its hard to find a shop that will put quality before profit these days.

My AME sub (and most C6 based I would guess) required inner fender clearancing in he same spot....

You're in good hands Chad! :thumbsup:

Chad,

Sorry you had to go thru the bad to get to the good. Looks like you are in good hands now.

Zero attention or checking on life critical items. Yikes.

Fab53 has your back Chad. I owe you a phone call too.

There's gotta some be some good progress by now.... :unibrow:

Ok Dave has motivated me to jump on here and give an update. I was still so sick and worked up over the previous shop's experience and delays on the car it was literally keeping me awake at night so I took a break from the car world.

However, the good news is that Dave's post was timely. Two nights ago I stopped by Fab53 to pick up some parts we weren't going to use and check out the progress on the car. Brett has the trans out of the car and all the second skin sound deadening scrapped off the trans tunnel and is in mid surgery. I'm glad Brett scrapped off the sound deadening and not me lol. He was also about to start scalloping the corners of the fuel tank and running a ss hard fuel line up to the front.

Yesterday I did some parts acquisition which really relit the fire on the project for me. These are some of the last bigger ticket items I needed.

Sexy new shoes! Toyo R888 tires. My old set up was the standard first gen 245 front and 275 rear. New set up is 275 front and 315 rear. Yes!!

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How about a very sick looking aluminum driveline from Inland Empire Drive Line.

http://carphotos.cardomain.com/image...6997_large.jpg
This thing is beefy... I wish I could weld like that too...
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Sal and the gang at TCI has been the vendor that consistently delivers on this project. Always fun to stop by their shop even if I couldn't stay long. I picked up new springs front and rear to increase the spring rate to what they run on the TCI test car. Also, we are swapping out the rear two link bars with ones that have Johnny Joints and will allow Brett to get the rear end perfectly centered.
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Double adjustable coil over goodness :drool:
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I can't wait to drive this car!!

About time!! Now get back to work and let Bret do his thing. If you dont make Buttonwillow you'll never hear the end of it from me!! :lol:

Oh man that's some eye candy there Chad. It's really getting closer... happy for you man :thumbsup:

R888s + Johnny Joints - serious bidness :lateral:

I know I know... I hope to make many events before September Buttonwillow! Before I tore the car down I started to make a track event almost as frequently as once a month. I hope to get back into that. I'm also dying to just get the car on the road so the debugging can begin.

Thanks dude. It was exciting to pick up those final "big" pieces. Still tons of little stuff but its a lot more manageable now! I dropped off all that stuff at Brett's last night. He was pretty motivated last night to get the car wrapped up enough to free up his lift for another car. Won't hear any complaints from me on that!! :yes: :unibrow:

Haha Ron, yeah I'm starting to feel a bit of the pressure from all the "serious bidness" parts going into this car. I used to have a laundry list of reasons I could use as excuses if I wasn't fast. I'm pretty sure that list is going to be pretty small once done... as in maybe only one item left... the driver! ha ha