Ready for Race Rodz!
 

After I got the sub-frame media blasted I spent a few weeks of WAY late nights stitch welding the frame halfs together, A/C compressor notch finished, cleaned up factory welds, body worked, and painted. On the bottom of the car I cleaned up all the welds from the mods I did, body worked it a bit and got it into paint...this was after I stripped it all to bare metal by hand, I'll never do that again!

I then installed the frame and welded it to the DSE SFC's. Then finished mounting the last of the parts on the fire wall, hung the sheet metal and loaded it on a trailer just in time to take it to Chris (race rodz) for the Aug. 11drop off dead line. Drove 600 miles yeasterday, but I know it's in good hands!It was a ton of work for me to do in a few weeks, I'm tired and am looking forward to spending the rest of the summer with my family and hitting a few camp grounds. It's all up to you now Chris!! :thumbsup:

lol, when do you think it will be done? can't wait to see progress

Looks Good Anthony. Enjoy the rest of the summer. :cool:

cool, can't wait to see the progress. you doin the full shanty on it? skim coat,poly,urethane? good luck

Well, I think it is in good hands.

You might think about putting some undercoating in the wheel wells and other parts. I know after having such a nice undercarriage the thought of undercoating probably makes you grim. I did the same thing and am definetly going to undercoat the wheel wells as I know the paint will just get chipped and plus it makes nasty tinny noises when driving through gravel or anything loose in the road.

Subframe looks killer! Whose rack and pinion kit did you use?

It's a Unisteer power rack.

Congrats Anthony ! That's a major milestone. Get some rest and celebrate !! :cheers:

That is cool Anthony, mine is going to paint next week.

How did the intercooler turn out?

Congrats Anthony!! Pick a final color yet?

Pretty sure it's going C6 LeMans Blue. Carter is just about finished with the renderings and I'm loving how it's looking!

Congrats to you!

The IC will work great. I got pretty far on the tubing mockup, ran out of parts and time and had to get into paint mode, so I'll finish it when the car returns. But as far as packaging goes it's done and looks good.

Congrats on finally getting it too paint. You seem to be moving pretty steady on it now.

Mike

whats the code for lemans blue? or do you mean arrival blue affect code-815k?

Awesome, congrats on making it to this step. Can't wait to see it in color. :thumbsup:

Lookin' good, Anthony. :thumbsup:

Go spend some time with that family.

Jake I'm coming up with 19U as a GM paint code and 6232 from PPG for LeMans Blue....as far as I know they only put this on the C6 and some C5's.

not seeing it in my dupont/standox 2007 chip book, and i just wondered

i will look on my mixing system tomorrow however i am not sure 19u is a current year code.

19u is black metallic, where did you get the code from?

I googled ''C6 LeMans Blue paint code'' and found some sites with the code...it's the current blue they put on the C6 Z06. Here's one site, scroll to the bottom under '05.

http://www.southerncarparts.com/info...hp?pages_id=13

Here's another site, again scroll down a bit.
http://www.corvetteguys.com/2006-che...-corvette.html

Does this help??

wa933L is the actual code that comes up on my mixing system formula retrieval for standox. lemans blue 2004-2005, the wa number was on the far right, u19 would of gotten you black.:thumbsup:

You guys rock!! :thumbsup:

Major achievement Tony:thumbsup:

Can't wait to see how it turns out. Saw a Corvette yesterday in that color, it's gonna be real sweet.


Jan

Sweet! Nice work, Anthony. You are getting sh*t done! Can't wait to see it. :thumbsup:

Chris deserves ALL the credit as he's doing all the body and paint work...I'm just writing the checks.

But yes he is doing a great job and at the promised fast pace!

I hear ya there, brother! I can relate on just cutting the checks.... as I have NO skills!! LOL

When do you expect to get it back and be on the road?

Chris will have it a few more weeks or so.
I plan on driving it next summer. That's if I can stretch the budget the distance! I'd love to debut it at the GG show in Washington next July...we'll see! :)

Does that "deep metal cleaner" also prevent rust?

It's finally all one color...first time in 5 years!! All smiles over here!! Thanks Chris!! :thumbsup: :hail:

new pic!
 

Chris has been hard at it and has the body in poly now...not to sure about his application process though!! :_paranoid

That's the only way to put poly on keeps the brush marks to a minimum...:thumbsup:

Anthony,

I must have missed this thread. great progress. I look forward to seeing it come together. :thumbsup:

The color of blue looks great. :thumbsup:

I cannot wait to see this one! The blue looks like a killer color

Carter

Getting closer!! I'm going down this weekend to see it and I can't wait!! Your doing a great job Chris...and fast too!! :thumbsup:

Thanks Brother!!
 

Looks great Chris, I knew you could do it...you got mad skilz!!

Guys, I went down last weekend a spent the day with Chris and my car and I have to say he is doing a great job and I couldn't be happier! He has done a ton of work in less than two months. The front end was a huge setback time wise but as he mentioned, we aren't as concerned about a deadline on this project as the fit and finish. He is doing a great job and the car will see paint soon!!

Yeah, I'm damn excited these days!! :thumbsup:

Chris that looks awesome! You’re doing a great job and I know Anthony is stoked. Keep posting pics for us…PLEASE. :thumbsup:

Nice progress Chris!! I'm sure you are stoked Anthony. Much like Scott - you are getting closer to the end. BTW...That blue looks killer!! Look forward to seeing you at SEMA!!

Brent

Thanks Brent! Yeah I can't wait to see it painted! SEMA is going to be a blast...can't wait!! :yes: