That does look great. I agree with the color on the bump stops as well.

i have a feeling theyll have to go.......

i spent a few hours getting the rear control arms together late last night. i definately heated them up pretty good when welding. too bad i dont have 3/4 lh or 1" taps. tight, but they went together.

i should have it mostly back together tonight.

Nice work, it looks great. I think the black would look better too. Nice progress.

so its on the ground now. ive assembled this thing countless times, but i ran into some more snags that need to be worked out.

first, i hate the speedway adjusters. im going to be making some permanent spacers that register on the spring od, not the id. but since those arent done i reused the speedway ones and didnt tack them to the springs like i did last time. so, one doesnt want to sit flat and is hitting the top of the shock. not a huge deal for the shock since there isnt any weight, but it wont sit like its supposed to. so, now i need to research the new spacers and will be making those in the next few weeks.

next, i never fully assembled the rear brake kit from kore3 since the rotor wont sit inside my 15" wheels. this time, i decided to put the parking brake on even though i wasnt using the rotors. i started to read the directions and found that the 1.5" T bolts that currie supplied wont be long enough. so i need to use the 2" bolts from the kit, but, BIG but, there is only 1.5" between the axle tube flange and the lower control arm braket (because i narrowed so much) for one bolt per side. so, all i need to do is flip a bolt around and put it in from the outside. but (another but, its a trend), since the t-bolts head is the same width as the shank on two of its sides it fits in the correct location. a hex head bolts head is larger than that of the shank and needs to be ground down on one side. so i now have 3 bolts solved. the 4th that comes in backwards needs the nut ground. this just makes me uncomfortable because i will end up making the nut pretty thin. i have some ideas, i just need to work them out.

also, i spec'd a bearing from currie and ordered my kore3 kit at the same time. tobin sent the right kit, currie put in the wrong bearing. luckly for me, currie put in the set20 tapered bearing which seems to perform the best in a non floater application so it actually works out better. but it means that the recess that is milled on the kore 3 brackets for the set20 is not there because i wasnt supposed to be getting that bearing and there is about .090 too much preload space. tobin is taking care of me though. im shipping the brackets back and hes going to get them milled. i would have just swapped mine out, but they are now coated black.

finally, i need to take the axles back to currie to have them drill the access hole to allow me to get a socket on the axle retaining bolts. its a pain without the parking brake in place, and its supposed to be nearly impossible with it on. it seems that this should have been done in the first place since they knew i was running a drum in hat style parking brake.

here are some pics though. i havent heard back about the wheels, but i hope to have them soon.

http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...i/IMG_9942.jpg
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...i/IMG_9944.jpg
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...i/IMG_9946.jpg
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...i/IMG_9947.jpg
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...i/IMG_9950.jpg
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/a...i/IMG_9953.jpg

You are doing some beautiful work there!

one Q. Are you using vband clamps on your exhaust?

It's always something man.:willy:
Good luck with the rest. You are doing a great job! Keep it up.:thumbsup: :cheers:

Tim, whats up with a couple more front sway bars and billet frame mounts....:unibrow:

im using the stock edelbrock flange on the headers, but im using v-bands right before they go through the crossmember in the pictures.

ha, i'll get you some good pics and let you have the fun this time. if i were to do it over, i would use the stock mounting holes. dse pulled this off, i didnt. i have a feeling that their delrin bushing is either clearanced to let the mounting bolt spacing be tighter, or their bushing doesnt go all the way through allowing the bolt to be placed where it needs to be. i made some mounts for mine and welded them in the place of the factory holes. not a bolt in deal for most people.

Wow!! That frame looks like a work of art. :hail: Nice color combination.

So do you have a color picked out for the body yet? Also, did you need to do any clearancing to fit the SPC uca's?

body color is supposed to be mercedes mars red, but i'm loving the black/grey combo. the uppers needed the ears cut off the mount, and i actually cut some more off this time in addition to what i had done the last time. although it did clear it was close and im NOT!!! painting again.