That's a beautiful car! You did a great job on all the detail touches.
Are those pistons holding the hood with factory hinges? What shifter did you use?
Thanks for the compliments!
The hood hinges are factory, except I cut off the springs, boxed them, strengthened them in a couple places, then designed gas struts and had them made of stainless steel in Germany. This was done to match the trunk struts.
The shifter is another story. I started with a Hurst Quarterstick, then made my own trans bracketry out of 316 stainless as shown in the first pic below.
The actual shifter I removed all exposed parts, and made my own out of stainless using bronze bushings throughout. Note the shifter has my last name ball milled into the lever. I wanted the shifter knob to match my Budnik steering wheel horn button so we had to make it ourselves. See pic.
You may also note in the pic the HVAC controls occupy the old ashtray location. The steel door is controlled by the factory heater slide control. The center dash piece is hand formed steel with machined brass chrome plated trim.
I wanted to stay with the factory console but made my own inserts out of steel and powdercoated them, which was a royal pain, because I couldn't use body filler and had to hand smooth all the welds. Take a look..,
As far as horsepower, we dyno'd the engine in Mooresville and got 618.4Hp, BUT that was before the new custom Lunati cam, bigger injectors, new full sequential tune, etc. So frankly I'm not sure but it's definitely more than 618.4Hp now.
Hey Gloe (Jim?), congratulations on your win at the Goodguys 2014 Charlotte meet! Your work on the car is outstanding, like, almost Nuclear grade! Thanks for letting me scour your car with my fine toothed comb in Charlotte. One question: is the dash center panel with the radio, etc. stock? Kinda looks like carbon fiber in the pics.
Dan Mueller
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Thanks for letting me scour your car with my fine toothed comb in Charlotte. One question: is the dash center panel with the radio, etc. stock? Kinda looks like carbon fiber in the pics.
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