Thanks man.....I'm super stoked to finally see it in color after all these years!

 

Thank you! Now to get it back together and running.

Good luck with yours too! Coming along!

 

Nice choice on the color, it looks great.

 

Thanks guys!

Well, the ball is officially back in my court. I picked the car up this afternoon from the painter. He told me to keep it as long as I need it and to put as much or as little back together as I'd like. He said he'd prefer for the body work and primer to cure for at least 30 days before final blocking and paint....so no rush.











My original plan was to do three simple things and have the car back to him in a week or so. I wanted to set the motor and transmission back in, relocate the ignition box to the inside of the car, and install the new coil over front suspension. But now that I have it home, I'm looking at all kinds of things (mostly engine compartment paint and wiring) that I feel need done over again to be right.

So at this point I may actually have it the entire month of December or longer. My biggest thing is to get it back to him before our first major snow when they'll first salt the roads. That usually doesn't happen until the 2nd week of January around here but with my luck.......

 

Very cool to see the progress. Tidy wiring is time consuming work. It is kind of tough to wire a car and also do it in such a way that future changes and upgrades are easy to implement.

 

For sure on the wiring! Mine wasn't too bad initially when I first assembled the car. But it started getting messy when I later added my nitrous system. I've been considering adding a progressive controller lately, so now that I'm redoing the wiring anyway, I'm thinking there's no better time than the present to add the controller.

The bodywork progress definitely gets me excited. There was a time when I wasn't sure I'd ever be at the paint stage. Part of me thought it would stay in black primer for life.

Here are some other in-progress my painter had on his phone. He just texted them to me today.

A coat of black epoxy sealer went over top of the body work first.







And then the first coat of urethane primer.

 

Looking great! Been following your progress for a couple years now. I have a 72' RS that is actually pretty sound but I stripped down to nothing almost 20 years ago and it has been sitting ever since. (Life kinda got in the way) my wife actually tried to get me to sell it once. I told her "I had the car before I had you". It didn't go over that well at the time, however, she never asked again about the car. My sixteen year old son is currently taking an automotive class in high school and we recently revived the project. Plans are, body and paint as well as BBC 427 TH400 and 9" Ford. Anyway, seeing your progress has given me hope especially since my car does not need the extensive body work that yours has under gone. Thanks again for sharing your work.

Eric

 

Glad to hear my thread has provided you some motivation to get back after your Camaro. Sounds like you have a really cool father and son project going! Very cool.

I figured I'd post some recent progress pics. Recent jobs have included repainting the firewall and cowl, relocated the ignition box from the firewall to the underdash area, repainted the motor and reinstalled it and the trans, installed a new Wilwood master cylinder and removed the old Competition Engineering shocks and Moroso Trick springs in favor of QA1 double-adjustable coilovers. Well actually....that job is still in progress. Still yet to come is a complete rewiring with an American Autowire Classic Update harness. Wish me luck......

 

I got the nose piece back tonight. My painter sprayed it out as a test panel so I can make my final color decision. It obviously has some fish eye in it and will be resprayed before the car is done. I'm gonna wait to look at it in the sunlight tomorrow before I make my final decision but I like it so far.

 

Looks good. I have a 70 that I'm installing a LSX454 and Magnum T56.

I'm having trouble finding headers large enough though, looking for 2". In your research for your swap have you run across any that large?

Thanks
Craig

 

Thanks man. Sounds like your 70 is gonna be one badass beast!

No, I can't remember ever running into swap headers with primaries larger than 1.875. You may be looking at having some custom built. I wonder if Kooks or ARH would be willing to build them for you?

 

Gary,
Shouldn't you of used some sort of antiseize on the coilover's aluminum threads?

 

Hey Jim. Yeah, I used quite a bit of it actually. I used the silver colored rather than the copper colored so it probably isn't visible in the pic.

 

Thanks, was hoping to avoid custom spelled $$$$$$$.

I'll keep looking I'm sure someone makes them.

Thanks
Craig

 

Yeah, I know what you mean on the cost.....those aren't gonna be cheap. Let me know if you find some though. I've got a long term goal of building a 441 LSX nitrous motor sometime down the road and will need a large primary header at that point.

 

Actually searched around and found Hedman makes a set and http://www.brphotrods.com/products/2...cts/index.html sell 2" primary or 2-1 7/8 step headers.

 

Good deal man.....nice find! I'm not sure if it's still the case but I think Hedman makes the headers for BRP so it would make sense that they both offer them I'm 2 inch. I'll have to keep that in mind for the future. My current headers are 1 3/4 stepped to 1 7/8.

 

My painter texted me some teaser pics from the paint booth tonight. Freshly painted.....still needs cut and buffed. I can't wait to go see it in person tomorrow!

 

That looks really, really nice. Love the color

 

Thanks man. I can't wait to see it in the sunlight.