BlackICE
GT Owner
Most cars until late 05 production have billet arms. My car built in Aug 05 has billet arms. Having a car with mix of billet and non-billet arms will most likely lead to a good story about the car.
Looking at used GT tomorrow...
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Most cars until late 05 production have billet arms. My car built in Aug 05 has billet arms. Having a car with mix of billet and non-billet arms will most likely lead to a good story about the car.
I thought Ford stopped production when the pblm was discovered, replaced the arms on existing cars with the billets, then resumed production when the new cast arms were on line???:confused
Pls enlighten this old man, Sir!
BlackICE
GT Owner
IMO, that was Ford's plan. My guess is that the cast arms couldn't get into production fast enough, so to keep the cars moving off the line they decide not to wait and to just put the more costly billet arms on until the cast ones were available.
ASSactly from what I understand. My 05 #1613 has billlet from the factory...never heard of an 06 with them though, and never heard of a "combo".
Clean car fax?
Vandalism/keyed paint on 3 body panels?
This does not add up. All insurance covers vandalism. This should have been an insurance claim and should have been on car fax.
Its not adding up.
The pressure from the dealer is a turn off too. I would not buy unless I had a full PPI. If they don't have time for you to get it done let someone else buy it. :thumbsdown
Pockets: Nardo is correct. My '05 has factory billet A arms also. They were a stop gap until they could redesign or fix the stock cast A arm. The GT Guys were just at my house installing Shadowman's new exhaust system on my gal, changing all fluids and installing a K&N air filter. I asked Rich about the billet A arms. He said very few of the FGTs have them. Maybe 400 or so. He said they are VERY expensive which is why they were not continued in production.
Pocke
Vandalism/keyed paint on 3 body panels?
This does not add up. All insurance covers vandalism. This should have been an insurance claim and should have been on car fax.
Its not adding up.
The pressure from the dealer is a turn off too. I would not buy unless I had a full PPI. If they don't have time for you to get it done let someone else buy it. :thumbsdown
Pockets: Nardo is correct. My '05 has factory billet A arms also. They were a stop gap until they could redesign or fix the stock cast A arm. The GT Guys were just at my house installing Shadowman's new exhaust system on my gal, changing all fluids and installing a K&N air filter. I asked Rich about the billet A arms. He said very few of the FGTs have them. Maybe 400 or so. He said they are VERY expensive which is why they were not continued in production.
Pocke
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timcantwell
Le Mans 2010 Sponsor * Moderator
For what it's worth, my white '05 is number 1727 and it has billet arms. My midnight blue '05 is number 1825, and it has the same arms as both of the 2006 cars. So therefore, the billet arms stopped somewhere between the production of both of my '05's.
Well, that's how I remember the story, too. As to WHICH EXACT CARS were members of that 400 would be hard to figure out from their Vin #s I would think, as THOSE were all over the map in relation to "build" number and all that goofy business. But, all this happened before breakfast yesterday, and I didn't write any of it down, soooooooooo... :willy
Edit: And, as I recall, the REASON there were 4,038 total FGT's made instead of the ORIGIONAL 4,500 targeted was due TO production being stopped for a while. Or was I dreaming all that too?
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tap::skep NEVER MIND. :slap)
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Thugboat
GT Owner
Here ya go. Top of the page = cast...'bottom = billet:
http://www.fordgtforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13052&highlight=billet+a-arms
Thugboat
GT Owner
My Midnight Blue 2005 is number 1769, so perhaps one of the 42 cars in between was the first completed with re-worked cast arms.
Wrong -
We have narrowed the time frame down to somewhere between about August 10th, 2005 to September 23, 2005 (S/N 1857). The original 400 cars were recalled immediately (and removed from the road) to have the A-arms replaced, but it took quite a while to get the new design arms into production. Thus, the units shipped after the original recall incorporated the billet A-arms until the new design could be fabricated, tested and stocked in sufficient quantity to be available for the assembly line. My car is 1857, and it has the replacement forged design. It looks to be somewhere around 1775 to 1850...
We continue to try and find the serial number changeover - but since every owner is not on the forum - it's difficult.
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t32b
Verde
Yep, it ran longer than originally planned. Mine is #899 (from recollection) and they have those drool-worthy machining patterns on them. Every time I go to the local C&C event, and the F-car owners take a look at them, they look a little woozy
JOETWINT
FORD GT OWNER
Joe - What's your date of manufacture? My owner's authenticity package from Ford says mine was assembled on 09-23-2005.
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cobrajeff
GT Owner
Thanks, Jeff.
So now we have tightened the noose to an 11 day period in September, 2005, when they started shipping GT's with the new designed forged A-arms, and somewhere between 1836 and 1857. Maybe someday, we'll find the adjacent serial numbers for the change.
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