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Old 02-03-2010, 10:59 PM
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Default A t-top conversion we did on Sunday...

Gilbert (raptorws6) and I did a T-Top conversion at Gilbert's house on Isaac's car last Sunday and Isaac made a video of it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsCtL3CRNkI

If I would have known that song would have been dubbed over it then I would have danced more At least I wore my baggy pants

We didn't do any bodywork (to finish the corners, it is just raw metal with a quick coat of spray paint to prevent rust for now) as the entire car is going into the shop on Friday to get the conversion finished and a complete color change (that light blue on the new ZR1s) and wheels are going away as he has forged 1 pieces waiting to go on...

P.S. Baggy pants are just my work pants, no need to forward me the "pants on the ground" song...

P.P.S. Music is NWS and neither are my pants

P.P.P.S. For all you guys still doing conversions with Dremels BUY A FRIGGIN GRINDER, PLEASE!!!! It takes half the time and only costs $60. You can do finishing work with a dremel but the grinder has a larger wheel so you can get in under the sail panel to cut the metal further back so the weatherstripping can fit better...

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Nice work. Looks great!
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looks good
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Very impressive!
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You guys took less time doing a t-top conversion than it took me, Mike, Mikes brother, Gilbert, and Brian to install shocks, PHB, and LCA relocation brackets on Mikes car... lmao.

Nice work and great vid.
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post some pics when hes done painting it
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some good time we had at RMS lol
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why didn't you guys take the headliner out first?
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cuz the headliner was tore up anyways, and we wanted it to catch most of the debris
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why not a targa
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its not Mark 6le's car, isaac wanted a t-top conversion.. we will try and have video up of the targa conversion on marks car tho when it does happen
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good job guys and holy **** I haven't heard that song in mad long...that's back when Game repped G-unit.
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Originally Posted by ZexGX
You guys took less time doing a t-top conversion than it took me, Mike, Mikes brother, Gilbert, and Brian to install shocks, PHB, and LCA relocation brackets on Mikes car... lmao.

Nice work and great vid.
Everything you listed should take one person, by themselves, 2 hours. What the hell were you guys doing?!?
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Originally Posted by 6LITEREATER
Everything you listed should take one person, by themselves, 2 hours. What the hell were you guys doing?!?
We had to make parts runs, tool runs, food runs, and I had to teach Gil, Mike, Mike's Bro, and Brian what I was doing because apparently I was the only one that knew how to install shocks properly, after some of Gil's bright ideas failed... We also didn't have a grinder to cut off the e-brake bracket for the LCA's so we had to find tools to bend them out of the way. Plus, you probably know how Mike feels about doing things "the right way"... With all the ***** laying on his car in pics you'd never think that anybody checks underneath the car to see how it looks.
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Originally Posted by ZexGX
We had to make parts runs, tool runs, food runs, and I had to teach Gil, Mike, Mike's Bro, and Brian what I was doing because apparently I was the only one that knew how to install shocks properly, after some of Gil's bright ideas failed... Plus, you probably know how Mike feels about doing things "the right way"...
Yeah, I heard some real funny stories from Brian about that day, "Dude, this is a calendar car..." !!!
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What was the original color of the car? I saw red under the top, black in the engine bay, and blue on the exterior.

I'm curious to see the targa conversion when you do it.
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Amazingly that's not the fist 4th gen I've seen that color, good work guys can't wait to see it done and painted
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Originally Posted by The Alchemist
What was the original color of the car? I saw red under the top, black in the engine bay, and blue on the exterior.

I'm curious to see the targa conversion when you do it.
It's also had an LS1 front end conversion unless they changed a V6 car into an LT1 or went backwards from an LS1 car to an LT1 motor
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Originally Posted by black_sheep454
Amazingly that's not the fist 4th gen I've seen that color, good work guys can't wait to see it done and painted
Actually it probably is. You are thinking of the factory color, "Bright Blue Metallic" and this car is a red car that was painted (very poorly) "Electric Blue'.
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nice work! looks good


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