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Old Jan 10, 2011 | 01:21 PM
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So bags all over??
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 10:40 AM
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So bags all over??
Nope. For the rear setup its the same mounting points if you want to run bags. I am running coilovers all around. QA1's to be specific.

So I work on the car every weekend with my body guy now. Not much really to show atm. A lot of pulling off panels and putting back on, ect..ect..Two weekends ago we where still fitting things and trying to get the panels decent. My drivers side door bothers me still but its deff. better than what it was in the above pictures. We have trued the gap up good but the door to rocked is in twords the fender and flush twords the quarter. Any ideas what to do without going crazy? Everything else fits very nice and seems to be where in needs to be. So last weekend we worked on welding up everything that needs to be welded. The dash, antenna hole on the fender, front plate holes, all emblem holes on the fenders, chrome trim wheel mounting points and we finished off with some small body work. So that took up most of this past weekend. I will take some pictures to show the progess tonight and update. It feels like this stuff is taking forever. It kills me.

In other news me and my dad have been talking about our motor choice and we have decided that if we can find a low mile ls motor that makes somewhere near 550+ we will consider. We have not ruled out the lsx 454 totally but after a lot of though we realize that it is going to cost upwards of 17k easily. Were looking to be somewhere in the range of 10k or less hoepfully with out aftermarket add ons. Where thinking ls7 at the moment. If you guys have thoughts/opinions please chime in. Were not against anything at the moment..

Also as soon as my body guy can not come one weekend where looking into getting a cage put in. I only wanted a simple 4 point as I hate the idea of having to climb over a bar to get into my street car. It seems that the more places I talk to the more guys tell me that if your going to track the car you had better have at a minimum of a 6 point and even then the track will probley give you a hard time. I really dont want a 8 point but were weighing our options right now. More to come on this soon.

Heres the one picture I took this weekend of Timmy drilling the spot welds for the dash..
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 02:46 PM
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I'm going to do a 4 pt. with a removable harness bar, a 6/8pt. really stiffens the car up,
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 09:39 PM
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Here's the rest of the pictures from this weekend..

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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 10:00 PM
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Badass Build......Keep it up.
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 01:33 AM
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Sweet build.
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Old Jan 30, 2011 | 05:11 PM
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Thanks guys..

More sanding and bodywork..everything looks good with the exception of the drivers door to rocker gap. I'm thinking that when whomever welded up the panels something was not lined up correctly. Anyone have any suggestions on how to make that better without going to crazy..?? We started the rough body work and finished sanding the door jams, fenders jams and trunk jam..and let me tell you that's a lot of jams. Anyone have peanut butter? Haha..anyway still to be sanded are the whole firewall, under hood, and under trunk..not to bad..here are the pictures.

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Here the gap..only twords the fender..it trues up at the quarter
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Here's the passenger side. Perfect.
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And some sanded jams..
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The tail panel needed some work but not too much..


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The next couple of weeks are going to be more body work..then in at the end of February the car will go to a local guy named lance for a 6 point cage with a removable side bar. They will also be finishing up the welding of my rear and welding in dse subframe connectors which have to be bought still. More updates coming soon..

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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 08:56 AM
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Last night I worked on some more sanding. Mainly the firewall. I have to figure out which holes are for what. Whatever is not needed I would like to close up before any paint work begins. I also got some picture of the drivers door to get some more opinions on what needs to be done to correct it..

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some of the drivers door..

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some near the A pillar..

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and the passanger side for comparison..

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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 09:51 AM
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wow, nice progress!! LOVE the carbon fiber trunk and hood!
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 04:18 PM
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Thanks man.

Anyone wanna take a guess what we did today..


Sanding..and then more sanding.. I'm done talking about sanding onto the pictures..
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And Timmy did a great job on the quarter to tail panel line.
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There's not much more to do until it gets primed now which needs to be in a booth. We have to seam seal some stuff and in 2-3 weeks the car goes in to get the cage and welding stuff wrapped up..then to the booth for 3 coats of primer then block the whole car again and cut the jambs in..then paint hopefully. Still have to buy an anvil rear spoiler and front valance...more updates coming soon..
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 07:51 PM
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Kudos to you for your diligence. It's really coming together!
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Old Feb 5, 2011 | 09:09 PM
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wow,nice!!!
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Old Feb 19, 2011 | 09:02 PM
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Well the car went to get the cage done today. I got some bad news from the builder lance. He is going to put the cage in, build and weld in sub frame connectors, and finish welding the rear end brackets to complete the air ride set up. We also talked about him welding the bottom of the door to correct that gap. He looked at both doors and told me that they have to be fitted again and some metal is going to be added/filed. He then showed me his 67 and how it should look. Basically the doors need sone work. But at this time he's finishing up some big projects and can handle that kind of work. So he's going to do what we have planed and then let me know when I can bring the car back for the other work. All welding work has to be done before final body work. More updates coming soon as I hopefully will be going there to help our with the work as I'm eager to learn.

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And here's the mustang he's working on ATM..
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 10:17 AM
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Oooooo, look at the Webers!!


Cars looking good!
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 02:33 PM
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Coming along quite nicely. Nice build
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Old Mar 4, 2011 | 09:32 AM
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So my dad and my cousin picked up my car last night for me while I was at work. My dad grabbed some pictures for me. I will get some better pictures this weekend. Also if anyone wants the cage builders info just let me know. Hes an awsome guy and really knows his stuff.











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Old Mar 5, 2011 | 05:40 PM
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Went over to the car today and got some more shots. Looks awesome. If anyone wants to see something in detail ask away.























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Old Mar 5, 2011 | 06:33 PM
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Cage looks great, where did he get all the parts to do the swing out bars and the removable harness bar, I need some of them!! thanks
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Old Mar 5, 2011 | 09:40 PM
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Love the carbon fiber hood, where did you find that at? Great build, love the attention to detail
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