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Originally Posted by Derek Miller (Post 326217)

If you were looking to keep that vintage look at go with a 18" wheel, Vintage Wheel Works just released 18" versions of the V40 and V45 (one of my favorite vintage wheels). Their price is pretty good as well. Here is a link, check out their photo gallery.http://www.vintagewheelworks.com/products/wheels

Thanks for the link man. I really like the v48 as they are not as popular. I feel like almost every muscle car had 5 spokes... well see what the budget allows.

So I work on the car every weekend with my body guy now. Not much really to show atm. A lot of pulling off panels and putting back on, ect..ect..Two weekends ago we where still fitting things and trying to get the panels decent. My drivers side door bothers me still but its deff. better than what it was in the above pictures. We have trued the gap up good but the door to rocked is in twords the fender and flush twords the quarter. Any ideas what to do without going crazy? Everything else fits very nice and seems to be where in needs to be. So last weekend we worked on welding up everything that needs to be welded. The dash, antenna hole on the fender, front plate holes, all emblem holes on the fenders, chrome trim wheel mounting points and we finished off with some small body work. So that took up most of this past weekend. I will take some pictures to show the progess tonight and update. It feels like this stuff is taking forever. It kills me.

In other news me and my dad have been talking about our motor choice and we have decided that if we can find a low mile ls motor that makes somewhere near 550+ we will consider. We have not ruled out the lsx 454 totally but after a lot of though we realize that it is going to cost upwards of 17k easily. Were looking to be somewhere in the range of 10k or less hoepfully with out aftermarket add ons. Where thinking ls7 at the moment. If you guys have thoughts/opinions please chime in. Were not against anything at the moment..

Also as soon as my body guy can not come one weekend where looking into getting a cage put in. I only wanted a simple 4 point as I hate the idea of having to climb over a bar to get into my street car. It seems that the more places I talk to the more guys tell me that if your going to track the car you had better have at a minimum of a 6 point and even then the track will probley give you a hard time. I really dont want a 8 point but were weighing our options right now. More to come on this soon.

Heres the one picture I took this weekend of Timmy drilling the spot welds for the dash..
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/ca87ac44.jpg

Thanks man..

More sanding and bodywork..everything looks good with the exception of the drivers door to rocker gap. I'm thinking that when whomever welded up the panels something was not lined up correctly. Anyone have any suggestions on how to make that better without going to crazy..?? We started the rough body work and finished sanding the door jams, fenders jams and trunk jam..and let me tell you that's a lot of jams. Anyone have peanut butter? Haha..anyway still to be sanded are the whole firewall, under hood, and under trunk..not to bad..here are the pictures.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/d0994223.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/8eea02bc.jpg

Here the gap..only twords the fender..it trues up at the quarter
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/74479214.jpg

Here's the passenger side. Perfect.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/8b3c3807.jpg

And some sanded jams..
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/301131d4.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/23e5c54c.jpg

The tail panel needed some work but not too much..
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/4d799222.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/6db732f7.jpg

The next couple of weeks are going to be more body work..then in at the end of February the car will go to a local guy named lance for a 6 point cage with a removable side bar. They will also be finishing up the welding of my rear and welding in dse subframe connectors which have to be bought still. More updates coming soon..

Nice progress its looking good.

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Originally Posted by waynieZ (Post 329899)

Nice progress its looking good.

^^What Wayne said. Looks good.:thumbsup:

I cannot see the entire extent of your problem with the door gap at the bottom where it meets the rocker. If the back of the door gap to quarter looks good and the fender aligns in the front then one of the ways to fix this is to weld rod to the bottom of the door. I have had to do this to a few first gen camaros, most have either to large of a gap or the gap tappers. Probably not what you wanted to hear but one solution to the problem.

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Originally Posted by Derek Miller (Post 330048)

Sorry I didnt take more pictures. Thats what I was thinking and was affraid of. You have it correct. The Door to quarter gap is great and the fender to door gap is good at the top and pinches twords the bottom of the fender. The fender is an aftermarket though. I feel that the door is high at the fender though also, because when you shut the door it grazes the trim on the a pillar twords the front of the car. Ill have to get a picture this weekend. When I have the cage done I will probley have the guy do some work to that area as I want it to be better than it is currently. I will also have him fix the drivers fender lower also as it need some metal work to be right. Ill grab some more pictures and post them up when I get over the the car next. Thanks for the input.:thumbsup:

Are you worried at all about getting body cracks where you blended the quarters to the Tail Panel? It looks good, but I thought this line was left to allow for body flex between the panels. I'm possibly overthinking this, but thought I would ask.

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Originally Posted by psy4s (Post 330128)

To be honest I never even thought about that. The guy that we bought the car off of had braised the panels long ago and he filled most of the seam with it. It looked bad so I talked to my body guy and he said well be well within the body filler amount tolerance that it should be fine. I guess time will tell.

Last night I worked on some more sanding. Mainly the firewall. I have to figure out which holes are for what. Whatever is not needed I would like to close up before any paint work begins. I also got some picture of the drivers door to get some more opinions on what needs to be done to correct it..

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/2336fd65.jpg

some of the drivers door..

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/21d0b2ab.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/1a4fc27b.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/62fc1030.jpg

some near the A pillar..

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/ed5242e0.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/c1cbbf29.jpg

and the passanger side for comparison..

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/46465508.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/d1cb09f8.jpg