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Old 01-30-2019, 08:24 AM
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Thanks guys, I'm liking how this carbon stuff is working out for me. Good thing too since I have a lot more of it to make on this car.
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Old 03-18-2019, 09:14 AM
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So I quit my job at the Cadillac dealer and started back at a Chevy dealer and I got clearance from the top of the food chain to work on my car in the shop. So progress on the car is back after about a year and a half mothballing. Saturday was the first time the cars been out of the trailer in all that time. I've been bringing some of my big tools to work throughout the week getting stuff ready.

So after weeks of thinking where do I start back since I have so much metal work do get done to finish grafting the C5 chassis to the '69 body I decided to first make it steer by hooking up the steering column, which was a quick job. Now that I had that important part handled I went to work in the back of the car. I just bought an english wheel and wanted to play with it so I figured the wheel tubs are the best place to start. I have the passenger side about 90%. I need to make a box cutout so I can get the rear upper control arm bolt out and a close out panel in the wheel side to match up to the C5 fuel tank close out. I also ran the back of the tub long down to the body line to seal off the bottom and give me another attachment point for the rear defuser.

With the passenger side mostly complete and not having a lot of time left in the day before the shop closed I got the driver side cut out, a flange bent and all of the shrinker/stretcher work done so it will take less time to finish up next time. I haven't decided how I want to attach the tubs to the frame yet so I didn't put a flange on it. I'm thinking I'll just weld it to the floor pan which will weld to the frame and that should all fit nice and be easy to seal up then coat with raptor liner.
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Old 03-18-2019, 10:35 AM
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Progress is a good thing and good luck with the new job!
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Glad to see this one moving forward. Awesome work as always.

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Thanks guy, I'm real excited to be working on the car again. Need to get this thing on the road sooner than later.
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Nice progress can't wait to see the tubs done. Love this build!
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Wow it looks amazing.
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So I've been messing with the most important part of my firewall this week here and there after work for a few. Since I'm running a C5 frame and pedal assembly the most logical step for me was to use the C5 firewall to locate all of the holes correctly. Seeing as the C5 firewall is fiberglass and I'm joining the steel frame to the steel body I decided to copy it into steel.

My first steps in this was I need a template, so I covered the whole fiberglass section in tape, marked lines and transferred that to poster board. I then had a buddy cut out in 18g sheet what ended up being a rather rough cut so it left my gaps a little bigger than I wanted, but thats ok as I could fill them with the mig.

I still have to weld the inside corners, and cut the holes out, but I'll save that for another slow work day.

Also, the top, bottom, and sides are all over sized to I can trim them down to fit the car.
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Hoping to keep the progress rolling and get a lot done this summer. So far, so good. This past weekend I got the driver tub fit up. My welding helmet took a crap on me so I wasn't able to get both tube welded up and finished out like I had hoped. Since my welding was done for the day I moved into the trunk and got the side filler pieces fit up and the template for the center section done. didn't have a big enough piece of metal to get the center done so that will have to be next weekends project.

Since I was at kinda a stand still in the back of the car I started hacking the firewall apart to get my pedal bracket fit up. I have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to do and think it will work out nicely.
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Awesome!
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