AJ I am blown away by your skills and your ability to think outside of the box. Every time I look at this thread I see so many cool idea's and it's hard not to "Want" to do some of the stuff your doing.
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AJ I am blown away by your skills and your ability to think outside of the box. Every time I look at this thread I see so many cool idea's and it's hard not to "Want" to do some of the stuff your doing.
Thank you. You should do it, whats there to lose?
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Ok guys, I kinda slack with the updated on the car on the message boards. Its just kinda a hassle since I don't have the internet and I have to pair to my phone and transfer all the pics to the computer, resize, and convert them to a format I can upload. Anyways I've been busy so lets hop in.
Picking up where I left off last time I got the car stripped down with the craptastic epoxy that the blaster applied that was flaking off and then into sealer. Also the bare metal was sealed to stop the surface rust.
With that out of the way I was able to get the driver quarter metal finished by pick and file and with the stud gun on areas with no back access.
The passenger side was the same process. Final fit, zip screw, trim, weld, metal finish, seal.
With the quarters in place I needed to finish up retucking the bumper. Since I did the wide body on the car I needed to modify the pockets to be a little deeper and trim the bumper ends accordingly. I didn't get great pictures when I did the driver side so I'll run down the passenger side. With the bumper bolted in place I tapped off the metal around to make a template. Transferring that to some sheet metal I got everything cut out and clamped into place before welding and metal finishing everything.
Now with the bumper squared away I moved onto the door handles. I'm running C6 style release buttons so I needed a pocket to get my fingers into. Starting with a shape the same angle as the stock gills and not the NACA duct I made a tape pattern to get me in the ball park. It took some work and time, but I like how they came out.
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In between all of this work I've been doing some body work on the hood, upper valance and roof getting it pretty close so when its ready for a real body guy it won't be too far off and should help move things along quicker from paint jail. For not being a body guy I'm really happy with how it came out so far.
That brings us to this weekend. I've been going back and forth on where to put my fuel filler since the Vette tanks are kinda high behind the driver seat. I didn't want to have an external filler, but thats what worked the best for me. I had an EMI filler, but I wanted a locking one so I ordered the RideTech unit. Safe to call it a unit as its huge and heavy. On the scale it was over a pound and twice as much as the EMI that I ended up using, because of the weight and size. Mostly the weight lol. With a modification to my bead roller a few years ago I made a perfect circle to recess the filler cap. I cut that up from version 1.0 and welded it into the driver quarter. And as with the rest of the metal if was pick and filed to fix the warping.
I also received my LED headlamps, so I got those test fit then boxed back up.
I also found a place for my ABS module and BPMV. I made a bracket to mount the modified stock bracket to and then mounted the whole assembly behind the passenger fender in the wasted space.
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Ok aside from all that great work you've done your decision on the fuel filler door is killer.I hate fuelling up my car from the stock location.That just looks mean.Really enjoyed seeing this build coming along.That carbon fibre in the roof is also killer...cheers
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