Crisis

[Greg from Aus]

I thought it was about time I put together a build thread.
I bought the car from the US about 4 years ago. Long story short bad buy.'
It looked good in the pictures, but we all know how they can lie.

As it was when I bought it.



The start of the strip down



I own blasting company, so we stripped it and look what we found.

[Greg from Aus]

We replaced both quarters, full floor,trunk floor, firewall,roof and both outer wheel wells. I sold of most of the car as I decided to go with a Pro touring setup.









I purchased Art Morrision front and rear clips.

[Greg from Aus]

It's been moving along pretty well the last year.

Bringing it home after the firewall, interior and underside where painted.



The red is Sting Red, the interior is Matt Black and the underside is Gregorio Silverstone.

[Greg from Aus]

brake lines made.





I have set a mock up engine in place, I am running a tall deck RHS block, but I don't have it here yet, so I needed to simulate it by raising the heads of the one I have.

[Greg from Aus]

I have set up the breathers for the diff and fuel tank.



I have been working on the headers and exhaust the last couple of weeks. I have used a header design set by icengineworks, that works great.

[Greg from Aus]

one of the headers all fabbed up.



And the exhaust well underway.

[andrewb70]

Originally Posted by Greg from Aus

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Great progress.

I was just wondering if you were going to run that suspension as a 5 link? I know AM offer both the 3 and 4 link option, but is there a reason to run 5?

Just curious.

Andrew

[Greg from Aus]

Originally Posted by andrewb70

Great progress.

I was just wondering if you were going to run that suspension as a 5 link? I know AM offer both the 3 and 4 link option, but is there a reason to run 5?

Just curious.

Andrew

Andrew, it"s the same setup that was being used in Project Unfair, I believe there is only the 2 of them. I will use the 4 link for the drags and the 3 link for everything else.

[Spiffav8]

Dang Greg....way to grab everyone's attention!

Crazy nice and I can't wait to see more!!

[GregWeld]

Oh yeah! That'll work!


Thanks for FINALLY posting.... You and I must share that little hold out gene.... I'm big on posting but not big on posting what I'm doing. LOL


You know -- I have to say -- that so many of these cars end up with a complete re-do after being bought when they "looked" okay.... but what we have to remember is that for many many years these cars weren't worth towing to the junkyard... and then there were a few years of "recovery" where they were still just cheap cars... so the repairs were commensurate with their values. It's only now that we can put the proper repairs to them because they're worth the cost and effort. Glad you saved another one.