Mustang Sally Restoration: The 306ci rebuilt SBF and NEW T5z gets installed in the car

 Today was a big day! I arrived in California yesterday. After grabbing some In-N-Out right by the LAX airport, we made the trek up to the High Desert to my small hometown of Tehachapi.

We got started around 8am this morning. Yes, it was cold. The day started out at about 36F and luckily it warmed up to 50F. 

I made sure to bundle up for installing an engine outside on the driveway in late Fall in T-town. :)

Here's a mid install progress shot. We took our time inching the engine/trans into place.

Engine install selfie right here to prove I was here! haha

It took us 2 hours from start to finish to get the engine on the engine mounts and the Trans cross member on. 

Once we got the engine and trans in, we began the process of getting everything hooked up and installed. Here is the X pipe going in...

Dad ran into a bunch of brittle, 1994 made plastic vacuum line pieces. Luckily he has R/C air plane fuel line to fix broken sections. 

This little smog equipment pipe gave us some trouble. We ended up having to remove the trans cross member because that smog pipe needed to be above the cross member. 

Here we are at the end of Day 1. It took us 2 hours to get the engine and trans in, another 6 hours to get to this point. The dang smog equipment gave us more fits where we lost some time. But, that's why we planned to take as much as 3-4 days to get it all together. We're hoping to get it all assembled and fire it up for the first start tomorrow. Stay tuned...