Yeah but the nice thing was I sent a long email to Flaming River and they ended up putting a credit on my credit card for the new bracket and the shipping. Very impressed. And they said they are going to change their catalog so no one else ends up in the same boat I did.

Well time for another update. Not a whole lot done, but it's getting there. The other day I was feeling a little destructive so I ripped out the rest of the dash. It really ticked me off, once I had the gauge cluster out, I put it on top of a cabinet for safe keeping. When I went into the shop this morning, everything that was on top of the cabinet was lying on the floor, including the gauge cluster. Unfortunately it has 3 big cracks in it and the radio area broke right off. As most of you know, the 68 gauge cluster is rare as it is one year only. I was thinking about getting a Covan's, I guess I'm committed to that now. Here's some pics:

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Wiring harness out

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If you've read the rest of my thread, you'll know that I had a little fire when I was welding the firewall. Here's the inside of the dash where the fire was

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What ended up on fire....my defrost ducting. Guess I need to find a new one of those now too

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As I was taking the dash apart, I found this. Add this to the list of strange things found in a car

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I did some more work on the firewall and since I used sheet metal that I had laying around, it had some surface rust on it. I found some of these 3M pads that fit into a die grinder backing plate and they work great for taking off surface rust, paint and even POR15. They are not cheap, but well worth the money.

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Here's how the firewall's looking. I'm getting almost to the point of putting primer on it, but then I got thinking. I want to put in a Vintage Air kit and I don't want to weld studs on the back of my firewall and ruin the primer/paint so will be ordering a kit from Frank at www.gpsuperstore.com and get it mocked up before I spray any primer. I've also decided to paint the firewall the same color as the car. I think I've decided on Viper Red for the car. It still needs work, but here's where I'm at:

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Area around steering column

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killer project looking good:hail: :hail:

Cool I'm glad they credited your account and viper red should look good.

The firewall looks great nice job.

So I ordered a Vintage Air Gen IV from Frank. He said it shouldn't take too long to get to me, but after hearing a lot of the horror stories about how long guys are waiting, I thought I'd put my Speed Tech subframe on and start working with the gaps. I hope to get the brakes on later this week or next. Here's some pics:

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This is one nice build I have been checking this out form the begining:thumbsup:

Very nice project. I just read the whole thread today. Nice work! Can't wait to see more progress.

Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments. Here's some more progress.

I finally got going on the front brakes. Not without issue though. I started putting them on last week when I found that Wilwood sent me too many of the bolts that attach the hub to the rotor and none of the bolts to attach the rotor to the adapter plate. I called them and after spending a few minutes convincing him that I knew what I was talking about, he agreed to send me the bolts. They were to me in Canada in about 4 days. Very impressed. So now that I had the bolts I was able to start attaching every thing. When I got to putting the entire hub assembly on I realized that when I bought new spindles, I never bothered to get new spindle nuts. Thankfully I called one of the local GM places and they were able to over night it. I went and got the nuts this morning and was able to get the passenger side finished. Here's some pics.

Rotor with adapter plate on and showing the safety wire. At this point I still needed to run safety wire around the bolts holding the hub on.

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The aluminum hub. Very nice piece of work.

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The brakes are on :D

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Close up

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I know some of you are wondering about the black coating. Apparently it will wear off with braking. I've been tracking my Vintage Air Gen IV kit and it should be to me by Monday or Tuesday. Next week I'll likely start mocking that up.

Today was a good day. I got a knock at the door and my stuff from Vintage Air showed up. Thanks again Frank. It's a Vintage Air Gen IV Magnum universal kit. I didn't order a A/C pump yet as I haven't decided what serpentine kit I'm going with. I also didn't order any of the vents. I'm going to put a custom centre console into the car and am leaning towards putting an air vent on either side of the console. This kit came with all the mounting brackets, new defrost ductwork (thankfully as my other one was melted) and all the wiring. I also ordered one of the streamline 3 knob panel controls. I'm going to put it into the custom console so all my controls are central. I'm also going to end up getting one of the Prodigy Custom LS aluminum radiators that has an attached condenser. Here's some pics:

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Wow this is a great build!!

I have a '72 Nova down here in Vancouver that's also getting the pro-touring thing, just not quite as nicely as yours! I just ordered the Speedtech control arms, coilovers, and the Wilwood brakes that you have, and your thread is a great inspiration!!!

I'll definitely have to keep watching your progress, great job.

-Joe