Originally posted by Archie:

Don't know about the lighting requirements in NY but at least we'll be able to see them coming for us.

Originally posted by Archie:

Troy will be here tomorrow to check out his car.

There will be a bunch of pics tomorrow, so today you just get a tease.

Everything shines.......





Even the mirrors shine like mirrors



These will shine tomorrow...



Archie

Originally posted by Archie:

I had intended to post up a bunch of pictures last night. However, the server that my web site & picture hosting is one was down for service so I couldn't post.

So now that everything is working again a bit of an update is in order.

Counting today, we've worked 4 days this week on finishing up details on the Perfect Union.

We got the brakes back from powdercoating. After putting the calipers back together with the pistons etc. putting them back on the car was pretty simple because they had been fitted before.

This time around though, we had to fabricate mounts for the rear "Spot" brakes & figure out routing & brackets for the hand brake cables. Everything had to clear the wide wheels so that was a lot easier said then done. there wasn't time to do this before the car went to paint.

Here are some pics.

Front....







Rear....







The finished product is going t look nice....







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Originally posted by Archie:

Yesterday we put the car up on the lift to aid in routing the handbrake cables. We also have to fabricate a steel frame up under the nose to protect the air dam if it scrapes on the ground. We couldn't make this frame before because we needed to have the nose mounted for the last time before fitting this stuff.

I'll post some pics of it later as we get it built.

I did take a few pics of various items when we got it on the lift.





















Archie

Originally posted by Archie:


The last few days we've been working on several things.

As I said, we had to fabricate a steel frame up under the nose to protect it. I'm calling that frame the "rack".

With this car, Troy wanted protection for the nose if he was to rub it while driving on uneven surfaces. We also had a challenge to find a way to pull the car onto the trailer without having the straps or cable damage the lower nose.

You'll see that we were able to address both issues with this rack.

Here are some pics from last Friday showing what we had in mind.





This mount has been in several pictures before. We put it in anticipating the building of this "rack"











......more to come......

Originally posted by Archie:

Here's some of the results from building the "rack".





This is what it will look like when finished.......





I've said before how I like to make things so that they can be serviced down the road. Up 'til now bolting in the grills, Audi lights or driving lights was being done by reaching a long arm up into the nose thru the wheel well openings. We decided it would be better to have an access hole up under the nose.





The new "rack" bolts on with 8 bolts. With the car up in the air, the bolts are real easy to get to. If you take out 6 bolts you can pivot the "rack" down to allow you to service items inside the nose. When the "rack" is where it's supposed to be, the air coming thru the grills is still directed towards the radiator.





Archie

Originally posted by Archie:

I'd like to say something else.

We've gone from this ........



To This.......



I'd like to thank Troy for letting us participate in building his dream car.

This has been virtually a once in a lifetime opportunity to participate in the building of something special.

We still have a few minor details to finish up yet & we still have some test driving to do but for all practical purposes this car is virtually done.

This thread is not about to end, we have a lot more that will be added to this thread.

There are a million pictures yet to take, shows, test driving results & more.

In the next few days, I'll try to get some good quality pictures taken outside in the sunlight, so that you all can see how neat this one really is.

Thanks Troy,

Archie