Project 'Too Much': 1969 P1800S - soon to be P1800 GT

[daemon2]

I made some progress on the front clip the past two weekends. I have about 20 hours into this part of the car now, still need to complete suspension mounts and complete the attachment points.

Nice big 6 pots up front.

The rack just fits, I may have to alter the mounts a bit to make sure the dust covers don't wear against the frame and there's enough clearance for the engine.

I was disappointed that the rack didn't come with the bushings for installation...


And an overall look, the rear crossmember is underway as well - you can see it just behind the front clip here:


Anyone know where I can get the C4 upper bolt spacers?

[daemon2]

A few small updates, I will work on getting some photo's a little further away from the car soon to give an overall look at how its coming along.

The brakes are all lockwired, it seems a shame to hide details like this:




The frame welds are looking pretty good, again don't really want to cover these up after appreciating the effort that went into it




I was not looking forward to opening up the panels, after the frustration of seeing all the patch work under bondo I wasn't sure what I would find here. It turned out really well though, not the disaster I was expecting at all.


I am finishing up the frame and moving into the rear body work now, I did a quick outline of the rear fender flares and will start work on a template so I can get both sides the same. The rear wheel is still sitting below ride height in this image, I didn't want to remove too much metal before deciding how to handle the new arches.
The wheel looks funny sticking out here now but once the green tape and tire totes are removed it won't appear to stick out so much.
Comments appreciated!

[daemon2]

I'm not liking the flares. They seem to throw the body lines of the car off too much. I did a quick CAD drawing of the current layout, purple shows the factory wheel config, the yellow is the new layout. The drawing shows how the car tapers in a lot toward the rear of the car, this makes it hard to form a flare that doesn't look strange.



Time for PLAN B.

[daemon2]

I slipped the front clip in today, getting set up to install the new side rails and cross supports. Here is the front; yes, that axle centreline is ahead of the wheel well centreline, guess what comes next...



Close up, the bottom a-arm looks like it is not level now because the car is sitting level, when it sits on the ground there is a slight rake that brings that lower a-arm back in where it belongs.



Here is the interior, front rails with temporary supports in, once I measure and true everything the side rails and cross supports will go in. Then the new floor.



I have also done a bit of work on the rear cross member, you can see how much higher the drive shaft and transmission tunnel comes in with the new drive line.



Its hard to get a full image of the car becuase my garage is too small. Once I get it on the wheels I will roll it out to clean up the garage and get a few images of the entire car.

[daemon2]

I came in from the garage today and I think my wife left me. The downside of project cars?

[HWY Nova]

Originally Posted by daemon2

I came in from the garage today and I think my wife left me. The downside of project cars?

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--Eric

[DETON8R]

Originally Posted by daemon2

I came in from the garage today and I think my wife left me. The downside of project cars?

What's up Daemon, things OK on the home front??

[WSSix]

Holy crap dude! Are you being serious? I hope everything is alright.

[daemon2]

It's all good, I missed a date I shouldn't have. I'll get some updates as soon as I can!

[WSSix]

Well, that's a relief. Be sure to take care of the marriage first. We'll patiently wait on updates of the car.