My gauges finally showed up today, so I had to put them in place to check them out:yes:

These are Speedhut gauges. Speedo and Tach are 4.5" and the rest are 2 1/16". I still have to order the trans temp gauge. Ran out of moula on this order. I'm stoked on how they turned out and look in the car.

That looks real good,nice wok:thumbsup:

Thanks Jeff!

Gives me a boost in motivation to work harder in getting this thing done

Looks nice :thumbsup: Is that a Lokar AT shifter I see there? Looks right at home!

Thanks Chief. Indeed it is

Coming along!! Keep up the good work. Those gauges look awesome!!:hail:

Thanks Smitty:cheers:

I finally got my car up on my new rotisserie! I haven't been able to spin it over yet, though. It took me 11 hours today to get the rotisserie finished and mounted to the car. I, now, need to find center of gravity and then I can commence working on the car.

This is my final stage of getting all the welding done on the car and finish out the bottom with U-Pol Raptor liner. I'm using their tintable version. I decided I want the bottom to be the same color as the top, which is blue.

I'll post pixes as soon as I can spin the car over. I have a light day at work tomorrow, so I'm planning to get COG and get'er spun over manana.

Missed these when you first posted them. Those look right at home. :thumbsup: Speedhut is a great company to work with.

:cheers:

Thanks Rob!

I've since received my trans temp gauge to complete the package. I intend to be a little different and paint my dash body color, blue. I think these gauge will fit well in that color scheme.

And yes, Speedhut has excellent customer service. They were a pleasure to deal with, except for taking all my monies:)

Nice!!!! up on a rotisserie, that is a GOOD GARAGE DAY fer sure :gitrdun:
:popcorn2:

Finally got'r did!

Now I can get back to work on the car

Nice! But your garage is sideways :ohsnap: Now get some work done :poke:

that sure makes it alot easier,be done soon now:thumbsup:

Thanks guys:cheers:

No excuses now, huh

Picture doesn't show the roto I built for my house

I've been looking over the bottom of my car to get a game plan to finish it out. My intentions are to paint the bottom of the car with tintable U-Pol Raptor liner mixed with blue paint. I want the wheel wells to be black, but don't really see a good place to make the transition from blue to black. Also, I have the DSE subframe connectors that do show from the bottom of the car slightly. I don't really see a good place to paint those black either.

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to do this? Or should I just paint the whole bottom blue and forget about it?

Just Git-R-Dun ... ifn it's Blue ya want? Paint all blue! Your house is on a roto?

That's what I'm going to do, paint it all blue. However, I will paint the wheel wells black. Looks like I can follow the lines of the inner wheel well as a transition point and the frame rails will be blue.

Is my house on a roto? Not really:) iPhone just loaded the picture up funny.

I spent the day grinding welds from the mini-tub install and finishing up some welds on the subframe connectors. Now, I just need to go in the trunk and fix some miscuts from the mini-tub install and I'll just about have the bottom ready to paint after finish prepping it.

No picture worthy progress made today.

Since I have gotten the shell mounted to the rotisserie, I've been going over the body searching for areas that still needed attention with the welder. I'm nearly done with all the welding to the shell. I still have a bit left to do, but took a break the other day from welding and started cleaning things up on the car. I sanded the interior of the car down in preparations of get some epoxy on the inside. I'm moving ever closer to spraying the finish on the bottom of the car. I'm shooting for Sunday at the latest at having the bottom finished and the shell in its final primer stage.

In my effort to get the bottom done, I'm trying to finish up all the welds. I fabricated and welded in a trunk mount battery tray and a bracket to mount the remote starter solenoid. They are nothing to get excited about, just simple pieces to get the job done. They will all be hidden by my amps and possible fake wall anyway.

So, I'm trying to determine if I need to weld anything else in regards to the trunk mount battery. I have the battery mount welded in and the remote starter solenoid. Am I missing anything else in that department?

