Upgrading the 1965 Ford Mustang
For a race car to earn a good number of podium finishes it has to trim down and to upgrade in every aspect possible. In order for the vintage 1965 Ford Mustang to join Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) race wars, the vehicle has to remove all those excess weight that can slow this car down and add those trusty performance parts.
Some of the parts that were retained in the 1965 Ford Mustang were the rear window and front apron, a fiberglass hood, side louver block-offs, and a 15-inch Torque Thrusts. Putting the vehicle into the competitive line meant tinkering and tweaking here and there. The hood and trunk pins, a gas cap block-off, aluminum framed pull-up windows, and side-exit exhaust were upgraded a bit. To finish the simplistic look to the upgraded Mustang, the body paint took the blue simplistic stripes, while the inner parts were painted black.
The 1965 Ford Mustang was also geared with the high-end performance parts such as the stout 331-inch power plant under the hood. Moreover, the Dynojet chassis dyno is able to carry the load of the Ford Mustang’s 349-horsepower. After making the engine power all beefed up, the vehicle has to be equipped with an equally powerful suspension system. The dampening parts installed in the vintage race car were the powerful Koni shocks and springs, adjustable sway bar, a Panhard bar, override traction bars, wide drum brakes, and the Kelsey Hayes four-piston disc brakes.