Ok so some of you may know and most don't, late Wednesday afternoon their was a little incident with my car. Turned out I managed to drive it all the way from Maroubra only to do a U Turn down the end of my street (which was a little heavy footed) and blew my water pump. Now it didn't only just pi$$ out all the fluid everywhere but also blew the fan into my radiator and one of the sides of the fan snapped off and sliced my firewall.
Now we're unsure as to how it snapped, some believe it was the HUGE power from the BIG 6 that caused it :gotya: and others couldn't believe it was the original water pump on the engine! Either way it just shows MUSTANGS are build TOUGH!!
Here are a couple pics of how it was.
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So now went the job of getting the parts to fix it all. Turns out that with the new engine i'm building I had a spare water pump and fan etc... so all I needed was the radiator. Made a couple calls and had it on Friday.
So now came the fun, to fix it all and put it all back together. Started by doing a bit of panel beating and managed to get the gaping hole back close enough for my dad to weld up and then I pulled off some of the other covers on the engine and painted them all up. Thought it's as good a time as ever to do it seings the engine's pretty much all apart.
So anyway after a hard day yesterday and a couple hours today I managed to get her all back together and running like a charm. She's NO SHOW PONY but I don't think she came up too bad, check it out!
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