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Doing this would eliminate the ability to service those.

At Mustang Week Texas just a few weeks ago, we won an award for our 2006 Avanti being there. The event also gave me the opportunity to see a lot of different options for the back of our car. The Avanti trunk and rear fenders are completely unique when compared to the same year Mustang but the ideas you can get from seeing all the custom designs were incredible. I now knew that I wanted to add a rear spoiler to the car and this would be #1 of 2 changes that I’m going to make to the back of the car. I also knew of the complexity of making a 1 off piece, so I wanted to find a premade fiberglass spoiler that I could modify to work with the multi curved trunk. I bought and returned a couple spoilers that just wouldn’t work. After returning the last one, we had a chance to go to a large monthly car show in the Austin area. As I looked at the back of many different model sports cars, I noticed one that had a back end which was about as flat as our car. The other thing that I noticed was that some of those cars had flat top mount spoilers, edge mounted flip up spoilers and pedestal mount spoilers. Flat and edge mount were out due to the arch at the top edge of the Avanti trunk, but the pedestal mount was promising. I took my iPhone tape measure app and measured our car and the car that looked like it might work and holy cow, the width was within 1/2” of each other. After eyeballing the fender angles and spoiler design, I knew I had the car. 2016-2023 Dodge Challenger! The next day, I located an aftermarket factory design Fiberglass spoiler that was primed and ready to paint, so I ordered it. Once arrived, it was time to decide where to mount it and how much modification it needed in order for it to mount correctly to the Avanti trunk. I basically had to add 1/8” to 1/4" of fiberglass to the edges of the mount of the spoiler so it matched the curvature of the trunk and so that the edge of the side of the spoiler was gapped to the fender correctly. Here it is:

In the continuation of customizing our 2006 Avanti, I knew that the front-end design would look good with a front spoiler. Since the car was only made for 2 years, I also knew there wasn’t going to be any already made to purchase, so it was time to make one. It was important to keep the design classic and reserved, yet functional. The lower fog lights provided an excellent location to place the edge of the spoiler so it looked factory. The spoiler would mount to the top of the lower valence piece with 5 bolts and the edges would mount to the Fog Light area so there wouldn’t be any chance of vibration. Here’s how I did it:

As I continue my customization of our 2006 Avanti, I thought to myself one day that if Avanti Motors could take a 2006 Mustang GT and convert it into an Avanti, then could I do it with a RC Car? And I didn’t want to do the standard 1/18-1/24 scale car, I wanted a larger one. So I started my search and eventually found an original, new in the box, 2006 Mustang GT toy grade 1/10 scale car. The plastic body on these were much thicker than today’s Lexan, so I figured it would be an easier car to work with. At 27” long, it’s pretty impressive too. The seller of the car was a collector who had it for years and was selling off his toy collections, so I was just lucky in my search. The only 2 negatives that come with an old toy grade car is the cheap electronics and thin brittle chassis plastic in parts of the chassis areas. So, I upgraded the electronics and added some pieces of 3/16” black plexiglass that I had laying around, to beef up the chassis while making a battery box, etc. It took about 3 months of off and on evening work to pull this off. Check out the build…

You should be able to find them on eBay. The seats were common with several German cars in the 80's and I found several parts that I needed for my 82 seats a year ago. There may be a part or ID # on your old part if you still have them that might help too.

I read about a national event called Mustang Week in January and submitted our Mustang based 06 Avanti to see if they were interested. They were and we took our car there at the end of April. It was among 1500 Mustangs of all years, some from as far away as Canada and Puerto Rico. Our car won an award while there, but the most important thing were the ideas that we came up with while looking at all of cars/vendors. I now have 4 new ongoing projects with the car because of this and the first was wheels/tires. Ford originally intended that the car come with 18" wheels per the door sticker, but Avanti Motors put 2004 17" x 9" Mustang Cobra SVT wheels on the car instead. After we decided on a wheel, and we looked at dozens, we bought "Xcess 5 Flake" chrome rims, 18" x 8.5". I then purchased Michelin Pilot Sport A/S tires and put 255/45 on the back and 245/40 on the front. The front tires are 1.25" inches shorter than the back and gives the car that "dropped" front end look. The speedometer is accurate when checked with a GPS and the car drives and handles extremely well. I put the original wheels/tires for sale on Facebook and sold them in 1 day. 3 more mods are coming soon.

