Saleen Club of GotStang

[88 fox Saleen]

Just laying down the ground for future Saleen discussion(s) & to welcome anyone who joins the group. This group is for Saleens, Saleen clones & mustangs w/ Saleen performance parts. If you dont have any of these but have always been a big fan of Saleen, then your welcome too! As long as we all share a common ground/focus here, the Saleen Mustang :-)


thanx,
Jay

[saleen0197]

Hello Jay. Great Idea to start this forum. I look forward to being a part of it. I joined the forum. Hope I did it right.

George

[88 fox Saleen]

it all looks good to me G! just gotta throw up more pics of that sweet Saleen :-) i am sure you will in time! like i said, have Randy join & maybe a few others you trust & like.
lets see how this works out :-)

[saleen0197]

I'll get the ball rolling. I'm still trying to figure out this site. I'm not sure how you got the small photos to show.

[Nicoleb3x3]

Can you join if you just have a saleen spoiler? hehehe

pssaleen0197 -the second pic on the left side is the team logo (it will show when/if you join a team)

[saleen0197]

OK thanks Nicole. Now what do you recommend I join? Also the answer to your question is yes, you can join even with just a Saleen spoiler.

[Nicoleb3x3]

thanks, now all I have to do is get my saleen spoiler (this spring)

as for joining a team, until you start to get involved in site activities like hunts and face offs, just wait a little bit. Team features are not yet available, but there will be team events like team hunt challenges and team face offs etc. (J needs to code this stuff..so until he does teams don't really do very much)

groups are different, you can joing as many groups as you like. groups are just something to belong to; and a way to see similar or related characteristics of members; such as the Red Mustang Group and the Hot Foxes of Gotstang group...and yes now the saleen group

[88 fox Saleen]

yeah Nicole, since you already know the Saleen wing is going on your car join now! love to have ya :-) how do i invite someone to my group? do they have to go to the group & ask to join?

[Nicoleb3x3]

go to the normal part of gotstang (out of the forums)
click on the user's profile
you can see the small icons to the rigth of their avatar, see next to website and under guestbook, choose "groups"

after the listed groups for that member, you'll see the option to invite that person to join the group you control.

or...that person can request to join your group by going to the group page..which I just did that to save you some time.

[88 fox Saleen]

well Nicole is now part of Saleen Club! welcome! hope everyone had a great christams :-)

[Nicoleb3x3]

yay
(yes xmas was great)

[saleen0197]

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! I got a new billet belt tensioner for my Vortech S/C. It is a gift from me to me! lol.... I also got a nice chrome timing cover for my Harley Davidson Softail Deuce. It has the US Navy Logo on it. Being a former Submariner I'm sure you can understand the desire to have that on my bike.

[88 fox Saleen]

sounds sweet George. oh Nicole, i dont know if you knew this but George & i have been friends for a few years now & i bought alot of my parts from him for my SC project. so did you get anything new for the stang for xmas? not me, the wife refuses to buy me stang parts anymore after hitting the $18K mark w/ the SC. so now, its all up to me to save for my 3 piece Stern wheels. George maybe the guy who helps me once again to track down these Sterns which are very rare! hey George, toss some pics up of your Sterns so Nicole knows what i am talking about. for a Saleen mustang or a clone as close as mine is, the Sterns are the only wheels that belong :-)

[88 fox Saleen]

Nicole, maybe a silver Saleen windshield banner would go nice w/ that Saleen wing you have planned :-)

[Nicoleb3x3]

yeah, I got some stang parts for xmas

J got me a tranny temp gauge and a pillar gauge pod (for 2 gauges) -this is what I wanted and a remote for my eclipse cd deck -cause I lost mine on our road trip this past summer. Eventually I'm going to get a fuel pressure gauge for the other spot in the pod, but for now J's letting me use one of his old gauges for the air/fuel ratio just so I don't have an empty spot. such a nice boyfriend

as for the saleen banner...wouldn't saleen owners hate me for that? since I'm not a saleen and I still have the gt ground effects? (I like them a little better than the saleen because of the scoops on the sides and the lower profile in the back)

[88 fox Saleen]

see page 3 of my website i just updated. it has picks of when my car was an LX sporting just the older Saleen wing & Saleen windshield banner. i never cared it wasnt real & didnt care who didnt like me for it. its my car & it was just there to support the name of the parts on the car then. even now mine isnt real & i still have it on there. if you want it & like it, go for it! exception to that rule is verticle doors :-) J/K

[Nicoleb3x3]

yeah I know what you're saying...I guess I think maybe I should have at least 2 saleen parts to justify it? I only have one planned right now..

did you change the guards on the windows? did you decided you don't like them?

[88 fox Saleen]

the guards on the windows were broken the last time someone tried to steal my car so i had to remove them completely. this was the 2nd time this has happened to me & my car! the smoked tail lights had to go also. after installing them i didnt like them & reinstalled the originals. when i decided to do the Saleenconversion, i removed all my custom things on the car to bring it to Saleens specs as they were when they were built. when building a good Saleen clone, details are important! here are a few of the real Saleen SCs for comparison:

[Nicoleb3x3]

I think painting your molding the same color as the car would be sweet

[88 fox Saleen]

i have thought about that for years & tossed that idea around hundreds of times. i decided against it because this is by all rights a clone & that black molding is what makes my car different that the few production SCs out there. i know what you are saying though.

[88 fox Saleen]

hey Nicole, i am not sure if you realize this or not but the new black netted halo headrests you got will fit right into your stock black seats. i had my gray netted halos on my 89 GT seats, then swapped them to my 86 GT seats. they looked great on both sets of seats & will look even cooler when the Saleen wing is on. you will definatley be taking on some Saleen characteristics there! YEAH!!

[Nicoleb3x3]

no, they don't fit, they're a bit wider
i tried to cut and modify the opening because I read online that it can be done with the lx seats...but I got frustrated after not getting anywhere fast on that project. I decided to temporarialy install them in my lx would have looked crappy anyway, so I'm waiting to put them in the GT seats when I get them re-upolstered.

[88 fox Saleen]

they will fit, you need to remove the black insert!! trust me, i put halos in all my seats. just remove the black insert the other post slides into. pull it right out of the top of the seat.

[Nicoleb3x3]

hey saleen guys...have you ever found a place to buy the saleen heads and manifold used in the 89 ssc?

[saleen0197]

the heads on the 89 SSC are stock E7TE heads that have been modified with larger 1.94I and 1.60E valves and 1.72 Roller rockers and lots of port work. The intake is a stock ford 5.0 intake ported to the max. Both of these can be done to any 5.0HO heads and intake.