Thanks Ron, saw your car at Best of Show and all I can say is WOW!

Thanks Rick

Hey Mark, the boys spent all the 4th of July weekend working on the car, they are pushing.

Thanks Wayne!

Hey Jeff, can't wait to see your car in person, sounds like your pretty close.

Here are a few pics of some of the work they did.

In order to make room for the intake,the rad support needed some massaging. They cut out a portion of the center section to make room.

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To give it a finish look, the boxed the ends.

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After metal finishing it, let's just say I was proud, LOL

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Very nice modification Al. Looks like it was born from the factory there. :thumbsup:

Thanks Marcus.

Here is a quickie of what going on at the other end. A lot of work has gone into the trunk cutting, slicing and dicing. Goten rid of something like 50 lbs of metal all together. I will post more pics later but here is a quick shot of the panel. Received the billet trunk hinges, they will also save a few ounces, LOL. I will post pics later.

The logo will have a brush finish while the panel and the rest of the trunk will be done in a satin gun metal. Thinking of doing a carbon panel for the divider.

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:thumbsup: I like it!

The car is looking great and there are plenty of great idea's going into this build. I am looking forward to seeing it at Sema.

Me too !

Love the build, great job!

Thanks guys! What they lack in experience they are making up in innovation. What till you see what they are up to next.

Here are a few progress pics. My buddy Kevin at HM Racing Design helped the boys with the roll bar and bumpers. They specialize in $500,000 Trophy trucks, so this was a cake walk for them.

Replaced the front and rear bumper which are made from sheet metal with chromoly tubing and dropped over 30 lbs.

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They also tied in the mounting points for the rad off the new bumper. From the inside of the engine bay, the rad will have a floating look to it.

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Since they got rid of the rear seat, they were able to mount the main hoop on the ledge were the rear seat would normally be. This allowed to set it back were you can't see it from the side view. All the other bars we've seen, come off the floor by the front seats, so they are always visible.

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Check out how the down bar came down just above the rear solid mount. The secondary bar fall right above the strut mount solidifying the rear section. Finished it up with a gusset and small dimple.

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For future planning, they welded in the mounting plates for the front down bar in case they want to go the a full cage down the road.

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Filler panel for passenger side of the firewall. This is were the factory cabin filter use to be.

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Gas filler is being relocated to the trunk.

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This is a preview of things to come. They have gotten rid of 30 lbs of metal bracing that was there to support the rear seats.

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Wow big changes! Should make a big difference.

Thanks Wayne, pushing to get it done for SEMA. Going to be Line-Xing the entire floor panel next.

The boys did a tremendous amount of work for something that will look so simple in the end. Creating a flat firewall on the driver side.

Here is a pic of the original engine bay. The red circle represent studs (total of 11 studs) that were sticking out about an inch through the firewall into the engine bay. These studs are welded to the plate that hold the buster and pedal assembly.

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In order to create a flat firewall driver side, the first step was to cut off the studs off the plate.

Next they had to come up with a way to mount the plate to the firewall.

Seth made the template for what would become a ring the shape of the hole.

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Next came cutting the shape out on the plasma cutter

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Nathan cleaning out the edges.

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They cut the heads off the bolts and here they used the plate as a fixture to weld the bolts to the ring.

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There's was about another 20 more steps to get to where they welded the ring

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The holes were use to rosette weld the ring to the firewall.

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Finally, they welded the ring to the firewall with the stud now facing the cabin. Next on the list is making a carbon fiber firewall.

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