So its been a few more weeks and our goal to have it at the GG West Coast Nats is another miss. Why cant these damn body and paint guys tell the truth? It always take 3 times as long to do something as they tell me it is going to. They are making progress but all the little stuff I was riding him to do while working on the grille has proved to be taking way longer than expected.
Over the past 3 weeks the body guys have smoothed the fire wall, removed the wiper arm holes in the cowl, preped the DSE dash and are massaging all the gaps in final prep for paint.
When I asked them to "clean up" the fire wall I was expecting something like this. (a friends car)
Just weld in the DSE plate and clean up all the holes, wiper motor, etc.
Well I ended up with this
Ended up being a lot more detailed then I expected but I guess it is better to be nicer than not nice enough. The only issue I have is they spent a week on it. Sure looks killer though. Too bad all the hard work of cutting out the wrinkles will be mostly hidden by the motor.
So we are getting much closer to paint. Dare I say maybe by the end of the month? Interestingly no one has inquired about seeing the rendering yet.
Remaining to do proir to paint is: drill holes for the door wire looms, trim the rear quarter panels so the tires dont rub, seam seal, improve the fitment of the Fesler tail lights and massage the rear bumper some more. I am not satisfied with the fitment. Its not tight enough so I would like to see them tuck it in a little more.
Heading up to the shop on Monday to do some suspension work. More to follow afterwards.
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
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