Project 'Overtime': Pro-Touring 68 Acadian (Nova) with L92 swap

[scherp69]

Originally Posted by tones2SS

Keep up the great work.
You're making great progress, in the cold, none-the-less!!!

Thanks. Hasn't been that cold lately, today it was 0 degrees celcius.

Today I got the rear sway bar mocked up. Because of the back brace on the rear housing, I wasn't able to use the U-bolts. If I hadn't sold my plasma cutter, I'm sure I could have got the U-bolts to work. Instead I thought I would just weld the brackets to the housing. I also did a bit of clean up work on the subframe and got it ready for powder coating. Tomorrow morning I plan on heading to Summerland to Sunview coating and get the subframe and rear housing coated. I hope to head back down next week when I'm back from Las Vegas and pick everything up. Will post pics when I get everything.

Here's some pics of what I did today:

Rear sway bar mocked up. I still have to adjust it to make it level.







Brackets welded onto housing

[scherp69]

Subframe ready for powder coating



Motor mounts, trans cross member and c-clips also getting powder coated

[scherp69]

I picked up the subframe and rear end housing from the powder coaters today. It cost me more than they originally quoted me a few months ago, but it included sandblasting, priming and coating so I guess I can't complain. It ended up costing me $480 to get the subframe, rear end housing, motor mounts, trans cross member and c-clips done. I love the way it turned out with one exception, which is my fault. This is the first time I've had anything powder coated and I got so used to how thick POR15 is. POR15 fills in a lot of blemishes and small dents and such. There are a couple small areas where I assumed the powder coating would have filled in, but it wasn't as thick as I thought it was. I wish I would have spent a little more time doing body work on the frame so I wouldn't have the few little spots. But on the other hand, if anyone sees the spots that I'm referring to, I better be at the car too cause they're way too close. Anyways, here's some pics. Hope to start putting some of it back on Friday.

Rear end housing



Close up



Subframe



Motor mounts, trans cross member and c-clips

[Blake Foster]

looks awesome!
you going to have it done in time to bring it to our car show at the begining of June????

[scherp69]

Thanks Blake. The beginning of June....2011?? Oh wait, you meant this year. No unfortunately won't be ready. I need to start picking up all the overtime I can to get the LSX454 budget higher. I'm just happy to be putting parts back on that will stay on.

[HRBS]

wow.. I just found this thread now.
Great project and great work !
That looks like its gonna be a killer on the street.

[scherp69]

I think I sold my Foose wheels and Falken tires to a guy I work with. Now that I have so much more room with the deep tubs, I want go with 315's. My buddy doesn't want his wife to know about buying the rims, so he's asked to pay in installments. Hopefully he doesn't take too long to pay. Here's the rims I think I'm going to replace them with. I'm looking at 17x11 in the back with 315's and 17x8 in the front with 255's.



I got some new leaf spring perches as the old ones were welded to the car and were ugly when I took them off



I got to spend some time in the shop today. Some of you may find this update boring as it's going to look very similar to some other pics, but it's exciting for me as I finally got the car completely off the rotisserie and got the rear housing and rear suspension put in for the last time. I just need to get the rear sway bar, axles, centre section and brakes in and the rear end is all done. Here's some pics of today's accomplishments.

Car finally completely off the rotisserie



Spring perches painted