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I wanted to go faster. — Jason Eberle
It belongs to Jason Eberle of Chalfont, Pennsylvania. Jason is the owner of JE Customs, which restores and builds cars, but recently Jason’s been bit by the racing bug and he’s been into the higher horsepower, higher speed builds.
What is it about this color that we just cannot get over? Even in the pictures it looks a mile deep.
“We’ve slowly just started doing stuff for racecars, like building roll-cages mainly, and doing all kinds of fabrication,” Jason told us.“We do a lot of restoration builds. We want to make it so someone can bring a car in, have the it cage-built and wired here, and leave almost ready to go. Everything from start to finish.”
As such, the shop covers everything except the engine building.
What a view.
Jason used to race an ’02 Pontiac Trans-Am, but about three years ago when he ran across this 1988 Mustang for sale from a friend, he couldn’t pass it up. It came with a lot of good parts for what he wanted to do at the time, but that didn’t last long.
“I wanted to go faster,” he explained, “And I ended up selling all that stuff to help pay for what I am doing with it now.”
This could be one of the best looking '88 Mustang builds we've seen.
When Jason got the car, they pretty much cut it all out and started over. “We started at the garage at my house,” he explained, “We set it up on jack stands and cut right down the center.” They cut out the floor pans, firewall, cowl panel, and roof. It was a big job, but the results are definitely worth the efforts. It’s an absolutely stunning, fully built race car.
Driven To Perform
The drivetrain is setup with a Precision Turbo breathing into a 400 cubic-inch small-block Ford that Jason bought used. The transmission is from Proformance and it’s a two-speed Turbo-400 designed for racing.
“It’s a really nice transmission,” Jason said.
The drivetrain is finished out with a Ford 9-inch rearend from Fab-9 with a full spool and 3.73:1 gearing.
“That’s just what I had laying around,” Jason explained about the gear ratio. “I might end up going to 4.10 after testing it.”
Jason has his time and money into the transmission, rearend, and suspension, so he’s not sure what the is going to do about the engine setup. He’s not really happy with how it’s running and is probably either going to replace it or have it rebuilt, but his goal is to churn out 1,500 horsepower with the combo.
“The motor is going to Anthony Disomma at Disomma Race Motors to get looked at,” Jason said.
We’re really impressed by what Jason put together and think it’s a really cool build. We love the look, the drivetrain, and just the all-around design and aesthetics of his project. What do you think about Jason’s turbocharged ’88 Mustang racecar?
