Ahhh sh!t! I'm laughing my ass off over here! I know we talked about seats and I think I even mentioned I had some similar style buckets...yeah they came out of a bump side camper special, even got the cool/rare center console.

Sorry man, but in all fairness you never asked. Your set up looks great and you're done, another item off the list. Nice work!

I guess the good news is that my brackets look remarkably similar to yours =) I think mine are a little more beef than the stock ones.

Its not looking good for making it to T Hill....

Photobucket is acting up so please bare with me on the update.....some of my photos will not upload and others just upload three or four times and drop in the wrong place.

Took a little bit of time to work on the beat to #*(& hood that I got off the parts truck. It is very much not straight but its not all rusted out either. Not too sure I can live with all of the dents and stuff on it but it will have to work till I can find a straight one.

Scrubbed it up first of all, hit it with some 800 then 1500 and several passes with the buffer and it doesnt look terrible. Kind of funny seeing how different years or different models of truck have different paints on them. This one appears to just have a black primer over the metal and then color over that. Appears to be original paint as well.

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It is just sitting on there, no hinges to bolt on yet.

Yesterday was like Christmas at my office.

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Shorter front shocks from Mike Naake (Guy is awesome to work with if you ever need coilovers for a crown vic setup he is the guy to call.)

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Inner door handles....will be wrapped in same material as seats.

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Seatbelts from Seatbeltplanet showed up yesterday. They look great so far and should go well with the interior theme I am working on.

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Carpet from LMC showed up as well. Its not as dark as I had hoped but I think it will look good in there. I might see if the upholstery guy can order up some Brown BMW or Mercedes tight weave carpet and sew up a carpet kit in the future. Their carpet is amazing, if you have never felt it you should.

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My buddy Jeff took my hinges and ran them through his blaster and got them all good and clean for me (I have got to get one of those) I shot them with some etch primer and then some cast aluminum paint. Pretty happy with how they came out.....I took pics of the whole process but cannot get those to upload either....

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Got the second TMI foam for the seats. They look amazing until you sit in them. The foam is waaaayyyy too thick. It raises you up a good 2" from the stock seat and pushes you forward even more. I would not order them again if I had it to do over again. I would just build the foams from scratch. For $335.00 for the two foams I could have spent money somewhere else.

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Met with an upholstery guy locally last night who can do the work in the time frame that I need it in. We are doing a high end leather looking vinyl. Dark Brown with light tan colored stitching. It should look awesome when its all done.....going to be pushing to get the truck done by the Optima Event though =(

I read this and was trying to find some motivational words to pass on....Bottom line is you've got 30 days before it needs to be on a trailer heading south, you got this!

I'll see you in California!

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Yeah I hear ya.... Upholstery guy needs at least two weeks...and he cannot start for a week and a half.

I think I am going to try and find a seat I can bolt into the truck so its driveable so I can work the bugs out of it in the next couple of weeks. I am trying man, I am trying.

Sean

Nice job on those bends, and I love to see new parts! The tail light cleaned up nice.

Man truck is looking good like all work done so far and wow first complaint on the TMI seats. Was not aware of the 2" raise anybody else having this problem?

Aww Yeah!
 

You're killing it man! I loved your last truck and this one has been awesome to watch too! You can do it!

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This looks amazing, your a machine!

Thanks I was super impressed with the way the tail lights cleaned up.

When I googled it, i got a ton of hits of other people complaining about the thickness of the foams, not just for the mustangs either. Some people have not done the leg work I have by mocking everything up, paid an upholsterer to cover the seats only to realize that they cannot fit in their car without their head hitting the roof of the car...these are not tall guys either.

I am going to email TMI about it today. The biggest issue I have is that the foams are not cheap. I think I am into my pair of foams for about $330.00 and that is just foams. Now I am going to be into them for a couple of hours for the upholstery guy to trim them down how they should be.

Awesome!! Thanks man. I hope I can make it =)

That is a big compliment coming from you. Thanks....looks like you may have been working on the camaro a little bit? Glad to hear you are back at Aarons as well. I need to get the white truck in there for some touch up on the seams still.

Thanks Crazyhorse!! I hope so too.


Looooong day at work yesterday only got a little bit of time in on the truck. Managed to get the truck up in the air and swap out the coilovers for the shorter ones. For those of you that are running a crown vic setup, how low is the front of your truck? Tire/ wheel size and crossmember to ground clearance.

Hood hinges, while they look cool on the bench, the silver in the engine bay looks terrible. Looks like I am going to reshoot them black tomorrow.

Thanks for keeping up with the build thread.

Sean

Okay, so it's like this:

Horsepower unit: Check.

Springy stuff: Check.

Wires and bolts for above-mentioned contraptions: Check.

Tires: Check.

Gas-moving device: Check (I think).

Shifter: May still require like three bolts or so. (Check soon.)

Seat: There's one somewhere.

We know you do good work, and the thing will be perfecto when done, but USCA does not require perfecto (the last and next iterations of my death trap were and will be evidence). We know it will happen soon enough. A place for the cheeks, bolted down, a couple pedal thingys, and a tiller, and you're good for the weekend.:bigun2: