Let me ask this before I forget again...why do you weld your panels in fully versus just stitching them in? I weld/fab on utility trucks for a living and you'd be amazed at how strong a few stitches are. I would rather see you stitch it in a few spots and use seam sealer than lay all that weld down on such thin /small sheets like that. Just my opinion...

 

Eh just my prefference I guess. I work on heavy equipment all day and we fully weld everything. I also don't like seam sealer.

 

Well last weekend I pulled the motor off of the stand and installed the CSR Aluminum flexplate.


Then I bolted up the Xtreme built TH350 and CSR Carbon fiber trans shield.



Then I dropped the motor and trans in the car and didnt have a chance to take pictures but will take some and update soon. All this week the only thing ive made any progress with is this beast

 

bling,bling,are those 100" rims your driving on.

 

Na they are only about 65"s

 

THIS IS MY OLD CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy ****, I've been trying to track this sucker down for yeeeeears.... she's definintely a bit different from when I owned her. I sold her to some kid in Oregon in '04, who sold her a few months later...been wondering what happened to her ever since. Guess I know now......wow.

 

Ironically I bought that trans shield from the guy you sold it to lol. He told me that after I bought it from him. He sold it to someone else up there who sold it to my tuner that had the cage put in and stripped it all down and I bought it from him a little over a year ago.

 

Well, it looks like she's somewhere where she's appreciated...It's really kickin ***, man, I'll be keeping up with the progress for sure....

 

btw, I'm usually in San diego about once a year, i'd love to stop by and check it out in person....

 

Car looks great. Keep working on it. We will have to catch up soon. I sold the vette but who knows what's next LOL

 

Yea I figured you would, I mean you had it for about a year lol. Yea well have to get together soon man

 

Im about a hundred miles from San Diego and am really only home on weekends but hell yea lemme know when you are going to be around!

 

Got back in town from working in death valley the last two weeks to find a bunch of parts. I now have the hood brackets, all my gauges, my sway bar, and my hood SHOULD be waiting for me in the parts department at my work. Im a bit dissapointed that I may bot be able to make the event I wanted to make on memorial day but im still going to try like hell.

 

car looks really good man. i love how cutting out the ttop well cleans everything up

 

Thanks! Yea I like it alot too, especially when the battery box gets mounted. I still have a good amount of cleanup to do back there and some small patch panels to make but its coming along.

 

Will do brother...

 

Havent had alot of time to work on it lately, in the process of buying a house right now...with two acres for a future shop and a three car garage so I can actually work on it inside

Ive been sizing up the hood rails, they really dont seem too bad to make fit. That will be one of my next projects. Im thinking ill use a little bit longer rivets and put small washer on the bottom side to give it a little more strength.

Ive been talking with Madman about my rear suspension. The body isnt coming down quite enough on the axle, Steve and I both think its due to the shocks being mounted up higher.

So im going to cut off the tabs its mounted to now and move them down to the lower mounts. Then I can weld in my Midwest Anti Roll Bar.

 

I'm borrowing a few ideas from you for my t-top well removal. After trying to fill my fuel cell with it down in the t-top well, I decided real quick that the floor was getting raised so I could raise up the cell.

 

Cool, I was planning on putting a cell back there but since my car will be track only I'm just going to mount a small cell up front. Ca really sucks for cars like this, even if the cops do leave you alone the potholes will rip your car apart.

 

Aw **** I was hoping some more updates were comin in. Anyways sick build up