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Old 07-03-2022, 03:28 PM
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Making awesome progress Greg, thanks for sharing all your work. I sent you a PM the other day, did you just put the trans tunnel in as high as you could reasonably get it? I'm trying to decide if I want to gamble and put mine in before I get my T56 Magnum transmission.
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Making awesome progress Greg, thanks for sharing all your work. Did you just put the trans tunnel in as high as you could reasonably get it? I'm trying to decide if I want to gamble and put mine in before I get my T56 Magnum transmission.
Thanks! I did not even have my transmission when I installed the tunnel. Fortunately, I live about 5 miles from Speedtech. I am there all the time so it is easy for me to take pictures and measurements when I need them and pick the brain of their lead fabricator. It is pretty much at the highest point, but if I did not have access to Speedtech, I think I would have waited to get the trans mocked up first.
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Thanks! I did not even have my transmission when I installed the tunnel. Fortunately, I live about 5 miles from Speedtech. I am there all the time so it is easy for me to take pictures and measurements when I need them and pick the brain of their lead fabricator. It is pretty much at the highest point, but if I did not have access to Speedtech, I think I would have waited to get the trans mocked up first.
I checked with them, they just said the front is based on installed transmission height. By any chance is your car in a state that you could get a measurement from the bottom of the dash to the top of the tunnel? I move at a snail's pace, so no rush. Thanks for the help!!
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C'mon Greg ... I'm dying to see some colour !!



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I checked with them, they just said the front is based on installed transmission height. By any chance is your car in a state that you could get a measurement from the bottom of the dash to the top of the tunnel? I move at a snail's pace, so no rush. Thanks for the help!!
I can do that but you will have to give me a few weeks. The interior is masked off and sealed so I can't get inside.
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You and me both. Unfortunately, my enemies are time, space and weather. I am limited on the time my body and paint guy can work on it, I usually have to move a bunch of stuff out of my garage to have room to work and then I have to move it all back in at the end of the day, and here in Southern Utah we have had 10 straight days above 100 degrees and it only gets worse from here. In the next few weeks we will start to see our annual 107-112 degree temps.

Here is a few pics of what my Mondays usually consist of after working on the car all weekend. I thought the bondo dust was bad enough but damn that poly primer dust.
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Amazing that something that looks amazing out of such a mess.

Worth it though
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Little progress is still progress! It will all be worth it in the end. Hopefully weather will cooperate for you soon.
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So the only thing left to do for this round is to block the tail panel, back of the rear spoiler and the hood. The car is fully assembled with all bolts, shims and latches in place. We should be done with the blocking in the next couple of weeks and then we will blow the car apart and spray everything with CRE. Once the CRE is layed down we will do a final blocking on all parts and get ready for paint. I am locked into white with the black hockey stripe just as original. I do like white and I figure you can't go wrong with an original factory color. Here is a sneak peak of what things are looking like.

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This is looking SO good. Looking forward to some color!!

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