'03 Mach1 (Project: Equilibrium)
 

Well, I finally got around to installing the Honeycomb Trunk Panels on my car before the Angeles Crest Cruise with Sean's help (thanks). I love it! It was super easy and really adds to my rear I think.

Stock.


Honeycomb Trunk Accent Installed.


Step-by-step.

that looks nice

Cool!:thumbs_up:

I liked it the other way better!

With the honeycomb panel I think it adds contrast to the rear and takes inspiration from the classic Machs.

It looks better with the panel.

+1 always liked the look. Was going to black out the same section on the cobra, but with paint. The honeycomb is great on the machs though, gives it a real sense of heritage.

I like the clean look. No badges, no useless plastic. Just black out the tail lights. Keep it clean I'll get you some chrome stripping to put on all the seams if you want. Maybe some vent stickers and a fake car phone antenna. Just my opinion

I agree it looks much better with the panel :bigthumbsup:

I will be asking Adam to help with "tinting" the lights darker to continue the look of the honeycomb panel.

hooray for mods that dont make us go faster :D

Mach1 gets a Cobra Bumper
 

Been waiting the last week to get Yazmine back. I love the new bumper and the body shop did a great job on the paint! Totally different attitude with the car now. Still need to get the chin spoiler and gonna put a black panel behind the lower opening.

Needs a heat exchanger up front :)

It looks great though!

Or a Procharger intercooler. It's a good excuse to buy a blower. I'd use it. "Honey, I had to buy the blower because the car just didn't look right without an intercooler behind the new bumper."

I will try that but I think I am about 7 months away from that.

Is that a cobra bumper or an aftermarket? (im not good with American cars lol)

Looks great though! Now lets just keep you away from Harleys lol

:smack::smack:
The Harley kind of helped this project along so in a way I owe him one. The bumper is a stock 03/04 Cobra bumper.

Time to do a eaton swap, thats cheap, 1k or less depending :) I'll even help.

Looks good buddy get the SC and kick Sean's ass!

Turbo or nothing!!!! :pot_stir:

Do you really want your car to whine at you? Nobody likes whiners!!!

Just imagine the sound of 15 psi spooling up then the wastegate poppin' off and just fluttering away... awww pure sex....

Thats not the supercharger whining, thats the pavement screaming for mercy :motorsmile:

I approve this message!!!!!

Wow, i now know my next mod !
Thanks, she looks meaner now good job!!!!!

looking real good Adam!

Muy excellente!

Turrrbo

Ditto, I love the sound of the turbo on the diesel going through the parking garage. My favorite time of the day.

But honestly, turbo spooling and centrifugal blower spinning sound the same at WOT. Only the roots blowers sound different. And the centrifugals have that constant gear whine at idle which is a dead give away of too much horsepower.

Favorite sound of my day too, but even still, i would go PD on a 4v

PD? 4v?

I already liked your car, but now...;)

He's got a 4v engine, essentially the same engine as a termi without all the goodies, and a positive displacement blower is what comes on the termis

oic

Did you re-drill the mounting holes for the bumper? The hood was hitting the corner on mine until I moved it back.

Why not a Mach1 chin instead of the black cobra chin? I ran it for a while on the 03, looked nice :)

Oh, and looking real nice there, love that shaker hood with the cobra bumper:thumbs_up::thumbs_up:

It ain't cheap by any means. If it were not for the accident I would have spend my $$ elsewhere but how can you turn down a free paint job.

I do not think the body shop did. I will have to take a look at it closer. I read about that issue and will have to look into it.

I will give that a shot until I get the Cobra one. The Mach spoiler from what I remember does not make it all the way back to the fender well and I think that looks shitty.


Thank for all the thumbs up guys! I love the car even more now!

Looks meaner!

Actually what i did was trim a bit off the cobra bumper and use black silicone on the backside to fasten it to the ends of the mach chin. Couldnt tell it wasnt one piece, the shorter ends bugged me too. If you want, i think i have a spare mach chin in the garage?

AC Issue
 

So I fired up the Mach leaving work the other day and I heard a Metallic rattling. I popped the hood trying to find the source. Could not see anything but was sure it was coming from around the AC Compressor. Drove it home and let it cool and played with it some more and noticed that a plate in front of the pulley was what was rattling. I was talking to a co-worker and he said it was the clutch for the AC. I found that missing were the black fittings around 3 pins that are part of the clutch assembly (circled in Magenta) you can see what they should have looked like on the F-150 image.. Anyone had this issue? I am going to google it now but thought I would ask on here.

Crappy shot of the Mach 1 AC


Pic of the F-150 AC

Google is amazing. The AC Clutch is shot. Ron you got some spare time you want to waist with me again? Maybe Guy would like to take this AC challenge on?

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