Project 'Overtime': Pro-Touring 68 Acadian (Nova) with L92 swap - Page 6 - Lateral-g Forums

**scherp69** · #51 09-05-2008, 12:50 PM

Thanks Steve. Glad to hear the control arms worked out for you. I was wondering how you made out.

I spent a couple hours between last night and this morning working on the firewall panel for the driver's side. It still needs a few adjustments before I weld it in. I'm going to put the wiper motor into the driver's side cowel panel so it's hidden under the fender. I'm just going to use the stock style as I really don't need to buy the DSE one. Here's some pics:

Firewall panel

Firewall before

Firewall cut up

Panel held in place with cleckos

Full smooth firewall, still needs to be welded in to place

**waynieZ** · #52 09-05-2008, 04:17 PM

Looks Good keep the updates coming

**scherp69** · #53 09-09-2008, 09:44 PM

Thanks Wayne.

Today I spent about 4 hours welding on the smooth firewall panels. It sure takes a long time when you're trying to be careful and not warp. Hopefully the next time I post some pics, it will be of the car on the rotisserie. Tommorow I plan on getting as close to lifting her in the air as I can.

Here's pics from today:

Smooth firewall all welded in. Welds still need to be ground down and cleaned up

It's a good thing I plan on replacing basically everything inside the car. I didn't get rid of all the insulation on the firewall and next thing I knew, there was a fire under the dash

**scherp69** · #54 09-24-2008, 06:46 PM

A few things have happened since my last update. Unfortunately I was in need of some money and I have been debating if the engine parts were the parts that I really wanted to use for my motor build, so I ended up selling all the engine stuff that I had. I still have the heads (AFR 210cc) though, which are for sale in the classified section. I've been looking at quite a few different options now. I was even looking at LS engines. The only thing about the LS engines...they're not shiny enough. I know I know....the shine doesnt make it go faster. That really doesn't matter when what ever motor I get it will be well over 500hp. I've also been looking at a Scott Shafiroff 434 crate engine that is 595hp. Right now I don't have the money to do the engine anyways, so I'm just throwing around ideas. Realistically I think I'll be ready for the engine by spring.

I did get some work done on the car (sort of). The way things were going I thought I'd never see the day when I would get it on the rotisserie, but here it is. I hope to get everything welded up tomorrow and hope to get a coat of POR15 on by Friday. Here's some pics:

**scherp69** · #55 09-24-2008, 06:46 PM

awr68 · #56 09-24-2008, 07:33 PM

Nice work! Talk about memories!! I was right there just over a year ago!!

**waynieZ** · #57 09-24-2008, 07:57 PM

Scherp69 Keep plugging at it, your making good progress. As far as the engine goes, I have a beautiful World 454 sb and I still drool over these LS engines make sure what you want before you pull the trigger. Nice work!

**scherp69** · #58 09-25-2008, 07:28 PM

Thanks guys. Thankfully I have a while before I actually need the engine, so I have lots of time to make up my mind.

I spent about 8 hours in the shop today. I was hoping to have it ready for under coating by tomorrow, but when I realized that's not going to happen, I figured I might as well call it a day. Only so much grinding and welding one can do in a day. I'm not trying to get a 10 point car or anything, I'm just trying to clean things up. I ended up getting the welding on the floor boards and tranny tunnel finished. The air bar is welded in place now also.

I did come across one issue. Both the driver's side and passenger side front eye mount brackets were welded to the body (some of you may have seen my thread about this) so I had to grind them off. Once I had them off though, the metal underneath wasn't that bad. I was debating about cutting a new piece and welding it in, but after cleaning up the metal some, I think I'm just going to fill the little holes in with the welder. Here's some pics:

Driver's side

Passenger side

**scherp69** · #59 09-25-2008, 07:29 PM

Driver's side removed

Passenger side removed

**scherp69** · #60 09-25-2008, 07:29 PM

I also decided to clean up the front where the new floor boards were welded in. I wanted it to look smooth and not see where the metal overlaps. I'm using Metal to Metal to fill it in. It's not done yet though.

Driver's side

Passenger side

The next picture, hopefully someone can help me. I'm going to have to fab up something to fill in this gap. If you've followed my build thread, you'll know that I replaced the quarter panels, trunk drop offs, outer wheels houses and put in deep tubs. I just noticed today that I have a big gap on both sides between the quarter panel and the trunk drop off. It's right below the deep tub. Is this common to have this gap when you replace everything??? Here's some pics:

This is with the car sideways on the rotisserie. It's the passenger side.