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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 08:32 PM
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Holy Powder Coat! Bill at QC Coatings did an incredible job here! This is the first pile and there will be a few more parts that will be dropped off for coating in the near future:








Now the assembly begins with the rear bumper and rear end:







The front suspension and turbo are installed. The wheels in these pics are obviously not the black chrome wheels because they still need to get the new tires mounted:






The wiring is started:




Harlan wittled up some spacers for various rod ends:




Here is the rear wing and chute mount assembly:


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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 08:36 PM
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The lightweight carpet is trimmed and installed:







Lots more work to go so see you in part 4...

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Car looks damn good home skillet.
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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 08:47 PM
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Wow, that is an incredible build...awesome!
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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 08:48 PM
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Sick! Some nice craftsmanship there...

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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 08:53 PM
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You guys have too much money..... Looks killer though.
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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 08:55 PM
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Damn, carpet?!?!?! Can you say street car? Looks AMAZING guys, good luck this season.

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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 09:05 PM
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OH hell yeah , this is baddass. I will be following this thread !!
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wow my car want to be just like that when it grows up!
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looks great!
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yall are so fkking badass
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WOW
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this car makes me happy in so many ways.
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Going out to the garage to dump a gallon of gas on my car....
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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 11:00 PM
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what carpet did you use?
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Car looks amazing Tom.
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Going out to the garage to dump a gallon of gas on my car....
I'll join ya
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sweet! the car was looking sweet when i was up at stenods on....thursday i think it was! i was check'n your stuff out. good luck with it all!
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A monster in the making....
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Wow what else can you say.
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