T5 Project Coming Up

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Do you have a Hurst-style rectangular shaft or a round style shifter shaft?

I have a Hurst rectangular shift lever. I have a trim ring. I just need to come up with a good way to mount a flat ring to a curved tunnel.

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I picked up the car from Ballard Muffler. I changed to a 2.25" exhaust. It was 2.5" and had clearance issues that way it was bent and installed.

I also changed to 426 Hemi mufflers. They are quite large and nearly twice the length of my old ones. The car is a lot more quiet now. This should make the wife a little happier as she always complained about the noise.

I kept the original 2.5" pipe from the muffler back and had the stainless tips fixed so they stick out the same length on both sides.

I need to recalibrate my speedometer. It's electronic. It reads over 120MPH when slowly cruising through Ballard.

[Luva65wagon]

My setup is from Modern Driveline.
http://www.moderndriveline.com/catalog/hydraulics.htm

The changes made at the meeting made a big improvement on feel. It's much lighter feeling now. I'll work on it tomorrow evening and see if I can eliminate the lateral flex..

Maybe go for the cable setup for the Mustang. Look into the Mustang Steve stuff. It looks good.
http://www.mustangsteve.com/cable.html

If you look at the pics on their site you can see what I was saying about the connection to the pedal not being parallel to the push rod into the master. Yours is up high and pushing down at the lever instead of against it. Text on the page is vague too: Uses stock clutch rod hole (where possible) for ease of installation.

Clearly not your hole.

[Luva65wagon]

Here's the image showing a correct orientation. Theoretically the lower hole should be a pull not a push against connection. You're pushing downward at it.

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I talked to Modern Driveline. They say that the problem was caused by the over center condition on the linkage. I took things apart. The bushing are bad so they are sending new ones. The rod to the MC needs to be as short as possible so that the lever almost touches the firewall when engaged. This will improve the angle of attack from the pedal linkage.

I'm leaving town tomorrow for a week so will not be able to finish this up until I return.