Battery Disconnect Switch? Maybe a sturdy mount for the switch would nice, thanks for the email.

I know this is old but were did you get your shifter from?

Lokar 6" automatic transmission billet shifter with their optional LED billet bezel and Naugahyde shifter boot

Ok thanks ill look into it

Welcome:cheers:

How's that rotisserie working out?making any progress on the bottom side?:gitrdun:

Rotisserie is working great! They sure make life easier.

I've just about finished all the welding I needed to get finished up. I'm in the process of finalizing the audio system install. I'm welding in some plates to mount some speakers in the kick areas and then will be done with all the welding.

I'm going to go back and work a little more on the Airbar fitment. When I pulled my car out of the garage a few months ago, I didn't like how the rearend was sitting under the car, so I'm making sure the cradle was installed properly. Unfortunately, I'll have to mockup the rear suspension again. I need to get all this done before I put the finish paint underneath.

I'm also trying to work out the fuel and brake line routing. I replaced the floor pans and do not remember where the original clips were located. Also, I've installed DSE subframe connectors and trying to figure out how to cross the lines over the connectors.

I've had pinkeye all week, so I haven't managed to do much of anything on the car. It's nearly healed up, so its bout time to get back at it.

Thanks for asking:)

Been driving your car yet?

What did everyone do with DSE subframe connectors when routing the fuel and brake lines? How did you cross over the connector? Did you fab a channel into the connector or did you just route them over the it?

Also, my Ridetech Airbar on one side has a mm of touching at the back of the floor pan and the other side is about 1/8" away from the back of the floor pan. This is where the forward tube crosses over from frame rail to frame rail. Will this be sufficient or should I address this?

well i had the same issue but because i'm mounting my master cylinder inside the dash i decided to run my brake line inside the car....i just mocked it up so far but will post some pics shortly... the way you have it mocked up looks fine .....keep at progress is looking good

The project is progressing nicely.I'm glad you desided to finish it.:thumbsup: :gitrdun:

Thanks guys. I'm hanging in there

I'd weld in a 1/8" plate to connect the bar to the floor pan.

for the lines I cut in a channel. sits up tighter when the clamps are bolted up.

Thanks Vince!

Are you talking about the 2 plates that Ridetech has revised the latest Airbar with that attach at the back of the floor pan seam? I just found out the other day they had made that revision and meant to call them about it. Did they use 1/8" to make those?

Looking good, I really need to invest in a rotisserie like that. That helps like crazy I'm sure.

or 11g, looks closer.

On the channel, I welded up a 3 pieces to make a channel. The flat of the channel was contured to match the brake and fuel lines then sides were bent and shaped to match. Then sunk it in a bit deeper than the lines.


If I did it again I would have moved it forward a 1/2"

Thanks Vince. I'm still on the fence about doing this modification. I'll either do this or try and bend the lines to fit around the connectors better.

I went ahead and modified the DSE subframe connectors so that the fuel and brake lines passed over them properly. This took me a long afternoon to cut, fab and weld these up. A lot more difficult to make these than they look.

I have also spent nearly 4 days hand sanding the bottom of the car, inside the car and inside the trunk in preparation to spray the finish on the bottom and inside the trunk. I just need to prime some raw metal and spot prime some sand thrus, seam seal and spray the U-Pol Raptor liner.

Almost there!

that looks good the way you ran the lines,nice work:thumbsup:

Thanks Jeff

Just finished block sanding the exterior of the shell this afternoon and evening. That finishes up all the sanding on the shell with the exception of the tail panel and firewall. I'll address those once I get them off the rotisserie. The bottom, inside and outside of the car is completely sanded now and ready for the next stage.

I'll have some pics up of the outcome this weekend:popcorn2:

I have finally completed all the sanding I needed done tonight. I vacuumed and blew out dust from the car 4 times. I vacuumed the floor 3 times and cleaned the garage out.

Now, I'm ready for a busy day tomorrow:excited: