well a lot has been going on with this bad boy that I haven't updated. we're about 90 percent done with the fab work on it and soon ready to tear it all down.
got our new shoes: budnik shotgun g's, continental tires
engine bay is pretty much wrapped up. save a few details. note in this picture the ac condenser and heat exchanger squeeze up front, and the new hood latch (from a cavalier) that we had to utilize to make it all fit and be pretty( more pretty work will happen before its all torn down)
we decided to move the fill neck behind the liscence plate, I absolutely hate the big chrome gas cap stuck in the middle of the quarter, it just looks so out of place. so I got a cts v gas neck and cap, and welded a new neck on the ricks tank and made it all work, had to cut a little of the bumper too. we will use a flip down plate bracket like a chevelle had to finish it all up.
I managed to buy front and back seats from a 2011 regal( the same car my mom drives daily). the fit is pretty close in the back, just have to make some brackets and a snip or two here and there, and the fronts all but fall right in. these seats are so nice we debated not even recovering them, but I think the headrests got to go, I hate it when seats are too tall in these cars.
you can kinda see in this picture, our one remaining issue with the engine bay, the down bars hit the hood hinge shocks, I got new bars made and will be putting them in to fix it up and we'll be good to go. if you look closely you can also see where I moved the master cylinder over two inches to better clear the engine cover, and blended it all back in with the stock firewall.
this picture shows that the seats are just a little tall with the headrests, you can also see the hump in the trunk floor from relocating the fill neck, the notch in the floor for the rear shock bar, and a mess I have yet to clean up.
not the best pic but you can see that 285 continental sitting real nice in there.
that's all for now, hopefully we can keep on moving on this thing and get it bodywork soon, just a little fab work (mostly on the interior) to go.
