in 1984 when they were in high school.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>&#8220;It pretty much sat in the garage for 25 years until my son wanted to get it going again.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>&#8220;After rebuilding the carburetor and going through the brakes and a few other minor things, it fired right up &amp; I was able to drive it around.&#8221; &#8220;It is all stock except for headers and the radio. (I do still have the original radio which is an 8 track!). &#8220;<\/em><\/strong><\/span> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-51040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4521-CROPPED-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"186\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-51043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_5286-EDITED-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"276\" \/> \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-51041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0326-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"187\" \/> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;We quickly decided we needed more power and pulled the engine and transmission last fall. &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>After spending a lot of time this summer scraping, cleaning, sandblasting, and painting the car is prepped for motor &amp; transmission as this build continues.<\/strong><\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0331-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_5638-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0323-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0246-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_0122-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>MORE\u00a0 TO\u00a0 COME&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter rebuilding the carburetor and going through the brakes and a few other minor things, it fired right up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,102,12],"tags":[333,334,119,335,5,336],"class_list":["post-51044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-builds","category-customer-rides","category-ford-featured-cars","tag-1976-mustang","tag-5-speed-mustang-2","tag-5-speed-swap","tag-cobra-2","tag-mustang","tag-t5-mustang"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}