I'm looking forward to a completed car just like everyone else. What I'm not looking forward to is you changing your avatar. Please, for the children, keep the avatar. :patriot:

Car is looking great, you're crazy for keeping the front end on though.
:cheers:

Nothing to say but Perfection Curtis,amazing job Jim:trophy-1302: :trophy-1302:

Greg,

Take a big deep breathe and breath my friend!
Nothing to get excited about here!
It is only installing a engine , easy !

Not a big deal to install, now Curtis' second engine! LOL
Built the first one with 550 hp, but when he saw that LS7 setup sitting in my garage, he had to have it he said!
So looks like I will be building another engine for this car

Guess that I shouldn't mention that I am drilling a big hole in the smoothed firewall for the engine harness, LOL

Curtis is super excited to get going on the car as soon as it gets to my shop this weekend

Jeff

Looking really good my friend! You have to be out of your mind excited. I remember those days.

I built mine the same way as you know. It's not ideal to fabricate after or lean over those pretty fenders, but you can execute well. Take your time and protect your car well. I used sheet plastic with towels on top, then fender covers where I was working. It lets you use the fenders for misc. things like bolts and wiring. It may be early for plastic over that paint. I like what the big shops do with the paper as well. I can honestly say I built mine without any scratches on the paint or extra holes, etc. You are putting a little dinky mouse over the fenders, I had to shoe horn that big block in there. Especially after I got the road race pan on it. It barely fit.

It will go quick now. Good luck getting anything else done. Apologize to your wife up front. ha

This has been great to watch.

Totally loving those stainless fasteners on the doors and fenders. Killer details! Did you say they're custom? I'm guessing, turned on a lathe, not cnc?

Yeah I'm excited. It'll be fun to work on and yes, protecting the finish is top priority. Jim says no plastic on the paint and Blake (Speedtech) warned against the paper. Jeff and I still have to build the engine and there is some work to do on the inside before we get to engine compartment. Not going to rush.

You just doubled your number of posts man! Slow down...you're making Greg Weld look bad. :lol: A buddy turned a bunch for a project he's working on and offered to make a few for me. Greatly appreciated and lucky that he would include me. My goal is to keep it simple and clean. I think the stainless adds to that vibe. Thanks for the positive reinforcement. I really am shooting from the hip on a lot of this.

:captain:

No worries. She's kinda hard to replace.

Wish I could blow the front sheet metal off it and install everything. Just to flippin far to have Jim come out and align it all after we are done.

Yeah Jims killing it. Couldn't be happier.

Car looks great, Curtis. Glad to see it's almost home. Jim did an excellent job. Here's hoping everything else goes smoothly for you. :thumbsup:

Looks great
 

Curtis car looks fantastic... I am about two months behind you progress wise
Those fender bolts are fancy... where did you get um

:thankyou:

I'm with the "no bigge" crowd. Take your time, use two layers of moving quilts at each side/front, 6 total, ($90 bucks at Home depot) and two inch blue tape. Taped to the inner fender and under the painted outer fender. Keeping in mind, gappage may change once loads are applied...:BlahBlah: :BlahBlah:

But really all i know is righty tighty, lefty loosey.