Sunday, March 29, 2015

So as winter gives way to spring I have been a little distracted by trying to get my property in order and then dodging in and tinkering on the car when I can. I have been working on finishing the front end fabrication. Currently I am trying to finish out the left front fender ,all of the attachment points and alignments. I fabricated a panel out of .040 aluminum to close out from the nose to the plastic inner wheel tub. I also fabricated and welded up an inner lip on the wheel opening to marry to the plastic wheel tub.




I also found some time to fabricate the fender top outlets. Here is a couple of views of how they worked out so far.






Sunday, March 15, 2015

I was wanting to get back to finishing the fabrication work on the front end of the car so I had to do a few things first. As you may know this car was hit on the right front. I replaced all of the damaged components. I then loosened the 4 bolts that hold the engine cradle to the front clip and rotated it until I got the wheel base correct. Then I built some elephant stands on my car dollies so that I was able to do a quick wheel alignment using the tires and wheels I will eventually put on the car. With everything straightened out I can move ahead with the front end fabrication. Also in the "do over" department I had to cut both rear wheel openings back another 1/2" because of some clearance issues. This meant re doing the inner wheel closures.




Sunday, March 8, 2015

Well after a busier than normal (I hope) week at work I managed to do some tinkering this weekend. I pulled the rear resonator assemblies off of the car mainly because they hung way to low and could be seen from the side like some afterburners.  I am thinking these are not stock as all the pictures  I have seen are of what they call "suitcase resonators". Anyway these are too large to tuck up under the quarters so I will have to do without them or find something smaller. I was hesitant to cut the tail pipe tips up into the roll pan but they just looked too large hanging below the pan.  I ended up liking how they look.



Sunday, March 1, 2015

After laying off of the project for a couple of weeks due to some late nights at work I finally got back on it this week end. I finally got the right side door skinned and fit up. I also made the mount for the right side mirror. Not a lot, but some progress.