The switch is most likely bad. You can unplug it, connect an ohm meter to it and rotate it and see if the circuit works in every position (bad) or does work correctly. If it works correctly then someone has bypassed it or the wiring harness has a problem.

It's the resolution, jpg must be 300 DPI for conversion. Standard 72 DPI isn't clear enough.

Mine should work, used it for decals, clothing etc.

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You'll have to send me a personal email. Vector files can't be uploaded to the forum. avanti06@att.net

There is a small L bracket that is missing, it is part of the front window channel that you ordered from Dan.

You can swap out the 305 for a 350 without any problem. If you want to keep the 83 carb/distributor and computer system, then that will work also, with the exception of having to rejet the carb for the 350. The 350 also would need 350 exhaust manifolds since the ports and exit port are larger. You would need to have a muffler shop replace the flange that connects the exhaust pipe to each manifold with larger ones to match the 350 exhaust manifold. The good thing is you'll have a lot more power once you are done, and the value of the car will go up as well.

I was thinking that there was something similar to a L bracket that the screw went into and you could use that to attach the rivet to. Maybe we need to see a photo of the problem area?

I think there is enough room for you to drill a new hole and use a pop rivet to fix it, or maybe make a small L bracket to connect the 2 pieces.

Oreilly Auto Parts sells the 3 speed Murray switch which works like a champ.

I have the second generation logo in a vector file

I don't know, never had the pleasure of doing that.

Nostalgic Motors sells a complete sunroof delete roof skin in case you want to just reskin the entire roof.

The car was not in good shape. From looking at the photos, it needed everything. It sold for just under $14K and it wasn't worth that in my opinion

Our 2006 Avanti came with 17” wheels that were actually for the 2004 Mustang Mach 1 models. They have a lot of miles on them and since I recently put new tires on them, I decided to dress them up a little instead of replacing them. The chrome is getting tired and really looked bad on the inside of the wheel, so I decided to black out the part that you see the most when looking through the rim. The newest trend in wheels is to wrap them for unique patterns/colors, and since I had some extra black carbon fiber wrap, I decided to use that. The other thing was to figure out how much of the inside actually needed blacking out, and I determined that 3” from the back side of the spokes would be sufficient. Also, the diameter of the wheel spoke edge is different than 3” towards the back side of the rim, so wrapping it in 1 piece would end up being more difficult due to the extra curvature. I did a test wrap of about 1/4 of the wheel, 3” deep and it did exactly what I thought it was going to, no good. As I looked at it, I realized that installing or removing wheel weights would also become a problem, so the solution would be to wrap the inside in pieces, with each “joint” being behind the “spokes”. That would solve both problems and if wheel weights were added or removed, I could patch that area much easier. I also used 3M adhesive promoter (primer) to increase the wrap glue strength. A small brush was used to apply it to the area that the wrap pieces were would be placed. So, here we go:

My 82 model took 3 lbs, so you should be able to do that much.

Screw on service valves are for R12. Most anyone who does a 134 conversion replaces those and the dryer at a minimum when doing a conversion. In a lot of cases the rubber lines need to be replaced as well. Now, that's not to say that some person came up with an adapter to charge 134 through those fittings but I sure wouldn't. R12 and R134 don't mix, you use different A/C gauges to prevent mixing the refrigerant, use the correct fittings and gauge pressures. There use to be some R12 replacement refrigerants available but I don't think those are available anymore. You'd have to call a local parts store and see what they have.

1-2) It could have been installed back at the factory after purchase, a recommended repair shop that they used at the time or a repair shop that did it for the owner. 3 & 5) Your concept is correct. Replace the dryer, replace the service valve "stems" on the 2 hose fittings, vacuum it down for 30+ minutes and then recharge. The service valves will require snap-on connectors if the system has been converted to R134A 4) There isn't one from the factory. 5) Leak check the system once recharged