Foxbody Body Stripe Replacement. Is a Stripe Wheel Better Than Peeling? 

You are welcome. I hope it helps. Take a read through the comments because I see a couple guys with some other ideas about this job in there that may be helpful too!

@maxnellybelly Yeah it has gone from a driveway disaster to a very nice little Mustang again!

LMR have a good selection of stock stripe colors in their catalog, and the tape is not big money. Just installing it is a pretty straightforward job. I know I agonized over replacing the stripe on this car because once you start, you have to see it through and it COULD be a long miserable job, and you COULD damage the paint if you are very unlucky, but it ended up not being all that bad, and the end result was certainly worth it.

@@tecmotiondyno Yes I think the red striping really makes that car pop. Much better than the black.

White has never been my color and it is technically wrong to have the accent stripe on a 93 I guess, but I like the car a lot better with the red accent.

@mistersecret88 A couple of these wheels leave a little to be desired but I have a lead on a couple of nicer ones. In the grand scheme of things, they are a "pretty nice" set of original Pony rims, but not "Minty". :)

Thanks! I really thought the red stripe brightened the car up considerably, not to mention that the black stripe that was on there was too wide, flaking, and applied poorly in the first place.

I normally suggest .030” for a boosted application. You can get away with a little wider if you are low boost like that, but it won’t help much power wise. You can probably run a stock heat range plug with that combo, but I would usually go one step colder. Like a 6 series NGK.

5lbs isnt much and all stock motor ..id leave it alone...how many miles on the old block?

Yeah iam currently running Auto lites 25 gapped at .045 39,000 low mile engine that iam going to keep stock with sc it’s actually a 6lbs boost kit I picked up brand new basically bd 11a powerdyne thank for comment aswell.

@@tecmotiondynothank you for advice always valued from experienced knowledge

Yeah, I honestly thought there was no way it would peel cleanly, and I was also concerned that since the car is a repaint it might have peeled paint with the tape, which is why I went straight to the stripe wheel. Honestly, the stripe wheel was working fine except for the burnishing which was going to be covered by a new tape stripe anyway, but I decided to try a peel and it was actually easier on most parts of the car than it even looks like in this video. I think it just goes to show that you shouldn't count a tape peel out right from the start. It should be noted that this was clearly an aftermarket accent tape stripe, and although I can't attest to when it was actually installed, it had clearly been on there for a long time, The guy I bought the car from had owned it since around 2000, and I know that he had either done it or gotten someone to do it for him.

@mustangjoe2066 I actually got this body tape from Western Motorsports in Calgary, but they deal in the Late Model Restoration catalog and that is where it originated. You can get any of the popular factory colors from them.

@mistersecret88 I was going to try a heat gun, but it turned out that these stripes peeled back fine without any helpers. On steel, I think I would use the stripe wheel over something like gas, but good to know you have had good results with it.

I really thought this one would come off hard, so I was surprised that a peel worked. It goes to show that you can't discount the peel method.

@jasonquinn588 After your comment I dug out and reviewed my copy of the Canadian 1993 Mustang sales brochure, and I am going to have to agree with you. There is no mention of the accent stripe and all of the cars depicted show the bodyside moulding painted body color except when they had the Titantium lower accent in which case it was painted Titanium. Additionally, there is NO QUESTION that the stripe I removed is aftermarket - it absolutely is, it was a poor job of taping, and the car is also a repaint so assuming they also repainted the mouldings if there had been a factory stripe it would have been removed first. I don't actually know when Ford stopped using the accent stripe - certainly many earlier white hatches had a red accent, and 1993 models have a LOT of differences from prior model year Foxbodies. I'm not really an encyclopedia of factory options when it comes to these cars because frankly over my life I have pretty well exclusively dealt with modifieds, usually heavily modified, versions of these cars, so what was stock and what wasn't from an appearance standpoint all kind of blends into the background noise for me, but I was clearly mistaken about the accent on this car. Having said that, I like it with the red accent a whole lot better than the black one, or no accent on a pure white car. Incidentally, when I pulled out my 93 sales brochure I see that I had made a contemporary annotation in the margin for an LX 5.0 Package 072A car that says "$17003 rebate to dealer reef blue". That may have been the Canadian out the door price for an LX hatch that year! Looks like that would have had power windows, locks, and mirrors, sunroof, air conditioning, and sport seats based on the margin notes. Sales tax would have been extra, but if I had my guess, that likely included destination and delivery.

@@tecmotiondyno I would love to talk with you about my midfield mustang sometime… it has a surging problem after being driven and warmed up, but from a cold start it will idle perfect

I try to help out where I can.

@R8ndy I have actually been thinking about it as I have another project, and I am nearing the end of my plans for the white car. You can call me voice at the shop or message me through the shop’s Facebook or Instagram pages if you want to discuss it.