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Thanks! I can definitely understand the manual steering being too much. If I still drove it daily into town I could see myself getting tired of it pretty quickly. How do you like your Borgeson system?

I do like it. It’s a night and difference. The ratio is also a bit closer than the stock manual box so it tightens things up too.

Thank you for the kind words, they are much appreciated!

Hello, those both sound like they could be great cars for you! My car was essentially the first car you described, 289 with an automatic and some rust issues. It's been a driving project from day one, but I learned a lot by fixing it and modifying it. There's still a lot to do to it, but I enjoy it. So if you really enjoy working on cars and learning, the cheaper car might be a good driving project for you. With that being said, I can totally understand going for the perfect manual car with the parts shortage over there. I imagine shipping costs on large pieces of sheet metal and transmissions would be quite immense internationally. I hope you keep up the search for one! Thanks for the comment and follows my friend and please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!

Thank you so much for the follow, its greatly appreciated! More content is in the works for this year, so hopefully I'll be getting more comfortable in the next few videos haha.

Thank you! That's exactly what I'm going for with this build. A car thats fun to drive hard. It's great to hear you're still putting miles on the Cyclone, love those cars!

We were quite surpised with the way the video took off as well, looking at the analytics a lot of viewers came from Steve Dulcich's recent Cougar video. Thanks for letting us know how you came across it! Man, it's been great to hear from fellow Cougar owners! Sounds like you'll have yourself a pretty wicked car with that drivetrain setup in it. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm certainly enjoying the all manual setup. It makes for a great driving therapy session. I'm not sure if you've watched much from Craig909 with the white F100, but I'd like to do a very similar engine and transmission setup with this car. I have a few small blocks laying around that I'd like to make use of. I'm sure you know, but parts have definitely become a lot easier to find especially with the help of West Coast Classic Cougars for the stuff that hasn't been reproduced yet. There's also so much more sheet metal available for them now to from Dynacorn. Definitely not as great as OEM I'm sure, but its something! Thank you so much for comment and subscribing, it means so much to us! I'm going to try my best to keep the Cougar content coming through out the year!

Mine was built with manual everything. No A/C either. 69 M-code XR7. Ordered that way from the factory.

Thanks man!

@boolersofficial I didn't know this car existed and I thought I was pretty knowledgeable, it's a really nice car are there more plans for it?

@@Justin666i, I appreciate that! Yep, the Cougars have lived under the Mustangs shadow for their entire life which has led to some interesting conversations at the gas pump haha. They did quite well in the 1967 Trans-Am racing series, almost beating the Mustangs, but Ford pulled the plug so that the Mustang would win that year. So I'm planning to build the car with a lot of inspiration from the original race cars but with a few changes here and there and with some degree of streetability in mind.

Hey, great to hear from a fellow Cougar owner! Manual choke is something I forgot to cover in this video, but I did end up switching to it after my electric choke started going bad. I was able to hide the cable handle where the cigarette lighter normally goes. Yep, manual steering can definitely make tight spaces a bit more tricky but I really enjoy the new steering feel enough to put up with it. I haven't driven a Borgenson or rack & pinion converted Mustang/Cougar yet, so I can't comment much on them, but I'm sure either would be a nice upgrade! Up front I'm running cut down Grab-A-Trac GT springs with Koni shocks and a Shelby Drop on the upper control arms. The front springs I cut down per Mike Maiers video as a guide. In the rear I'm running factory worn out leaf springs with 1" drop blocks. One caveat with the drop blocks is that Cougars have rubber isolator pads on the leaf springs that Mustangs don't have and all the kits are geared towards Mustangs. Effectively the rubber pads end up being a 1" drop block on their own, so if you remove the pads and use the blocks in place of them you haven't really changed anything. With that being said, once you stack the lowering blocks on top of the rubber isolators, you'll find the U-bolts that come with the kit end up being too short to work. So I had to order some custom U-bolts to make it work. It works and drives fine, but I think others have made custom lowering blocks that would be considered more "proper". I will look into making a video to go into this in more detail in the future. Brakes for now are still factory disc up front and drum in the rear. In the future I do plan to upgrade to the larger Lincoln style discs up front and doing a disc conversion on the rear. Wheels are American Racing Torque Thrust D's, 15x7 front with 235/60R15's and 15x8 255/60R15's on the rear. Thanks for the comment, and let me know if you have more questions!

​@@boolersofficial Thanks for the info! My leaf springs are rusty and was considering buying new ones that are dropped. Any chance you bought wheels and tires from a national chain that has online selection? Most of the ones around me, their sites cant handle looking up 67 cougar wheel tire combo.

@@digitalwitch1111, No problem! Yep, I bought my wheels from Summit Racing. I spent some time searching around forums to see what would fit before ordering my setup. I did roll my fenders, so if you have the fender chrome trim pieces and want to keep them you might want go with a more conservative set up.

Thank you for the comment! I might be a wee bit jealous, an R-code '68 Cougar is definitely on the wish list. We're Mustang people through and through, but we love them all. We're planning to drop an updated video of the Cougar here in the next couple of weeks, quite a bit had changed. So be sure to come back and check it out!

Thank you sir! We've made some progress on this project since this video. It's officially running and can move under its own power. Currently troubleshooting issues with the C6. We'll try and upload an update video sometime soon.